Challenge With Gaia's Ability To Grow With Us

Hi all… It's Michael, the one who started this group a few years back. 

It quickly grew to about 3,000 members and was at one time the largest group. 

Then we ran into a snag: An apparent technical problem with being able to email group members, which led me to eventually discontinue my efforts to build this group or stay in touch.

hmmm…

I'm in a quandry with this support issue that has been going on at least a year, maybe a year and a half…

I've emailed about it, posted to the support pod about it - and no resolution whatsoever.

Dearest Siona has been kind enough to reply to my personal emails to her (she's always been an incredible support!), and yet it's still unresolved.  And it's at the heart of why I've not continued to build my community on gaia (at one time the fastest growing one).

Love you all… and wondering what it will take to ever resolve this.

Standing for Gaia as a community, a web portal and an organization that can bring about greatest lasting change in the world.

Curious what should my next step be… because emailing is resulting in no solution.  Thoughts?

Thanks,

Michael Skye

Re: Challenge With Gaia's Ability To Grow With Us

how about merging your pod with others?

Re: Challenge With Gaia's Ability To Grow With Us

did it before succesfully

Re: Challenge With Gaia's Ability To Grow With Us

I'm not sure I understand, D.U. Wouldn't merging with another pod just make the membership larger and more impossible to email? Pls explain how it might help.

One thing I'd like to say, Michael, is that even neglected and abandoned, left to go to weeds, this group has continued to have posts and threads which are IMO valuable to our community !!!!

Here are some brainstorms:

Maybe things have changed now with the new server. I'd email ~Matthew to see exactly what the max size for emailing Group members is at present. And if that doesn't bring an answer, check with Siona again, or you might check with Chris. He's very responsive. 

And if it were me, I'd be asking them all what it would take to enable the mailing of 3000+ members of one pod.

Q&R is a group now, and it has over 15,000 members, and I think the Team must occasionally send emails to the whole group. You could ask about that. How do those members get their info about the daily Q?

One not-great workaround would be to really lean on Vision Cafe members to get onto Notifications, so your posts to the group would be sent via email to all those on Notifications….. We've yet to be able to get data, as mods, about who is and who isn't on our group notifications, but if you bombard people with the necessity of doing that, you might get, I dunno, maybe 80-95% compliance……

Just some thoughts.

Blessings, OM Bastet