Planned Outage: Monday, April 13, 2009
UPDATE: Maintenance complete! Your groups should be back up and available. Thanks for your patience.
On April 13th, 2009 Yahoo! Groups will undergo scheduled maintenance. During this time your group will be unavailable for 30-60 minutes.
The outage is currently scheduled to begin at 1 pm PT, 8 pm GMT. At this time, ¼ of all Yahoo! Groups will become unavailable while the team services these groups. Once maintenance is complete on that ¼ of Groups, they will be made available again, and the next ¼ will become unavailable until all of the groups have been serviced.
In total the maintenance period should last around 5 hours, with the maintenance concluding around 6 pm PT, 1 am GMT (April 14).
While your group is being serviced, all features of your group, including messages, photos, attachments, etc. will be completely unavailable. However, once your outage time concludes, your group and all of its features should return and any messages that were posted to the group via email during this downtime will be sent out. Please note that your group’s outage should only last around an hour.
In an effort to better communicate to all of you, a blast message will be posted to all groups starting today and continuing on through April 13th, 2009, linking to this post. This message is visible on all groups to all members and moderators.
Thank you for your patience—during the outage, this blog will remain up (and comments will remain open) and we will update you all as information becomes available. We will also be updating users via Twitter .
Melissa Daniels
Yahoo! Community Manager
Julie said,
April 10, 2009 @ 1:21 pm
Just curious as to why you don’t do this during the night when the fewest people will be impacted instead of when the most people will be impacted??
Sue Millard said,
April 10, 2009 @ 1:23 pm
Well all I can say is that I hope this maintenance will sort out the impossible situation on the Groups. I own or moderate half a dozen groups, I have cookies enabled on both Firefox and IE and every damn thing I do is blocked by being asked for my password – even sending a HELP email takes me round in a circle. Improvement? I bloody well hope so.
Saundra said,
April 10, 2009 @ 1:27 pm
@ Melissa,
Can you please explain what a blast message is? Is it something that will go out as a regular post to all members who receive posts, or will it be a Special Notice, or what?
Melissa Daniels said,
April 10, 2009 @ 1:27 pm
@Julie,
Since Groups is a global product it’s always daytime for someone somewhere. Additionally, we do look at traffic times and try to pick the most accommodating time based on volume, but we also want to make sure that we have as many “hands on deck” here at Yahoo! to ensure that the process is as smooth as possible. Doing this during the daytime ensures that this happens, and, produces better (and faster) results for you in the end.
-Melissa
Jan Jones said,
April 10, 2009 @ 1:51 pm
I’d like to know what a blast message is too, please.
But thank you VERY much for putting the GMT time in your post. I can never work out time zones!
Shal said,
April 10, 2009 @ 2:01 pm
I hope you’ll be able to do something nicer than a plain “page not found” error, or worse a timeout, while each group is affected. I’m thinking along the lines of Flickr’s infamous “massage”s.
Something to let the user know that it isn’t their error and the page which /should/ have been presented will be back later. Perhaps traffic cones, CAUTION tape, the usual sorts of maintenance iconography.
Melissa Daniels said,
April 10, 2009 @ 2:33 pm
@Saundra,
Great question– I’ll update the post to reflect that– a blast message is that announcement only message you sometimes see at the top of groups. For the past few weeks it read: “If you are (or were) experiencing problems with Yahoo! groups, visit the Groups blog for more information” — the new message now reads: “ATTENTION: Groups Outage this Monday, April 13, 2009 Click here for more details.”
-Melissa
Angela said,
April 10, 2009 @ 4:34 pm
Just wondering when our group may be able to have “Attachments” added into its applications. Our group would really benefit from this feature.
Cheers
Twitter.com/AlexMojo - Alex Mojo said,
April 10, 2009 @ 5:00 pm
Why don’t you start deleting groups that have no activity for over a year or more AND those who have only 1 member (the owner) for more than a year?
karen said,
April 10, 2009 @ 5:02 pm
maybe when you are doing these so called changes you might like to think about taking away the AUTO RESPONDER which affects alot of us in groups.
some groups have weekend stat wars and believe you me when you are on AUTO RESPONDER thats you finished for the duration of the weekend war.
Christine said,
April 10, 2009 @ 5:12 pm
why is my emails late from lenawee freecycle???? its always 1/2 hour late and by then its to late to answer to the emails . You have to answer to the emails as soon as you can other wise other people will answer before you and the item will be gone, but iam getting my emails way to late to even answer.
Mary said,
April 10, 2009 @ 5:19 pm
I hope this maintenance will improve the Yahoo groups. It’s been terrible working with the groups lately. I liked the above idea of deleting groups that have not been active for a year or more or with only one member. The “basics” of the groups at least to me have declined in the past few months. Lets hope we see grest changes.
Terry said,
April 10, 2009 @ 5:44 pm
Thanks for the prior notice, but what exactly are you
doing to the groups ?
It would help to know what part of groups the maintenance
will be focussing on,so that we can check that everything
is in order,when they come back online.
Steve said,
April 10, 2009 @ 5:48 pm
I realize it makes sense to delete groups with no activity for a long time, but I certainly hope Yahoo doesn’t plan on deleting groups with only one member.
I make one Yahoo group for myself only.
I store all of my bookmarks/favorites there, & also back up files/photos.
It’s my own personal ‘Web Portal’ I use it almost everyday & even click on some of the banner ads that interest me.
So please, if anyone employed by Yahoo is reading this, please post & let us
know if there’s any chance groups with only one member could be deleted Monday.
Thanks In Advance!
Earl Shoop said,
April 10, 2009 @ 5:50 pm
As moderator of a group that has spent a dormant year or so, I would suggest that moderators of groups be notified before termination due to inactivity. We should be allowed to preserve the group by responding that we plan to stir up some action. Those who do not respond, of course, should be zapped.
Shyanne said,
April 10, 2009 @ 5:58 pm
I would strongly suggest that any group owners/moderators copy and paste Melissa’s message regarding this outage to their group as a special notice so that most of your members will receive the message and be aware of it. If your group is anything like mine most members only read the groups messages through email and hardly ever visit the groups home page, so most likely will miss the “Blast Message” link posted to your groups home page. By sending it as a special notice hopefully this will help keep members from blasting you (the owner/moderator) with emails asking what is going on.
Jeneen said,
April 10, 2009 @ 6:15 pm
Sure hope this solves the many problems that have been occuring on a dailt basis these past few weeks. It is very frustrating to have a group and not be able to do anything on it – except get error messages.
And I agree that Yahoo should start deleting groups that have no activity for over a year or more. Why bother to keep them??
Melissa Daniels said,
April 10, 2009 @ 6:16 pm
@Steve,
Don’t worry– this maintenance has nothing to do with deleted groups– I’m guessing you got that idea from another user’s comment but that is NOT what is happening on Monday. I can promise you that.
-Melissa
Al said,
April 10, 2009 @ 6:25 pm
Melissa,
it would be nice if you could send out a message that would go to members of all groups when there is going to be a down time. In my group we do not rely on email for distribution of the pictures that are stored in the group. There are albums there, and the membership has the right to download them at anytime they wish, therefore very few email go out to the group, I have also seen that, that is common practice in a lot of groups. So once again I repeat myself, an email to everyone in Yahoo could/should be sent out as opposed to a “blast” announcement.
Frazier Allen said,
April 10, 2009 @ 6:29 pm
I am planning a trip to Philadelphia, From the morning of 4th of May, 2009, Leaving Philadelphia to return, the morning of of the10th of May, 2008 I am seeking one, two or three passengers to help defray expenses. I will appeciate notice of your patricipation by the 1st of of may, 2009.
Roadkill said,
April 10, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
I’ve got no complaints. I’m a multi-site moderator and I think Yahoo does a great job.
Ride on.
Roadkill
Steve said,
April 10, 2009 @ 6:37 pm
Thanks Melissa!
Pat said,
April 10, 2009 @ 6:38 pm
Hello Yahoo,Melissa Daniels,
Thank you for the advance notice. Isn’t it strange how some folks just DO NOT understand that EVERYTHING needs a tune-up once in a while. In the past (8) eight years I think I’ve had SERIOUS difficulty with my Yahoo Group site (2) twice. Not a bad record. Now IF, after this scheduled maintenance, I find a bunch of Moderator / Group Member Functions, Files, Photos, Links etc. gone …
Well, that will be VERY BAD!!!
Yours, SR25MK4
AKA
Pat
Jawad said,
April 10, 2009 @ 7:05 pm
i wish yahoo beat Google groups …
a lot of yahoo group owners moved to Google groups because yahoo have a lot a lot of problems like bouncing and daily digest !!!
i wish yahoo back to the line of success
J Harris said,
April 10, 2009 @ 7:09 pm
Well…thank you for the prior notice.
And I do mean that.
Using the blast message is something that should have been used in prior instances…but I have already had my say on that issue.
So..once again, thank you for letting us know well ahead of time.
Mary said,
April 10, 2009 @ 7:31 pm
Thanks for letting us know. I have posted so that my members will know as some never come to the group home page. Maybe that will keep those who panic from doing so.
Bill Hall said,
April 10, 2009 @ 7:45 pm
Are you ever going to make it so that List owners can’t alter posts when the List is on moveration mode? Wouldn’t it make more sense to only have a pass or reject option?
Carlos said,
April 10, 2009 @ 7:46 pm
As long as it’s not an indirect way of eliminating “inappropiate” groups I’m OK with this.
Herb said,
April 10, 2009 @ 8:41 pm
Unfortunately Yahoo groups hit its peak several years ago, maybe between 2002 to 2004. Most of the groups I’m in are not active and I moderate 2 groups which are not active. I think when yahoo groups changed from yahoo clubs back in 2002 it led to its downfall. Also when yahoo changed its profiles it made it very difficult to keep up with people who haven’t updated their profile because now their profiles are blank or hidden. All adult groups on yahoo were purged from the yahoo directory or deleted. I thought yahoo would bring back most of the features it did away with like yahoo photo’s/briefcase and attachments but its purging of services is contributing to the overall decine of use in yahoo groups. Even yahoo 360 has not transformed yahoo like it should have. Except for yahoo mail where yahoo has excelled. Yahoo groups needs a total makeover to bring people back to yahoo. Hopefully someone in yahoo corporate will read this. Anyone else here agree with me?
Petrus said,
April 10, 2009 @ 8:52 pm
alrite,
for the sake of improvement please choose the non peak for the group. btw what do you mean by outage time is one hour but the post will only available by monday?
Oommen Kappil said,
April 10, 2009 @ 9:20 pm
Why the Digests are not coming out unless there are 25 messages? When will this problem be resolved?
Negav Kalanaga said,
April 10, 2009 @ 10:02 pm
I suspect that they chose Monday afternoon, North American time, on the assumption that that is where most of the users are, AND that they will be working during that time, so won’t (or shouldn’t!) be on Yahoo Groups.
Roger Agness said,
April 10, 2009 @ 10:41 pm
Don’t listen to the whiners. Yahoo Groups is an awesome site! At one time I had twenty very active groups, one with nearly 10,000 members. You guys have a hard job to do, and you do it well. Keep it up!
Gregg C Levine said,
April 10, 2009 @ 10:51 pm
I agree. The time frame chosen is largely the wrong one. It happens I work from home, and it stands a good chance of happening when I am actually “in the office” so to speak.
Now a good thing would be to turn off this ugly HTML that gets sent out even when I, both a manager of several, and a participant of several, get splashed with it, even though I’ve got my settings to be plain text.
sadhana chhoker said,
April 10, 2009 @ 10:55 pm
thank you very much for putting the GMT time in your post. I can never work out time zones!
Roseann Ferrell said,
April 10, 2009 @ 11:14 pm
I was wondering who I contact for removing a email address that was added to my account without my permission. The email address is ferrell210@grouply.com Thank you.
Roseann Ferrell
Valerie Kraemer said,
April 10, 2009 @ 11:31 pm
Please, no slow-load ads on group pages.
Some of us still labor woth dial-up. Thanks,
sorena williams said,
April 10, 2009 @ 11:41 pm
You should delete all those groups
[a] which have been inactive over the last three months.
[b] have 15 or less members
Regards,
Sorena
Harry said,
April 11, 2009 @ 12:47 am
Have not been able to access any Groups for ages !
ellie said,
April 11, 2009 @ 12:52 am
Why do you need to interrupt a perfectly good group for “Service” are you snooping into our groups? well at least you are doing it in the daytime that’s good. but this whole fisco seems unnecessary.
Alan Griffey said,
April 11, 2009 @ 1:40 am
Don’t know if the ‘Topics frequently discussed’ listed under my group’s name on the list of Yahoo! Groups directory could be updated to be more relevant to the topics we actually discuss in our group now, as I understand that prospective members searching our group might search via those topic names. My group’s name is Beat_Happening and we mainly aim to discuss Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation. Thanks.
Donna said,
April 11, 2009 @ 1:48 am
Hi Melissa!
Thank you so much for the Blast notice! Much nicer knowing ahead of time so that we as owners, co owners and moderators ( which I own several, co own several and moderate for about 15 groups) can be prepared and be supportive. Yahoo does a great job!
Some idea’s for the future:
I do know of several groups that would like to have chat available again. Another great feature would be that if a moderator is left to run a group and the owners have left the group and a moderator only has some functions it’s hard to run the group, maybe by emailing yahoo?
Thank you for everything you do for us!
Donna
Lyn said,
April 11, 2009 @ 2:32 am
It says that the outage will be on Monday 13th, so why am I having problems today Saturday 11th? (Unable to send message to my group?)
On one of my groups we have been having problems for about a month or so due to maintenance too. Some messages have not been getting through.
Lyn
kathjn said,
April 11, 2009 @ 2:45 am
I do hope this will speed up the posting of messages and receiving them. My messages have arrived very late many times just not of late. As far as rooms being inactive I do hope there will be an alert before they are eliminated. Kat
DeDe Hallett said,
April 11, 2009 @ 3:45 am
Well, if the updates aren’t happening until Monday, why are all my groups screwed up today (and yesterday too) … Friday and Saturday. Friday and Saturday are my busiest days for moderating messages that HAVE to go to the group members on the day they are posted. For the past two days … NOTHING can be done. And, can you please stop with the ads on the pages where moderators review and edit messages? It just slows everything down, and if I don’t wait for the damn ads to load, the page times out completely so that I have to close IE, reopen, go to Groups, go to the correct group, go to pending messages, and start all over again. I know that this is a free service, but enough with all the excessive ads already. I pay for Mail Plus so I don’t have to deal with the ads in my email … it would be nice if this could be extended to other Yahoo services as well (for the same price!). I don’t click on banner ads (or any ads for that matter), so Yahoo will never get ad revenue directly from me. Enough already.
DeDe Hallett said,
April 11, 2009 @ 3:48 am
Oh, and can someone please moderate the comments being posted here and delete the ones from idiots who have no clue what this is about or the spammers looking for new victims. For those of you who don’t know what this page is about, go back to your homepage and find another topic of interest.
vinay144 said,
April 11, 2009 @ 3:51 am
vinay
Thank you so much for the Blast notice! Much nicer knowing ahead of time so that we as owners, co owners and moderators ( which I own several, co own several and moderate for about 15 groups) can be prepared and be supportive. Yahoo does a great job!
raqeeb said,
April 11, 2009 @ 4:13 am
why dont i get any mails IS IT DUE TO THIS
Michelle said,
April 11, 2009 @ 4:16 am
Shoot I just wish they would fix my duplicate email problem that I have been emailing them about ever few days.
Michelle
Oncy Moores said,
April 11, 2009 @ 5:11 am
@ Melissa,
are this maintenance for uncoding language in yahoo mail messages ?
David said,
April 11, 2009 @ 5:39 am
Melissa
Thank you for the update and advance notice. I do not anticipate any serious service interruption in our zone.
some quality issues have been raised i.e. the ability to attach larger files and the ability of the mods to edit posts rather than just delete them.
chintu said,
April 11, 2009 @ 5:48 am
r u not including new members during this time, or there is another reason to make the member ship awaiting?
fel a said,
April 11, 2009 @ 6:34 am
My group has been broken since its inception 3 weeks ago. Should I go to your competitors?
Gil. said,
April 11, 2009 @ 6:43 am
Thank you, Melissa. The advance notice is much appreciated.
jitendra said,
April 11, 2009 @ 6:55 am
I’d like to know what a blast message is too, please.
Lisa said,
April 11, 2009 @ 6:57 am
Thanks for the heads up…unfortunately we are starting to have problems with posts….
Not sure why…posts are taking 30 minutes to show up on site.
flazatty said,
April 11, 2009 @ 7:26 am
I disagree with Herb’s comment above.
My group “Shirtless Lifestyle” http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/shirtless_lifestyle is very active. We have nearly 3,000 members, and we process about 7 to 10 messages per day.
Men who wish to increase their confidence in being shirtless in public are encouraged to join, as we discuss opportunities to be shirtless, the reactions that we get, and why we want to do it.
For some reason, about 1-1/2 years ago, Yahoo! classified us as “adult” group, but we have a group policy statement and all messages and photos are moderated, so I keep the discussion clean and on track.
Lately, there has been a delay in receiving messages, and then a further delay before they appear after being approved, but other than that, the group seems to be working well. I hope the “maintenance” goes well too, and thanks for the advance notice.
Imitation700mb said,
April 11, 2009 @ 7:26 am
Providing you let me know what’s going on in advance, as you have here, and you don’t remove my group at all, then you can do whatever you like.
Terry said,
April 11, 2009 @ 7:37 am
If Yahoo were to do maintenance in the evening,
would there be anyone still at work in Sunnyvale to
do it ?
Perhaps there a might be a skeleton or the tea lady
still at work in the early hours .
Who does the maintenance of the pipes and cables,
sending Yahoo,worldwide .
We never hear of Yahoo Maintenance Guys and Gals in
Europe,Australia,Africa ,Asia or even South America .
Di said,
April 11, 2009 @ 7:44 am
Hi, as an owner/moderator of several large and busy groups, I have found the Yahoo service to be exceptionally good over the past 8 years. I really have no complaints and I thank Yahoo for all the good work they have done over the years.
I do have a concern, though. Back in the day when I first started the preparation2003 groups, our storage was limited, so when it got full, I had to start a second group. I have 4 groups that were closed due to storage limits, but the archives are invaluable and it would be a crime to lose these if Yahoo decides to clean up groups that have had no activity for a certain period of time.
If this is to be done sometime in the future, I would recommend that you advise the group owner so they can decide whether they want the group to be deleted or not.
Thanks for all you do, Yahoo!
Di
Lindaooop said,
April 11, 2009 @ 7:59 am
I just want to know why this is done in this manner and why it is going to be so inconvenient to member when we have to see an attachment This process is going to take extra time and alot of patience to get to what is normally at our fingertips.
Linda said,
April 11, 2009 @ 8:01 am
Please leave our attachments where they are. I see no need to make it more inconvenient for your members when the attachments are right at our finger tips now..
Mia said,
April 11, 2009 @ 8:37 am
Thanks for the warning for Monday. However, what’s going on today on a lot of groups where messages aren’t showing up at times for hours?
LeSha said,
April 11, 2009 @ 8:38 am
Ever since Yahoo started this maintenance a couple of weeks ago, I have been having problems searching my group’s message archives. It will only search messages prior to March 18, 2009; so I cannot search recent topics.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Will this problem go away after the April 13th tune-up?
D.Mike.L. said,
April 11, 2009 @ 8:45 am
will this maintenance fix the duplication of posts on the boards? it is REALLY bad on some groups…as many as a half a dozen duplications of a single post in an hour and a half. multiply that by a few individual posts and suddenly there are tens of posts flooding the boards (or email if you have posts going to your email box)
“…can someone please moderate the comments being posted here and delete the ones from idiots who have no clue what this is about or the spammers looking for new victims.” – DeDe Hallett, April 11, 2009 @ 3:48 am
A-FREAKIN’-MEN!!!!!
Celestina1810 said,
April 11, 2009 @ 9:01 am
I would be opposed to Yahoo being the ones who decide whether or not to eliminate groups on the basis of membership or activity. I belong to one Ancestry group which usually only becomes active when someone is visiting an interesting historical site which relates to the family being studied. There are only a few members because it is a group of people interested in swapping information about historical research into one family. Believe it or not – the Yahoo Ancestry groups make it easier for families to conduct family research than the official ‘Ancestry’ sites.
Likewise, I would be opposed to Yahoo suddenly deciding to eliminate groups which have only one member. Most of the groups which I own or moderate are small groups. However, one of our groups started with only about three members and, by the end of the first year, we only had five members. However, after eight years of being a group, we now have close to 400 members. It would be a shame to lose some of our groups just because they are slow at getting some growth started. And – groups with large numbers of members are not necessarily the most active.
We hope that Yahoo will NOT decide to begin eliminating groups with small numbers or infrequent activity. Ii do not see how those small groups could possibly impact the activity or convenience of any other groups and I am sure that most of these groups probably are serving the original intentions of the group.
Meachy said,
April 11, 2009 @ 9:08 am
I own a group….and I’m moderator on another….I just hope that it doesn’t last long and doesn’t effect anything. if it’s for maintenance…then fine….but I think it needs to be done at night…not during the day!!! I will let my people know ASAP!!!
Erika said,
April 11, 2009 @ 9:36 am
I truly hope that you won’t be deleting groups with under 15 members. A lot of organizations with executive boards will use a Y! group for the current members of the board to e-mail back and forth to discuss topics when they’re not in meeting.
Even if you’ve already made it clear that you won’t be doing that, I wanted to at least post to make others aware of the fact that there is a need for groups of that size to exist.
Groups that have been inactive for years (the plurality is important), maybe. Groups that have been abandoned, perhaps. It still would be necessary to go through and at least e-mail the owners of the group to ask if they want it purged from the system or if it still serves a purpose.
I’m sure Yahoo! has already considered these things, though.
Roger Cotterman said,
April 11, 2009 @ 9:40 am
Why couldn’t you schedule maintenance to a period of time such as 1:00AM when there are the least amount of people online, this is a major convenience to those of us that use these groups during the daytime, it seems to me with all people at Yahoo, they would take the time to consider when the best time is for maintenance.
Deborah B. said,
April 11, 2009 @ 9:51 am
Hello, I am a owner of several Yahoo Support Groups, and a few of them are Autism Support Groups. I plan on sending special notices to my members about the Group down times. Deleting small groups is not the answer, I think that is highly unfare to those who attempt to support other folks. I have to agree that Yahoo Groups need Maintenance done. I all so think Yahoo is “trying” to be as fair as they can with the time maintence schedule and times it will take place. There are so many “FREE” Yahoo Groups, and I do believe we should be more understanding of the “HUGE” job that Yahoo is facing. I know everyone has opinions, please be patient with Yahoo.
No, I am not an employee of Yahoo…just a Support Group Owner. I will take this down time and do some Spring Cleaning…We all have a few things that needs to get done : )
Take Care, and Happy Easter to All!
Deborah
Danny Douglas said,
April 11, 2009 @ 10:06 am
One problem, that we in the amateur radio world have had, is the death of owner/moderators. We had one group with several hundred members, and were unable to get new membership, or throw out those who were trouble makers. The owner did not have a secondary moderator. We eventually just started a new group, but the old one is still there, without a head. Yahoo was notified of it, and we simply received word that it could not be closed, or assigned to a new user. With just sending one email, you could have found that the owner was no longer on his given email address, thus it was headless. Seems simple enough. Also, concerning someones wishes to drop groups with few (one said less than 15) members, the question is why? One of my groups consists of only around 10 amateur radio operators. We are slowly growing, but it is specialty groups who really dont want or need too many people involved. Why would anyone else care how many we have, and what business would it be to them? Thanks to Yahoo for the ability of us to actually communicate amongst ourselves, in a group fashion.
Ruth said,
April 11, 2009 @ 10:08 am
For a moment thought the groups sites were no longer live on-line as three groups posts were not displayed. Knew the post content was not out of the unusal to censor preventing their posting? Most sites do their update work during the wee hours after midnight.
LILLIAN NASH said,
April 11, 2009 @ 10:52 am
I HOPE YOU FIX IT SO I CAN GET INTO MY MANGIMENT AND THE FOOTER.WY DON’T YOU DO THIS AT NIGHT.
Johnny B. said,
April 11, 2009 @ 10:56 am
That would take a lot of the fun away!
On a practical note, it’s a useful tool for those who are incapable of editing the quote that they are responding to, sometimes about 4 or 5 pages when it’s snowballing.
And some folks just flat out need editing.
“Bill Hall said,
April 10, 2009 @ 7:45 pm
Are you ever going to make it so that List owners can’t alter posts when the List is on moderation mode? Wouldn’t it make more sense to only have a pass or reject option?”
Richard Sitompul said,
April 11, 2009 @ 10:59 am
@yahoogroups.com
Thanks for your announce, please make it solve ASAP!
Wes Burton said,
April 11, 2009 @ 11:02 am
I have worked in the IT business for many years working for a major computer company. Our window to do things like this was usually between 2am and 5am on Sunday mornings. But I guess we were more concerned about our customers that Yahoo seams to be.
Jerry said,
April 11, 2009 @ 11:13 am
Yahoo seems to be constantly doing some sort of upgrade or
maintenance. Posts disappear, take for ever to hit the group and either
come in duplicate or out of order. The only time it has ever worked in
any fashion is when you all take a vacation. WHY DON’T YOU LEAVE IT
ALONE ?
Jerry
gaedhals said,
April 11, 2009 @ 11:25 am
Will this little update allow me to see my “Maintenance” page again? Or my Photo section? That would be nice — then I could once again change my homepage picture. And do a lot of other things for my Group. Just saying!
Chris said,
April 11, 2009 @ 12:01 pm
I just hope that this isn’t a 5 day event like the last scheduled update. that drove me crazy. Yahoo is a great server it’s just little stuff like this that gives them a bad name. IMO
Chris
Marleen Blair said,
April 11, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
I sure hope this helps! The Albany, NY website has been terrible. You send a post and if you’re lucky, it’ll get posted 3 days later.
Thabisile said,
April 11, 2009 @ 12:52 pm
Maybe we really need this maintenance, coz I’ve struggling to get my daily group messages even though I ve been updating my account frequently.
Jerry said,
April 11, 2009 @ 1:08 pm
All day it takes about an hour and a half for a post to show up.
Wonder what the reason for that is.
Jerry said,
April 11, 2009 @ 2:15 pm
I am a member of several aquarium hobby related groups that appear to have been abandoned by the owners as they have email bouncing and no one to contact about the group when problems occur. Can anything be done to get a new owner/moderator involved. Some of them have become porn/dating oriented posts and should be in the adult section and not the pets/hobby are that the now exist in. PLEASE DO SOMETHING!!!!!
kmart said,
April 11, 2009 @ 2:29 pm
Hope this fixes the LONG delay and lag time many of us are experiencing. we send an email to our group and it can be as long as a day before it shows up in people’s inboxes.
Having started with a suggestion for repair let me add that I think this is a great service yahoo provides and appreciate all the time and effort that must go into it.
M Room said,
April 11, 2009 @ 2:42 pm
Hi,
First, it seems that we have a lot of ungrateful idiots around which must make it extremely frustrating for Yahoo! administrators.
Second, for those that have not actually worked it out, Yahoo! Groups is a free service, we should be grateful for the amount of time and effort they put in to make this service as good as it is and indeed constantly trying to improve it.
Improved service and thus more use: Let us please have a group only chat room – it is a key point that really does keep a group alive and kicking rather than an also ran.
Please ignore the comments regarding the call to close groups with only one or two members. As a main group owner, I use a second group as a back up and to store pictures which I link to my main group as background. I also use it to experiment layouts before actually using them in my main group.
Regarding the comments above regarding delayed e-mail messages. There are several possible reasons for the delay. One is that the Internet is being flooded by spam mail from all over the place which bogs down the system. Another possible reason is that some groups (like mine), all messages posted have to be approved before being sent out. This does cause delay but it also prevents mass misuse of the mail system by others and also sites like Grouply, Facebook and other similar sites using the group e-mail system to spam members.
Anyway – Thank you Yahoo! for the advance notice and the Blast Message is a brilliant idea.
WALESKA said,
April 11, 2009 @ 2:49 pm
Hi, I really don´t understand what kind of maintenance you will do, but could somebody tell me if I have to backup of the messenges. what happen if I loose one of them. or what about the group´s pictures?
Thank´s, please better if the answer is in spanish.
regards
Richard L Walker said,
April 11, 2009 @ 2:55 pm
No problem with the outage. Just wondering what is maintenance? What is being done. Curious.
seasong said,
April 11, 2009 @ 3:11 pm
I’m just really, really hoping that this maintenance included fixing the ‘post preview’ function. In serveral of the groups I’m in, when you hit ‘preview post’ to proofread your post, the text does not wrap around, but shows as one long line per paragraph. Since the groups I belong to are writing groups, you can only imagine how frustrating that is. I’ve already emailed Yahoo Groups help about it, and they said it would be looked at for the next scheduled maintenance. I sure hope they meant it…
But kudos no matter what to Yahoo for giving us this FREE forum to use. I spend most of my online time here. Thank you!
Sue said,
April 11, 2009 @ 3:19 pm
I’m the owner of a group that is inactive most of the time.
I created it for members to keep in touch when the groups blog site is down … and as a portal to the groups blog site addy for those who join my Yahoo group. (We’re a supportive self-help group for a particular problem.)
Robert Carl Parisien Natick MA said,
April 11, 2009 @ 3:36 pm
Sue is everything working for you? I’m still seeing issues. let me know please.
SifGreywillow said,
April 11, 2009 @ 4:08 pm
Thank you to Yahoo & Melissa for giving a ‘heads up’ on the maintainence.
Far more considerate than MANY other free group sites would be!
I won’t give my permission for you to do maintainence to YOUR site, that’s just silly.
I won’t complain about the time you’ve chosen to do said maintainence because it’s not MY choice.
I’ll just kick back and enjoy the FACT that you’ve chosen to do maintainence at all on a site that gives me FREE access.
Enough said!
with appreciation,
SifGreyWillow
sultan said,
April 11, 2009 @ 4:36 pm
The group… freyasrealm… has no owner or moderators and no way for the group to prosper.The owner needs to “vet” anyone wanting to join. No owner? No group.
I have been trying to get the group to shut down but nobody listens.
Marleen Blair said,
April 11, 2009 @ 4:45 pm
Melissa, Thank you for getting my freecycle cafe post up. I appreciate it!
Evil Zebra said,
April 11, 2009 @ 4:48 pm
Being the owner/Moderator of one of these groups,
I hope that you can take care of some of the issues
we have been seeing lately… Like today!
Post are not showing up in the group…. so we repost
and then an hour later, the original posts are showing up.
This has happened before….
Good Luck in the upgrade!
Take it,
EZ
Lou said,
April 11, 2009 @ 5:07 pm
Hiya
Not sure if it’s to do with the outage but I can’t get on the yahoo groups site ( to access my groups – I’m set to web access). I keep getting the message Done whenever I put the dress into my browser. Is this something to do with Yaho>
Cheers
Lou
Mona said,
April 11, 2009 @ 5:37 pm
Can we get some help with the ionia freecycle. They do not post messages of some people and they are also rude to others by email. Why can they treat us like that?
Will Hicken said,
April 11, 2009 @ 5:38 pm
Ya right on the same day as my groups 5th year anniversary too. What a day to plan for it.
sheryl said,
April 11, 2009 @ 5:43 pm
I’m still waiting to get approved. How long does it take?
long said,
April 11, 2009 @ 5:59 pm
Ya right on the same day as my groups 5th year anniversary too. What a day to plan for it.
Sheila said,
April 11, 2009 @ 6:40 pm
Several of the groups I belong to are alumni groups. I went to high school at a DOD school overseas. When yahoo made the switch to “groups” we lost the chat room that belonged specifically to us. Our groups went from over 400 active members to maybe 20 active members – the lost of the chatroom and the abilty for many people to get together at one time was a huge loss. Is there a possibilty of getting them back? I know that there are still chat rooms on yahoo, but if the room is on the group we have much more control, as membership has to be approved. Just making a “private chat room” in the yahoo-messenger area makes it difficult for all of our members to be involved
Nancy15215 said,
April 11, 2009 @ 7:06 pm
Melissa,
The announcement says “The outage is currently scheduled to begin at 1 pm PT, 8 pm GMT”. Doesn’t 1 p.m. Pacific = 2 p.m. Mountain time? Or, does “GMT” mean something else?
Thanks for letting us know in advance.
Nancy said,
April 11, 2009 @ 8:44 pm
Ms. Daniels,
Is this update you are getting ready to perform going to cure the Yahoo Group problems? I feel like all my e-mails and comments have been ignored. Bottom line is, I just want to be able to moderate my group and to be recognized when I sign in.
Roadkill, you are one lucky Yahoo user.
Kikt said,
April 11, 2009 @ 9:08 pm
Despite the requests and comments yahoo won’t delete the groups
that haven’t login in by a moderator or the owner since 2000-2006.
No one’s group ever gets deleted because he/she hasn’t login in.
Yahoo doesn’t care if many groups are used for spam and the moderators and owners are no longer using them.
Annoyed said,
April 11, 2009 @ 9:13 pm
Wow, I love how the spammers infiltrate even here. As for Yahoo Groups… more power to ‘em, but they HAVE gone downhill quite a bit. Still, I have no problems with the service, so… who knows.
John in Ogden Utah said,
April 11, 2009 @ 9:37 pm
@ Nancy
Yes, 1pm PST = 2pm MST
@ Julie
A) Probably because that’s when the Yahoo employees that are doing the maintenance works. B) They’re nice and don’t want to get in my way. I mostly use the groups over the night. :p
Charlene said,
April 11, 2009 @ 9:37 pm
Nancy – GMT means Greenwich Mean Time, which is in England where the world’s time zones start.
MK said,
April 11, 2009 @ 9:59 pm
notified group members internally,
hope the maintennace goes smoothly.
bmwmcrider said,
April 12, 2009 @ 2:42 am
Melissa – what, if any, improvements are being made to Groups and any new features? Bringing back online storage of attachments, hopefully?
kumudpuri said,
April 12, 2009 @ 5:27 am
when will you do these maintainance when we are all asleep
Tibor M. said,
April 12, 2009 @ 5:40 am
Dear Melissa,
“Silvia Neugroeschel” silvia492002@yahoo.de and emil weiss” or emil174236″ <emil174236@yahoo.de on April 1, 2009 engineered a total blockage to web side http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stretnutie/,Silvia is the owner and Emil Weiss was the moderator under the guise that I (stena_spravodlivost@yahoo.ca) and Viktor (victorslovan@yahoo.com.au) are ” HACKERS” and ateempting to break up the Yahoo group Stretnutie. Silvia N, the owner, appoting without Victor admitted him to this Yahoo Group Stretnutie without his knowledge as the new moderator. The evidence of the owner Silvia N, can be found in the Yahoo groups Stretnutie lod sheets.
I am requesting you that both Emil Weiss and Silvia Neugroeschel are kicked out from any Yahoo group activities, their action is a gross violation of TOS of Yahoo and Yahoo! Canada, Yahoo Deutchland and by using also Yahoo Mail , Yahoo Canada Mail to distribute totally false accusations about “so called” hacking to the community members in a letter from Silvia N a siged by Silvia N and Emil W. Here is the header:
dolezita spravaSaturday, April 4, 2009 4:50 PM
From =?iso-8859-1?Q?silvia_neugr=F6schel?= Sat Apr 4 20:50:06 2009
Return-Path:
Authentication-Results: mta121.mail.re1.yahoo.com from=yahoo.de; domainkeys=pass (ok); from=yahoo.de; dkim=pass (ok)
Received: from 217.146.189.77 (HELO web23307.mail.ird.yahoo.com) (217.146.189.77) by mta121.mail.re1.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:50:11 -0700
Received: (qmail 89390 invoked by uid 60001); 4 Apr 2009 20:50:07 -0000
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.de; s=s1024; t=1238878207; bh=ZjYkxWtyNolA+DReHWvEelKo3GWTZ2T/lpk4lh0wwo8=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=CFkXqtohwmGflNVE4JrzGbXO4kDvQMizrLpFeY7dIDdC/otAiCLDQuR1e654A1P50JXk4ZO0OKVjaAFuU7hdfTO2WjN59tOztDl29AAbeok5ejpuXt7q5QiVGS/1ydSATrql7ByWF0xrwq0aNXnKNaKawQ6LKxYjoeXGp6SCOvs=
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The false accusation makes yhoo and Yahoo Canada liable for defamation in Canada, since I am registered as stena_spravodlivost. yahoo.ca and according the TOS yahoo subjects itself to Canadiann jurisdiction.
Tibor
stena_spravodlivost@yahoo.ca
Unimpressed said,
April 12, 2009 @ 8:38 am
It’s telling that the majority of replies to this thread are from idiots and other similar nutcases who apparently lack the minimal intelligence needed to understand and properly interact within a group environment…….what a sad and disturbing reflection about today’s society.
Randy (WR0RR) said,
April 12, 2009 @ 10:28 am
This takes me back to the days of the Mainframe Computer..
Control Data, Sperry/Univac, Cray, IBM, Ect.
Can We all Say “Big Iron Computing”….
The Whiners don’t realize what a Pain it is to do these maintence upgrades
and such…I know that now-a-days it isn’t as bad, but glitches do happen.
Good Luck Yahoo Groups Staff!
- Randy.
Zia said,
April 12, 2009 @ 10:47 am
Good luck with implementation, hopefully changes in the groups would go successfully.Thx
Southernbelle307 said,
April 12, 2009 @ 11:22 am
Awaiting the update on Yahoo Groups … Looong needed.
Question, Melissa: Why are all these chat type messages
being posted all through the Update discussion? Are they
not notified they’re in a discussion, not in their Group?
Thanks.
James Barnes, Jr. said,
April 12, 2009 @ 12:15 pm
Melissa,
Hi, could you tell me why I can’t access my Groups Photo section when I’m in Netscape, but I’m able to when I’m in Mozilla Firefox? Thanks.
James Barnes, Jr.
Brett said,
April 12, 2009 @ 12:19 pm
I saw someone ask for yahoo to delete groups that dont get activity in over a year. Please do not do that. I have many pbem groups i run from yahoo since it’s beginning. I also have a few inactive games that are still here to have the story threads stored for reference as in some of the games (pbems) are spin offs from them.
harish said,
April 12, 2009 @ 12:21 pm
yahoo is the best group
Margaret said,
April 12, 2009 @ 12:39 pm
I hope this maintenance will finally fix the problems I have been having with my messages getting to my group and vice versa. This has been going on for quite a while now. I have no idea how many messages I have missed. I don’t always check on the group site as I have the messages sent via my email but after comparing notes with my husband I am not receiving quite a few. We shall see what this new maintenance produces.
Margaret
x77054 said,
April 12, 2009 @ 1:23 pm
I find it interesting about all the comments about problems. I’ve been a member of multiple groups since early 2000’s, and I have experienced minimal problems. If I had to put a number on it, I would have to say, at least for me that it would be about 98% reliability, which in most computer circles is exceedingly good.
LK said,
April 12, 2009 @ 6:52 pm
All I can say is I hope this makes it so we can actually get the emails.. I havent been receiving emails from any of my groups, or I’ll receive one here and there, It makes it very inconvenient and im checking the yahoo site more then I want to…
Sageylee said,
April 12, 2009 @ 7:48 pm
Thank you! I really appreciate all the hard work you do. It must be quite a task keeping everything running smoothly. Certainly impresses me!
Much appreciated.
Christy Gilbert said,
April 12, 2009 @ 8:27 pm
I can understand the maintenance. Is there any way that you can fix to groups to where the files will set in Numeric order instead of alphabetical. Most of my readers have a hard time keeping up with the chapters of the stories on my groupsites with the chapters all mixed up
CFC said,
April 12, 2009 @ 10:12 pm
New servers? Remember how the latest update caused havoc to groups last month? But groups are free and not much can be said.Has Microsoft heard about the improvements made.
Frankie Moore said,
April 12, 2009 @ 10:54 pm
Thank you for the heads up on the planned maintenance. Apparently, there are quite a few who don’t know that GMT is not Mountain Time, but Greenwich Mean Time (England). I don’t have any complaints about Yahoo’s service, except that, even though I have my digests sent to my Juno address, when I try to sign into one of my groups with that address, Yahoo says that address is not taken and do I wish to register.
Andy T said,
April 12, 2009 @ 11:37 pm
Just for the record – there is no such thing as GMT any more, it finished in 1972. The official designation for reference time is UTC or Universal Time, Coordinated. It is near enough the same as GMT (max error would only ever be 0.8 second), but maintained worldwide by an ensemble of atomic clocks. All local times (PT, etc) are referenced to it through local offsets and daylight saving.
anonymous said,
April 13, 2009 @ 12:21 am
hopefully you dont delete all the unmoderated groups that i spam with links to paysites!
Allen said,
April 13, 2009 @ 1:32 am
Just wondering what kind of clocks you use and what time zone you are in?? It seems strange that there is a 7 hour spread between Pacific Time and GMT when the maintenence begins, but only a 6 hour spread when the work is scheduled to end!!!
Rajendra Singh said,
April 13, 2009 @ 1:52 am
I have registered to FUN&FUN Yahoo group but am not receiving mails lately. I dont know why once in a month I receive mails then there is no contact for more than a month
Lillsoma said,
April 13, 2009 @ 3:53 am
.
There’s ALWAYS Room For Improvements!
(Although My Group Seems Flawless???)
Thanks A Bunch!
alper starr said,
April 13, 2009 @ 4:14 am
please fix the problem with non english alphabet letters
we dont wanna see some things like “#¶£$¾£$¾£$¾£¶” instead of just one letter. i hope u understand me
thanks
best regards..
alper *
D said,
April 13, 2009 @ 5:14 am
@ Julie
Yahoo is worldwide… there is no good time to do it period where someone somewhere in the world won’t be highly inconvenienced. Besides 8 pm GMT is only a little bit before some people of highly civilized nations will be going to bed.
Might want to expand your world view a little bit.
winda said,
April 13, 2009 @ 5:27 am
good day to all…just want to ask if i can have an id for me and for my members in our group…and can we use this id for our room in yahoo messenger…we just want to have an official id so that when we go to our yahoo room we know are co-members…just like the ascii names…can that be possible? thank you and godbless…
susan said,
April 13, 2009 @ 5:55 am
I’m very happy with Yahoo too. I’ve had my group for just over three years with no big complaints at all.
Krista said,
April 13, 2009 @ 7:48 am
I don’t mind them doing their work BUT I hope they aren’t putting features in and taking features out without telling group owners/moderators about it. I get really tired of them messing around in the groups. The only thing they should do is keep the group messages going to the emails. That’s the biggest problem. We don’t have issues with our database or most the other features. The main issue is the very delayed messages – and this is when they aren’t doing anything in the groups.
Thanks for the heads up – it will interfere but hopefully not for long.
icemaid said,
April 13, 2009 @ 8:12 am
Hello there Melissa:
Is there any way that you can delete comments that are not directly
following the topic: that of yahoo groups and the new improvements:
( those Hi’s and hmm are most distracting – to those of us who are looking to better our groups interaction with Yahoo Management)
I do sincerely pray that Yahoo once again delivers what it has promised:
So that our psp and stationary groups do not get their emails ripped apart
by the new venture:
It would be a large loss to Yahoogroups— as there are many psp as well as stationary groups:
I do know my classes and the other creative groups require the attachments in their emails –
to go to the yahoo site each time — would be intolerable, not only for the students, but the Mods as well :
Item No 2:
I also have some groups which are small — but they are active-
I believe some of the smaller groups are more active than the large groups:
due to the fact they have become friends and so interact very well:
Item No 3:
To bring back Chat would be excellent as then the Mods would have a chance to meet and discuss valid points of how to better their groups and activities:
Many thanks
Icemaid
Peter said,
April 13, 2009 @ 8:24 am
@lyn — me, too! Some of my members haven’t been receiving posts to the list for what seems like a couple weeks.
@Melissa — is the service intended to deal with this issue?
Lady Victoria said,
April 13, 2009 @ 9:20 am
I wanted to say thank you for allowing us the pleasure to have our “Victorian Ladies Society”, on Yahoo. We have no problems,your doing a wonderful job.
Kindest regards:
Lady Victoria
icemaid said,
April 13, 2009 @ 9:27 am
Reply to Roseann Ferrell: (
RoseAnne
Your only alternative is to change your nickname – name as well as your password: and warn everyone in your group— that you have been compromised:
Grouply is not a nice group as they steal peoples names-and send mail out as though you were the sender_- and if you do not have your members names hidden – they too have been compromised:
Once you have warned your group— get yourself a new name and password
and delete the others: or else you will have grouply added to the new one as well:
There are other alternatives — but this works best: as your group cannot be accessed anymore :
Wishing you luck
Icemaid
Michele said,
April 13, 2009 @ 9:35 am
what is going on in this blog?
twice this morning I have posted requesting that Yahoo clean up this thread and delete the obvious spam and junk. Now I come back to see if there is any reply and see that both my posts were deleted, but the JUNK still remmains! Unbelievable.
Dear Yahoo, please delete the real junk and clean up this thread so that the legit mods (like myself) can find the real info and unpdates. I do appreciate that you have this blog for info, but it’s not of much help when it’s full of nonsense (or worse)
Allowing anyone to post anything unrealted (hi’s, job/dating requests, general nonsense and illegible mumbo-jumbo in non-english) is really counter-productive and doesn’t speak too well to Yahoo’s control of the situation. No wonder our groups are constantly bombarded by spammers and scammers when you openly allow them to do this on your own blog!
Again, so that the legit mods and members can find the info you are trying to present here, please clean up this thread.
respectfully,
Michele
Michele said,
April 13, 2009 @ 9:37 am
one more thing,
it would also be helpful for Yahoo to describe what type of maintainance or changes are being done to outr groups. That would not only help us understand this outage, but also will help us know if things are working as they should afterwards.
thank you, Michele
CJ said,
April 13, 2009 @ 10:11 am
Re: Taking away groups w no activity in over a year. Please DON’T do this– I am disabled & have had an unstable life for the past few years, incl. homelessness, (P.S. I have a Master’s degree) & I am just getting back into the swing of things. I ‘own’/moderate several groups. Taking away groups would discriminate against people who are busy or for whatever reason haven’t been able to administer their sites for a while. I will be ‘cleaning house’ on my groups, deleting spam (if I can figure out how), and trying to up membership in some/all of my groups. Also, deleting groups would presumably cause all past posts/discussions to be lost. Perhaps owners of groups who are no longer interested in owning/moderating them could pass on ownership of their group to others.
Some people are leaving groups cuz the groups are getting spam posts. So, a bigger problem for me as owner/adminitrator of my groups is spammers joining groups– then posting porn-related or pharmasuetical ads. I can’t find a way to delete posts or block these people, or only allow membership upon approval. There should be a ‘how to’ section for owners/administrators of groups.
Judy said,
April 13, 2009 @ 10:24 am
I submitted my registrtion info…since like 1 month ago for the Houston Freecycle.com and I still haven’t been approved…now does this person have to add us or is there a fee??? why havent i been added????
Harold How said,
April 13, 2009 @ 10:24 am
Hi – I’ve been waiting for over 2 months now for approval to the HTX group. what the reason for the delay ? I already belong to the Hex Beam group and have no problems there. Tks/73’s Harold
K said,
April 13, 2009 @ 10:42 am
I’m not having problems with groups. The occasional hiccup that’s happened over the past years, but that’s to be expected. Now, yahoo mail? That’s another issue altogether. There have been times when I’ve been getting a error trying to access it, or when I do my email isn’t there. I lose chat buddies, or if I’m in the process of chatting with them, with their name on the chat list as online, I’ll constantly have the notice come up that they aren’t on my list. I’ll have contacts disappear and have to add them again. I’ll have to log in several times just to get to the page.
That seems a greater concern than groups, at this point.
ashutosh gaur said,
April 13, 2009 @ 11:03 am
sir, why i am not getting any message or mail from your group?
Wendy said,
April 13, 2009 @ 11:31 am
I sincerely hope that this planned maintenance is going to be fixing mail delivery problems – in the last week at least HALF of the emails from my groups are not going to my email inbox and I am being forced to go to each site to read emails that are not getting delivered to me. I use AOL…
DE said,
April 13, 2009 @ 11:37 am
You guys suck. End of story. YGroups was finally starting to work good and then you go and do this. Thanks for nothing.
redjoe60 said,
April 13, 2009 @ 12:02 pm
is this why i am receiving soft bounces on mail being sent to yahoo mail from yahoo groups? extremely frustrating!
Baterista0 said,
April 13, 2009 @ 12:25 pm
Reporting that YG mail sent to above address also bounced between Sat. 11 April and today. Upon receipt of bounce notice, I “unbounced” the address.
Ray said,
April 13, 2009 @ 1:18 pm
Sue M, Harry, Nancy and James – I’m not alone! we could start a no access group!
Dear Melissa,
I write through tears of frustration as I try yet again to login to my Group. It prompts me for my password again and again …….sniff. I know my password is ok as it works fine for emails. I have tried the helpdesk but no joy. I use both Netscape and Firefox and I allow cookies from Yahoo. Why can’t I login?
LaShya Wilson said,
April 13, 2009 @ 2:01 pm
I have two (02) questions.
01. Are/Did you all go in Alphabetical Order???? My MAIN Group is BleachisAwesome.
So, if you did go in ABC Order, then you checked/updated BleachisAwesome, in the first 1/4.
02. Does this affect Grouply???????? grouply.com .
Michele said,
April 13, 2009 @ 2:24 pm
it’s definitely not alphabetical. I have 38 groups. At this moment, all but 8 are unavailable. For me, everything in the second half of the alphabet is down right now, but there are also several grous that begin in A , B or D that are also down.
and, unlike the “hiccup” issue of a couple of weeks ago, this time it’s not just “no activity”, but the down groups are not even showing up in your My Groups list.
Melissa Daniels said,
April 13, 2009 @ 2:33 pm
@LaShya & @Michele,
No, it is not alphabetical. As I mentioned in the post, during your group’s maintenance period your group will be completely unavailable.
-Melissa
Kristy said,
April 13, 2009 @ 2:34 pm
It looks as if they are doing this in alphabetical order of sorts because several of the groups I own or moderate are in the first part of the alphabet of like A-I. Only 15 of my 40 total groups (this is combined groups owned and am a member of) are available right now.
Kelly said,
April 13, 2009 @ 2:47 pm
Melssa and Yahoo Groups Team,
Thank you so much for taking our advice to use after the issue a few weeks ago! The advanced notice was welcome and made planning things for our group much easier and now that the group is down for maintenance you have made our day much easier as moderators. Again thank you so much for taking care of us and making groups a great place!
Kelly
Michele said,
April 13, 2009 @ 3:24 pm
it’s also been much longer than an hour. I posted at 2:24 that 30 of 38 groups I’m a mod/menber of were down. I don’t know exactly what time they wentt down but it was a little after 2pm. It’s now 4:22 so that makes it well over 2 hours.
It would still be nice to know what was done so that we know what to look for.
Brenda M. said,
April 13, 2009 @ 3:25 pm
Why haven’t we been receiving any Offer, Taken, or Reply e-mails or postings for our own offer postings, or anyone else’sfor that matter here in the Cincinnati East, Clermont Re-Use It, or Brown Co. freecycle groups I belong to for at least 2 weeks now. I’ve put several offer postings out there and it has taken as long as a day for them to be posted. I have talked to several other members as well and they are having the same problems with postings and e-mails with reply’s, offers & taken messages.
Brenda M. said,
April 13, 2009 @ 3:26 pm
Why haven’t we been receiving any Offer, Taken, or Reply e-mails or postings for our own offer postings, or anyone else’sfor that matter here in the Cincinnati East, Clermont Re-Use It, or Brown Co. freecycle groups for at least 2 weeks now. I’ve put several offer postings out there and it has taken as long as a day for them to be posted. I have talked to several other members as well and they are having the same problems with postings and e-mails with reply’s, offers & taken messages.
John said,
April 13, 2009 @ 3:32 pm
Hi folks
Hope yahoo gives us beta service afta dis
Karen said,
April 13, 2009 @ 3:41 pm
Melissa!
You left “freyasrealm” group just as it was.
Useless, since it has no owner or mod and nobody can join ever!
At least if you couild make me the owner I could do something with it.
Right now it is just junk.
Christine Staniforth said,
April 13, 2009 @ 3:59 pm
My group (and myself personally) never got a message from yahoo saying this would happen, I was using the group earlier tonight, then went back later and could not get in, I am the group owner. Then I found that my group was not listed in the My Groups section! I thought it had been deleted, and only found the Blog about it by accident!
I can’t give the URL if I cant find the group!
Floyd Davis said,
April 13, 2009 @ 4:02 pm
I Have two main and big groups (amistadatodaprueba@yahoogroups.com & Noti-Educativa@yahoogroups.com) to give our community the service that we need (Non Profit), but there is one problem, when I opened the group, I didn´t know that there was a Spanish area for the groups, for that reason I am in yahoo.com English, That causes a lot of troubles with the members of the groups, most of them don´t speak English, for that reason they can´t edit their membership in order to get the messages as they want or stop recieving them.
Both groups are the biggest ones in Guatemala, were we speak Spanish. I´been trying to transfer from English to Spanish language Group in order to service the community .
As an example is when they don´t want to get messages from the groups, they mark the groups as SPAM, because they can´t understand English. I have more than four weeks without adding any new member because The people in YAHOOGROUPS don´t allow me to do it. The groups are the mayor groups in Guatemala and we serve a lot of Organizations National and Internationals, Universities, State Offices, communities, social organizations, etc. We give a good service to the community and to the Spanish world where they can cacht us.
Please we need to add new members by us and by themselves, but they have to have every detail of the paper work in SPANISH.
My email is floyd_1_52@yahoo.com
Edd said,
April 13, 2009 @ 4:31 pm
One thing I would like to see is more options in setting up the groups page. Make it look more appealing than basic in your face options.
About the maintenance, you are doing a fine job on when and how you do it. When it only takes a few hours, the world does not end and will not fall apart because of it. Besides, after maintenance, the browser always seems to run faster… So to me, its a blessing.
Just give us more options to play with
LaShya Wilson said,
April 13, 2009 @ 4:34 pm
Thank You to everyone who answered my First Question.
Ms. Michele, that happened to me, as well. I saw Only 4/15 or 16 of my groups. But, as I re-read the Blog, Ms. Melissa Daniels DID Say that was going to happen.
But what about my Second Question??????????????
Did this affect Grouply?????????????? I told you about Grouply.com , in my Second Posting, here, and also, gave the Link.
This is my 03rd time responding to this Blog Posting.
Deborah said,
April 13, 2009 @ 4:48 pm
I recently created a grouppage at yahoo, so that group members could write mails from their various email sites to send to the group forum, which will then be redirected by the moderator, or automatically to group members personal email accounts. So far, I have tried to follow the directions on the page, but nothing worked. How do I set up the forum to automatically send posted emails to group members email addresses? How can I also, change ownership to bear the group’s name, instead of my name or my email address? As a moderator or owner, as it is right now is there any other way to log into the forum other than going through my email address? Please I urgently need your help.
Belinda said,
April 13, 2009 @ 4:57 pm
You know I read so many messages putting Yahoo down for this or that all the time. But I have yet to read one where they are telling Yahoo for letting us have these groups and all that Yahoo gives us for FREE a big THANK YOU for it. So come on people. If all you have to do is complain about Yahoo then you have way too much time on your hands. So why not get a life.
Yahoo you are doing a AWESOME job. Thank you!!!
Shari said,
April 13, 2009 @ 4:57 pm
Hello
I wanted to share my group’s home page was out of service for hours today. Now I can access the homepage but can’t do anything with management settings. Any further updates. It’s almost 5pm PDT
Thanks,
Shari .
Terry said,
April 13, 2009 @ 5:06 pm
A moderator asked ” 02. Does this affect Grouply???????? grouply.com .”
Is that spam site Grouply still here
No member of any of my groups are allowed to use Grouply.
Grouply is a Spammer and they hijack groups.
Melissa Daniels said,
April 13, 2009 @ 5:10 pm
@LaShya Wilson,
I did not reply to your Grouply comment because Grouply is not a Yahoo! service. I do not know, nor can I comment on the state or status of their service. I suggest that if you have questions about their service you contact them.
-Melissa
Melissa Daniels said,
April 13, 2009 @ 5:16 pm
@Christine Staniforth,
This message was not emailed out to users (unless you’re a member of Moderator Central) BUT it was posted on every page of groups at the top of the page (you can see the screenshot above).
-Melissa
Terry said,
April 13, 2009 @ 5:21 pm
Yes I realize Grouply is a private company
not associated with Yahoo.
Grouply’s sole purpose is to make lots of money
Spamming Yahoo Groups ,after they first hijack
the groups messages and put them up on their website .
There is no way of commmunicating with the
Grouply Owners,although there are a couple of individuals
in the groups, who some people believe might be the owners .
The particular indivuiduals have never confirmed they
are the owners.
It was very wrong of grouply not to ask permission to hijack
our groups and very wrong of them not to remove groups
from their database that did not specifcally give permission
to be included on their spam website .
Jeff said,
April 13, 2009 @ 5:46 pm
It is almost 8pm CDT, and I still don’t have access to my Firehouse user group. Am I the only one, or is this a common issue?
Melissa Daniels said,
April 13, 2009 @ 5:48 pm
@Jeff,
Your group is back up– try it now.
-Melissa
Jessi said,
April 13, 2009 @ 5:53 pm
My group is back up now but I cannot search message history for members… Will this be back on shortly or did it erase everything?
Michele said,
April 13, 2009 @ 6:01 pm
search is only partially working on my groups. I tested several times and the results only show posts from over a month ago or earlier – nothing newer than that using search words I am positive should bring up more recent posts.
(ie, I was looking at the recents posts adn could see the terms I was searching for but those posts didn’t show up in results)
Melissa Daniels said,
April 13, 2009 @ 6:09 pm
@Jessi,
I just pulled up your group– I was able to search your member list just fine. Your group however is one of the groups affected by the search issue (archives are searchable until March 19th) Please report your group to Customer Care or through the group search link found in this post: http://www.ygroupsblog.com/blog/2009/04/07/update-message-search/)
-Melissa
Melissa Daniels said,
April 13, 2009 @ 6:13 pm
@Michele,
This is the same issue that I just commented about to Jessi– (see comment above). It’s important to note that this issue was not the result of recent maintenance but instead, is an ongoing issue. Please report your group to customer care OR through the link in this post: http://www.ygroupsblog.com/blog/2009/04/07/update-message-search/)
-Melissa
Deborah said,
April 13, 2009 @ 6:16 pm
I have sent requests regarding my problem with the “from” line information when sending emails from the group Equine Cushings. The information is incorrect and I cannot get it edited. I have either received no response or “Did we solve your problem” survey! Why can’t this get fixed?!?! Will this maintenance help solve the problem?
Thank you for your time.
Nick said,
April 13, 2009 @ 6:52 pm
GOOD Job, YG Team! Both my groups appear to be almost fully functional (with a few minor exceptions not worth harping about). Other than approved posts taking several minutes to appear on the website (MUCH better than several hours or days), all seems to be pretty much back to normal (whatever “normal” might be!). Thanks! Have a cool one on me!
Jessi said,
April 13, 2009 @ 9:12 pm
Wow, they’re coming outta the wood work now..haha.. i don’t know who’s worse..
harshal jadhav
Richard McKenna
or
haider hanif
Penny said,
April 13, 2009 @ 9:12 pm
Why have half of my groups disappeared? The ones which I am moderator for just don’t show up anymore. Help!!!
Tony More said,
April 13, 2009 @ 9:51 pm
Although the outage to my Yahoo Group (CICV) was brief, I’m a touch disappointed. I was hoping that this server farm upgrade/change-over would bring the message attachment function and the added space allocation for files to the rest of Yahoo’s groups. I thought these enhancements would be implemented by now. However, this apparently is not the case.
Can you please give us an update on the status of the upgrades I mentioned above? Thanks in advance for what ever info you can provide, and another thank you for keeping the outage so brief.
Tony
Rehan Ahmed said,
April 13, 2009 @ 11:06 pm
Yeah my Group is back again … i know you guys are doing maintenance thats why i was not worried about that . but now i have to moderate 250 message of my group
Sara said,
April 14, 2009 @ 12:04 am
Any explanation as to why messages I post (new messages) to my groups (owned, moderated or just member of) show fine, but when I reply to any group messages (on ANY of my groups) the original message shows, but my reply is blank.
This is an issue that started a few days ago. I have not changed any of my settings.
csojc said,
April 14, 2009 @ 12:48 am
I am the co-owner of a Freecycle group. Several of our members are reporting difficulty logging in to the group at all. Some are re-applying as they believe that their old memberships have been deleted, and some are asking us to fix the problem. But I can’t find any problem with their memberships, there are no restrictions which would cause them to not be allowed to sign in and/or use the group. Is this a known problem connected with the upgrade/update, and if so when can we expect it to pass?
Thanks.
Sissin said,
April 14, 2009 @ 12:54 am
I hope better apps will be added.
Babar Zahoor said,
April 14, 2009 @ 2:04 am
Yahoo Groups is very good resource to learn and share things.
Please preserve the important things on the Yahoo……………..
I am also running baberbinzahoor group for the Linux lovers and learners like me………………
michael gilbey said,
April 14, 2009 @ 2:34 am
I certainly hope this site maintenance has been worthwhile. I have already lost a group here and I know others who have because of outside influences like hackers who will try and stop groups they don’t like. A few weeks ago my password that I had used about the past year was suddenly declared invalid. Perhaps you can explain this to me. I do hope for a better service here and better protection from any harmful spam or whatever. Only time will tell if the quality of Yahoo groups has improved.
CASSANDRA said,
April 14, 2009 @ 3:31 am
I’m trying to update my log-in information but I am getting the message “you must be at least 13 years old to access…….” . Any ideas why that might be anyone?
Jim T said,
April 14, 2009 @ 4:09 am
To Melissa Daniels:
I think Yahoo has made many excellent changes during the past year in Yahoo Groups. Some of the new moderator management tools have helped me weed out possible spammy messages from the newer members who join my groups. I still see a lot of private commerical interests and other individuals who continue to join various Yahoo Groups solely for the purpose of collecting email addresses to push commerical endeavors. Some of these entities are obvious while others tend to be more subtle with their MO. A few of these spammers have also taken to starting their own Yahoo Groups. How does one go about reporting suspect scammers & spammers in Yahoo Groups?
groupMod said,
April 14, 2009 @ 4:10 am
Now that the maintenance is finished, could you please remove the message at the top of our group pages? Thank you.
michael gilbey said,
April 14, 2009 @ 4:31 am
I have one more thing to say. I think that Groupy is dangerous to the groups here and something should to prevent them from interfering with them.
Madelyn Skeuse said,
April 14, 2009 @ 5:04 am
I am not getting e mail from all of my groups. The one said I was bouncing and I corrected that and it’s the only one I am receiving mail. How can I fix the others?
Thank you
Linda said,
April 14, 2009 @ 5:38 am
Will this maintenance fix the ongoing search problem? Will it fix the delay between a post being approved and showing on the board? Will it fix the lost in the ether posts?
If no to any of the above, what *will* the maintenance actually do?
Linda said,
April 14, 2009 @ 5:48 am
Also forgot to ask why Yahoo Groups “lost” several of my groups (as accessed from the Yahoo home page.) If I am in a group site, and click on the “my groups” on the top right of the page, all my groups are shown. What gives? Will this be corrected?
Michele said,
April 14, 2009 @ 5:50 am
thanks Melissa. I had previously reported the search problem and had hoped that fix was part of the maintainance upgrade. I guess it wasn’t.
That’s why I had also asked what exactly was being done in yesterday’s outage, so that we would know what to look for – which things would be fixed and which would still be broken and needing to be reported again.
Eileen said,
April 14, 2009 @ 5:53 am
Since the maintenance has been done I cannot get on to the three groups I am a member. The page that opens is as if I am a new person and it asks me to join this group. Any suggestions. E.
Betty Ganung said,
April 14, 2009 @ 6:58 am
For some reason since yesterday afternoon any email that I send to a group
is arriving on line blank. Never happened before. My message shows up in my sent file but on the lists it is blank.
Limtohhan said,
April 14, 2009 @ 7:06 am
Frankly, I find Yahoo! Groups much better than Google Groups. I have attempted to use Google Groups before, but I never received the only email I sent out in April last year till about a year later yesterday. In contrast, using Yahoo! Groups, I receive messages quite quickly. I also find the Daily Digest feature rather efficient, contrary to the comments of other users.
However, I do find the age limit required for setting up a group rather restrictive. As a student, I create e-groups for group project discussions, and use e-groups for communication with other members of my CCAs. However, in order to create an e-group, I have to create another Yahoo! account with an appropriate age, then add my existing account to the e-group. I hope that this could be improved, as it must be realised that students are major users of e-groups too for discussion and communication.
Also, in Daily Digest, I never receive email attachments. Hence, often I have to email the sender separately to request that he (she) send the attachment to me separately, and in the course of so doing, decrease the efficiency in communication and essentially defeating the purpose of an e-group. Hence, I hope that attachments could be stored online as well, instead of simply having a box entitled Attachments (not stored).
Thanks. This came a little late.
SLW said,
April 14, 2009 @ 7:09 am
Keep up the good work!, appears that pages are faster loading as well as integrated. I’m impressed, now all Yahoo needs is a spam filter to block these nasty pornographers and atypical morons who abuse the system for malicious intentions.
LB said,
April 14, 2009 @ 7:13 am
For the last 24 hours I have not received my Daily Digest from any of my Yahoo Groups (about 12)…..this has occurred since your maintenance. How do I fix this?
carol craven said,
April 14, 2009 @ 8:04 am
BECAUSE of this down time, my mailbox got hit with 1810 emails at one time
my limit is 1000 a day………….therefore causing me to bounce on all my
lists. I am so upset over this. and YAHOO should inform each list I am on,
as to why I am bouncing and reinstate me on each one. PLEASE ! ! !
LeSha said,
April 14, 2009 @ 8:23 am
Ever since Yahoo started this maintenance a couple of weeks ago, I have been having problems searching my group’s message archives. It will only search messages prior to March 18, 2009; so I cannot search recent topics.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
Thomas said,
April 14, 2009 @ 8:45 am
Three of my groups are still missing, which is particularly alarming because I own them.
Yet the update above says all work is complete and groups are restired?
A year back I lost my website during some maintanance and asked Yahoo to help me out. I have never gotten the website back.
Will my groups return. There is important stuff stored in them.
Carlotta Cooper said,
April 14, 2009 @ 8:55 am
There’s almost no mail getting through on our list. I have posted the same message 4-5 times since yesterday afternoon and it still hasn’t appeared. I know others are trying to post.
Alper Akyüz said,
April 14, 2009 @ 9:02 am
Dear sir/madam
After the group is taken under maintenance, I’m not the group owner anymore and it asks me to join the group. I can’t manage my group. Will it recover?
Best regards
Melissa Daniels said,
April 14, 2009 @ 9:26 am
@Madelyn Skeuse (and anyone else having bouncing issues),
To check the status of your own bouncing accounts and to unbounce bouncing accounts, please go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/member/preferences/email/view
This page will show you all of the accounts that are registered under your email address. Here, you’ll be able to unbounce any bouncing accounts from one page!
(Bouncing accounts will show up in the “Status” column as “BOUNCING” in red letters– if the account says “Normal” your account is not bouncing. To unbounce your account, just click on the “Unbounce” link beneath the red “BOUNCING” letters).
-Melissa
Andre said,
April 14, 2009 @ 9:42 am
I only see my group’s messages online up to March 13th as the latest. It’s April 14th today! What gives?
Icemaid said,
April 14, 2009 @ 9:56 am
Hi there Melissa & the Yahoo Team:
To say I am impressed – is putting it mildly– our groups were effected for
some time — then I went in and changed it to the settings required for my groups- to function normally– and needless to say all their emails came in with the attachments:
Thank you Yahoo– you give us all a fantastic online life:
My class members also thank you:
Yes there are hitches in yahoo -there are also hitches in Googlegroups- as well as others – but folks — we have a free service here:
How about showing Yahoo & the team our gratitude — I personally say thank
you — things went off without too much fuss :
Melissa thanks
Icemaid
Bellanco said,
April 14, 2009 @ 9:57 am
My group take forever to load and there was only one message from yesterday. I guest that they are still conducting maintenance.
Greggorr_new said,
April 14, 2009 @ 10:03 am
The update went quick & silent. Kudos.
When do the indexes get re-hashed? I still see my every post authorized by the moderator, but searching on a keyword or my user ID still yields only some very old posts.
Also, that password loop grabbed me one day recently, but has not repeated. I just re-posted and explained to the moderator. Nothing else odd observed.
YT, -Greggorr
John A. said,
April 14, 2009 @ 10:16 am
Is this when the usual way to send attachments to messages in the groups are destroyed, as we have begun see happening in some groups?
The attachments are for some reason stored in the group photo section instead of being ordinary attachments to the mails sent. This causes trouble for people who want to send attachments exactly as they are without having to have them shrinked in the photo section of the group (photos posted there are usually shrinked somewhat, at least if they are big, and given new, strange file names).
Best Regards, and thanks in advance for your answer!
John Anderson
Zalea said,
April 14, 2009 @ 10:39 am
I own a small group that has only 12 members, and although it’s been inactive for a few days, it does have its busy spurts. I don’t know any other forum in which we could get together the way we do here. I agree that if a list has been totally inactive for a year or so, with only 1 or 2 members, that it would be wise to delete it, but I hope my list never gets deleted.
Carolyn said,
April 14, 2009 @ 11:44 am
One of my Yahoogroups for which I am an owner has apparently completely disappeared. I do not see it on my groups page, it does not show up in search. The group stores a great many files I and the other members need access to. Is there any way to get help locating the group and making it accessible again? Thank you so much. This is making me nervous.
sarah said,
April 14, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
I am having trouble getting posts to hit my email. Its really an inconvience to have to keep checking the groups site for posts that hit there and never hit my email.
Judith Stein said,
April 14, 2009 @ 1:09 pm
Melissa, is there any expectation of when the broken Search will be fixed?
Melissa Daniels said,
April 14, 2009 @ 5:00 pm
@Judith Stein,
We’re hoping to have a general release of the search fix within a month. We’re gradually fixing broken groups and will have another batch ready in the next two weeks. I know it’s frustrating, and thank you for being patient.
-Melissa
Valerie Voigt said,
April 14, 2009 @ 5:10 pm
(That’s what URI means to me)
Messages to my group (Elder-Pagan) are not being delivered, nor are they showing up in the message archives. What gives?!!
HELP!
avinash said,
April 14, 2009 @ 9:52 pm
Friends, write some interesting,. so all will enjoy. Worries are always with us.Now let us forget and enjoy.
Harry said,
April 14, 2009 @ 11:49 pm
Hi Melissa,
So what the hell has happened to the Rich Text Editor used for posting messages to groups? Since your “maintenance outage” yesterday, any RTE messages we post are having the html formatting automatically stripped after sending. This means we can no longer post graphics in messages to the groups. This is a HUGE issue for our two 10+ year old groups of 6000+ members. If we can’t post html format or graphics, then we’ll have no other option but to relocate elsewhere. Not what we desire.
The posts have this across the bottom…
“non-text portions of this message have been removed”
Did a setting inadvertantly get changed in the push? I haven’t changed anything. Please advise soonest.
Regards Harry
Groups owner
Carl said,
April 15, 2009 @ 2:21 am
Hi Melissa,
I understand that maintenance has to be done sometimes… I have an issue described below and I’m not sure if this problem is connected with the latest maintenance or maybe turned up earlier. However it doesn’t work as it should:
The members list of my group is out of sync: a member wants to unsubscribe but that doesn’t work via email command. As owner / moderator of that group I also cannot find that account when doing a standard search in the members list. Only if I click on ‘Export’ and search for that member’s account name I see his entry in the CSV.
I already submitted a tech support request but from earlier cases I expect to only get standard answer blocks two weeks later.
Could you please forward this description to someone who can have a closer look at that problem? Thanks! We have a very annoyed member who receives a lot of messages from Yahoo! and isn’t able to stop it…
One other request: when submitting a tech support request the system should directly return a copy to my email address that contains a unique request number. Is that possible?
Regards,
Carl
Gari, Isle of Man said,
April 15, 2009 @ 3:32 am
TIMES AND TIME ZONES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NO country, county or district changes time ZONE in winter or summer. It might change the time it applies from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time but it remains in the same ZONE.
The zones are expressed as a + or – to UTC/GMT and the current time can be seen at http://www.timeanddate.com for any state in the world
HOWEVER, Yahoo (read this Melissa) constantly gets its times in a twist and talks of PT (a time that actually does not exist but is used for the current time in the N American Pacific region).
To make matters worse, GMT is added and the incorrect GMT time stated.
Apart from a week or two when America switches from PST to PDT or reverse, the difference between London and San Francisco times is always 8 hours. Not 6hrs as quoted and not 7hrs as quoted.
If the PT is to mean PDT then the difference to GMT is 7hrs but irrelevant as nobody uses GMT when America is on PDT. The UK is presently on BST (British Summer Time) which is —- wait for it — 8 hrs ahead of SFO
My point is that one time only for outages would be a lot better for global understanding. Either Pacific Time or UTC/GMT but not both. Also, PT should never be used as it is not a time but a convenience. The local time on West Coast USA is PDT in summer and PST in winter
I post a chart thingy every half year on WORLD TIME mentioning from New Zealand over Australia, India, S Africa, Europe, British Isles and N America and would gladly post it here if desired
Cheers
Gari, Isle of Man (yes it IS a country)
PS If any Aussie readers want to tell me that they have more than 3 Time ZONES, then forget it and go back to the study books maties
groupMod said,
April 15, 2009 @ 5:12 am
Thank you for removing the notice in the groups about the maintenance. Most of the groups do NOT need to have a notice about how to get to this blog.
When you need to have an alert, you can put it back. But now it’s wasting space.
Please remove the notice from the home page of all groups.
Claire said,
April 15, 2009 @ 5:41 am
I’ve been receiving email notification of 20+ new members joining my group since Tuesday eve 14 April, however, these folks are not showing up in the members list this am 15 April. Is there a glitch?
Delia said,
April 15, 2009 @ 5:42 am
1) When reading a post on line, on site, the “next” and “previous” features are not always working as they used to –on the 5 groups that I checked as owner/moderator and member. I did not check all the rest of the groups I belong to (over 70). This is as of the 13th of April. Now, it seems that if the topic is the first message, then there is no “previous” and this is just picking out a message from the main list. You have to hit the back button to get to the list and then pick another message to read. Not too friendly as it was before. I don’t like this feature as it is changed.
2) the search feature is rather spotty and, as mentioned before, seems to leave out the current messages in the search.
3) I use firefox (updated version) as a browser and it and yahoo combined will not let me re-organize my short group list (the first 15). It goes through the motions, but won’t hold a move, just drops the one I am trying to move to the bottom, and it stays there. I have to use IE or my old Netscape browsers to do a move change that will stick. Is this only a firefox/mozilla issue?
I appreciate the moderator blog. Thanks for any explanation.
D
Nubia said,
April 15, 2009 @ 6:00 am
hi i am Nubia owner of Nubia_group
i already posted this comment yesterday here but i don’t why you deleted it ?
anyway
since 13 april i approved more than 50 new members in my group
but none of them appear in the member list
is this a new bug or problem ?
are these new members i approved member of not
do they receive the mails ?
other question about the new way of attachements
we miss a choise : ATTACHEMENT in both site and mails
so the members who choose “daily diggest” could download the attachement from the message page of the group
and the members who choose “individual mails” could find the attachement inside the mails
why didn’t you give us this choise ? IT’S THE BEST CHOISE we miss it
best regards
Nubia
Bill K said,
April 15, 2009 @ 7:16 am
Regarding what Claire said at April 15, 2009 @ 5:41 am — this also is occurring on my webgroup. Three new members joined yesterday but are not showing up on the MEMBERS list. Therefore I can’t take them off of MODERATED messages or reset their message delivery frequency off of “Individual Emails”.
LB said,
April 15, 2009 @ 7:28 am
Melissa:
This is the fourth message I have left regarding this. Could someone please respond?
Since the maintenance, I do NOT receive any Daily Digests in my email from 10 different groups that I belong. I have used Yahoo groups for many years now and have NEVER had this problem.
How do I fix this?
Thank You!
sarah said,
April 15, 2009 @ 7:33 am
Melissa
I am having trouble getting posts to hit my email. Its really an inconvience to have to keep checking the groups site for posts that hit there and never hit my email
sarah said,
April 15, 2009 @ 7:47 am
Ok im not sure why my problem was removed because it was a legimate problem. if yahoo doesnt shape up and start fixing some of its problems (I’m not the AOL member having issues with getting posts) people will just start leaving yahoo groups and then where will you be? I sent my problem of posts not hitting my email to tech support YESTERDAY and have got no help yet.
Carolyn said,
April 15, 2009 @ 11:12 am
Looks like my missing groups are back. Thank you for the help.
Jose Cruz said,
April 15, 2009 @ 12:13 pm
After the outage, new members do not appear under my group.
The tally goes up but I don’t see the new members listed.
I have to go into “management” to see them. Do these new “invisable” members see the new messages I send to the group?
Is this how its going to be here on out?
sarah said,
April 15, 2009 @ 12:29 pm
Looks like right now my mail issue is resolved hopefully it stays that way.
CSSwarnakar said,
April 15, 2009 @ 8:45 pm
Thank you for removing the notice in the groups about the maintenance. Most of the groups do NOT need to have a notice about how to get to this blog.
CSSwarnakar said,
April 15, 2009 @ 8:47 pm
during the maintenance, I do NOT receive any Daily Digests in my email from 10 different groups that I belong. I have used Yahoo groups for many years now and have NEVER had this problem.
How do I fix this?
Thank You!
jaggu said,
April 15, 2009 @ 9:28 pm
I have to go into “management” to see them. Do these new “invisable” members see the new messages I send to the group?
Is this how its going to be here on out?
icemaid said,
April 15, 2009 @ 10:23 pm
Hi Melissa:
This off topic:
Due to my replies — here on this blog -re Grouply Com_
I have been flooded with spam from grouply com and have reported them:
I was forced to change all my email addresses:
SO I guess it is something that Yahoo can take steps in-
and stop these people from disturbing what once was a great and peacelful
time online:
thnaks Melissa
do hope something can be done to stop these idiots: ( pardon my expression)
Wish they would get a life and leave decent folk alone:
Icemaid
SACHIN SARAF said,
April 15, 2009 @ 11:38 pm
I have to go into “management” to see them. Do these new “invisable” members see the new messages I send to the group?
Is this how its going to be here on out?
Don said,
April 16, 2009 @ 12:50 am
My members cant see the PHOTOS in the left hand panel.
I have photos set for my members to use, but if they cant see them, then they cant use them.
Instead when they click on ATTACHMENTS the photos show up.
But I havent enabled any attachments yet.
What is going on??????
HELP
Icemaid said,
April 16, 2009 @ 1:47 am
Melissa: MAIL PREFERENCES – why was that changed ???
Have gone to add my new email addresses and much to my surprise – voila
Management has done it again : ( Folks– the edit button is gone )
One cannot change the email addresses in preferences one can only delete them: (delete button only )
It does have add a new email address- but when one goes to add
it opens a opps box saying exceeded email accounts:
you cannot add the new email address ?? What gives ??
Come on Yahoo — take care of those who have paid for services for years:
Having a paid yahoo mail account since 2001 — has given me nothing more than what all others receive with a free service: ( still wondering what I am paying for )
So Melissa can you escalate this issue– as now I am truly unable to access my
mail — as I had changed to the new email addresses only to find once done
I cannot add them to email preferences:
My yahoogroups mail cannot be received as I have added the new and removed the old email addresses:
With all the groups I cannot do it on one email address:
So please see what can be done:
Otherwise it will be time for change and make the move
to googlegroups:
This truly takes the cake:
Icemaid
Yannik said,
April 16, 2009 @ 8:44 am
Hello
I’m Melissa, the group owner from female_medical group. (http://groups.yahoo.com / group / female_medical?)
My account is deleted by Yahoo, so that I cannot log in any more and not look after my group any more.
Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address.
:
Remote host said: 554 delivery error: dd Sorry your message to female.medical34@yahoo.com cannot be delivered. This account has been disabled or discontinued [#102]. – mta673.mail.mud.yahoo.com [BODY]
Why???
I have too lain down an imagination account, so that I can write this news in Yahoo.
Barbara Cavallin said,
April 17, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
I haven’t gotten any e-mails or updates since April 13. I got a message that I had Bounced them, but I didn’t. What happened?
Helos said,
April 17, 2009 @ 2:37 pm
Frankly speaking, as a new comer, I don’t know what to do with and what to say in my yahoo groups here. So, anybody please help and give your guidance to me in order to optimize my sharing and taking part in this site. For Yahoo, thanks for your accommodation to my membership and all of your services so far.
naveen said,
April 17, 2009 @ 5:25 pm
I haven’t gotten any e-mails or updates since April 13. I got a message that I had Bounced them, but I didn’t. What happened?
Mac said,
April 17, 2009 @ 8:08 pm
Mine never came back! I checked my groups, and yahoo reported bounce backs from my ISP
taceon said,
April 17, 2009 @ 9:26 pm
I haven’t had any emails from my group since April 13 at 3 am was last email sent. What happened?
mahiyuddin said,
April 17, 2009 @ 10:21 pm
i have no word to saying about astrology
i dont know aboutb the astrology
Sid said,
April 17, 2009 @ 11:09 pm
Outage is fine as far as we see the improvement in future,cheers!
Lisa said,
April 18, 2009 @ 4:57 am
Our group hasn’t received Daily Digests in three days….
Not sure if this is a product of the updates..hope this is resolved soon.
cranie said,
April 18, 2009 @ 8:00 am
b2 fans yuku board not available whats happening???
lakshminarayana said,
April 21, 2009 @ 6:29 am
Yahoo Groups is very good resource to learn and share things
Piya said,
April 21, 2009 @ 8:48 am
First I was user of google groups.
I used Google groups for many months. But I was unable to get members from traffic.
But then I tried to have a group on yahoo. And really it is nice and superb.
So, finally I decided to permanently join yahoo groups.
Bill Cortner said,
April 21, 2009 @ 12:35 pm
In addition to the HOME-PAGE PHOTO UPLOAD GLITCH,
I’d like to report another problem… Horrendously SLOW PAGE-LOADS.
It’s not my computer because I’ve tried both of my systems…
One is hi-speed DSL, the other is hi-speed cable and all of the other
sites I visit load instantly… One thing I’ve noticed is that those buggy,
rectangular-shaped, animated things at the top of the pages are
causing more problems than usual, which is saying something!
Presently, these energy-stealing data-vampires seem to be
sucking-off what little server speed/capability is even available.
Any idea when Yahoo Groups servers will be running at proper speed?
-Bill
Melissa Daniels said,
April 21, 2009 @ 4:24 pm
@Bill Cortner,
This bug should be fixed later today– it popped up today and the team has worked to resolve it and a push should be out this evening.
Sorry for the temporary inconvenience.
-Melissa
pal said,
April 21, 2009 @ 8:38 pm
Yahoo Groups is very good resource to learn and share things.
Please preserve the important things on the Yahoo……………..
I am also running baberbinzahoor group for the Linux lovers and learners like me………………
surendra said,
April 21, 2009 @ 9:27 pm
i am search my new friend my age is 21 year
Chris Eccles said,
April 22, 2009 @ 2:52 am
I sincerely hope Yahoo! will NOT implement a policy of deleting groups which have only 1 member.
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As I have done in the past, many people use a Yahoo! group as a reference
point for factual information which can be accessed by anyone, member or
non-member. The organisation into “Files” and “Photos” sections, plus the
ability of the group owner to post informative messages to accompany an
update of information, works better in a Yahoo! group context than in many
other alternatives (blogs, hosted sites, social networks etc).
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Just my 2¢ worth.
-
Chris Eccles
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/Miriam_of_Magdala
Bryan Dela Cruz said,
April 22, 2009 @ 5:05 am
Quoting this Comment
Julie said,
April 10, 2009 @ 1:21 pm
Just curious as to why you don’t do this during the night when the fewest people will be impacted instead of when the most people will be impacted??
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even if they do this maintenance at night , it will be morning at the other side of the planet that’s what they want to inform us that there will be a slight glitch. Are you thinking?
Rakesh Kumar said,
April 22, 2009 @ 5:12 am
Well, if the updates aren’t happening until Monday, why are all my groups screwed up today (and yesterday too) … Friday and Saturday. Friday and Saturday are my busiest days for moderating messages that HAVE to go to the group members on the day they are posted. For the past two days … NOTHING can be done. And, can you please stop with the ads on the pages where moderators review and edit messages? It just slows everything down, and if I don’t wait for the damn ads to load, the page times out completely so that I have to close IE, reopen, go to Groups, go to the correct group, go to pending messages, and start all over again. I know that this is a free service, but enough with all the excessive ads already. I pay for Mail Plus so I don’t have to deal with the ads in my email … it would be nice if this could be extended to other Yahoo services as well (for the same price!). I don’t click on banner ads (or any ads for that matter), so Yahoo will never get ad revenue directly from me. Enough already.
Nicky said,
April 23, 2009 @ 1:51 am
Hi, I don’t know if I am posting in the right place but I still cannot access messages or post messages – could someone point me in the right direction for some help please.
Thanks very much
jessica said,
April 28, 2009 @ 6:39 am
hey I dont know where to write but my freecycle hast been active in weeks whats up and can someone tell me where my once very active group went???