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Verizon to shut down Yahoo Groups for good in December

Y2kTheNewOldies

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https://arstechnica.com/information...ting-all-content-ever-posted-to-yahoo-groups/

Not shocking but its sign of the times. Yahoo Groups was the social media of the early 2000's and thats been a ghost town of the internet in recent years.

Yahoo Groups is shutting down after more than 18 years, and the Verizon-owned company is deleting all content from the site in mid-December.

"Yahoo has made the decision to no longer allow users to upload content to the Yahoo Groups site," the company said in a notice to users. "Beginning October 28, you won't be able to upload any more content to the site, and as of December 14 all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed. You'll have until that date to save anything you've uploaded."

The notice links to one Yahoo webpage that provides instructions for downloading photos and files from groups that you belong to before the cutoff date, but the process sounds laborious, as it requires clicking on each photo or file you want to download. The shutdown notice also links to a page that provides instructions for requesting a download of all your Yahoo data. This page notes that "It can take up to 30 days for the request to finish processing and the download to become available."

Although the Yahoo Groups site will continue to exist after December 14, "all public groups will be made private or restricted," Yahoo said. Users will continue to "be able to communicate with your groups via email and search for private groups on the site," and admins will retain "limited access to group settings and administration tools," but that's it.

All of the following features are going away, Yahoo said:
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Google Groups is still around, and similarly moribund. If Google were to shut it down, all the old Deja News archives of Usenet groups it has will likely disappear, depriving the world of gigabytes of back-and-forth over such internet ephemera as JenniCam, MIDI files, the dancing baby, etc.
 
Very sad. Yahoo eGroups was a great place to go to until the Great Purple Disaster made it difficult to participate, and destroyed it for probably thousands of users. I still see people being advised to check out an eGroup for hobby questions, but I haven't gone there in probably six or seven years. The last time I did, I couldn't pull up any of the threads for the eGroup in question. It was a mess.

Sometimes it's a good thing to follow the old maxim "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." It wasn't broke, they "fixed" it, and it looks like they finally "fixed" it for good.
 
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