Future of this group

Thu Dec 13 13:24:50 PST 2018

Yes, Yahoo groups still exist. I’m on several of them and they’re working now. 

I have Facebook and subscribe to several Audi groups, there are some good and bad things about that format. I like the ability post pictures, and using their Messenger app for private conversations. But Facebook posts “age” quickly, roll off the bottom and disappear. It’s hard to find an old post from just a few days or weeks ago.

Forums are a good format and there are already numerous ones for Audis out there, such as Audizine.  But again you need to log in to read and post messages.

To keep the flavor of the q-list (and the associated sub-lists), I would like to see it remain in an email format, but with the ability to attach pictures.  Yahoo groups does not allow that.

The current audifans server doesn’t allow it either, but I think it’s just an admin configuration option.  The problem is that we don’t seem to have an admin. Who is hosting the list now, and who is paying for the audifans.com domain registration?

-Ti
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> On Dec 13, 2018, at 8:04 AM, Cody <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:
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> Do yahoo email groups still exist? I thought that service was shut down.
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> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:02 AM -0500, "Kneale Brownson" <kneale at knitknacks.com> wrote:
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> How about a Yahoo email group? Avoids the Facebook mess. 
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>> On Dec 12, 2018, at 6:24 PM, W. Bean  wrote:
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>> The greatest thing about an "audifans" FB group page would be that it maintained the one-size-fits-all nature of what the original Q-list did, and wouldn't be model or chassis specific like the bulk of the groups/pages out there.  Being on FB already (although there are days I consider shutting the whole thing down for any number of reasons) I'd support it. The problem with it is there are the hold-outs who have never embraced social media (or even forums) and rely on the various email lists to get answers, even with very little audience.  They'd be left in the wasteland of what once was.  What's more, the problem with QW is that a lot of the very valuable posts are so old that the pictures are no longer hosted and there are TONS of broken links. It's sad really, because there's probably no single source of FAQ / BTDT type info as there is in the QW and AW archives, save of course the q-list archives, which of course didn't have pics and are in archaic email format.  
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>> It's no secret that q-list (much less that of the many spin off lists) traffic will never be even a sliver of what it once was, because most have moved on in life.   Like Cody, I appreciated the fact that it was sent to me instead of having to go search it out, and still reply when I have something to add. Like many, I had to get the digests because of the unbelievable volume of emails the list used to generate.  Obviously that hasn't been necessary in years.  The same holds regarding traffic on QuattroWorld and AudiWorld.  Usage is nothing like it was 10ish years ago, largely with the advent of FB groups, and of course, you've gotta go searching, which I haven't done "regularly/daily" in years. So, what to do. 
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>>> Since the list so unceremoniously vanished 8ish months ago, but is now mysteriously back we can now have a chance to organize a potential replacement.
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>> I'd vote for a Facebook group. There are currently a couple pre-existing such as the "Large chassis Audi" group, but I think an Audifans group would be nice. Bonus: it's easy to post pictures and share pertinent articles etc. I'd volunteer to admin it and invite some of the old guard here to join me in that task. 
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>> Alternately we can move to the forums on Audiworld, but personally I hate their format and constantly forget to go check them out. The concept of the conversation being delivered to me is why I stuck with this list for so long.
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>> Of course we could always get a separately hosted mailing list together too. I have a server that can run it, but then we are back to relying on a central singular person to maintain it. 
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