I was about to forward this to Jeremy and then remembered that last time I emailed him directly he gave me his thoughts and then said I should post it on the group so we can hear everyone's thoughts. I'm pretty sure he would say that this time too. So here it is.
Another software community much like TiddlyWiki has been using Yahoo Groups for years. Just a few weeks ago they finally moved to groups.io. This is the email announcing that move and listing the reasons and benefits. Perhaps it has what we need. I thought the hashtag feature was especially interesting. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: rde...@dc3.com [ASCOM-Talk] <ascom-t...@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 06:42 Subject: [ASCOM] ALERT: ASCOM-Talk is Moving. Please Read This To: <ascom-t...@yahoogroups.com> Greetings ASCOM-Talk members -- With 2018 being the 20th Anniversary year of the ASCOM Initiative, it is time we moved away from the outdated Yahoo! Groups system and onto a much more modern and functional forum system. Also, along with this improvement, we are offering separate discussion areas to our two primary groups: Platform users and ASCOM application / driver developers. Why are we doing this? - Yahoo! has started injecting commercial advertisements into the message list - Posting with inline images is klunky and sometimes only email subscribers can post or see them - Attachments are not saved with messages, forcing us to use the "Files" system which has become clogged with what is now mostly trash. - You cannot make corrections to a post once it is out there - People complain of lost messages - Conversations are hard to follow in many cases - Searching is severely limited The ASCOM Talk moderators took a look at the many newer and more powerful systems out there and we have chosen Groups.io <https://groups.io/> as our new platform. Here are some of the reasons we picked Groups.io <https://groups.io/>: - It supports email-based participation like Yahoo. We considered this a 100% essential requirement. Only a few of the forums out there can even do it and Groups.io <https://groups.io/> does a great job. - The site itself, and its discussion interface is simple, clean, and minimalistic. I personally found Yahoo! Groups difficult to use and non-intuitive, perhaps because it is an afterthought interface on an old-fashioned 'listserv' mailer. - Only an email address is required to join, no frustrating and confusing requirement for a Yahoo! login and forced yahoo.com email etc. - We can integrate with GitHub, the Open Source repository used by the ASCOM Platform. This feature has made Groups.io <https://groups.io/> very popular with Open Source projects. - It supports hashtags for enhanced searching, a vast improvement over Yahoo. - You can elect to receive only the messages you want: Mute threads and hashtags. THIS IS HUGE! From time to time we all see giant threads discussing something we are not interested in and that, as email subscribers, clog up our email box. You will be able to mute these at the source in the new system. - Separate Help and Developer forums will also reduce the noise for each of those groups. Most importantly, new users with Platform problems won't need to be exposed to obscure-looking programming discussions when all they want is help with their installation or usage. - You can post new threads and replies with Rich Text/HTML, Markdown, or plain text. Their editing interface is excellent. - You can also edit already-posted messages. How many times have you wished you could go back and fix errors in your posts? - Other modern-day conveniences are provided like a Group Wiki, Calendar, Database, Chat service, and a Photos library. - We can migrate existing users from Yahoo, eliminating the need to make people re-subscribe. A number of busy astronomy groups including several LX200 groups <https://groups.io/search?q=LX200>, Losmandy <https://groups.io/g/Losmandy_users/topics>, Gemini <https://groups.io/g/Gemini_users/topics>, MI-250 <https://groups.io/g/MI-250/topics>, and Mallincam <https://groups.io/g/MallinCam> have already moved from Yahoo! to Groups.io. ASCOM is using the paid groups.io service and we have contributors who will fund this, so you can be assured of not seeing adverts in the future should groups.io decide to enhance its revenue stream on the free version of its service. What will happen? Shortly, we will initiate the groups.io automatic migration process and our request will be added to their migration queue. When complete, all of the historic ASCOM-Talk messages and our current user base will have been migrated and we will close the Yahoo forum. You will receive notification and welcome emails when the transfer has been completed, in the meantime, please continue to use the Yahoo forum as normal. 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