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Oct 12, 2020 · Yahoo Groups will shut down for good on Dec. 15, a year after company parent Verizon decided to gut most of the functionality from the 20-year-old discussion board platform. Yahoo said...
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Starting Dec. 15, the Yahoo Groups website will be inaccessible as will its services, including sending and receiving emails.
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By Cat Ellis
published 17 October 2019
The clock is ticking...
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It's probably been a long time since you last used Yahoo Groups, which is part of the reason Yahoo has decided to shut the service down later this year.
That window gives you a few months to download your data before it's gone for good, and it's well worth doing; you might not recall exactly what you've shared on Yahoo Groups over the years, but there may be the odd photo or file that you'll look back on fondly, or posts that you'll want to hang onto.
To grab your content, head over to your Yahoo Group's page and you should see a link to download everything directly. Alternatively, you can log into your Yahoo account on Verizon Media's Privacy Dashboard and request the data.
There might be quite a lot to package up, depending on how active your Yahoo Groups were, so you'll receive an email once it's all archived and ready to download.
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Oct 18, 2019 · It’s finally happening: Yahoo Groups is shutting down. Well, mostly—it’ll still exist, but only as a shell of its former self, as Yahoo is turning the various groups that were once active...
- Brendan Hesse
Oct 14, 2020 · The ‘full’ shutdown of Yahoo Groups will take place on 15 December 2020. What does the shutdown mean for users? After 15 December, users will no longer be able to send and receive emails...
On October 13, 2020, Yahoo announced they would be shutting down Yahoo Groups on December 15, 2020. The site was closed down a few days after the advertised date, displaying a message that the service was officially shut down.
Oct 14, 2020 · Web service provider Yahoo is to close its ill-fated social media platform, Yahoo Groups, in the coming weeks, as it has seen “a steady decline in usage” over the last several years. Its closure means that users will no longer be able send or receive messages from their group members.
