Category Archives: General

Bulk Add of members without explicit consent is disabled

Yahoo! Groups created before April 2012 had the option for owners and moderators to bulk-add members through the “Add member” option.  Unless such users explicitly link the email address used to add them to the group, to their Yahoo! profile, … Continue reading

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Yahoo! Groups system upgrade and planned downtime

Update on the Systems Upgrade ( 11:30 pm PST  16th Jan 2013) We have completed delivery of millions of messages that were queued up today ! System Upgrade is now complete. We regret the delayed delivery of your messages during … Continue reading

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Happy new year 2013!

Last year, our team has been hard at work, improving the Yahoo! Groups experience. You may have noticed improved response time to issues reported, streamlining of the user experience and improvements in site performance. This year, we would continue this … Continue reading

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Y! Groups product help gets an upgrade !

Yahoo! is happy to announce that our Yahoo! Help Community has officially moved to Yahoo! Answers for Groups. We want to thank all of our valued Yahoo! Customers for making our P2P Help Community a huge success. With success comes … Continue reading

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Groups systems upgrade postponed

Latest Update : We’ve postponed the systems upgrade to January 2013. We would share the date and time when we finalize it. We would notify in advance, all users via the Y! Groups notification message on the groups website. **************** … Continue reading

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Hot topics : new feature released

Hot topics is now live !  (we had blogged about this feature earlier). Hot topics are posts  that have attracted a lot of replies from members of your group in the recent past.  Topics that have at least 3 replies … Continue reading

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Planned down time on November 18th…we’re upgrading our servers

Update : the systems upgrade has been postponed see blog post. We’re upgrading our systems and Yahoo! Groups will be unavailable for a few hours on the night of November 18th Pacific Standard Time. Emails sent to your groups will … Continue reading

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Navigation changes implemented

We recently introduced the My Groups drop down menu, yesterday we rolled out the settings button as well. These changes would help users to easily switch between groups that they are members of, and also change their settings easily. In … Continue reading

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‘Order your groups’ now working fine

Users could order their list of  groups on  http://groups.yahoo.com/ordergroups . There were problems with the drag and drop re-ordering experience. Today, we rolled out a fix and it is now working fine. The order set by the user would be … Continue reading

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Issues with link to new photos in group activity notification

We’ve been hearing feedback that some groups users are missing the link to new photos posted on groups in the activity notification area of groups homepage and emails from Yahoo! Groups. This was caused due to a glitch and not … Continue reading

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