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Looks like a lot of hard work has gone into this. I found myself wondering, more versus future efforts, about the writing already being on the wall for Yahoo G
by syntheticnature 7y ago
Looks like a lot of hard work has gone into this.
I found myself wondering, more versus future efforts, about the writing already being on the wall for Yahoo Groups years ago (e.g. the multi-day outage in 2017, IIRC). Why wait until the official shutdown notification before getting a scrape of the public groups? As someone who had a modicum of presence still on the site, it had grown increasingly prone to random errors, and I even wondered whether one day it would go down and refuse to come back up no matter how much effort Yahoo put forth attempting to revive it. That could've easily been an even worse "Yahoo-geddon."
(Not that I expect the effort Yahoo would put forth would amount to much, since in the now-defunct Yahoo help forums a Yahoo team member revealed Groups had been "deprioritized" a few years back, i.e. no official support, no help for groups with deceased mods, etc.)
- kalleboo 7y ago> Why wait until the official shutdown notification before getting a scrape of the public groups? Archive Team does have projects to scrape some sites that are looking like they might not survive the long term (e.g. right now there's a LiveJournal project) but they're all volunteers and I think they just don't have the time to do everything all the time.
- betamaxthetape 7y agoA member of ArchiveTeam did a fairly comprehensive crawl of the messages of public groups between 2015 and 2018. And there had been discussion about how to archive Yahoo Groups for a few years prior to that as well. The reality is that in order to archive a site as large as Yahoo Groups, you need a critical mass of people willing to commit time and energy to the project. And people are more likely to commit to an "urgent" project, where there is a set deadline.