Posted By: traveler
A Drastic Change for Yahoo Groups - 09/02/13 04:58 PM
Some of you must use Yahoo Groups. Some of you may already know that Yahoo has rolled out an untested beta program on thousands of selected, individual members which they intend to inflict on everyone that uses Yahoo Groups. It's called neo.
Neo makes a group virtually unuseable for anyone who has been forcibly enrolled in this test and there are thousands world-wide.
Yahoo Groups are not social networks. Most of them are sources of information on a single topic that are of great and sometimes vital interest to the members.
Blind members can no longer read their groups with their special equipment if they are part of this neo experiment. Those who have cognitive impairment cannot read the run-on blocks of text that are a result of neo. Owners and moderators who have been forced into neo cannot even manage their groups.
If you care, if you belong to a Yahoo Group, please go HERE and add your voice to those of the thousands of people who are (perhaps vainly) asking for a return to a format that works.
Gil.
moderator of a canine health and nutrition group with blind members
Neo makes a group virtually unuseable for anyone who has been forcibly enrolled in this test and there are thousands world-wide.
Yahoo Groups are not social networks. Most of them are sources of information on a single topic that are of great and sometimes vital interest to the members.
Blind members can no longer read their groups with their special equipment if they are part of this neo experiment. Those who have cognitive impairment cannot read the run-on blocks of text that are a result of neo. Owners and moderators who have been forced into neo cannot even manage their groups.
If you care, if you belong to a Yahoo Group, please go HERE and add your voice to those of the thousands of people who are (perhaps vainly) asking for a return to a format that works.
Gil.
moderator of a canine health and nutrition group with blind members