Hi Paul,
I didn't look at it thoroughly, but I guess migrating the archives of Yahoo groups would be possible. In fact it seems that is possible to migrate the whole Yahoo group.
Searchability won't be a problem. Take a look into this existing group: https://groups.io/g/EpsonWideFormat/messages?start=1:2016:-120
R,
Ben
On 4/05/2016 22:58, Paul Roark roark.paul@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] wrote:
Is there any way to preserve the archives and searchability of them? That is a resource and history that would be ashamed to lose.
Paul
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Mark Savoia mark@stillrivereditions.com [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
I can chime in as co-moderator of the EpsonWideFormat group (over 6500 members).
groups.io did a great job of the transition. Many new features that Yahoo just could never get right. I recommend.
Mark
On May 4, 2016, at 3:34 PM, 'forums@...' forums@walkerblackwell.com [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
EpsonWideFormat just migrated to groups.io. The transition was quite seamless. It went live today.
best,Walker
On May 4, 2016, at 3:28 PM, djon43@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
First, it's not a sure thing that Yahoo will abandon Groups or Mail, but that does seem possible.
Google Groups may be most similar to Yahoo Groups....but I suspect that, with Google, Photos (including old ones/legacy) wouldn't be integrated the way they are with our Yahoo group...they would have to be moved/sent independently to Flickr...
In any case our admin or someone else with access should try to save current member contact list w/email to Excel or Google version of Excel. That would enable restoring relations that might otherwise be lost.
We might instead consider a blog, perhaps via Wordpress.org (which might be free).
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Re: [Digital BW] Yahoo migration?
2016-05-05 by Paul Roark
That new groups.io system for the wide format forum does seem to have access to the archives.
I never understood how the companies that run these make any money from them. There does not seem to be enough (if any) advertising. While I appreciate that, failure to monetize ends up with the company simply failing -- which seems to be Yahoo's fate if they don't do something different.
Paul
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Ben Albu ben@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote: