Verizon, which bought Yahoo in 2017, announced on Monday, it will shut down Yahoo web on December 15, 2020. According to Yahoo, the product no longer fits its long-term strategy as the company is focusing on other areas of the business.
Also, Yahoo Groups has seen a steady decline in usage over the last several years, Yahoo reported.
On other hand, the users can no longer create new groups, from next December 15, they will not be able to send or receive emails from Yahoo Groups.
If a user tries to send an email after shutdown, the message will not be delivered and they will receive a failure notification. However, previously sent and received emails will not be erased, and will remain in user’s email, Verizon noted.
Moreover, to help its current group users continue having group connections, Yahoo recommends a few sites such as Facebook Groups, Google Groups and Groups.io, which offers a paid function to export members from Yahoo group.
Despite its long tenured history, the Yahoo Groups service, which launched 19 years ago in 2001, had fallen to the wayside across the years and slowly lost most of its once-massive userbase to newer services like Reddit, Google Groups, and Facebook Groups.
Noteworthy, the US wireless communications service provider Verizon bought Yahoo's tottering internet business for a mere $4.8 billion in 2017.
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