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According to a headline on the answers.yahoo.com web page, Yahoo Answers is shutting down .
Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Yahoo provided additional details at https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN35642.html including:
What's the timeline for this process?
- April 20th - You won't be able to post new Yahoo Answers questions or answer other users' questions.
- May 4th - The website won't be accessible. If you try to access Yahoo Answers on May 4th you'll be redirected to the Yahoo homepage.
[Ed Note - Have any of my fellow soylentils used Yahoo Answers, and if so was it helpful?]
Additional Coverage:
- https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/5/22368488/yahoo-answers-shutdown-may-4-internet-era-over-rip
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/yahoo-answers-will-be-shut-down-forever-on-may-4th/ar-BB1fkigF
- https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/yahoo-answers-shut-down-date-1151453/
- https://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-answers-is-finally-being-shut-down/
- https://www.ign.com/articles/yahoo-answers-is-shutting-down-permanently-on-may-4th
- https://mashable.com/article/yahoo-answers-shutting-down/
- https://www.pcmag.com/news/yahoo-answers-to-shut-down-on-may-4th
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 06 2021, @03:57PM (6 children)
I've never seen anyone recommend Yahoo Answers as either a place to find information nor as a place to ask a question. The only time it gets a mention is when a question or answer is so hilariously bad that people screenshot it to put on other sites.
For example, this canine reproduction education question. [twimg.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 06 2021, @04:11PM (3 children)
Quora, Stack Overflow, and Reddit fill any role Yahoo! Answers once had.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by stretch611 on Tuesday April 06 2021, @05:37PM (2 children)
Of those, I find Stack Overflow quite helpful.
Quora seems only to exist in order to pad out google search results. iirc, everytime I went to the quora page it required me to log in to see any answer. I found out that I liked things much better when I just filtered out quora's results by personalizing my search results to ignore the site.
And it seems on reddit, you are just as likely to get some moron calling you an idiot for even asking then you are to get a real answer. (and browsing reddit is much better with a javascript blocker... but that now requires you to replace all urls with old.reddit.com instead of www.reddit.com )
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 06 2021, @05:44PM (1 child)
Quora fills the role of taking on the very dumb questions that Yahoo! Answers was famous for.
The Reddit experience varies. But on all of these sites, usually someone already asked the question you want answered.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 06 2021, @07:21PM
Reddit is policed by blue-haired Ham-planets. So if your answer makes their crust-infested holes itch, it will disappear into the void, much like any diet advice you might give them.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday April 06 2021, @05:18PM (1 child)
I used it a lot in the Junior College days. Between that and Quora, I was literally able to bullshit my way through entire classes, in one instance earning an A. Of course the free versions are only suited to easy undergrad classes, but that works out great when you have to take a bunch of bullshit using well-known e-textbooks from which the quizzes and exams were already leaked. I never needed "help" for classes that had anything to do with my major, as I actually wanted to learn from those.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday April 06 2021, @06:05PM
Some people go to college with a thirst for knowledge.
Others with a thirst for alkey
haulhall.If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious