On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 3:57 PM steve nicholson <steve@...> wrote:
I realise storage space is the core concern here, however I would like
to point out another issue that should also be addressed at the same time.
If the new payment structure of is moving to a pay per member
for large groups may I suggest the membership is thinned to those active
in the group, this may help solve some of the other issues as well.
Currently there are 4,379 Members in this group, Using 204 MB for files
storage, 1.0 MB for attachments storage, 924 MB for photos storage. Over
the last 18 years there has been on average 820 posts per year, and this
drops to average of 368 over the last 5 years. That makes this a very
low usage group yet a lot of storage.
In comparison, the Boxford lathe group I'm also on, has only 286
Members, Using 196 MB for files storage, 185 MB for attachments storage,
520 MB for photos storage. Over the last 12 months there has been 1821
posts. The big difference is they culled a lot of un-needed stuff when
they transitioned from Yahoo-Groups and aren't having a storage issue.
I can't remember but I think they made everyone sign up for a new
account on rather than just transfer them over.
My recommendations are as follows:
1. Force all members to rejoin the group, this will get rid of 80-90% of
people that no longer have an interest here, they can always rejoin
later if they need to access information.
2. As recommended in another post, aggressively purge/re-size the files
and photos areas. Having a quick look, there are photos in there that
are 3.5 MB in size that would be fine at 150-200kb to understand the
detail being presented. I downloaded the files and photos sections at
the change over to from yahoo groups so if you accidentally
delete something you feel should be up there I probably still have it
and can add it back.
The group is a great resource of information, I'm happy to chip in $ to
keep access to it, I would rather we cut back the additional fluff so
the group can operate at the lowest cost though. May I also suggest
consider getting a company to sponsor the costs, Henry from
Rong Fu Industrial may be interested in helping with this. Having a
sponsor is no different than being blasted by advertising in "free"
Facebook groups (which I advise against as they aren't suitable for the
function of this group).
