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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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By Cat Ellis
published 17 October 2019
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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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Jun 18, 2021 · Takeaways from Yahoo Groups’ Shutting Down. June 18, 2021. Mia Johnson. Sustainable Science & EcoTech. 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.
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Oct 14, 2020 · Hide Ad. 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 from Yahoo Groups. The website will also no longer be accessible.
