Google Groups has been left to die
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Google Groups has been left to die
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Re: Google Groups has been left to die
#2We use Google Groups for a non-profit I'm involved with and it works well. Not sure on a replacement that will work well for us yet.
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#3I miss the ubiquity of phpBB forums.
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#4Better it’s left up than killed off.
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#5I miss the ubiquity of phpBB forums.
Hackers and spammers too. Famously bad security (which somehow got PHP got blamed for, rather than specific software) principles.
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#7As someone who uses a "real" usenet site and reader, cannot wait until google groups is gone. One of the many issues is "comp.lang.c++" items from google is being sent to "comp.lang.c" because a change google made cannot handle the "++".
The sad thing is we may loose the history that came from dejanews, I was one of the many people who were very upset when dejanews was bought by google. No surprise it morphed into the abortion that is google news.
Good riddance google groups, do not let the door hit you on the way out.
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#8Google Groups performed the classic embrace-extend-extinguish maneuver against USENET, by way of their acquisition of DejaNews and then implementing their own forum/mailing list interface on top if it.
But, I wonder how many communities that are using Google Groups would be suitably served by falling back to USENET. I suppose it would require some updates to both NNTP server software to be easier to administer (if you want to go that route), and especially NNTP client readers to be more modern and user-friendly.
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#9I miss nntp. Gmane used to be my goto after nntp use fell off, but that died also (I get it though... the work to keep that working is not something I would want to do).
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And anyone who comments on Google-related topics with the link to killedbygoogle is beating a dead horse...
So tired of that argument.