Re: Yahoo Groups going away (That means Spielfrieks)

I would think a BGG guild would be the best way since I bet everybody here
is on BGG already.  Seeing the quality of discussion on some reddit groups,
I would be a little worried if it were to be a public (and anonymous)
group.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 11:53 PM 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.
>
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