RIP Yahoo Groups
Oct. 19th, 2019 06:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
doranwenFor anyone who hasn't heard, Yahoo Groups is closing; in less than two weeks all ability to add/post new content will be locked and in December all data will be deleted. (Groups will be converted to mailing lists only, ugh.) If you were a member of any Yahoo Groups and want to back up your groups' messages, files, or other content, take a look at some of the options and discussion mentioned here.
I'm using this Windows program (on a computer I rarely use, but I didn't have the time or want to deal with trying to create a VM that would have the requisite NET framework, so working on native Windows was the best option here) to back up all of the groups I'm a part of. After that I plan on joining as many fandom-related groups (particularly fanfic ones) as possible before the deadline and backing them up.
Unfortunately, I don't currently have the $$ to pay to register the program in order to be able to export the backups into human-readable HTML, but it looks like SQLiteStudio should do the job - and for free! (Plus, it's got a Linux version, so I can move the database to my main computer and export there if I want.)
I hate it when sites close like this! I wasn't in the position to do anything about archival when Geocities went poof, but at least this time I can do something.
LINKS TO MORE INFO:
https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/14117
https://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/1678027.html
The step-by-step guide under the second link contains a link to a spreadsheet and Google Form coordinating group archival for fandom-related groups.
I'm using this Windows program (on a computer I rarely use, but I didn't have the time or want to deal with trying to create a VM that would have the requisite NET framework, so working on native Windows was the best option here) to back up all of the groups I'm a part of. After that I plan on joining as many fandom-related groups (particularly fanfic ones) as possible before the deadline and backing them up.
Unfortunately, I don't currently have the $$ to pay to register the program in order to be able to export the backups into human-readable HTML, but it looks like SQLiteStudio should do the job - and for free! (Plus, it's got a Linux version, so I can move the database to my main computer and export there if I want.)
I hate it when sites close like this! I wasn't in the position to do anything about archival when Geocities went poof, but at least this time I can do something.
LINKS TO MORE INFO:
https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/14117
https://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/1678027.html
The step-by-step guide under the second link contains a link to a spreadsheet and Google Form coordinating group archival for fandom-related groups.
