My Facebook group is "scheduled to be archived"??

If you actually read the entire message from Facebook, you'll see that there's an option of "upgrading" your group into the new modern Facebook group format with no harm done. Really, it's all tied to Facebook constantly fiddling with the form and format of everything: the older group format is one that they're just phasing out, and that ends up looking like them basically killing old groups that no-one ever checks.

Since you did check it, you're in luck. instead of it vanishing into the Facebook archive ether, you have the surprisingly easy option of upgrading your Facebook group, as I'll show you in this article.

As with you, I also have a group from a long time ago and was surprised when I checked on it recently to find the same "This group is scheduled to be archived" message.

In fact, here's what I saw:

Concerning to be sure, and I also had the initial reaction "uh oh, we need to use this group more!" but then took a deep breath -- always good in a tech support emergency! -- and read a bit closer.

Even better, click on their helpful link "Learn More" and you'll find...

Okay, that doesn't sound too scary after all. Back up and click on "Upgrade This Group"...

Now it's button-pushing madness for the win! Click on "Upgrade" and after an astonishingly short amount of time you'll see:

Well, that' was easy. Click on "Okay" and you'll see your group in its new layout:

Just for completeness sake, click on "Edit Settings", though you'll be surprised at what it shows you, I bet:

That's right, you can adjust your notification settings, etc, but there's not really much at all you can do to adjust what's actually on the page.

Oh, and the update shows up as a Notification for you too:

I believe all group members see this update (along with an email notification) but either way, it's all done, mission accomplished.

See, not too bad after all!

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