I like the idea of archiving the yahoo group content and relying on BGG
(and others) for community. It's basically what we're doing already,
since, as it is, this group exists mainly as an archive of past
conversations and current conversations happen in other places.
On 21.10.19 06:48, jdroscha@... [piecepack] wrote:
Greetings all!
This is the list owner, James.
Thank you to Ed, Ron, imfurry, and others, for bringing this issue to
the group's attention, and for some initial research into options.
(For anyone who doesn't know, by the bye, Ed has been helping to
moderate this list for close to two decades, and I am very, very thankful!)
Honestly, I'm not too broken-hearted by the news of Yahoo Groups'
demise. I have been annoyed with it for some time, but not annoyed enough,
it seems, to have moved the group yet.
Here are some of our options so far:
1) Migrate the piecepack list, including its membership and historical
content, to groups.io. As Ed pointed out, this would incur a small cost,
which is not really an issue. The bigger issue to me is asking people to
sign up on yet another site, although it appears that if you never visit
the site itself, you won't need a login. So, maybe not so bad.
2) Create a new Google Group and ask everyone to join. I would bet the
majority of list members have already signed up to be tracked by our
benevolent overlords. In this case, I think we would try to archive the
historical content and make it available in some static form.
3) Archive (and host somewhere) the historical content and then just
rely on existing Facebook, Reddit, and BGG for community.
All I really want is a place for anyone interested in the piecepack to
go and share ideas and announcements. I would like the lowest barrier of
entry possible for finding the community, signing up (if that's even
needed) and communicating. If it's a site that does a good job of
preventing spam so that we no longer have to police it, that would be
fantastic. I am not worried so much about hosting files and other such
features.
Opinions? Sway me!