Yahoo Groups Is Winding Down and All Content Will Be Permanently Removed

Article note: There are several niche communities who jealously guarded silos of hard-won information in their yahoo groups. All the ones I know of have transitioned to more modern, more open platforms, but actually valuable information could disappear into this step of Yahoo's ongoing collapse.

Yahoo announced on Wednesday that it is winding down its long-running Yahoo Groups site. From a report: As of October 21, users will no longer be able to post new content to the site, and on December 14 Yahoo will permanently delete all previously posted content. "You'll have until that date to save anything you've uploaded," an announcement post reads. Yahoo Groups, launched in 2001, is a cross between a platform for mailing lists and internet forums. Groups can be interacted with on the Yahoo Groups site itself, or via email. In the 18 years that it existed, numerous niche communities made a home on the platform. Now, with the site's planned obsolescence, users are looking for ways to save their Groups history.