Simple enough on the old group you can turn off the ability for persons to post messages, and one can change the groups page to inform users that the group has move and the appropriate links.
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On 11/23/2017 1:09 AM, Shal Farley wrote:
Ellen,
> There's a lot of stuff on Wwtta so I'm guessing that groups.io is big.
Some pretty large groups have already moved over, so I wouldn't worry about that.
The message storage doesn't actually take much space, by today's storage standards, even for decades of active group participation. The limit you may run into is the 1 GB total storage limit for Files, Photos, and Attachments in a Basic (free) group. It is not that hard to have more than 1 GB of photos if you have a lot of them, or they're high resolution.
That happened with the move of one of my classmate groups - one Album had 400+ photos which were camera original size (10 and 10 megapixel). During the transfer Groups.io support (Mark) informed me of the problem and offered to downscale the photos to fit. At 2k x 2k they fit.
> Who is running it? someone has to provide the space - and pay for it.
> Or it comes from google?
Groups.io is an independent start-up company. Owned and run by Mark Fletcher. The About link at the bottom of each page contains a link to the history of Groups.io.
Groups.io runs on a "Freemium" business model. Which means that the free groups are being paid for by the Premium and Enterprise customers (I have one Premium group at the moment, so you're welcome). No ads. Mark buys compute and database storage from a web services company (a much bigger company than Groups.io) that specializes in hosting web sites. He also buys storage space for files and photos from Amazon Web Services - yes, that Amazon, and you have some idea how big they are.
So as to the size of Groups.io, it can grow dynamically. His service providers handle all the hard work of keeping the servers running, and they bill him by how much he uses.
> I am now taking the first step. Let's see if Wwtta takes the transfer
> groups URL.
You mean email address, right? Hopefully Yahoo will send out the invite, otherwise contact [email protected] and see if they can use a -subscribe command or home page join button instead. But if even those aren't being processed there may be a problem.
Shal
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