The migration process was a little slow to start. And it was not until I sent a second one that Groups.io acknowledged receipt. The only problems I ran into was after the invitation was accepted I went to make the transfer account a moderator...and that was not an option! I was logged in on my owner account and even reloaded the page, still nothing. But Groups.io support was responding quickly to my questions. I had to leave for a bit and when I came back I tried to see I could make a random account moderator and the option was there. So I went back to the Transfer account and now it showed up. I made them a moderator, notified support, clicked “start transfer”. It was late EST but I thought I should compose a messsge to my community about what was going to happen, hopefully, in the next 72 hours, so they were not surprised by the message from Groups.io.?
I finally finished my email sent it out via YahooGroups and then almost flipped out when I saw a “Welcome to your new group” message! I clicked through and sure enough while I was writing they were transferring! The timing was such that my message actually did not make the transfer! There is some good irony in that I believe.
My community of 18,500+ (Yahoo numbers) establishes on Onelist.com in 1999 transferred over ~11,000 active members and ~6,000 were considered bouncing so my “new” number is ~11,000. I always suspected the Yahoo number wasn’t counting properly anyway and this new number seems solid.?
Of the ~10,700 messages on my board it looks like ~10,500 transferred (even though what I recalled reading in the report was only a few messages did not transfer). But I am satisfied with that level of success in transfer. My *only* quibble is that I wish they would insert a “message not successfully transferred” in the sequence so that the message tally total was the same. I use the message number as my invoice number so I will have to use a temporary unique is until I get back out of my already used numbers :-) Small inconvenience and not an issue.
The best part? I have received ZERO complaints here in the first 24 hours. And considering Archaeologists can be a bit cranky about “change” (it comes with the territory lol!) I consider that absolutely amazing.?
This morning, like any other day, a posting came in, I approved it and seconds later saw the email come in. I checked my observation accounts and the same result, something YahooGroups was no longer delivering on consistently and which had forced my had to make the “Jump”.
I have been dreading this inevitable move for years and feared my archive of messages would be lost and of course trying to scrape all the user accounts has been a major challenge for years. I wish I had made this move sooner.
My hats off to the Groups.io staff who made this work. And a nod to the old staff at Yahoo (& Onelist & eGroups) who made it work as well as it has for my 19 years.?
Best,
R. Joe
