[OT] Technical Yahoo groups

[kender]

Just want to know how much do people use the groups. I'm not affiliated with Yahoo.

By the way, what are you favorite technical Yahoo groups?


Moderator, if you think that this question is inappropriate for this forum - feel free to remove it. I will not mind too much.

 

[csaba411]

I hate yahoooooo

 

[kender]

I hate yahoooooo

Do you prefer forums like this one instead?

 

[csaba411]

Yes I doo..

There is no politics in here !!!

 

[bobsanjose]

If you are interested in a more specific subject than just "microcontrollers" there are very good yahoo groups with lots of experts. Postings like common on this board, "PIC is great" "AVR is better" and the like are mainly absent in the good groups because they are absolutely worthless.
Groups that work well on Yahoo can be found by going here for microcontrollers:
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and then look through the first 5 pages. If there are less than 100 members, the group is either new or does not work. Good groups have at least multiple postings per week, the top ones multiple postings each day to a specific subject.

Just my 2 cents, Bob

 

[kender]

... If there are less than 100 members, the group is either new or does not work. Good groups have at least multiple postings per week, the top ones multiple postings each day to a specific subject.

Recently, I've started a group on sensors.
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I think it can be useful for the community. But it has only 3 members in it, and I don't really know how to get it off the ground.

About a year go I've started another one based one file sharing. That one took off immediately.
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[dipal_z]

I hate yahoooooo

Do you prefer forums like this one instead?

I like forums more because they are easier to use for threaded discussions. Also i feel more people participate in forums compared to groups as they are more "public" compared to groups.

 

[kender]

If there are less than 100 members, the group is either new or does not work.

Bob, thatnks for your $0.02! I use similar criteria when joining groups.
BTW, at what age does a group stop being "new"?

 

[coshkun]

I think newsgroups are the older way of sharing.Now we have forums and they are much more comfortable.

 

[cyberrat]

I'm in a group that has 2,778,913 members and we use Yahoo groups for all our messages.

It might get a bit problematic at times but it does the job.

 

[kender]

I'm in a group that has 2,778,913 members and we use Yahoo groups for all our messages.

Wow! What's the common interest that 2,778,913 members have?

 

[cyberrat]

Freecycle.org

Luckily they are not all in the same Yahoo group but individual town/city groups lol