Wednesday, October 16th, 2019 12:26 pm

Yahoo!Groups Is Closing

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If everyone knows about this and I missed it, sorry in advance if this sounds way too dramatic, but a five day countdown makes me edgy.

For anyone who missed it (like me, until this morning), Yahoo!Groups is shutting down.

Key Dates:
10/21/2019 - you cannot upload new content to Yahoo Groups
12/14/2019 - previously posted content will be removed from Yahoo Groups

Now--I still receive email from at least three email lists, and sure, I can be lackadaisical, but this--I would have noticed any combination of those words in the subject header.
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From: [personal profile] kore Date: 2019-10-16 05:39 pm (UTC)
and as of December 14 all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed

WTF. There goes another big chunk of internet history....
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From: [personal profile] twistedchick Date: 2019-10-16 05:44 pm (UTC)
Oh boy. The local neighborhood has had a Yahoo group since they started; now they'll have to decide whether to continue or move to the Nextdoor group, which is bigger and less personal.
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From: [personal profile] kore Date: 2019-10-16 11:38 pm (UTC)
Oh ghod, Nextdoor. Mine is full of not-so-genteel racism and rants about "those homeless" that sound right out of NYC circa the late 80s, yay gentrification. -- Also don't the cops check those?
edited at: Date: 2019-10-16 11:38 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] niqaeli Date: 2019-10-16 06:54 pm (UTC)
I... had actually thought they already had closed, for some reason? I definitely haven't seen any noise about it here or on Twitter or Tumblr. Granted I miss a lot on Twitter and Tumblr, but I'd have expected to see something about that here on DW. ETA: And then I literally scrolled down two entries on my droll and hit someone else's PSA about it. But yeah, the word hasn't been out about it that I've seen.
edited at: Date: 2019-10-16 07:03 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] seperis Date: 2019-10-16 09:39 pm (UTC)
I literally saw it on Twitter this morning and RT'ed before I went to work. It was both completely unexpected and about as surprising as the existence of gravity.
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From: [personal profile] alexseanchai Date: 2019-10-16 11:10 pm (UTC)
As best I can figure, literally nobody heard about it until someone happened across that help page. My religious organization is still on Yahoo Groups. (Also a Tapatalk-powered forum, which we'd like to ditch because Tapatalk keeps tricking people into giving Hellenion money, by which I mean giving Tapatalk money while on Hellenion's Tapatalk forum; as you might imagine, this pleases nobody but Tapatalk. Yahoo Groups is what we thought we could rely on.)
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From: [personal profile] morgandawn Date: 2019-10-16 07:33 pm (UTC)
Boost this please
https://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/1678027.html
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From: [personal profile] seperis Date: 2019-10-16 09:39 pm (UTC)
Done!
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From: [personal profile] ratcreature Date: 2019-10-16 08:51 pm (UTC)
What? That seems really sudden. I also still get list emails, but haven't gotten any notice by yahoo.

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