Yahoo! Groups - Features Offered By Yahoo! Groups

Features Offered By Yahoo! Groups

As well as providing e-mail relaying and archiving facilities for the many Groups it hosts, the Yahoo! Groups service provides additional features for each Group web site, such as a homepage, message archive, polls, calendar announcements, files, photos, database functions, and bookmarks.

Each new group created at Yahoo! Groups allows the creator (group owner) to have several features attached to the group. Some of the features can be selected for "off", moderator, members, public. Here is the complete list of possible group features:

• Group members
  • Messages: Post via web or email to group. No edit function except delete.
  • Photo album (100GB): Organized into album/thumbnail structure.
  • File storage (100MB): Capable of storing any file format.
  • Link directory: Options for folders, text labels for each link.
  • Poll: Members can create multiple-choice polls, including various options for ID display.
  • Database: Up to ten tables, each with up to one thousand rows and up to ten columns.
  • Member list: Scroll of registered member profiles, and the basics of the information they provide.
  • Calendar: Scheduling system for clubs with regular events.
  • Promote: HTML box for website display (to join a group).

• Administration (owners or managers who can do post approval)
  • Invite: to invite more members by email.
  • Management of members (approve new members, delete members).
  • Management of messages (approve new messages, delete messages).
  • Options: Edit of the group homepage display text etc.
  • Post approval: It is possible to switch to strict moderation if required.
  • Web tools management: Options are off, public, members, administrators.

In 2006, Yahoo! discontinued the chat feature in Yahoo! Groups. On Feb 1, 2011 Yahoo! Groups launched a beta version of Group Chat.