I have seen several posters here on this Group Managers forum claim that Groups.io overpromised and underdelivered with regards to speed of transfers of groups from Yahoo Groups to Groups.io. I have a strong background in the IS/IT field (among other things, I managed a large software development department in the corporate world for many years) and from my perspective, I have seen zero evidence that Groups.io overpromised and underdelivered regarding the speed of the aforementioned transfers.
Here is a recap of my experience. I purchased Premium Yearly subscriptions for 7 groups here on Oct. 18 (all at the older $110/yr rate) and initiated transfers of 19 groups at Yahoo Groups into them starting early on the morning (East Coast US time zone) of Oct. 19th, and finishing the last of the transfer requests by late on the 19th or early on Oct,. 20th.
In my experience, I feel that I was never promised a particular speed for the transfers, and from my perspective, I feel that that my numerous transfers have been proceeding at a reasonable and smooth pace, particularly given the challenges facing Mark and his staff at Groups,io, including the fact that they were hit with a unimaginably massive influx of of new customers, almost all of them wanting transfers from groups at Yahoo Groups.
The first three transfer requests that I had filed early on Oct. 19th ended up on what was, at that time, only a very short queue (it has since grown massively in length, for obvious reasons), and each of the three were completed by Mark on Oct. 21. The remainder of my 19 transfers, each of which had been submitted by me significantly later on Oct. 19th (and one or two perhaps were not completely submitted until early on Oct. 20), ended up much further back in the queue, with their starting queue positions ranging from around 400 to 800.?
After I witnessed the very understandable price increase from $110 to $220 for at least the first year of a Premium Yearly subscription to cover more fairly the costs of handling transfers, and bearing in mind that I had paid only $110 apiece for each of my 7 Premium Yearly groups, I decided that I wanted to throw some additional funds toward Groups.io to help reimburse them more equitably for all of the work involved in performing transfers from Yahoo Groups, and to help to ensure the long-term sustainability of the company, and so in short order I upgraded seven of my remaining transfers to Expedited status for an additional fee of $200 per transfer. Each of those 7 Expedited transfers was completed within 50 minutes of my having elevated the transfer to Expedited status.
Now, if a 50 minute completion time from the moment that I elevated each transfer to Expedited sounds unreasonably short and speedy to you, it may help to bear in mind that six of the seven transfers involved Yahoo Groups that had memberships of 350 or fewer members, while one outlier group had a member count of about 2,000 members, and all of the transfers consisted solely of transfer of membership roster and message archives, because none of the groups had any files, photos or databases associated with them (well, to be more precise, one did have two photos...). It is also helpful to bear in mind that each of the 7 transfers that I had elevated to Expedited status had already been waiting in the queue at step 3 of 4.
As of this moment in time, of my 19 original transfers, I still have 9 transfers in progress that are not yet completed, and their present placing in the queue at step 3 of 4 ranges from about 315 to somewhere in the low 700s. In general, I see each of them moving down the queue by anywhere from 18 to 43 positions per 24 hour period.?
Vinny Pinto