Re: Indoor Construction: Next steps

From: Dmytro Silin <dmytro.silin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 21:58:59 -0400

Hi all,
I did some googling about the reasons for this shutdown. In short, Yahoo
groups are pre-social network information exchange tool.
So, giant IT company recognized it's out of date and shutting it down.
Why are we trying to save 18 years old IT technology? There were talks here
about saving the archive, 100Mb or something. These days it's nothing.

Personally, I find it of very little use for my indoor free flight
activities (does not mean it's a bad/useless thing).
My time goes ~ 75% to Facebook, ~20% to indoornewsandviews and the
remaining ~5% to HIP forum.

If we want to attract new people to the hobby, we would have to keep up
with modern IT.
By the way, my kids, (10yo and 15yo), say that Facebook is for old farts.
Cool kids hang out in Snap Chat and Instagram.


Regards,
= Dima

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Model Aircraft Association of Canada
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 9:03 PM mkirda_at_sbcglobal.net [Indoor_Construction] <
Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> As Yahoo Groups is shutting down, I've been asked to become the owner and
> moderator for whatever this group is going to become. One existing owner is
> becoming a moderator and other will stay on as co-owner.
>
> The reason I am writing this is to ask - Where do we go from here?
>
> I joined this group when I got back into indoor FF and loved it for what
> it is.
> Over the years, some of the activity has moved to Hip Pocket's Indoor
> forum.
> And more recently, we have seen an uptick in activity on Facebook in
> Bill/Dima Silin's Indoor Free Flight group.
>
> Given the lack of time we have, it is very likely that we will move to
> Groups.io
> I look at this and think that this same thing must be happening across all
> FF Yahoo groups.
> And I wonder if there is not some way to coordinate this across other FF
> groups on Yahoo. If you know of groups like this, please let me know. Maybe
> we can coordinate.
>
> Which gets us to the heart of the matter: None of these offering are
> really ideal for sharing information. They compete with each other
> somewhat, each offering having their own strengths and weaknesses. In a
> sense, we need curated content that is easy to search. We need to be able
> to ask question, learn from each other and share our knowledge.
>
> So the question becomes: What do we want out of the group?
> 1. Basic emailed questions/threads?
> 2. Daily digests?
> 3. Web front end to read/search group threads? (must have good search
> tool!)
> 4. File sharing?
> 5. RSS feed?
> 6. What else?
>
> What do you get out of this group that Hip Pocket and Facebook do not
> provide?
>
> Anything else I am missing?
>
> Regards.
> Mike Kirda
> P.S. I can be reached directly via my propblocks gmail account if needed.
>
> 
>

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