I would be happy to host the Monopoly and Polysix groups on my forum. If you want to float that idea to them, go right ahead. I would only need a moderator for each forum.
On our yahoo group, there is very little in the files section that I don't already have. So there is almost nothing to lose there.
Some of the photos are worth keeping. If I have enough time, I will download them ready for reposting later on our new forum.
Since Verizon has not provided a way to export the messages, there is very little we can do but say good bye to 20 years of information. I can't say that I am worried about it because our new forum will answer questions when they come up anyway.
I have not yet added a 'korgpolyex' forum on my site. But if enough people say 'go' then I will go ahead and do that. And I think the last message that gets posted onto the yahoo group needs to point newbies at the new forum. So assuming that no one else steps in and creates something else somewhere, I'll post a link to our new forum.
Anyone that wants to test the new forum at
https://www.hawk800.com/forums/, please go ahead and test out the functionality. I want it to be as smooth and painless as possible. But I need to know what works and what doesn't in order to do that.
Cheers,
/Mike
On Fri, 2019-10-18 at 19:20 -0400, backshall1@... [korgpolyex] wrote:
Mike, with Yahoo groups going away real soon, a lot of other groups are proposing to move to Groups.io. Unfortunately, without migration tools from Yahoo Groups and a 1GB total files and messages limit, the free version just doesn't cut it. There is some talk of combining Monopoly and Polysix groups under one paid subscription ($110 per year) with separate subgroups. They say subgroups work well on Groups.io. Kogpolyex is a fairly active group with over 1300 members and we could cover the cost of the paid plan (10G limit, with migration tools) for less than a dollar each per year, or maybe combine with the other groups and form a new subgroup? One way or another, we need to save the archives and keep this group going! Any other ideas come to mind? Another possibility is a paid plan for one year so the migration tools are available, then revert to the free version if the 1GB data limit is sufficient.
Don Backshall