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    Yahoo Groups is Closing

    Anyone still using these may want to take note:

    Yahoo (owned by Engadget's parent company Verizon) is phasing out one its longest-standing features. The internet pioneer is closing the Yahoo Groups website in a two-phase process that will effectively see it disappear. You'll lose the ability to post new content on October 28th, and Yahoo will delete all "previously posted" material on December 14th. Users can still connect to their groups through email, but the site will effectively be vacant. All groups will be made private and require an administrator's approval.

    If you're at all interested in preserving your history on the site, you'll want to download your data either directly from posts or through Yahoo's Privacy Dashboard.

    Yahoo hasn't formally explained the shutdown, but you could see this coming. Yahoo launched Groups in 2001 as a sort of forum and mailing list hybrid, and it quickly became a home for specialist communities. There was one major problem, however: social networking happened. There's not as much incentive to use Yahoo's community when your Facebook group, Twitter friends or Discord chat will fit the bill, and often more effectively.
    Still, this could be a sad moment for some. Much like the GeoCities shutdown, Yahoo is erasing a piece of internet history. Even if you haven't used Yahoo Groups in years, you might still have a presence there -- say, a fan club for a favorite band from your youth. Yahoo is effectively erasing that historical record, even if it's likely to live on through archive services.

    Update 10/17 3:52PM ET: Yahoo has moved the shutdown date from the originally listed 21st to the 28th. We've updated the story accordingly.






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    Some are terribly crushed....


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    Who cares.

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    The same people crying over geocities and MySpace closing?

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    Was great when it first started.
    A lot of info on there in specialist groups.
    I was into various vintage machine tool groups.
    Been crap for 2-3 years now, so no big loss sadly.

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    Got banned from it about 10 years ago for slagging Michael Jackson off.
    No loss...

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    I'm on a couple of mailing lists that are quite useful. Apparently those aren't going, it's just the stored shit.

    So they are giving people time to back it off if they want to, then dumping it.

    Yahoo must be really in the shit, because disk space costs fuck all these days.

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    That was the first porn site on the net.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spliff View Post
    That was the first porn site on the net.
    Umm not even close.

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