We 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.
What are the requirements / key features of Google Groups that you use?
Google Groups has been left to die
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#12I don't disagree with the core point that long-horizon, FOSS communities should think twice before operating atop services like Google Groups. Also the particular quality atrophy and feature degradation sucks.
Perhaps it's better framed to say that Groups is not prioritizing the particular users that the author is speaking on behalf of (ack, the monospace thing is a serious bug beyond FOSS communities). Google Groups and the shared infrastructure underneath is a critical piece of GSuite and GCP in many places, and I'd be very surprised if it ended up on the Killed By Google list.
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#13Good!
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#14Or- great work to Google for maintaining a product that has waned in popularity and not killing it off!
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#15We 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.
This is one of many free replacements for google groups. I have been using that for years.
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#16Google 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 yo…
I have a theory related to google products - they can only exist if they can capture user data in a manner that is unique compared to their other products.
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#17Google 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 yo…
The problem with USENET is spam. Moderation can be a burden. I suppose Google has some systems in place to mitigate this.
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#18I 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.
I remember how many mods for phpBB were installed by literally doing find/replaces on the source files. Absolutely insane we had people out there doing that who didn't know any PHP!
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#19Google groups will never die because Google uses it to manage internal mailing lists.
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#20I miss the ubiquity of phpBB forums.
Why not Discourse? It has 34% of the discussion market now