On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 1:56:27 AM UTC-6, wrote:
Am Freitag, 18. Oktober 2019 21:08:02 UTC+2 schrieb JS:
On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 10:33:20 AM UTC-7, Frank Whiteley wrote:
On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 9:58:07 AM UTC-6, JS wrote:
We had been looking at Groups.io for over a year, since a previous hiccup in Yahoo groups.

The groups.io migration was pretty quick and very easy.

Because of the different layout of the two sites, links in your Yahoo group end up in Databases in the new group. Easy to clean up by using folders, but best to have all links in a folder under the Yahoo links tab first.

You may have to rebuild your calendar.

Messages seem to post instantly, compared to the sluggish Yahoo server.
Jim

What about the import of files and photos?

Frank

Files and photos, and all old posts imported.
For many aircraft-specific groups this is a must. Too much information to lose.
Jim

Hi

we are in a Yahoo Group which writes about DG self starting planes. We want to import all the files and pictures into our new group here in Google Groups. How did you manage this? Andreas

There's no provision for files or photos storage in USENET groups, which rec.aviation.soaring is. Google groups that are not USENET groups allow attachments to e-mails.

groups.io allow importation of a Yahoo Group, for a paid subscription (at least for the first year). There are others Google services which allow for file and photo storage, like Google Drive and sites.google.com, however, a high use of Google services can leading to throttling. Someone who knows more about Google services may comment more on this.

Frank Whiteley