Yahoo Groups Officially Closed

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JAKARTA - Yahoo Groups online discussion platform seems to have to withdraw from the world of social media. Verizon, which acquired Yahoo in 2017, plans to close the service in the near future.

Quoting PCMag , Tuesday, October 13, he conveyed Verizon's decision via email sent to Yahoo Groups users and a message posted on the Yahoo Groups website recently, to end the biggest online discussion service of its time.

Despite its history of being launched 19 years ago in 2001, Yahoo Groups has seen a decline in users in recent years, most of whom have switched to services such as Reddit, Google Groups, and Facebook Groups.

Indeed, Verizon never planned to do this, but due to the significant drop in users, it was the heaviest step he had to take.

"There's been a steady decline in usage over the past few years, and we started phasing it out last year. Over the same period, we've seen an unprecedented level of engagement across our properties as customers search for trustworthy premium content," he said. Verizon.

Last year, Verizon announced that users would no longer be able to create new content (discussion) to the Yahoo Groups site after October 21, and the company plans to permanently delete all previous user content on December 14, 2019.

Apart from that, Verizon also stopped users' attempts to archive their previous discussions. While Verizon's 2019 move still allowed Yahoo Groups websites to stay active, they were never the same.

Users lose the ability to post new discussions, but they are still able to create new groups and have mass email conversations with all members at once.

However, starting today, Yahoo Groups users can't even create new groups. Only the email function will be left active until Verizon will completely deactivate the Yahoo Groups service on 15 December 2020.