Re: Yahoo Groups going away (That means Spielfrieks)
"'Eric R. Burgess' [email protected] [spielfrieks]" <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Oct 2019 22:04:46 -0700
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Can we export it to a group somewhere else and send Marissa Mayer the bill? ;) On Oct 16, 2019, 9:53 PM -0700, Rodney Somerstein [email protected] [spielfrieks] <[email protected]>, wrote: > Yahoo has announced that as of October 28, Yahoo Groups will stop > accepting new content and on December 14 will delete all content. That > means that this group will go away at that point. > > Granted, not much activity occurs here these days, other than the > Meeple's Choice Awards each year. That will need to find another home of > some kind. Reddit is likely a good choice. > > Moderating/owning this group for the last 10+ years has been a pleasure. > I would like to thank everyone that has contributed over the years in > any way, especially Larry Levy for running the awards for so many years > as well as the great retrospective awards. Also, a big thanks to all of > the people who have acted as moderators or owners of this list over the > years, including, but not limited to, Erik Arneson (the list owner > before me), Mik Svellov, and Ward Batty (who helped approve new members > and posts when the group was more than one person could reasonably manage). > > Discussions these days have primarily migrated to various forums, > especially BGG. I suspect that the real usefulness of this list is long > past, though it was great when active discussions happened here. Before > boardgamegeek.com, spielfrieks was one of the best ways to have a good > game discussion. > > To assist with the continuation of the Meeples Choice awards, I have > created a subreddit, r/spielfrieks to host discussions. It is currently > private and inaccessible. Larry, if you want that opened up, please let > me know. I grabbed it just to keep the name in case you want to continue > the awards via something named spielfrieks. > > If anyone has any suggestions, thoughts, etc, please let me know. I will > be happy to open the subreddit up to everyone and post info here for > those of you who aren't familiar with Reddit. Reddit has quite a few > very active board game groups already. My thoughts are that this one > would mostly be for award discussion, but it could be used for general > discussion as well. >