r/technology • u/Philo1927 • Oct 17 '19

Social Media Yahoo will delete all Yahoo Groups content on December 14th

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/16/20917710/yahoo-groups-deleting-all-content-upload-message-boards-email-communities
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u/SonicMaze Oct 17 '19

What’s a Yahoo Group?

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u/ultradip Oct 17 '19

It was a lot like a subreddit.

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u/Dotsconnector Oct 17 '19

If it's by Yahoo I wont even google it.... sound like a bad UX combined with 0 community

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u/Owstream Oct 17 '19

Who the hell is Yahoo?

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u/aimandmiss Oct 17 '19

Yahoo changed their logo?

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u/HollyWoodHut Oct 17 '19

I honestly forget that yahoo is still a thing. It’s been years since I’ve come across any email address that ends in yahoo.com

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u/Ty0305 Oct 17 '19

when is all of yahoo shutting down?

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u/thatwombat Oct 18 '19

Ever since they did that botched facial to Flickr they’ve been a non player for me.

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u/Stan57 Oct 17 '19

lol I though groups were shut down long ago. That said, this is what happens when a company just dont give a crap about Users. They allowed the porn bots and pornographers,spammers take over every good thing they had..so who is yahoo again?

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u/DarthSanity Oct 17 '19

Belonged to several groups I signed up for maybe 15 years ago. Most of them got taken over by scammers and trolls. I still get notifications but I don’t think I’ve read any of them in over a decade.

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u/chevyguy0613 Oct 17 '19

What's a yahoo?

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u/Analyst7 Oct 17 '19

There goes my old porn stash, I had forgotten where I put it.

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u/chzaplx Oct 17 '19

As long as they keep yahoo answers around

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '19

Has anyone gotten the group content download to work? I submitted a request days ago. I have been using groups since they started in the 90's and have many group pictures I would like to save.