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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.
Yahoo has put the final nail in the coffin for its social media platform Yahoo Groups, announcing on Monday that the 20 year-old service will shut down on Dec. 15, 2020.
- It Met Intense Competition
- Yahoo Groups Doesn’T Have A Sustainable Business Model
- Yahoo Seemed Less Innovative
Yahoo Groups slowly faded into oblivion as new competitors surfaced in the market. The first on the list is Facebook, which has one of the most comprehensive ecosystems online. The biggest social media site today has at least a billion users around the world. Inside the comforts of their pages, they can easily switch to various services, from marke...
Yahoo Groups allowed its members to sign up for whatever online community they liked without paying anything—and that’s good. But times are also changing. For a website to remain scalable and sustainable, it needs to have a reliable business model, which it lacked. Think of the latest customer community software in the markettoday. Community creato...
Yahoo Groups might have suffered a similar fate as Blackberry. Many years ago, Blackberry was the go-to brand for businesspeople because of its features, including a full keyboard. Then, Apple launched the iPhone that took the world by storm and changed the way people communicated. It got rid of a physical keyboard and replaced it with a touchscree...
On February 1, 2020, Yahoo! removed online access to discussions and all other features except simple membership management, essentially turning all groups into mailing lists, and on October 13, 2020, it announced that Yahoo Groups would shut down completely on December 15, 2020.
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Oct 16, 2019 · Yahoo announced on Wednesday that it is winding down its long-running Yahoo Groups site. As of October 28, users will no longer be able to post new content to the site, and on December 14 Yahoo...
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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...
Oct 17, 2019 · News. By Cat Ellis. published 17 October 2019. The clock is ticking... (Image credit: Shutterstock) It's probably been a long time since you last used Yahoo Groups, which is part of the reason...
