The MSN Groups Move to Multiply was a complete failure looking at peoples opinions and from what I can see…

I tried it myself and the layout at Multiply was absolutely useless and barely any of the same features were offered and its completely obvious MSN Group owners have shown distaste to the groups as well as the

Low Quality Group management - No to do stuff like e-mail all members?
No Custom Pages - Only The Whats New Page?
Blogs Instead Message Boards?
The fact that it’s nothing like an MSN Group - It’s just a lot of widgets
Assistant Manager accounts not being able to move groups - For example GrapevineEdge One of MSN’s Biggest Groups
Names of people who posted older messages that were transfered linking to wrong accounts. - Click any name like ascii ones takes you no where ..
Not inviting all the members of your group to join it. - Very stupid…

The key one being the fact that it’s nothing like a group especially having no forums… i personally wont be moving any of my large groups and suggest to people considering moving there groups their to look at alternatives for a place to move there group as in the long run you will be left with a service that yes has some of your content but is completely implausible for running a community.

If MSN or Multiply had thought about this decision I do believe they would of at least asked MSN Groups users what they thought about this decision. Most MSN Group’ers have stated they would like something that atleast offers the same service as MSN Groups which Multiply does not.

In My next blog on this issue I will discuss MSN Group alternatives.

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