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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 07 2021, @10:44AM (2 children)
Not the look, the content. The net was new, people were enthusiastically putting information online. You could find a page on how to do any obscure damn thing at all. I found a page that detailed exactly how to remove the apparently unremovable inside panels on my (at the time) 25 year old car, without breaking the single-use clips.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Freeman on Wednesday April 07 2021, @03:21PM (1 child)
Now, people use YouTube for that kind of thing.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 07 2021, @09:05PM
It's not the same. The enthusiasm is gone. It was the same spirit that early Wikipedia inspired. "Let's put ALL human knowledge into the system. It will be wonderful!!".
Now Youtube is about views, Wikipedia is about turf wars and editor egos. They lost any chance of any support at all from me the first time they deleted an article for being non-notable. For fucks sake, it's a database. Space is so cheap it is irrelevant, and yet some pissant little shit deletes someone else's work not for being wrong, but for being obscure. Looking up obscure shit is the entire point of a fucking encyclopedia.