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How to revamp Yahoo! Groups?

March 27th, 2006

Jeremy Zawodny asks: How to revamp Yahoo Groups? Here are some ways:

1. Ask *every* public YG’s moderator if they are ok with Y! including results from their group on Yahoo Search. There’s *so* much valuable info on some of these groups but search engines are blind to it. Moderators should be able to toggle on and off when they want to be included in Y Search.
2. Stop skimping on storage. If someone sends a good video to the grp, YG does not store the video. If you choose to get an email you get it as an attachment but if your delivery preferences are to read on the YG site, you never get to see it. That’s annoying. At least store attachments for a year.
3. Along with Individual Emails, Daily Digest and Read-the-website, offer an RSS feed for the group as a delivery mechanism. This offers a simple way to integrate YG (as an RSS feed) with My Yahoo.
4. Offer a way to filter the RSS feed. Say that I am a member of heavily-posted-to yws-search-general and I am interested only in posts that mention the word “perl”.
5. It would be valuable to see all the posts made by a certain poster. If there’s a safe way to do this across Y groups, even better.

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