{"id":1070,"date":"2010-10-03T21:10:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T02:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2010-10-03T21:10:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T02:10:15","slug":"no-more-youtube-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"No More YouTube Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/youtubelogo.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1071\" title=\"youtubelogo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/youtubelogo-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/youtubelogo-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/youtubelogo-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/youtubelogo.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A few years ago,<\/strong> I started posting videos about Boy Scouting to YouTube to share them with other Scouts and Scouters. I soon began seeing more people posting Scouting related videos and thought we should have a channel group to post our videos. I began a YouTube group called <strong>&#8220;Boy Scout Stuff&#8221;<\/strong>. While most of the videos of the group were ones that I posted, there were others who began using to group. The group grew to 135 members and 176 videos.<\/p>\n<p>A couple months ago I began having problems approving new videos posted to the group, and new members who wished to join. I thought it might be a problem with my computer at first, or that YouTube was having a few problems. I tried again tonight to approve 8 new members to the group but I was not able to get past the spinning ball. So I Googled the problem to see if anyone else was having a problem. I quickly discovered that many more group administrators were having the same things happen in their groups.<\/p>\n<p>Google\/YouTube has decided to drop support of YouTube groups. According to YT-Josh, who claims to be a Google employee:<\/p>\n<p><em>Hey folks &#8211; bad news here I&#8217;m afraid.  We&#8217;re no longer supporting groups and will likely remove them from the site in the next couple months. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If there&#8217;s a silver lining, it&#8217;s that we have some cool ideas about how to re-create groups in the context of collaborative channels.  Probably going to take awhile, but stay tuned.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And again, sorry we can&#8217;t continue to support the old groups.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, thank you very little Google\/YouTube! Not only did you quit supporting our groups, but you want to eliminate them? Once again, thank you very little.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see what these new collaborative channels will be. Until then, I guess we have no choice but to sit here twiddling our thumbs with a group(s) we cannot change.<\/p>\n<p>It sure makes me glad I have my podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I started posting videos about Boy Scouting to YouTube to share them with other Scouts and Scouters. I soon began seeing more people posting Scouting related videos and thought we should have a channel group to post our videos. I began a YouTube group called &#8220;Boy Scout Stuff&#8221;. While most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}