Sudoku Players' Forum (clone)

[Pat]

tried... can't find the group?!

[Pat]

Registration and viewing of the content is open to anyone (like this forum)

i have 0 experience with Google Groups;

but on the present forum,
i see many registrations of spammers
(it's a chore to remove spam before you see it)

[Pat]

email is proposed for a disaster scenario
(in case both forums vanish).

for those keeping their email hidden,
perhaps use Tlgrm?
(it lets you keep your phone-number hidden!)

t

.me/+D_lVzT2CQOI4NTI0

[1to9only]

https://groups.google.com/g/sudoku-knowledge

[Pat]

thanks!
now joined.

(why did the search fail?)

[denis_berthier]

Registration and viewing of the content is open to anyone (like this forum)

i have 0 experience with Google Groups;

but on the present forum,
i see many registrations of spammers
(it's a chore to remove spam before you see it)

Thanks for this comment.
If it becomes too difficult to manage, I may put restrictions on registration. I'm open to any suggestions. Remember it's just a safety net for keeping in touch.
The advantage IMO is, we don't have to make any address public to all the members.

My experience with Google groups is limited, but until now, I haven't seen much spam on the few I'm a member of.

[Pat]

glad to see the group has grown to 9.

can't see the list.

don't even see how to post there.

https://groups.google.com/g/sudoku-knowledge

[denis_berthier]

glad to see the group has grown to 9.
can't see the list.
don't even see how to post there.

https://groups.google.com/g/sudoku-knowledge

The list can only be seen by the group managers. As the group creator, I'm currently the only one; but if some of the active old members of enjoysudoku wants to join, he'll be welcome. Just PM me.

To post there,
- either answer an existing "conversation" (currently only one: "Purpose of this group";
- or click the "+ Start new conversation" button (on Safari, it appears on the upper left side).

First posts of a new member are "moderated" in order to avoid spam. Honestly, I don't know how many posts "first posts" means.
I just see I can modify this member by member: so, I've already done it for people I could identify: no moderation for your first posts.

[coloin]

joined

[tarek]

Apologies. Been away for a while. Thanks for all the efforts and attempts to maintain this forum. I joined the group

When I logged in there was a crazy 16 pages of new posts to go through. I'm guessing that there were some issues with the server that must have happened in the past year. I can therefore understand the level of worry and the drive to start this group

Tarek

[denis_berthier]

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Does anyone have recent news about the future of this forum? The last post dates back to early Nov. 2022.
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[bmottershead]

I have been reading the forum a few times per week for about a year, and this is my first post. I can attest that the content on the forum is uniquely valuable and that it would be a loss if it were to go completely offline.

I notice that the forum is archived in archive.org. The snapshots are infrequent: an average of once per month, or so. The last one was on Feb 3, 2023. But there are occasions when two or three months elapse between snapshots. The archive.org spider does not follow every path to every page, which means that even if every page is accessible, you would have to get to it via the path followed by the spider. I cannot say if this results in all the content being archived. But probably most of the content up to the last snapshot would still be on the net.

Whether the forum could be resurrected from the archive.org snapshots in the event that it went down permanently, I do not know. It might be possible, I suppose; but whether it would be sufficiently practical for someone to attempt it -- who can say?

I think there are probably a number of people who would be willing to host the forum, if the current participants are willing to move. Ideally, the content could be maintained in a form that lent itself to being backed up in a public location and moved periodically, so that the forum didn't find itself in the same situation as now at some point in the future.

Some cooperation from the current hosts, at the least some legal forebearance or acquiesence, would be needed for such a move.

[ghfick]

There are over 60,000 so-called members on the Members List. I would guess that over 55,000 of these are fake. Probably like a 'Denial of Service' attack.
I do not think the forum has a moderator at the present time. There are about 200 members who are currently posting at least occasionally. There may a fair number of viewers who do not post and attend as Guests.

[StrmCkr]

Pat still moderates,

[Pat-Moderator]

yes i’m still around
occasionally.


but no contact with the owner