Re: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] Yahoo Groups to shut down for good on December 15, 2020 IMPORTANT OWNERS AND MEMBERS

 

Will you still recap on "The Boob Tube"  group

Denise (AZ)

On Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 6:58:48 AM MST, SHARON ceegee2006@yahoo.com [Reality-TV-Fanatics] <reality-tv-fanatics@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Ok this is going out to all groups on yahoo I recap soaps, reality shows, daily discussions etc..It looks like this is the end to yahoo groups period. I know they have been removing inactive groups already.  We already have lost our archives, documents, photos etc. so this is the final move. As of now you cannot even create a new yahoo group . So now its up to the group owner to decide what to do with their group. If you plan to move your group to IO website and want the recaps etc to continue? Please let me know .Sorry I just dont do google groups. Facebook would be ok. I must know what the plans are and of course the members must know . I think they should have dropped this bomb on us sooner . But looks like this removing starts Dec 15 2020 . Not much time .

https://www.zdnet.com/article/yahoo-groups-to-shut-down-for-good-on-december-15-2020/

Yahoo Groups to shut down for good on December 15, 2020

Nineteen-year-old discussion board to shut down for good after Verizon effectively killed the service last year.

Yahoo Groups, one of the last vestiges of the old Yahoo web properties, will shut down on December 15, 2020, when Verizon plans to take the groups.yahoo.com website offline for good.

Verizon, which bought Yahoo in 2017, announced the decision today in emails sent to Yahoo Groups users and a message posted on the Yahoo Groups website.

Today's announcement marks the end of the road for one of the internet's largest message board systems of its time.

Nonetheless, despite its long-tenured history, the Yahoo Groups service, which launched 19 years ago in 2001, had fallen to the wayside across the years and slowly lost most of its once-massive userbase to newer services like Reddit, Google Groups, and Facebook Groups.

Verizon, which never had a plan to revive the service, cited "a steady decline in usage over the last several years," began phasing it out last year.

An initial two-phase process was announced in October 2019.

At the time, Verizon announced that users would no longer be able to create new content (discussions) to the site after October 21, and the company planned to permanently remove all past user content on December 14, 2019.

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