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Oct 12, 2020 · October 12, 2020. (Credit: Yahoo) 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 ...
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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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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 16, 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 ...
Jun 18, 2021 · For big fans of Yahoo Groups, 2020 was more than the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the end of an era of online communities when one of the originals decided to shut down for good on December 15, 2020. But this wasn’t an overnight decision. As early as October 2019, Yahoo already restricted community members from using the website.
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Oct 14, 2020 · Yahoo Groups is Yahoo’s free-to-use system of electronic mailing lists and forums, first launched in January 2001 It was once home to one of the world's largest collections of online discussion boards, and allowed members to subscribe to groups, read discussions, view and share photos, files and bookmarks within a group, and receive emails.
