{"id":40277,"date":"2019-10-18T06:29:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T10:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=40277"},"modified":"2019-10-18T06:29:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T10:29:10","slug":"yahoo-groups-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/yahoo-groups-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Groups closing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, RonF, who writes:<\/p>\n

Hi Thomas,
\nThought 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\u2019s 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\u2019s a banner at the top of group pages announcing the members & admins of the shutdown, there\u2019s been no contact with group admins, and the groups there I\u2019m still on knew nothing of it until I mentioned it to them and pointed them to https:\/\/help.yahoo.com\/kb\/groups\/SLN31010.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Shutdown is due to start on 28th October – but I\u2019ve been told that for European services it\u2019s the 21st of October. Less than a week away…<\/p>\n

After the last Yahoo! Groups outage\/debacle most groups I followed moved over to Groups.IO<\/a>. 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\u2019m on that moved from Yahoo last time are existing happily on the free tier. Not an ad, not a recommendation, just an observation. \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s a lot of older hams & SWLs who rely on groups there, and Yahoo! have done a terrible job […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[8073,2930],"class_list":["post-40277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ronf","tag-yahoo-group"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-atD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47546,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/ron-notes-that-purple-power-is-not-the-same-product-or-formula-across-the-globe\/","url_meta":{"origin":40277,"position":0},"title":"Ron notes that “Purple Power” is not the same product or formula across the globe","author":"Thomas","date":"January 30, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"We're shared a number of posts here about how well the product \"Purple Power\" cleans the sticky residue off of portable radios than once had a rubberized coating (the coating breaks down over time and becomes incredibly tacky). 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