[Bob MacQueen]

I changed my method of viewing this group from emails to visiting the website when i went away to cut down on the number of emails i had to download.
On my return I find that there has been a total makeover of the groups and it seems not to the good!
Can anyone point me in the right direction to reinstate the email delivery? I cant find anyway to do it.
all the best
Bob

[Alexander Johnston]

The site hasn’t been working for me for several days. Perhaps they’re redesigning it again after receiving so many complaints about the new design.
If so, they’re certainly taking their time.
Alex

[Ian]

Go to Yahoo Groups, find ‘Manage My Groups’ on the left hand side.

Click that should have a list of all the Yahoo groups you have signed up to.

On the right at the top there is a ‘Edit Groups’ button. Click that and change the settings for moultonbicycle and then click ‘Save’ (also on the top right).

Should resolve it.

[Alexander Johnston]

Thanks Ian. I had to sign in and it wasn’t initially clear how to do this. Now sorted.
Alex

[Bob MacQueen]

Thanks Ian that might work if I could locate the ” manage my groups” menu! It’s nowhere to be seen. All I get is the three groups I belong to with their latest messages and if I tap the menu logo there is no manage groups 🙁

[Ian]

Is it in the column on left of this page?

http://groups.yahoo.com/neo

[Bob MacQueen]

Thanks Ian – it wasn’t on that page but somehow after following a couple of links and signing in twice i discovered a page with the necessary menu!
Should now receive individual messages again.
goodness knows what Yahoo have done to what was a simple site to navigate. No idea if using a Mac has anything to do with the problems.

[Alexander Johnston]

I’ve given up on the Yahoo site. Every time I try and log on I have to re-register by filling in my details including my mobile phone number. I don’t want them to have my mobile number, thank you very much, so I’m leaving.
Alex

[zeeland]

I always sign in by just clicking that I want to sign in using my Google account. I’m always already signed into that, so it’s one click and I’m in.

I have had issues in the past however with being unable to view beyond a certain number of older threads. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what was behind that. I think I just gave up.

[Ian]

It is awful to use in a browser, just about bearable via email.

Perhaps a migration to Google groups?

[William Poole]

Hi! Help! Suddenly this afternoon the whole format of the Moulton Yahoo Group has changed! It is now totally unusable. Does anyone have any idea how to get back to the original site format?

[Ian]

William, you look to have caught up with the dire Yahoo changes. There is, as far as I know, no way to go back. It does do what it used to do, but less well and is clunky and slow while doing it!

Welcome to the future, where things don’t work as well as they used to! 😉

[Tom Ward]

Ugh, Yahoo has never been pretty. Anyone remember Geocities??. Yeuck.

[William Poole]

Hi! This looks like the end of the Moulton Yahoo Group, (almost) no messages are being posted there any longer. It is a great pity as the site was a well-functioning meeting place for Moulton enthusiasts from all over the world, whether they are MBC members or not. Also the large file of previous messages contaning a great amount of Moulton information seems to be lost, not to mention the useful list of links. The way the Yahoo List is set up now I can’t see how to even read messages, let alone write one !

[zeeland]

The idea of online “groups” and “lists” is pretty archaic. There should be a Moulton discussion board using vBulletin, or an equivalent, as its platform. A plus would be the use of wiki software to organize information gleaned from the discussions into, essentially, a definitive Moulton encyclopedia. It is far, far too difficult to find reliable information about these bicycles. Even the dealers I’ve spoken with, in America, are fairly clueless.

[William Poole]

Hi! For a short time this morning (Tues 1/10) the ‘old’ format returned just long enough for me to post a message about it, then it reverted to the ‘new’
unuseable format again! What’s going on?

[Alexander Johnston]

The loss of the “Moulton Archive” on that appalling Yahoo site is most regrettable to say the least.
When I tried to log it I was asked to register even though I’d been a member for several years.
Then when I tried to register they asked for my mobile number which I initially refused to divulge.
I eventually overcame my qualms and decided to offer my mobile number.
Then when I completed their ghastly on-line form I was told that I couldn’t join because I was already a member!
I felt like Captain John Yossarian in Catch 22.
Alex

[William Poole]

Hi! I’m not able to find out how to reply to messages on the new disasterously re-vamped Yahoo Group. How does one do this? I’ve tried the REPLY icon but this doesn’t work for me. Any ideas?

[Ian]

You got a blank page (twice) earlier so you are nearly there! I’ve found it sort of works bet for me if I use my email to send the message to Yahoo groups. It’s still pants though.

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