Planned Outage: July 14, 15, and 16
UPDATE (7/16: 4:55 pm PDT; 11:55 pm GMT): The outage is complete. If you are still having problems accessing your group (or other issues), please contact Customer Care. All comments to the blog are read by the team, but only Customer Care can actually provide support.
UPDATE: The outage scheduled for Wednesday, July 15, will not take place. Instead, on Thursday, July 16th, there will be a site-wide outage impacting all Yahoo! Groups.
During this time, you will not be able to access any of your groups, and, mail will be delayed. Once the site is back up, mail delivery will resume. This outage will start at about 3pm PT (10pm UTC/GMT-to determine what time the outage will take place in your neighborhood, please visit this link: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html) and should last roughly 2 hours.
This week (July 14, 15, and 16), we’ll be performing maintenance on the remaining 75% of Yahoo! Groups that were not affected by last Wednesday’s outage.
This maintenance will take place over a three-day TWO DAY period (July 14, 15, and 16), as we’ll be working on 25% of Yahoo! Groups at a time. This means you may be able to access some of your groups, but not all, during the outages. For the affected groups, mail will be delayed, but will return to normal once the outage is complete.
All of the outages will take place at 3pm PT (10pm UTC/GMT-to determine what time the outage will take place in your neighborhood, please visit this link: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html) on the 14th, 15th, and 16th.
While we know that outages sometimes seem to come at exactly the wrong time, we again hope to have these next three done within 2 hours.
Once the maintenance has been completed, we’ll update this post.
Thanks for your patience!
Melissa Daniels
Yahoo! Community Manager
Stacey said,
July 11, 2009 @ 7:54 pm
Hi! I’m trying to get the term one files and it isn’t working. I’ve gotten Aesop and AIS this way but the others are showing an error when I try to pull them up. Do you know how I can make it work? Is anyone else having trouble?
Thanks,
Stacey
Cel said,
July 12, 2009 @ 7:43 am
The scheduled maintenance is still on the 14, 15 and 16th but we have already been experiencing failure on posting our messages for 3 days now. We had to post it 3 to 4 times before i got posted, some don’t at all.
Ash said,
July 12, 2009 @ 3:59 pm
Hey guys, thanks for letting us know. I’m just hoping this maintenance update has something to do with updating the Photos section to allow subfolders? Its been promised several times on the suggestion board, but never happens. But it seems like you guys are fixing bugs, will there be no new added features? Thanks!
Administrator said,
July 12, 2009 @ 4:55 pm
This maintenance, like the one last week, is designed to strengthen our core database infrastructure (to make it more reliable and faster) rather than to add any new features (as an fyi, new features should almost never require downtime; only work on the core infrastructure like the databases or a data center move requires downtime).
And while we definitely do plan to keep adding new features, bug fixing and strengthening the core infrastructure generally take precedence.
Meanwhile, if folks like Cel are experiencing problems, they are bugs unrelated to the maintenance, and they should contact Customer Care:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/ownmod/forms/general.html
Hafiz Ullah said,
July 13, 2009 @ 2:12 am
Thanks for the information about planned maintenance.
Can we expect attachments to remain with the message?
Hope the maintenance goes well with some improvements.
~slsmhu (Hafiz)
tina said,
July 13, 2009 @ 11:05 am
I JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW TO GET MY PROFILE OFF OF EVERY SITE OUT THERE THAT ITS ON …..MY FIANCE AND I ARE BOTH GETTING MAD CAUSE ALL THESE MEN KEEP POPPIN IN JUST TO SAY HI AND ASK TO CAM AND WE DONT LIKE IT….SO HOW DO I GET MY PROFILE OFF OF EVERYTHING EXCEPT JUST MY MAIL AND MESSENGER???……SOMEONE PLEASE HELP BECAUSE I DONT WANT TO BE IN ANY GROUPS AT ALL!! SORRY BUT I HAVE NO USE FOR THEM.
Secret said,
July 13, 2009 @ 11:28 am
Are these outages going to do anything to fix out search engine in the group? The engine in our group is still only showing result starting from March of this year and into the past.
Niecko said,
July 13, 2009 @ 11:34 am
Why are the search engines not updated on the groups home page? I put in any subject and the newest date comes up all the way back to March 16th Today is July 13th thats a four month span…getting older dates is not a problem though
Scott said,
July 13, 2009 @ 11:38 am
Hi!!
I was wondering when are you going to increase the number of invites we can send to people. I don’t think 50 is enough, and I’m starting a Christian Group and trying to find members, so when are you going to increase the number of invites so groups can invite more people and will it be part of your maintenance??
God Bless,
Scott
Carol said,
July 13, 2009 @ 12:28 pm
The notice of the outage on my group’s Home page says the outages will be July 13, 14 and 15. The message to which the notice linked says July 14, 15 and 16.
Please let us know on which days the outages will occur.
Thank you.
EMI Calculator said,
July 13, 2009 @ 1:52 pm
Yahoo already announced that GeoCities is going…. may be Groups will also follow…..
Briefcase service has also gone along with my files
I did’t checked my mail… it was buried between SPAM!!
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 13, 2009 said,
July 13, 2009 @ 2:00 pm
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Robert Cutty said,
July 13, 2009 @ 2:04 pm
Why is it that some of there so called groups what to know why you want to join and it take them forever to get a reply and some of them you do not get a reply like http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Artisan_Cheesemakers/ i have been waiting 6 weeks now and no reply maybe he or she think they are better than us i have new for them they put there pant on the same we do
rick said,
July 13, 2009 @ 2:08 pm
l’m hoping with this update l will stop having so much of my mail bounced from my yahoo groups.
wonderfulkat™ said,
July 13, 2009 @ 2:47 pm
I have a few sports groups and this has been going on for years.
snail mail to group’s posts.
also when posted my yahoo mail to grops the email verfication sent to you when posted is fine on my copy.
But when posted to the yahoo group ALL THE APOSTOPHYS are transposed as a three digit SYMBOLS:’ ” ©’
L.A.’s
couldn’t
Rockets’
summer’s
• The New York Knicks
wasn’t
The only way to correct is fix the TYPOOS is by hand then post.
Is there away to correct this on your end??
I have seen this on posts on other Yahoo Groups.
When will there be a redesigned look to groups??
owner moderator/ co-moderator of 8+ groups???
Cindy said,
July 13, 2009 @ 2:51 pm
I am just being curious but is the outage the reason why my membership for sarasota freecycle has been pending for 2 weeks? let me know…thanks for your time.
wonderfulkat™ said,
July 13, 2009 @ 2:52 pm
WANT IS YAHOO DOING ABOUT ORPHAN and STAGNATED GROUPS COVERED BY SPAMMERS & PHISERS!
IS YAHOO DELETING THEM TO REDUCE THE OVERLOAD ON THE
INFRASTRUCTURE SERVERS????
IS YAHOO GROUPS GOING AWAY TOO???
RUMORED FOR YEARS & GOING TO A PAY SERVICE??
Amber said,
July 13, 2009 @ 3:19 pm
Melissa, can you please provide information on when our search function in messages are going to be corrected? March is the last date showing. We really need this function to maintain moderation on our Freecycle Groups and ensure consistency between guidelines in groups.
Amber said,
July 13, 2009 @ 3:20 pm
Cindy, your membership may be pending because you did not provide enough information during your request to join. Email the owner of the group and advise your general location and why you want to Freecycle. Many groups require this information to approve membership.
LPD said,
July 13, 2009 @ 6:39 pm
is there any future plans to expand the files as the photos was expanded?
Lori said,
July 13, 2009 @ 6:40 pm
What is the point of posting messages on here, such as un-readable letters, and messages cursing others?
I find this board very helpful and Yahoo does it’s best to keep our groups up and going.
Just remember, they don’t charge us for a service, it is FREE, and if you don’t like it, move on and find another server. Other wise, GROW UP, and use this message board for what it was meant.
Sorry just had to vent!
Thanks for all your hard work, Yahoo, I as one owner, appreciate it!
christine said,
July 13, 2009 @ 9:24 pm
I can not log into either of my Yahoo email accounts. This has been this way since this morning and it is now 9:30pm Pacific Standard Time. How long will this be the case????? I have a business to run. Thanks
shokyat said,
July 13, 2009 @ 9:26 pm
Thanks for the information about planned maintenance
Md. Shokyat Akver
Khalil Enterprise
shokyat said,
July 13, 2009 @ 9:30 pm
can not log into either of my Yahoo email accounts.This has been shop I have a business to run. Thanks
Khalil Enterprise
Gil. said,
July 13, 2009 @ 9:48 pm
Lori,
What this Ygroups blog needs is a moderator with no tolerance for idiots.
BooN said,
July 13, 2009 @ 10:33 pm
Dear Yahoo Team !!!
We are Experiencing that the emails approved in the Group 98 % of the emails are going to SPAM In Yahoo Inbox and Few Email are Going to Junk in Gmail. I know Yahoo Will not Concern All About GMAIL BUT WHAT ABOUT YAHOO.
Please Check This Yahoo Team This Will Resolve Many Issues Where We Discuss in Our Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MumbaiHangOut/ we are in Very Large Data Base in Members. Emailing to Every One Would be Difficult. Plus I again Observed that Yahoo Groups are Changing the Delivery Setting of the Members In time to time manner which should be again avoided. New Members Joing to the group get joined by the setting “DIGGEST” . I hope Yahoo Team Will Look into this matter and This maintance will Reslove Some Issue Which is Mentioned Here.
Thanks
BooN
Nelly enjoys underwear said,
July 13, 2009 @ 10:40 pm
I haven’t heard anything like that before: unknown person said he again Observed that Yahoo Groups are Changing the Delivery Setting of the Members In time to time manner which should be again avoided.
Talha said,
July 13, 2009 @ 11:21 pm
Melissa, can you please provide information on when our search function in messages are going to be corrected? March is the last date showing. We really need this function to maintain moderation on our Freecycle Groups and ensure consistency between guidelines in groups
Basit said,
July 14, 2009 @ 12:35 am
Hi
Thanks for informing us.
have a nice day.
rainbowsally said,
July 14, 2009 @ 2:31 am
Will this make it possible to search messages for text at forum home pates? This appears to have been broken since around April or May of this year.
Thx.
Warren Payne said,
July 14, 2009 @ 4:30 am
for tina!!!
Leaving a group or all your groups is easy just go to “groups” on “my Yahoo” page. (That of course gets YOUR Groups not mine) at the bottom of the short listing click “View All”. that gets all your groups listed about 10 per page. At the top of a page of groups click “Edit” That should provide you blocks for each group , one of which will be “Delete”. Check each delete box for each group( I don’t think there is a single box for all groups. Then clic “Save Changes”. That will delete you from each group you have checked the delete box for. Repeat for each page of your Group Inventory and eventually you will be deleted from all your groups.
For unwanted Emails just mark each one as “Spam”. Then get in the habit of emptying your Spam WITHOUT opening it at all. The empty is in Parentheses in the listing of your Email directory on the left hand part of your email page.
Good luck
Dr M Mohan Rao. said,
July 14, 2009 @ 4:40 am
Afteer editing membership and opting for individual mails from previous mail setting – change is not taking place. This has been like thism for a few weeks!
Dr M Mohan Rao. said,
July 14, 2009 @ 4:43 am
I’m not able to upload Pictures alongwith the messages in mananje@yahoogroups.com. Or even sending Pictures as attachments – is not stored in our group. How can this be rectified? Or is it not allowed at all in Yahoogroups?
steve said,
July 14, 2009 @ 5:00 am
would someone mind telling me what the heck an “outage” actually is!!!!!!!!!! one golden rule of any business, speak in a language everyone can understand!
Terri Laughlin said,
July 14, 2009 @ 5:52 am
Will you FINALLY fix the Search feature on the Futura Embroidery group?
NBR said,
July 14, 2009 @ 6:20 am
THIS blog really could use some moderation. It’s amazing just how many idiots there are out there who think they have something intelligent or important to say. Geeez!
kenna said,
July 14, 2009 @ 6:49 am
hi
l want to have automatic updates for a group l opened in yahoo is it possible and if its possible how do l go about the same-the group is Purity is_the way bassically saying that one can hold their pants until theey are at the Altar with the woman/man they have fully decided to be with for the rest of their lives.plese assist
eidme said,
July 14, 2009 @ 8:58 am
Thanks for informing us.
have a nice day.
skol said,
July 14, 2009 @ 9:08 am
hi
l want to have automatic updates for a group l opened in yahoo is it possible and if its possible how do l go about the same-the group is Purity is_the way bassically saying that one can hold their pants until theey are at the Altar with the woman/man they have fully decided to be with for the rest of their lives.plese assist
Clayton said,
July 14, 2009 @ 10:24 am
I’m with Secret – the Search feature in Messages doesn’t seem to find messages which are new within the last few months. It does find older messages meeting the search criteria, presumably all of them, but I can’t be sure. I think I first noticed this problem months back as well, though I could be mistaken about that.
Deanna said,
July 14, 2009 @ 10:27 am
hi i clicked on this to see what the outage was about and i’m just wondering what’s the point of this blog or site is it seems to answer a few questions but mostly seems like a bunch of junk being posted by people with nothing better to do
NurseVicki said,
July 14, 2009 @ 12:46 pm
Thanks for all your hard work Yahoo and now I know why I cant do what I needed too
Ty said,
July 14, 2009 @ 2:13 pm
Hi I started a church singles group and initially set the messages that ALL “new members” messages had to be moderated by me. I’m not sure how long of a time justifies a member NO-LONGER being new but I still have to moderate messages for about everyone…
The catch is, I’VE CHANGED MY SETTINGS TO HAVE ALL MESSAGES “UNMODERATED” SEVERAL MONTHS AGO BUT I’M STILL HAVING TO APPROVE MESSAGES BEFORE THEY FINALLY GET POSTED TO THE ENTIRE GROUP. I don’t check my email regularly enough to avoid the delay this causes & believe this is a technical glitch or “bug” like you speak of that needes fixing.
Can this please be addressed?
THANKS!!
Melissa Daniels said,
July 14, 2009 @ 3:37 pm
@Steve,
An “outage” is when you’ll be unable to access your group– it’s just like a power outage at your home– things temporarily do not work. During this time, we have to/will be taking some of the groups offline to perform maintenance.
-Melissa
Melissa Daniels said,
July 14, 2009 @ 4:10 pm
@Carol,
It’s the 14, 15, and 16.
-Melissa
Patricia said,
July 14, 2009 @ 6:15 pm
Well if the outage is complete WHERE IS MY GROUP????? It is not showing up at all…..and I’ve even re-booted my system……
Administrator said,
July 14, 2009 @ 6:36 pm
@Ty
Changing the group to “unmoderated” from “new member moderated” will make members who joined after you made this change able to post without moderation, but the members who joined before that will need to be manually changed to “use group defaults” since they’re currently individually set to “moderated” (and individual settings always override the default).
It’s admittedly tricky, but there are good reasons why the feature works the way it does. If you raise this issue on one of the “groups about Groups”, you can detailed explanations for why:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/ownmod/starting/ideas-01.html
Administrator said,
July 14, 2009 @ 6:37 pm
@Patricia: If you’re still not able to access your groups, your problem is unrelated to today’s outage. Contact Customer Care for help:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/ownmod/forms/general.html
tom cee said,
July 14, 2009 @ 6:53 pm
I am surprised to see that two of the photos posted in my group v.recently , have been retained in my Yahoo Group. I been doing group-hosting since 2001 and this is the first time since 2004 that photos have been retained in the Y-group.
What a relief. My seven years of work of photo posting of relative has gone down the drain. Is it the final stop, or we have to endure more torture?
Roni said,
July 14, 2009 @ 7:07 pm
Dear Yahoo team,
thanks for the info
regards,
John B. said,
July 14, 2009 @ 8:22 pm
Can you tell us how many hours each day the outages will be in effect? Sounds like they start at 3pm PDT each day but how long will they last?
Raj said,
July 14, 2009 @ 10:08 pm
Thanks for informing us.
have a nice day.
Raj…………….
Shabd said,
July 15, 2009 @ 1:28 am
Just, unsubscribe all the groups by sending a reply
like
gurlz-group-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
groupname-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
charity said,
July 15, 2009 @ 3:00 am
Thanks for the concern of keeping us informed, keep it up!
angel from heaven said,
July 15, 2009 @ 3:20 am
Can anyone tell me why i m not geting the mials for past few months………….
Mike Potts said,
July 15, 2009 @ 3:49 am
Anyone know how to unsubscribe to groups when you have forgotten the user id originally used. I do know the email address, but the yahoo lot don’t seem to think that is good enough. and like a previous poster it is somewhat annoying to keep getting email that goes straight in the junk.
Have tried looking around Yahoo but never found anything helpful.
Mike
Neil said,
July 15, 2009 @ 5:33 am
I was really wondering what tghis is all about – that i had persistent failures when i tried to log in. Cool you have cleared my doubts. Good luck to the Yahoo team.
NBR said,
July 15, 2009 @ 6:39 am
The high level of off-topic, unnecessary, and “garbage” comments posted to this blog has certainly reduced any meaningful effectiveness it may once have had for serious and intelligent YG users…..maybe it’s time for the administrators to exercise their right to moderate messages ?? Trying to sort through all the nonsense posts looking for real info on the state of groups has become a real challenge.
Kerry Matney said,
July 15, 2009 @ 7:15 am
I have tried numerous times to remove my e-mail from the group. I am with the court and they are insisting that i get out of this group. I continue to receive numerous e-mails. I was told i was removed but i came in this morning and again had 5-6 e-mails, yesterday i received e-mails non-stop. Please remove me or i will have to forward to the Missouri Attorney General.
Kerry
Kansas City, MO
cindy said,
July 15, 2009 @ 7:34 am
hi
thanks for informing us.
Brsd (B-Dawg) said,
July 15, 2009 @ 7:45 am
Other than some delays in some messages being posted in my group, things seem to be running fairly smooth…and usually the delays are no more than a few minutes…no big deal.
No complaints on this end…hope I haven’t spoken too soon…
Have a great day.
Sally said,
July 15, 2009 @ 8:46 am
I am hoping this fixes the fact that I can only get emails if I allow spam to come through. This has been going on for several weeks now, and I have contacted freecdycle, yahoo, virgin (my isp) and everyone just passes the buck!!
sathsara said,
July 15, 2009 @ 10:03 am
Thanks for the information about planned maintenance.
Can we expect attachments to remain with the message
Thanks
Richard Kurluk said,
July 15, 2009 @ 10:58 am
I was just on my group page, both of them as a matter of fact, and am experiencing trouble with the photo section, it is displaying in a weird screen unlike it has in the past. Is this part of the outage and updates?
Keith said,
July 15, 2009 @ 11:46 am
Is this going to fix the broken search in the groups?
Mary said,
July 15, 2009 @ 2:24 pm
Melissa
Cant someone at YAhoo MODERATE this blog? It is difficult to WADE through all the garbage here that seems to have been posted. I thought tis was for the sole purpose of getting information on groups and issues we are having & to get updates on work Yahoo is doing .
Seems this has turned into a chat insanity mess.
Any help the YAhoo team could do to STOP this would be very helpful to all of us on here who arent into wading thru the garbage .
BIMBO said,
July 15, 2009 @ 3:37 pm
good job! weldone
ashley said,
July 15, 2009 @ 3:44 pm
thank you
Brad (B-Dawg) said,
July 15, 2009 @ 4:47 pm
Ok, when I posted before it said “Brsd (B-Dawg)” instead of “Brad (B-Dawg)”… It would be nice if you didn’t have to continually re-type your name to post on here…
Brad (B-Dawg) said,
July 15, 2009 @ 4:50 pm
Also, I agree with Mary…what is up with all the junior high chatting that seems to be going on here? I thought this was for information, not useless chatter…there are plenty of other places for that.
Juel P. Songkit said,
July 15, 2009 @ 6:54 pm
Hi I have a problem with our website. such that whenever we search for it in the Mozilla Firefox yahoo search site it wont display.we have already done your suggestions as guided at the Management Section.Kindly guide as further so that we may be able to search our site with just typing our club name at the yahoo search site.
Thanks
juel p. songkit,moderator
Rotary club of Iligan South
yuo said,
July 15, 2009 @ 10:09 pm
I wanted to delete my first message but somehow . My keyboard won’t let me.
shaheen said,
July 16, 2009 @ 1:42 am
Hi
Thanks for informing us.
have a nice day
Sheikh Mujeeb said,
July 16, 2009 @ 3:21 am
I was just on my group page, both of them as a matter of fact, and am experiencing trouble with the photo section, it is displaying in a weird screen unlike it has in the past. Is this part of the outage and updates?
Patrick said,
July 16, 2009 @ 6:12 am
Well I hope this fixes the delays. It takes a very long time to look at pictures and download them and also to jump around. Please fix this!
prince said,
July 16, 2009 @ 6:13 am
I was just on my group page, both of them as a matter of fact, and am experiencing trouble with the photo section, it is displaying in a weird screen unlike it has in the past. Is this part of the outage and updates?
Rex said,
July 16, 2009 @ 7:26 am
Melissa,
One of my members requested that our e-mail messages be restricted to members only and not exposed to the whole internet world / search engines … can we do a privacy request with yahoogroup ?!
Cheers,
Rex
Michael Kenmir said,
July 16, 2009 @ 8:42 am
Hi Melissa,
I really think you need to have a moderator to delete the absurd postings on this informational blog. Some of it is down right nasty. I do hope that you have time to clean up the blog and get the messages back on center.
As for those posters who are asking questions about set-up and how do I’s? Please consult the help screens and the FAQ’s or write the Yahoo Help Desk.
Thank you for your time, Melissa
Katy said,
July 16, 2009 @ 9:15 am
When are you going to fix the “SEARCH” function for groups? It used to work flawlessly, now it doesn’t work at all most of the time. The Yahoo Groups SEARCH capabilities are what made Yahoo a better alternative, but now, I’d advise people to switch to GOOGLE groups, if now we are not able to search through the old messages.
Leslie said,
July 16, 2009 @ 9:44 am
1. Please delete the spam comments from this post
2. Can you explain why the outage of 1/3 of the groups at a time, which has been going fine is suddenly changed to an entire site outage? What broke?
Melissa Daniels said,
July 16, 2009 @ 12:10 pm
@Leslie,
In the process of deleting– every night we get really hard with spam (upwards of 150+ spam comments). My apologies for having to tread through them for the moment.
As for the change in the outage, nothing broke. The team opted to do a broader maintenance plan, which resulted in the cancellation of Wednesday’s outage, and prompted the broader outage on Thursday (today).
-Melissa
Melissa Daniels said,
July 16, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
@Rex,
If your group is a “closed” group it will be private adn only accessible by the people within your group/who you invite. If you don’t want them to access the archives, you can change this setting as well so that only the owner or moderator can view archives.
Additionally, be sure to not accept any “Grouply” invites as these will make your content much more public.
-Melissa
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July 16, 2009 @ 4:35 pm
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Debra Fauvor said,
July 16, 2009 @ 7:07 pm
I have problems with Yahoo all of the time, what the heck does an outage have to do with it? I open an email, then get tossed back to the first page, I open emails and find myself on something else. Outage? Yeah, right, who the hell is this, really?
skip hale said,
July 16, 2009 @ 8:13 pm
i am a new menber i dont understand this outage, but i will wait, thank you
valerie said,
July 16, 2009 @ 10:26 pm
I want to know if the maintaince is over with or not. I tried to do the world wide clock and did not know how to do it.
I also want to know why yahoo does not care about how a owner of a yahoo group runs their group and treats their members when a member pays for yahoo and the owner of the group does not. I emailed the right people to complain and they did not care. it is not right. I pay for yahoo and she does not and she should not be a yahoo group owner.
BHAGWAT DHAGE said,
July 17, 2009 @ 1:38 am
VV
dipak said,
July 17, 2009 @ 4:36 am
hi!..im new here…pls.guide me how to use groups and i want to learn about software,hardware and the field of computer technology.. love for girls all over M.P
shafiq said,
July 17, 2009 @ 4:49 am
slam kei hal he
who are u
kiro2 said,
July 17, 2009 @ 4:52 am
Hi! why do men always or most of the time claim that they superior than women especially with us the so called black people.Coz black guys has that tendency of saying they are the heard of the house,but forgetting that the heard is ruled by the neck which is the woman arcoding to my oppinion.Anyone who wants to comment fill free 2 do so.
John said,
July 17, 2009 @ 5:26 am
Moderator:
I think the time has come to close this Blog !!
valerie said,
July 17, 2009 @ 6:39 am
I would like to know if the maintance is finished. thank you
ramesh said,
July 17, 2009 @ 7:27 am
I JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW TO GET MY PROFILE OFF OF EVERY SITE OUT THERE THAT ITS ON …..MY FIANCE AND I ARE BOTH GETTING MAD CAUSE ALL THESE MEN KEEP POPPIN IN JUST TO SAY HI AND ASK TO CAM AND WE DONT LIKE IT….SO HOW DO I GET MY PROFILE OFF OF EVERYTHING EXCEPT JUST MY MAIL AND MESSENGER???……SOMEONE PLEASE HELP BECAUSE I DONT WANT TO BE IN ANY GROUPS AT ALL!! SORRY BUT I HAVE NO USE FOR THEM.
Janet Blakeley said,
July 17, 2009 @ 8:20 am
Hi guys,
Thanks for the update. For us, this maintenance/outage went smoothly.
Can we get an update on the broken search feature? It´s been months now, and it really, really hampers my group.
Thanks!
Janet
nbr said,
July 17, 2009 @ 8:45 am
What’s with all the nonsense off-topic garbage messages being posted to this blog!!!??? It’s really disturbing and amazing to see just how many idiots there are out there who seem to think they have something intelligent worth posting here. What a total waste of bandwidth!!
ricegirl said,
July 17, 2009 @ 9:38 am
It is now July 17, and evidently the outage is still occurring. So much for it will only last a few hours and begin July 16. so much for yahoo, too. What a joke!
Breyergal said,
July 17, 2009 @ 6:13 pm
Can someone PLEASE post an intelligent update on the outage situation. This whole thing has been handled so poorly, IMO. Please stop giving us dates, then changing the dates, then the dates come and go with no resolution to the problem.
Why should Yahoo moderate this blog when they can barely oversee their day to day operations. Last time they did a weekend email maintenance I couldn’t use my mail for six weeks. And did anyone take a look at the OF Breyer group and see all the filth posted there? I haven’t gone back in quite awhile so maybe it’s cleaned up, but I doubt it.
edward said,
July 17, 2009 @ 9:28 pm
Database malfunction showing up in my group. On my group’s homepage you can see that people are joining via the “activity within last 7 days” feature, but the email addresses aren’t showing up either in the members section or the info box.
Major glitch!!
Melissa Daniels said,
July 18, 2009 @ 9:06 am
@Breyergal,
The outage was complete on Thursday– my apologies for the change in dates, but you should be able to access your groups without problems now.
-Melissa
Bill Cortner said,
July 18, 2009 @ 9:19 am
MELISSA,
Thanks very much for the warnings and updates.
Question… Are you aware of current message-posting delays?
My largest group is running between 13+55 minutes…
People are beginning to complain by private email, as they
are unable to post an inquiry. Is something going on?
Temporary I hope? Thank you for your kind assistance.
-Bill
Nienna said,
July 18, 2009 @ 10:44 am
Bill –
our group is experiencing the same issue and I reported it to customer care about 5 hours ago. They still haven’t assigned me a ticket number (which usually takes about 10 minutes) so I’m guessing it’s wide spread. I came here looking for some sort of notice but obviously there isn’t one.
Lisa said,
July 18, 2009 @ 11:29 am
Hello
We are having the same problem with message delays..
the wait is nearly an hour…
I have reported it to Customer Care earlier this morning
Just stopped by to see if other had the same problem
Hope this will be cleared up soon…
thanks
Judith Stein said,
July 18, 2009 @ 11:55 am
About two hours’ delay on my group. Seems to be getting worse as the day progresses.
NBR said,
July 18, 2009 @ 12:05 pm
Message delays being experienced in the Private Wireless Forum and LMR Narrowbanding groups also – what’s broken this time? :>)
Stephanie HC said,
July 18, 2009 @ 12:18 pm
Yes – I moderate a show dog group which Yahoo have under the “pets” category and mail has been running 30 mins to 2 hours behind all day.
Bill Cortner said,
July 18, 2009 @ 12:39 pm
Yes, the problem does seem to be getting worse…
We started out with 13 minute delays this morning-
By early afternoon they were running 55 minutes-
Currently the lag is 82 minutes.
-Bill
Nora Gatine said,
July 18, 2009 @ 2:04 pm
CITY-CraftBizAdvice, WIO-7-21, CITY-o-Clay, same problem as the other posters, delays in receiving posts. Some of my groups are experiencing it and others are not.
Butch said,
July 18, 2009 @ 2:49 pm
One more owner/moderator here confirming appalling delays between the time a message is sent and received, and between the time it’s approved and posted. Well over two hours (and counting…) Saturday afternoon — with some messages sent to our group forum not received at all and requiring repeated sending. Everything was running just fine *before* things were “fixed”…
Bill Cortner said,
July 18, 2009 @ 3:18 pm
MELISSA and/or GORDON,
Now I’m getting a code 999 error, which blocks your ISP from accessing
any Yahoo Groups sites… I’m actually at a second computer to even
send this message because I can’t even access this blog from my
primary ISP… I tried sending a report to customer care but got an
email back that “due to very high report volume it will probably take
longer than 24 hours to respond”… Can someone please re-set my
account access to eliminate the 999 code? Thanks!
-Bill
Trisha said,
July 18, 2009 @ 3:28 pm
Noticing email delays and not receiving emails at all now.
Bill Cortner said,
July 18, 2009 @ 3:42 pm
MELISSA and/or GORDON,
The error 999 code is resolved. If you did something to help me out?
THANKS! Regarding the posting delays… I’m running some server speed
tests and the lag on a newly submitted post is currently running 10-15 minutes as of the time of the blog entry. So it looks like things are
beginning to improve… FINGERS CROSSED!
-Bill
Laura said,
July 19, 2009 @ 10:40 am
I understand the outage was complete by the 16th here it is the 19th and I’m still having a problem getting my group mail?
Can you explain, thank you
Terry said,
July 19, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
Why does not the Yahoo Groups Community Manager use
Yahoo Groups to communicate with Yahoo Groups Owners
and Moderators ?
Blogs such as this one and message boards are inferior
applications.
We use Yahoo Groups why does not Yahoo Use Yahoo Groups ?
Butch said,
July 19, 2009 @ 12:19 pm
Bill, thanks for checking server speed. Lag is down to a negligible minute or two now as of Sunday afternoon (at least for our groups).
Amy said,
July 19, 2009 @ 5:51 pm
Dear members,
I need some help. I’m manager of a Mensa group, were some bickering has recently taken place. Today, I find that only three people are posting. Can you advise me on what I should do?
Kind regards, Amy
Dung Le said,
July 20, 2009 @ 9:23 am
Yahoo Group mail sender not support Unicode font, I used Vietnamese font but it have mistake when I sent to whole group (the Poll have the problem too)
Melissa Daniels said,
July 20, 2009 @ 10:58 am
@Terry,
We do use Yahoo! Groups– outage messages and the bulk of the posts found here are posted to Moderator Central (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/moderatorcentral).
-Melissa
Melissa Daniels said,
July 20, 2009 @ 11:01 am
@Bill (and anyone using Firefox and interested in tracking message delivery times),
There’s a plugin available to Firefox users that will enable you to see just how long it takes for a message to post to your Yahoo Group. You can find this plugin here: http://rodneyp.github.com/ygdelivery/
-Melissa
babak razaghi said,
July 20, 2009 @ 12:19 pm
As the owner of SUB3EVEN yahoogroup i face many difficulties in sending email to my group members because they randomly become SPAM !!and go directly to the bulk so the members complain that they dont recieve emails.I expected the recent maintenance to solve the problem but it’s still the same.please inform me how to send email directly to inbox ??
Judith Stein said,
July 21, 2009 @ 6:59 am
MELISSA–
I wrote Customer Care on July 16 about not being able to search by author in my group (the other search options work, and the group has apparently been migrated, since it’s now referencing current messages).
On July 17, Customer Care emailed me to say they were forwarding my comments to the “production team,” but I haven’t heard anything since.
I’d like to know whether search-by-author is going to be restored, or whether it’s been permanently disabled. Is this on the production team’s list of things to be fixed, or not?
Terry said,
July 22, 2009 @ 7:10 am
Melissa you said
” We do use Yahoo! Groups– outage messages and the bulk of the posts found here are posted to Moderator Central (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/moderatorcentral). ”
I have not seen any of the blog messages from here at
Moderator Central .
Yahoo Groups are set up to be Discussion Groups but
there is no discussion at Moderator Central .
This Blog does not email me any of the messages ,
Yahoo Groups where I am a member always emails
me messages .
This blog is not the most efficient method of
communicating with Yahoo Group Owners and
Moderators .
I ask again why does the Yahoo Groups Team
refuse to use Yahoo Groups to iscuss issues
about Yahoo Groups with Yahoo Group
Moderators and Owners ?
Furthermore who are podpress who has the credit
at the footer of this blog , is this a Yahoo Subsidiary ?
Tae said,
July 24, 2009 @ 5:57 am
http://m.www.yahoo.com/?r85=1248440161
Yahoo refuses to load, is this because of the outage that took place several days ago, why am I being affected NOW?
I sign in, enter my information and a new sheet loads as if I’ve done nothing.
Why is this?
Lisa said,
July 24, 2009 @ 7:03 am
We are having the same problem..
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/CATTeam360TakeThat/
I can’t check to see if messages are being posted because the prompt is saying that we have had no activity in seven days.
which is not true….
In management mode..can’t check messages there either..
Melissa Daniels said,
July 24, 2009 @ 9:43 am
@Tae,
The link you’re trying to access is for the new Yahoo! homepage. Try just going to http://www.yahoo.com — the outage should not have affected your access rights or abilities.
-Melissa
Fred Bloogs said,
July 25, 2009 @ 10:53 pm
Hello,
I am the owner of the indobeatles group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indobeatles). The search engine for that group doesn’t seem to be working properly. I can’t search for messages posted after March 19th. Please help.
Hemachandra said,
August 1, 2009 @ 2:34 am
I have no issues in receiving mails. But what bugs me is a patch with the headings Yahoo groups/Y!Messenger/and Join others superimposes on the messages and images. What to do to delete this patch. Please help.
Silver said,
September 10, 2009 @ 8:58 pm
All of the new updates have been cool but has anyone else had an issue since things began where members posts that are suppose to also go to other members who choose to also get posts in their email ends up in the recipients SPAM box? Several members as well as myself (owner) has had this happen just since things started ‘improving’.
TY
Silver
Silver said,
September 10, 2009 @ 9:01 pm
Terry…You posted a link to moderator central and the last parenthesis was included in the URL link so we get a message that says ”the group ModeratorCentral) dos not exist! lol
Ismael Valencia said,
October 2, 2009 @ 12:26 pm
Hi Melissa,
I have sent a request to join the group weeks ago and I have not received a notification. Can you email me please.
Thanks,
Ismael
gccengineering said,
October 11, 2009 @ 1:53 pm
I have a suggestion. Why can we add our own videos up to Yahoo! Groups. When will that feature come out???