Yahoo! Groups closing

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, RonF, who writes:

Hi Thomas,
Thought you might like to give a heads-up to any readers using Yahoo! Groups that they plan to shut them down soon. I know there’s a lot of older hams & SWLs who rely on groups there, and Yahoo! have done a terrible job of notifying group admins and members of the upcoming change – while there’s a banner at the top of group pages announcing the members & admins of the shutdown, there’s been no contact with group admins, and the groups there I’m still on knew nothing of it until I mentioned it to them and pointed them to https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN31010.html

Shutdown is due to start on 28th October – but I’ve been told that for European services it’s the 21st of October. Less than a week away…

After the last Yahoo! Groups outage/debacle most groups I followed moved over to Groups.IO. Very similar features, with free & paid service levels depending on the level of service/storage/etc/ required. As far as I know, all the groups I’m on that moved from Yahoo last time are existing happily on the free tier. Not an ad, not a recommendation, just an observation. 😉

Thank you for the heads-up, Ron! If you belong to an active radio discussion on Yahoo! Groups, contact your admin if you haven’t already been moved to Groups.IO.

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One thought on “Yahoo! Groups closing

  1. espectra

    Long shot here, but did anyone archive the Yahoo Shortwave groups?

    I’m seeing some promising links to “Broomstick” antenna posts on the SWL-AM-FM-Antenna group, but of course they’re gone forever if they weren’t archived.

    Example that a user named RHF occasionally posted to other forums/groups.

    > READ: Understanding the “BroomStick” Antenna
    > and its Coil
    > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SWL-AM-FM-Antenna/message/415

    Asking as someone who personally archived one of the robotics groups and noticed a flurry of activity to archive other groups at the time.

    Reply

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