On 28/10/2019 15:03, Rick C wrote:
> On Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 8:02:34 AM UTC-4, Chris Jones wrote:
>> On 26/10/2019 04:53, Rick C wrote:
>>> I am in many and even own a few Yahoo groups such as LTspice. Yahoo provided a rather brief notice with groups being disabled for new content Oct 28. With
groups.io being an even better second choice it seemed to be no biggie, but
groups.io quickly put on a $110 fee for porting the group. Then they doubled it to $220.
>>>
>>> I don't know if this fee is really necessary or if they did an analysis and found it was simply a better price point from the perspective of making more money. Either way it has priced all of the groups I own from being ported and a number of groups I am in will not be ported as well.
>>
>> Have a look at this:
>>
https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1185393774114918400
>>
>> (
tinyurl.com/savegroups )
>>
>> Perhaps if you nominate your groups,
archiveteam.org might be able to
>> preserve the existing content.
To get private groups archived there are some instructions here:
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Groups#Adding_Private_Groups_to_the_Public_Archive
>>> I'm not a fan of
groups.io anymore.
>> I have heard that it is theoretically possible to migrate a group to a
>> free account on
groups.io with some script that was suggested in various
>> places, but I haven't tried it. Supposedly the expensive account is just
>> easier.
>
> Yes, much easier. I created a GoFundMe account who only took 5% of the take and in one day got $210 of the $220 required. $210 because of the GoFundMe fee. Someone donated another $15, but that would give me a surplus, so I'm refunding that and will chip in the other $10 myself.
>
> So, problem solved.
>
FWIW I also used the "privacy dashboard" thingy, can't find URL at the
moment, perhaps this one:
https://www.verizonmedia.com/policies/us/en/verizonmedia/privacy/dashboard/index.html
I requested a download of my data, and after a few days they e-mailed me
that a zip file of my data was ready. It seems to contain all of the
messages and files from every yahoo group that I was a member of. This
is nice to have as insurance - I hear that there is quite a backlog for
migration to
groups.io and it is nice to have a copy on my machine in
the mean time.