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posted by chromas on Friday October 18 2019, @09:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the Yahoo!-Oh?-Wait. dept.

Yahoo is deleting all content ever posted to Yahoo Groups

Yahoo Groups is shutting down after more than 18 years, and the Verizon-owned company is deleting all content from the site in mid-December.

"Yahoo has made the decision to no longer allow users to upload content to the Yahoo Groups site," the company said in a notice to users. "Beginning October 28, you won't be able to upload any more content to the site, and as of December 14 all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed. You'll have until that date to save anything you've uploaded."

The notice links to one Yahoo webpage that provides instructions for downloading photos and files from groups that you belong to before the cutoff date, but the process sounds laborious, as it requires clicking on each photo or file you want to download. The shutdown notice also links to a page that provides instructions for requesting a download of all your Yahoo data. This page notes that "It can take up to 30 days for the request to finish processing and the download to become available."

Although the Yahoo Groups site will continue to exist after December 14, "all public groups will be made private or restricted," Yahoo said. Users will continue to "be able to communicate with your groups via email and search for private groups on the site," and admins will retain "limited access to group settings and administration tools," but that's it.

[...] In 2010, Yahoo said there were 115 million Yahoo Groups users and 10 million groups, eWeek reported at the time. Yahoo also boasted then that it had contracts with about 100 carriers and handset makers around the world to preinstall Yahoo apps on mobile devices.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 18 2019, @02:40PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 18 2019, @02:40PM (#908817)

    "Just to let you know, we are disabling services in a month, and if you want to download your shit we've disabled git access. You can download your source files individually. Have a nice day."

    Free hosting is not free.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 18 2019, @04:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 18 2019, @04:32PM (#908860)

    Good thing the underlying technology, git, was designed to be decentralized.

    Anyone who has a copy has the entire repository and could become the new remote in a matter of minutes.

    And if nobody had checked out the most recent changes, they probably weren't that important.

  • (Score: 2) by dry on Saturday October 19 2019, @05:47AM

    by dry (223) on Saturday October 19 2019, @05:47AM (#909151) Journal

    It is happening with Bitbucket, at least for Mercurial repositories, though it is more like 6 months warning before they delete everything. Gotta love new owners.