Yahoo eGroups moving to SonexBuilders.net Discussion

[Rynoth]

I'm sure this announcement comes as a disappointment to many that have been using and are used to the Yahoo format. I for one, while not glad for the misfortune of others, am glad that this may lead to an increase in discussion on this forum, which for me is FAR more easily accessible, readable, more organized and just a better format overall than the old Yahoo format.

Welcome to all migrating to this new forum.

[Bryan Cotton]

I had already voted with my feet against yahoo groups. Hope the rest of the valued community makes the transition.

[Fastcapy]

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[Mike53]

Great news.
My only concern are the Photos at Onexplans.Will they be migrated to over here?It would be great if they could be kept intact and even better if the individual files could be added to by there initiators.
For me it would be the only thing I would dearly miss from the Yahoo site.
If not how can they be saved otherwise,i.e. how do you download them into a file on your computer :?
Thanks.
Mike

[n982sx]

While the change isn't unexpected, I have never had a problem with the Yahoo groups. I do my own searching from my own email archives and can always find things (back to 2006 for the Sonex groups).

I registered with this site when it first opened but I have rarely used it and I suspect I might not in the future.

For example, I am now building an RV-14 and while I find the Van's Airforce site to be very well done, I hardly ever go there. I find subscribing to threads tedious and then getting sent an email letting me know there is a post - instead of just sending me the post - silly. In fact the notification email is usually far longer than the post! Very inefficient.

That happens to be exactly how this site works with topics. I'm just not interested.

[MichaelFarley56]

I'm sorry you feel that way Bob. I know have always really appreciated your Sonex build website and have used it a great deal back when I was building my airplane.

Hopefully, you'll be able to 'stop in' these forums once in a while and say hi! In the meantime, I hope your Sonex is flying well and the -14 build is going well for you. Please stay in touch!

[bkwatkins]

I am not a fan of yahoo groups and in fact today found it impossible to access some information in the sonextalk group page. However, I will miss the daily posts of the various folks, which have included some very useful information and back and forth over the years even though it was necessary to discard a lot of chaff.

[Sonex1517]

I am attempting to download all the photos from Yahoo, in hopes of finding a way to save them on the foundation website.

No guarantees folks, but I am trying.

If anyone has a suggestion on how to grab the message archives let me know - Yahoo had no FAQ answer to this.

Robbie

[vigilant104]

Robbie,
I replied to the Sonex LLC Yahoogram, suggesting that we find a way to migrate all that information to this site. Perhaps they (as owners of the Yahoo Group) have some authorities or capabilities or access to pros at Yahoo that we, as mere users, do not. Failing that, I hope that the Yahoo groups can be retained in "read only" reference mode for some time while we come up with an "ugly, dumb, but effective" way to bring the stuff over here.

My guess is that Yahoo (Inc) will not see any particular benefit in making it easy for a community of users to flee, and that there may very well be impediments to exporting the information that hundreds of users have freely volunteered for the sake of their fellow builders over the years.

I don't have any great ideas on the "how" but if it comes down to it maybe we can get some volunteers and divide up the mass of stuff in some way and then start saving it in some agreed upon format. Ugly, ugly.

Mark

[MichaelFarley56]

Hey Mark,

People have been trying to figure out a way to do just that, thus far with no luck. There doesn't seem to be a way to copy all posts and store for an archive, even though people have considered it. At this point I believe the hope may be to try and copy some of the technical information for future use, but as you can imagine, the Yahoo! groups make this very challenging.

If anyone has an idea on how to retain this information, please feel free to share!