I am an admin of a closed group that is rarely used (but important to us members when we do). It’s clear from what Facebook is telling us that we’ll be archived — we have not been given the option to upgrade. It’s very difficult to parse the language facebook is using. “Archive” sounds like it’s going somewhere inaccessible. But if you read carefully, it seems they’re going to upgrade the group and eliminate the membership. They don’t indicate some key details like whether it will be public or private, what will happen to the admins’ relationship to the group. We’re hoping that we’ll be able to restore our private status and rebuild our membership. Anyone have a more clear idea of what they will allow “archived” groups to do?

Interesting. The question is whether or not the Upgrade option would have eventually turned up if you hadn’t have posted. Hmmm… 

I have/had three goups, of of which “Inline Street Skaters of Europe” had over 600 plus members with hundreds of personal and youtube videos added in the last two years. It was archived last week (the other two groups also). As the administrator I was not given the option of upgrading, which I would certainly have done. Instead: I logged on and all the worlwide members had disappeared. I was even unable to message everyone who had taken the trouble to join. Facebook just wiped their profiles away. I will not be putting my energy and enthusiasm into creating any other group like this again. – at least not on Facebook.

After writing the above, all the members have reappeared in the old group format. Strange. There is no option to upgrade on the group page yet but everything is back as it was. It appears to have been un-archived! And it had been archived for about five days. So, it looks, Matt, that I’ll wait and see. Thanks for the reply.