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Kia ora from New Zealand,

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to the team here at groups.io for their efforts and work and helping groups transfer out of Yahoo.

I'm part of a very small group that was created in the early 00's to support those who'd attended a boarding school, as that school was entering its final year and then closed down. It was a vibrant and rich community for a few years, and many stories were shared, some sad, many happy, all real. People who were now scattered across the globe, and as a result of the school being open over 120 years in a variety of locations, were of a variety of eras. All of this meant for a rich and varied heritage, and some wonderfully engaging threads.

Our group has been inactive since about 2012, as people moved on, and the internet changed. But those stories remained, and I worked with the owner of the group over the last few weeks to get the group transferred, to retain those stories. It felt very touch and go with the Yahoo server errors on and off line, and the "days of backlog" messages - so I was very relieved to get the "Your group has been transferred" message just now.

I know this group is mostly for technical matters and there are so many knowledgeable folk here - but I just wanted to speak to the heart and say thank you for caring. I'm sorry I don't know the names of all the people who do this work - but please thank them for me.

On behalf of my daughters who will be able to read some of my story, and on behalf of all our group members - many of whom will hopefully be pleasantly surprised, I'm so very grateful.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I'd like to add my deepest thanks to groups.io.

We're a group of western Zen Buddhist teachers that has used Yahoo since 2001 for keeping connections, sharing and discussing between our annual in person meetings. A library of photos and documents were also built up for sharing. It was a shock to learn Yahoo was closing down most functions. We looked at alternatives and chose groups.io.

It was a rough ride transfering. Photos and files was easy but an erratic Yahoo lately caused several failed transfers. We wondered if it could be done in time for the cutoff. Groups.io's GMF was a great help both in docs and replying to our questions. Today our 15,000 messages were transferred. The one time annual Premium fee was a small amount to be able to save our files, photos and conversations.

Thank you all so much for creating groups.io and providing such great support.

Kia ora,

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to the team here at groups.io
for their efforts and work and helping groups transfer out of Yahoo.

Be aware that GMF is a user-to-user forum, no Groups.io employees here.

I know this group is mostly for technical matters ...

Although the technical issues have dominated lately, GMF is about helping one another with all types of issues involved with managing our groups - including the human issues of managing members.

... but I just wanted to speak to the heart and say thank you for
caring. I'm sorry I don't know the names of all the people who do this
work - but please thank them for me.

I've added the hashtag #testimonials to your post. I've used that before for success stories and I'll remind Mark at Groups.io that the stories are here for whenever he needs a smile.

Shal
GMF Moderator



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