by Rynoth » Sun Jan 12, 2014 10:44 am
As a new builder, I've found the Yahoo groups to be very cumbersome to use. It's a real chore trying to sift through old posts trying to find nuggets of information that would be useful to me in the current phases of my project. I'm afraid that there's a lot of really great information on the Yahoo sites that I just won't be able to find, since all topics are clumped into one and I have to scroll through hundreds of topics just to go back a few years. Also, just viewing a topic that has multiple replies requires several non-intuitive clicks to "show all messages in topic" and then "xx more messages" and then click each message individually to actually show it. Why 3 clicks (+1 for every post in the topic) to do what the first click said it would do? Maybe I'm missing something...
Edit: As for the email method, I can definitely see some benefits of having offline access to your entire history of participation on the Yahoo groups.... but how would I, as a new user/builder, replicate that experience? Is there some way for me, via email, to load the treasure trove of information currently on the Yahoo groups onto my computer in a fashion that you have, to reap the same benefits? I'm afraid that this method only works if you have been using the site for years.