17-01-2022, 12:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 20-01-2022, 12:01 AM by Tony Griffiths.)
(17-01-2022, 11:03 AM)Mick Hobday Wrote: jansens and daveg both reflect my experience of Facebook precisely.
I had an account which I used only to follow my children's activities (they had asked me to!) until it was compromised and I was unable to access the damn thing, although other (apparently unknown) people were!
What ever happened to Yahoo Groups? That was good for sharing and storage of info, and easily searchable. Is there nothing like that now?
Yahoo Groups apparently ran into financing problems and started to restrict pictures and eventually removed them. It's been replaced by https://groups.io/. There is a free system with limited membership (100 I believe) and standard and premium ones, too. All the machine tool groups that I follow have now moved to io - each administrator asking for a small annual donation from members to cover the costs.
I've just posted this in Reply to Mike Hobday's observation - so here is the gist of it again, just in case people don't know about them:
An alternative to a private Facebook group is https://groups.io/. There is a free system with limited membership (100 I believe) and standard and premium ones, too. All the machine tool groups that I follow have now moved to io - each administrator asking for a small annual donation from members to cover the costs. Unfortunately, there seems to be quite a tight limit on storage and some administrators have had to strip out larger files. There is nothing like storing what you want to preserve on a 4TB remote hard drive (or two).