Yahoo Groups closing entirely
Oct. 12th, 2020 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
doranwenAnd the latest news, which surprises absolutely no one who helped save the data last fall, is that Yahoo Groups itself is closing entirely. After December 15, emails will no longer work and the Groups website will go away. https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html
So if anyone still has active groups on any of their accounts, send a message to them to let them know those groups will not work after December 15, and they should find a new method of meeting. Any group (particularly non-fandom) that doesn't have adult-rated material should be fine moving to Groups.io or Google Groups (as long as they don't need file storage - I'm told Groups.io charges for that now, and Google Groups doesn't offer it), and that's my recommendation for now. Adult-rated groups are harder to find homes for; I'm told Squidge is the best place for fandom lists at this point, and allows explicit content. Correct me if I'm wrong…
So if anyone still has active groups on any of their accounts, send a message to them to let them know those groups will not work after December 15, and they should find a new method of meeting. Any group (particularly non-fandom) that doesn't have adult-rated material should be fine moving to Groups.io or Google Groups (as long as they don't need file storage - I'm told Groups.io charges for that now, and Google Groups doesn't offer it), and that's my recommendation for now. Adult-rated groups are harder to find homes for; I'm told Squidge is the best place for fandom lists at this point, and allows explicit content. Correct me if I'm wrong…
