Yahoo announces all content on Yahoo Groups will be permanently removed

ZDNet ^ | October 16, 2019 | Aimee Chanthadavong

[deks]

Yahoo has announced it will be removing all content from its free long-running online discussion boards, Yahoo Groups.

While Yahoo said in a statement that the Yahoo Groups site will continue to exist, users will no longer be able to upload any new content to the site as of October 21, and from December 14, all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed.

The content that will be affected include files, polls, links, photos, folders, database, calendar, attachments, conversations, email updates, message digest, and message history.

"You'll have until that date to save anything you've uploaded," the announcement post read.

Users will also be able to download their own data from the site's privacy dashboard, Yahoo said.

The company added that all public groups will be made private or restricted, which will provide administrators with limited access and allow them to manage various group settings and administration tools.

[Wuli]

Title correction for clarification:

From - Yahoo announces all content on Yahoo Groups will be permanently removed

To - Verizon announces all content on Yahoo Groups will be permanently removed

Verizon owns and controls Yahoo. The paradigm on the Internet today is ad revenue versus traffic. The Yahoo Groups were not meeting ad revenue goals for the amount of traffic the Yahoo Groups use and that traffic has declined while other venues, like Facebook, have taken some of the blogging thunder away from Yahoo Groups.

Verizon has even given up doing the Email for their Internet service provider customers, moving all Verizon Email into the AOL system, hoping AOL will get the ad revenue Verizon’s own Email web pages were not.

I never even gave Verizon the chance to get ad revenue off me via their Email. I always did POP Email to an Email client product on my PC, never personally going to their Email web page.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Verizon has even given up doing the Email for their Internet service provider customers, moving all Verizon Email into the AOL system, hoping AOL will get the ad revenue Verizon’s own Email web pages were not.

My brother has a buddy who works for Verizon. He's a member of the CWA (Communication Workers of America). They've gone on strike against Verizon twice in the past decade. The last time the issue was that the union was demanding that Verizon make all of their people on the internet/IT side of the house join the union. Rather than do this they just shut down their email service and transferred everybody over to Yahoo and AOL.

My brother's friend thought both strikes were incredibly STOOOOOPID and he lost ground economically on both. This decision was not popular with the rank-and-file.

[Agatsu77]

Yahoo has been pissing me off for a long time. Won’t be missed here.

[Wuli]

From what I understood the union bit was only part of it. AOL and Yahoo came from the Internet content world and Email was their way of driving people to the content, which included ad revenue. Verizon Email began as and operated as a service, which Verizon customers got (”for free”). Verizon Email, from the web service end, was an “IT” service internally at Verizon, which gradully added some content folks to get some ad revenue into it.

So from Verizon’s point of view, they needed Email to move to their best “content providers” and that was their subsideraries AOL/Yahoo, not their internal IT folks.

[zeugma]

This is why you can’t trust the internet. Nothing is permanent if you don’t control it.

[rockrr]

But, but, the internet was supposed to be forever!

[Company Man]

Too many lefties were getting exposed.