Folks -- Just sharing a few more thoughts that I'm having on Basic groups then I'll exit from this discussion. 1) Lacking most of the online features, and only storing 1 GB in attachments, the primary

The unpredictability is a good point. It will force many basic groups to become restricted to manage their member count. And then there will be triage, as in: "Well, we already have 100. Is this new

Having had a chance to think through this... First, Mark has said that for existing, not upgrading, groups, existing, legacy, price and features will be maintained, so they are unaffected - good for

My apologies, I did not intend to "propagate". Samuel

I thought so, Mark, but in light of how this conversation has been going I wanted to make sure others understood. Pete

I was referring to Samuel's table. Mark

Just to be clear, the table I posted was not intended as a joke, but as a illustration. I believe it to be correct (but I hope anyone who finds an error will check me on it). Pete

I’m sure each person contributing is doing their good faith best to understand the upcoming changes. The two recent “alternate presentations” of the new pricing structure are more logical and

Oof. Fixed. Sorry about that. Vacation brain. Thanks, Mark

Propagating an incorrect pricing structure, even if done as a joke, is not helpful. Mark

That's one of way of looking at it, Peter. Here's another way to display the numbers. :-) Samuel

Mark -- We have someone in GMF reporting that a meeting he set up with unlimited attendance is now putting everyone on the waitlist. It previously worked okay but now it doesn't. Ref:

Haha, it would be a new feature: Cheshire groups! -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. -

Yes, me too. Would be nice if that test group could appear on demand for day or two so a new test could be run as needed then "disappear" and not take up space as a real group would. Chuck, CABGx3

I’m with you on aversion to social media. Those small GIO groups do seem to be a good option and serve a valuable purpose. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy

I have a "test" group that I subscribe myself to with several different email addresses. I use it to try out various settings and see what effect they have on non-moderator accounts. This is better

I too am a member or an owner of about 7 groups with less than 15 members, 3 of them with less than 6 members. I have an aversion to social media and GIO provided a safe option for family and friends

Obviously having nothing better to do, I just scrolled through the entire list of publicly listed groups by "most popular" and saw pages and pages of groups in the 60-80 member range that are active.

I think they're trying to say that there might be a bunch of non-active, or even abandoned, go-nowhere basic groups with almost zero members. It would be interesting to see if the median would be

Mark wrote "The average number of subscribers to each free group on Groups.io is 85." I took that as fact, not as supposition. Pete