I was able to download from tinypic the photos I wanted a copy of, but the site was bogged down and very slow to respond as it got close to the end date. So I'd recommend that if you want to download any content from a Yahoo Group to do it soon.
It’s funny looking back a decade ago at all the stuff that Yahoo provided, and how so many things have gone away. I had a blog with over 600 entries in it, and they said in four months...it’d disappear. So they promised this tool that would allow you to extract your blog. Week after week, I waited on the tool. Five days prior to the end, they said it clearly....no tool could be developed, so ‘best of luck to you’.
Another nail in the coffin of the internet content dating back to the 1990s. The tech overlords have been deleted and blocking old forums, social networks, and picture sites for a few years now.
People-Ew purged the Myspace data and claimed it was in error.
Photobucket bought several other picture sites and all you see in old forums now are red-x boxes.
Yahoo is stabbing it too.
Burn that library in Alexandria.
Let’s forget all about what people said about the CLinton presidency.
When they eliminated yahoo messenger a few years back, I lost contact with lots of young Asian spinners.
Bookmark
what it boils down to is that if you want to converse you have to own your own site.
Even FR isn’t immune IIRC we lost early posts during a crash with no backup
The digital life, people.
You own nothing, and if you arent on top of things, your past may vanish.
I was very active in the Christian chat groups in Yahoo years ago. I’ve not used Yahoo groups in a long time but still I figured they would always be there.
Verizon is the corporate overlord of Yahoo. But it was the pre-Verizon chick that ran it into the ground.
NSA has everything
Just looked. I’m a member of 18 groups. Guess I better download any files I might need someday. Then I guess I can delete my yahoo ID, if that’s possible, because the only reason I created it was to join groups. I don’t use the email address which is probably good considering how many data breeches they’ve had.
Occam’s Razor:
They’re tired of paying to maintain all of that server space with no ROI.
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.
Yahoo has been pissing me off for a long time. Won’t be missed here.
This is why you can’t trust the internet. Nothing is permanent if you don’t control it.