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Yahoo will delete all Yahoo Groups content on December 14th

It seems like the beginning of the end

Oct 16, 2019, 5:16pm EDT

Yahoo Groups, like much of Yahoo, are a relic of a previous internet age.

Although they aren’t widely used now,
groups once served as a watering hole for discussion on wonderfully niche interests,
— almost like Reddit does now.

Looking through the directory today, you can still find groups with thousands of members,
and some groups have been active as recently as this year.

Sadly, it seems that almost all of that internet history is going to be erased.
In a support document, Yahoo says that, effective December 14th,
it will be deleting all content that has been posted to Yahoo Groups.

And it’s going to largely shut down the service even sooner,
as you won’t be able to upload new content to your groups starting this Monday, October 21st

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Groups will also become much harder to join.
As part of the changes, Yahoo says that any currently public group will become restricted or private.
You can still find them, but you may only be able to join by invitation.

It seems like the beginning of the end for Yahoo Groups.

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This isn't the first time that Yahoo has turned the switch off on an important,
if niche, platform and left users in the lurch.
In 2009, Yahoo shut down GeoCities, taking roughly 7 million personal websites with it.
At the time, digital archivists raced to save what content they could.

"These guys found the way to destroy
the most massive amount of history
in the shortest amount of time
with absolutely no recourse," archivist Jason Scott told Time soon after it was shut down.

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Vooralsnog schijn je te kunnen blijven posten, maar er wordt nu al gespeculeerd dat yahoo groups kompleet gaat verdwijnen op termijn.

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Yahoo is giving users more time to download Groups data before it’s gone forever

You now need to request your data by January 31st, 2020

In October, Yahoo announced that it would be deleting all content posted on Yahoo Groups on December 14th.

But today,
the company said that it’s extending that deadline another couple of weeks
to give users more time to download their data.

As noted in Yahoo’s tweets, you still won’t be able to view content on Yahoo Groups after December 14th.

Yahoo stopped allowing users to upload content on October 28th,
so Yahoo Groups have already become pretty limited.

Once Yahoo deletes the data, a significant chunk of internet history will be gone for good.

Some archivists say they have been joining groups using “semi-automated scripts” in an attempt to archive data before everything is deleted,
but Verizon Media (which owns Yahoo) has apparently banned 128 archivists,
saying that their actions violated its terms of service, severely hampering their archival efforts.

A Yahoo spokesperson told The Verge
that the company has also extended the deadline for when it will convert public groups into restricted groups to January 31st.

That means if you want to join a group after that date, you’ll have to request an invite or be invited by a group admin.

Despite the extensions, today’s announcement doesn’t change the fact that, soon,
the only thing you’ll be able to do on Yahoo Groups is email the members of groups that you’re a part of.

And sadly, there’s always the chance that Yahoo may someday shut down Groups forever.

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