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yahoogroups-joiner
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yahoogroups-joiner

Chrome extension designed to help automate the signup to Yahoo Groups

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What it is

Chrome extension designed to help automate the signup to Yahoo Groups

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by 3-hour interval6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-12-08 19:50:40 UTC to 2019-12-11 00:36:22 UTC.

0122019-12-08 18:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-08 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 8, 18:002019-12-08 21:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-09 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-12-09 03:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-09 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-09 06:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-09 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-12-09 09:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-09 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-09 12:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-09 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-09 15:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-09 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-09 18:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-09 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-09 21:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 9, 21:002019-12-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-10 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-10 03:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-10 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-10 06:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-10 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-10 09:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-10 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-10 12:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-10 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-10 15:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-10 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-10 18:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-10 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-10 21:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-11 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 11, 00:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Dec 8, 18:002019-12-08 18:00:00 UTC2019-12-08 21:00:00 UTC101
Dec 8, 21:002019-12-08 21:00:00 UTC2019-12-09 00:00:00 UTC110
Dec 9, 00:002019-12-09 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-09 03:00:00 UTC101
Dec 9, 03:002019-12-09 03:00:00 UTC2019-12-09 06:00:00 UTC000
Dec 9, 06:002019-12-09 06:00:00 UTC2019-12-09 09:00:00 UTC202
Dec 9, 09:002019-12-09 09:00:00 UTC2019-12-09 12:00:00 UTC000
Dec 9, 12:002019-12-09 12:00:00 UTC2019-12-09 15:00:00 UTC000
Dec 9, 15:002019-12-09 15:00:00 UTC2019-12-09 18:00:00 UTC000
Dec 9, 18:002019-12-09 18:00:00 UTC2019-12-09 21:00:00 UTC000
Dec 9, 21:002019-12-09 21:00:00 UTC2019-12-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 10, 00:002019-12-10 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-10 03:00:00 UTC000
Dec 10, 03:002019-12-10 03:00:00 UTC2019-12-10 06:00:00 UTC000
Dec 10, 06:002019-12-10 06:00:00 UTC2019-12-10 09:00:00 UTC000
Dec 10, 09:002019-12-10 09:00:00 UTC2019-12-10 12:00:00 UTC000
Dec 10, 12:002019-12-10 12:00:00 UTC2019-12-10 15:00:00 UTC000
Dec 10, 15:002019-12-10 15:00:00 UTC2019-12-10 18:00:00 UTC000
Dec 10, 18:002019-12-10 18:00:00 UTC2019-12-10 21:00:00 UTC000
Dec 10, 21:002019-12-10 21:00:00 UTC2019-12-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 11, 00:002019-12-11 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-11 03:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

6 sources
jonah-archive·Dec 11, 2019
Hi all, Archive Team is still working on backing up as much of Yahoo Groups as they're able to, as discussed in this previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21737696 Info about the archival process: https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Groups Details about downloading groups you're a member of: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qNCAgMN-Q9koFK1EzEFek2k4... Tooling to do this from the CLI: https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/yahoo-group-archiver If you want to help the effort, run yahoogroups-joiner to help the Archive Team join as many public groups as possible: https://github.com/davidferguson/yahoogroups-joiner Run the Archive Team Warrior if you have available compute/storage: https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior (Disclaimer: I don't work directly with Archive Team, but I work for the Intern
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et Archive, which is where most of this data will end up living hopefully forever. We're also in the midst of our annual fund drive -- https://archive.org/donate/ if you're able and interested in helping out monetarily.)
In Verizon extends deadline for Yahoo Groups shutdown to January 31, 2020
Diagon·Dec 9, 2019
Three Ways You Can Help: Help by Joining Yahoo Groups so the Archive Team can Download them (easy! - this is the link in the OP here): https://github.com/davidferguson/yahoogroups-joiner (That's the most needed right now so the scripts can get access to the groups.) Help by Downloading yahoo Groups with the Archive Team's Script (not hard!): https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warr... Get the word out/Call for Action (put pressure on Verizon!): https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/taking-action/ Don't miss the sidebar with these links: https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/media-contacts/ https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/contacting-verizon-directly/ https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/contacting-verizon-yahoo-stockholders/ Also, you can add these emails to the media contacts:
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"Reporter Katyanna Quach" <kquach@theregister.co.uk>, "Managing editor Gavin Clarke" <gavin.clarke@theregister.co.uk>, "Corey Wilson & Rachel Janc; Senior Director, Communications" <press@Wired.Com>, "Pitches" <submit@wired.com>, "Rich Woods" <rich.woods@neowin.net>, "Paul Thurrott" <paul@thurrott.com>, "Brad Sams" <brad@petri.com>, "Kate Rayford, Media Inquiries" <katie.rayford@slate.com>, "Bryan Lowder (LGBTQ issues/culture)" < bryan.lowder@slate.com>, "Torie Bosch (emerging technology effects on public policy and society)" <torie.bosch@slate.com>, "Jonathan Fischer (big tech, cities, media/internet culture)" <jonathan.fischer@slate.com>, "Susan Matthews, Health & Science" <susan.matthews@slate.com>, "Erika Allen, Executive Managing Editor" <erika.allen@vice.com>, "Katie Drummond, SVP, Global Content" <katie.drummond@vice.com>, "Press, US" <press@vice.com>, "Press, Canada" <presscanada@vice.com>, "Press, UK" <ukpressoffice@vice.com>, "Pitches, Culture" <culture.pitches@vice.com>, "Pitches, Tech" <tech.pitches@vice.com>, "Issues" <issues.pitches@vice.com>
In Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups
betamaxthetape·Dec 8, 2019
disclaimer: I'm a Member of Archive Team who's helping coordinate the joining of Yahoo Groups in preparation for archival. Yahoo's banning of a large amount of the accounts we were using is a huge setback for us. In total we lost over access to over 55,000 Yahoo Groups, many of these will now not be archived and will be lost when Yahoo deletes everything on December 14. Particularly disastrous was the loss of access to all of the 30,000 Fandom (fanfic / fanart / etc..) groups that were requested to be archived by members of the fandom community. We're back to square one now, and it is looking increasingly likely that we're only going to be able to re-join (and therefore archive) a small percentage of these groups before December 14. (And now for the inevitable, shameless plug...) We could really use some help! If you've got an hour or so,
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we could really use people to come and complete CAPTCHAs for us. (A CAPTCHA is needed to join every group). Instructions at: https://github.com/davidferguson/yahoogroups-joiner
In Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14

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