3 ms·
Too little activity ? When I worked on it back in 2010 the sheer volume of email sent was staggering. The issue with groups always was and always will be mone
by geggam 7y ago
Too little activity ?
When I worked on it back in 2010 the sheer volume of email sent was staggering.
The issue with groups always was and always will be monetizing it.
- danso 7y agoFair enough. But what is it these days compared to Facebook, Reddit, Google Groups, or even Tumblr? Yes I know that the latter platform is suited for types of content much different than Yahoo Groups, but I'm thinking Verizon cares mostly about it in terms of engagement metrics (userbase, page views, potential ad space, etc).
- geggam 7y agoKeep in mind groups is 18 years old. It started as an email list and I can tell you we had 12 email servers and they sat at around 2k message a second... steady. We didn't even alert until they hit 20k in the queue. The photos in Groups was also an interesting thing. We once had a "hacker" create groups called shard1 shard2 .. etc etc. He put his porn in there and deep linked to it. We found out when we got the internet bill for the overseas bit. We were pumping out 8GB a second to China and didnt even notice the traffic until we got the bill :) Yes, I am sure Facebook/ reddit has eclipsed it by far in data sets now, however the volume in groups isnt matched by many other. When I left they had ~4 Petabytes of data... around 8 years ago
- danso 7y agoVery interesting context, thank you!