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News · Published May 21, 2015 1:12 AM

We are currently working on Buzzen Groups, which will allow users to set up a group much like the old MSN Group Pages. We are interested in knowing what you would like to see included in groups. Give us your ideas and we will try to incorporate them.

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Former Member
Sep 6, 2015 1:30 AM
Buzzen did not exist, per se, before msn chat closed. NSM chat opened at that time and became Buzzen later. Very little of what MSN had is reflected here, the flash chat, for instance, isn't msn's OCX control, and I suspect very little, IF ANY code (or policies) are from msn.
"Re-creating" msn groups, therefore, which have been closed since 2009, and were turned over to Multiply, and then failed, would make no sense. If enough chatters want it, Buzzen could open something similar.
Former Member
Sep 6, 2015 1:32 AM
Most people use Facebook, even Buzzen has a page there, it seems to be the new 'norm' of social networking, rather than groups. If people want groups, Yahoo has them (at least for now) or people can open their own websites easily enough.
Former Member
Sep 6, 2015 9:35 PM
They were great for someone who knew absolutely nothing about web page design, I grant you that. You could have all the eye candy you wanted. Page design has changed vastly in the last 7 years, and definitely in the last 20 or so! You don't even have the option to use a current version of FrontPage, once Microsoft's premier web design program. You CAN use something like KompoZer, Seamonkey's Composer, or one you discover that uses templates.
The problem is, now, all that cross site scripting!
Former Member
Sep 6, 2015 9:37 PM
Even Microsoft itself gave up msn groups, they were handed over to Multiply, which did a horrible job of them. Write to Microsoft if you want their groups back, or their editor for groups back. I'm pretty sure they'll laugh after 7 years. Me, I see no need for fancy web pages that someone who can barely use a computer can attempt to use.
Former Member
Sep 6, 2015 9:45 PM
Multiply tried to be the one-stop shop for a user's Web 2.0 experience. It didn't work. They couldn't monetize it, and it took a lot of server time to keep it up, and people wouldn't pay for it. You want to share videos, photos, etc? or you want a pretty web page for blogs? There are services out there (Facebook, blogger, etc) that DO that, where you can share content with millions, not five, people.
Sep 6, 2015 10:54 PM
u r clueless as to what msn groups offered and every level. And I doubt that can be fixed.
Former Member
Sep 7, 2015 4:18 AM
No, I had an msn group, and I helped some others set theirs up. The problem is, no one even remembers them, people have moved on, Facebook has pretty much taken over the sharing aspect, for those seeking a limited group, Yahoo works, and web design has drastically changed. The templates that the groups used, the tools they used, etc. are all pretty much lost causes now. They might have nostalgia value, that's about it.
I ALSO wonder why someone who can't type in correct English is interested.
Former Member
Sep 7, 2015 4:31 AM
Error, I'm not denigrating your work, by the way. By all means have at it, but I'm pretty sure everything has changed and just a few users will be happy with the result! I recall msn groups allowed for some pretty awful web design by rank amateurs, who barely could turn their computer on, let alone design a page! (I was one.) Things like: the font color blending in with the background picture, being unreadable, pages that you had to scroll way too much both ways, the way pages were listed...
Former Member
Sep 30, 2015 6:37 PM
Just checking in...is this project still a go?
Oct 25, 2015 6:07 PM
I remember MSN groups...was a manager on several of them. The groups had the capacity of having several pages of information, which could be linked to other pages, creating a "grouping" within a particular subject. The MSN groups also had forums, which most know now as a blog. The forums appeared on one designated page..which individual subjects could be placed and allowed for people to post and interact. MSN groups also used HTML to create various backgrounds. I, too, am interested.