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Post #440,778 by scoenye 1/28/22 6:45:43 PM 1/28/22 6:45:43 PM Reply	My last hangout There were also a motorcycle site and an astronomy group (for those trying keep their Meade LX3, 5 & 6 telescopes ticking over). I was the one to turn off the lights on the MC site, some years after Honda scrapped the model. The Meade group went belly up after Verizon buried Yahoo Groups. The cost of FB is too high for me to go there for any reason. If this group quits, I'll have to find something else to do with my time. But until then, it will remain my first and last port of call for the day.
Post #440,779 by a6l6e6x 1/28/22 11:26:55 PM 1/28/22 11:26:55 PM Reply	Re: The Meade group went belly up after Verizon buried Yahoo Groups. The same happened to the South East (US) area of "Lazy Daze" brand motor home owner group that I belonged to. But, I restarted the group at https://groups.io/ but only a fraction of people moved on to it. There is also an FB version of the group that I have nothing to do with. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #440,784 by drook 1/29/22 8:29:58 AM 1/29/22 8:39:01 AM Reply	Were you able to point to the new board from the old one? If not, there's no way most of them would ever know it exists. -- Drew Edited by drook Jan. 29, 2022, 08:39:01 AM EST Expand All History
Post #440,788 by a6l6e6x 1/29/22 1:45:56 PM 1/29/22 1:45:56 PM Reply	I started the new one before the old one vanished. So I was able to send out messages to direct folks to the new site. Also, I moved many files to the new site. But, it did not make much sense to move messages. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #440,789 by scoenye 1/29/22 6:10:20 PM 1/29/22 6:10:20 PM Reply	Deja vu The Meade group ended up on groups.io as well but we lost the file store. That put a serious crimp in the ability to help out new members. There was some effort to keep things going but traffic is pretty much 0 now.
Post #440,781 by CRConrad 1/29/22 6:31:42 AM 1/29/22 6:31:42 AM Reply	What happened to #4?
Post #440,790 by scoenye 1/29/22 6:18:34 PM 1/29/22 6:18:34 PM Reply	Marketing got ahead of engineering

It’s a pity… - (rcareaga) - (19) - Jan. 26, 2022, 06:44:19 PM EST

Agree. - (a6l6e6x) - Jan. 26, 2022, 10:58:01 PM EST

I've burned the book of faces out of my life... - (InThane) - (1) - Jan. 27, 2022, 01:53:56 AM EST

I'm only on FB to track events of IRL groups I belong to -NT - (drook) - Jan. 27, 2022, 10:14:55 AM EST

This place is great. - (Another Scott) - Jan. 27, 2022, 09:30:38 AM EST

The network effect is real - (malraux) - Jan. 27, 2022, 11:39:08 AM EST

I use book of face - (boxley) - Jan. 27, 2022, 04:34:28 PM EST

My last hangout - (scoenye) - (6) - Jan. 28, 2022, 06:45:43 PM EST

Re: The Meade group went belly up after Verizon buried Yahoo Groups. - (a6l6e6x) - (3) - Jan. 28, 2022, 11:26:55 PM EST

Were you able to point to the new board from the old one? - (drook) - (1) - Jan. 29, 2022, 08:39:01 AM EST

I started the new one before the old one vanished. - (a6l6e6x) - Jan. 29, 2022, 01:45:56 PM EST

Deja vu - (scoenye) - Jan. 29, 2022, 06:10:20 PM EST

What happened to #4? -NT - (CRConrad) - (1) - Jan. 29, 2022, 06:31:42 AM EST

Marketing got ahead of engineering -NT - (scoenye) - Jan. 29, 2022, 06:18:34 PM EST

Replacing the functionality of a FB Group is difficult. - (static) - Jan. 29, 2022, 03:35:13 AM EST

I removed the FB and Twitter apps from my phone, earned back oodles of time. - (CRConrad) - (3) - Jan. 29, 2022, 06:48:15 AM EST

Re: wasting oodles of time - (drook) - (2) - Jan. 29, 2022, 08:37:57 AM EST

I spend it snarking... - (InThane) - Jan. 29, 2022, 10:16:10 AM EST

At least HN has a bit more useful stuff than those. (Including some IWETheyers past and present.) -NT - (CRConrad) - Jan. 29, 2022, 12:34:43 PM EST

Timely reminder... - (pwhysall) - Jan. 30, 2022, 12:03:02 AM EST

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