Yahoo Groups Is Shutting Down

Yahoo Groups will soon be no more, or at least a pale shadow of its former self. Yahoo recently made the following announcement:

Yahoo has made the decision to no longer allow users to upload content to the Yahoo Groups site. Beginning October 28 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.

This affects several groups that I've used over the years, including wwp-users and dita-users. There have been some attempts by users and administrators to try to archive the content of the groups or transfer them to another platform like groups.io, but at this point it's not clear how successful that will be.

This is sad news for many people, myself included, who've used the groups over the years as a source of support for sometimes esoteric topics. There's a huge amount of useful information stored in the groups' archives, and it will be very sad if access to it is lost.

10/24 Update: It looks like the frame_dev list will be moving to freelists.org and dita-users will be moving to groups.io. I haven't seen anything concrete about wwp_users, but given how moribund the group has been recently, I suspect it will die off.