Folks
It's the end of an era.... Yahoo's former CEO Marissa Mayer effectively destroyed Yahoo groups back in 2013,
'WTF! MORONS!' Yahoo! Groups! redesign! traumatises! users! ? The Register
continued her destruction of Yahoo successfully driving it into the ground to the point where she could leave in 2017 the shell of the company to be acquired by Altaba/Verizon, who unable to save the wreck on October 2, 2019 ceased trading on the Nasdaq at the close of the day.
So it comes of no surprise that Yahoo who previously bought and destroyed GeoCities,
Yahoo! Pulls Plug on GeoCities, Erases Internet History - TIME
have made the decision to no longer allow users to upload content to the Yahoo Groups site. Beginning October 21, you won't be able to upload any more content to the site, and as of December 14 all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed. You'll have until that date to save anything you've uploaded.
More information about that decision:
As archivist
Jason Scott told Time: “These guys found the way to destroy the most massive amount of history
in the shortest amount of time with absolutely no recourse”.
I am hoping that we will be able to archive the group before then, even if only for historical purposes.
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Alisdair
MacRae Birch
Guitarist/Bassist/Educator/Arranger
