Re: Yahoo Groups going away (That means Spielfrieks)

"Anye Shafer [email protected] [spielfrieks]" <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:03:35 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.games.spielfrieks
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Realistically speaking if it doesn’t show up in my email or in my reddit feed I am not going to see it.  I only go to BGG to look up games these days when I need something, I haven’t browsed forums there in ages.

Thanks,
Anye

> On Oct 17, 2019, at 9:53 AM, Clay Blankenship [email protected] [spielfrieks] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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. 
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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