Re: groups.io for Felder Woodworking?
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Hi all, I am one of these 4255 members who just read and use information other people shared. I agreed that yahoo group format is old and difficult to use.? I can¡¯t help with migration to the new format, don¡¯t have much computer experience, but I will be glad to contribute financially as yearly fees. Like Sawmillcreek forum, which I think most busiest woodworking forum. Thank you. Ed
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Just FYI, we have 4255 members, granted there is probably some inactive and duplicate numbers in there. We run something like 300-600 posts per month. We do have a lot of folks that are computer challenged¡ not sure how they got on the group to begin with, but they email me when they aren¡¯t getting email delivery and they don¡¯t know how or can¡¯t figure out how to read the posts on the web. So more than a few challenges¡ it has to be cheap, it has to be easy, some folks prefer going to a website to participate, some prefer email (in the form of instant and separate emails, and some in digest form).
I don¡¯t know if there is going to be a one size fits all solution to all of this.?
Hi all,
just read all the posts I missed since lunch and having to deal with Gmail threading combined with the Yahoo group footer made this very confusing.?
To echo what was said above, a solution hosted on a "real" host would be preferable. Digital Ocean 10$/month instance would be more than enough for the current traffic and using a free tier email service may be enough (I dont know, depends on how many members subscribe to email digests).
There are other options to Discourse (it just happened to be my favourite) and I think that more options should be explored, specifically free ones to easy IT administration..
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