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factoids

| commercial = Yes| type = Electronic mailing lists and Internet forums| owner = Yahoo!| alexa = | author = TITLE=YAHOO! OPENS A NEW PLACE FOR COMMUNITIES WITH YAHOO! GROUPS PUBLISHER=YAHOO! DATE=JANUARY 30, 2001 URL-STATUS=DEAD ARCHIVE-DATE=MAY 2, 2006, Yahoo! Groups was a free-to-use system of electronic mailing lists offered by Yahoo!.Prior to February 2020, Yahoo! Groups was one of the world's largest collections of online discussion boards. It allowed members to subscribe to various groups, read subscribed discussions online, view and share photos, files and bookmarks within a group, access a group calendar, create polls for group members, and receive email notifications of new discussion topics. Some groups were simply announcement boards, to which only the group moderators could post, while others were discussion forums. Depending on each group's settings, membership could be open to everyone or only to invited or approved people.On February 1, 2020, Yahoo! removed online access to discussions and all other features except simple membership management, essentially turning all groups into mailing lists, and on October 13, 2020, it announced that Yahoo Groups would shut down completely on December 15, 2020.WEB, Yahoo Groups to shut down on December 15, 2020,weblink October 13, 2020, October 13, 2020, Yahoo!, WEB, Farewell Yahoo Groups! Shutting down on December 15, 2020,weblink 2020-10-26, Ghacks, Martin, Brinkmann, October 14, 2020,

History

Yahoo! Groups was launched in early 2001 as an integration of technology from eGroups.com and community groups from both eGroups.com and Yahoo! Clubs.WEB, Yahoo! Groups Moderator News - January 2001,weblink Groups.io, February 1, 2001, Bob, Conder, Yahoo! Clubs was launched in 1998 as an extension of services developed by Yahoo! Message. In August 2000 Yahoo acquired eGroups.com.WEB,weblink Yahoo! to buy eGroups, June 28, 2000, CNN, April 4, 2021, David, Kleinbard, WEB,weblink Yahoo buys email list service eGroups in stock deal, CNET, January 2, 2002, November 20, 2010, Jim, Hu, PRESS RELEASE,weblink Yahoo! Completes eGroups Acquisition, August 31, 2000, Yahoo!, April 3, 2021, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20001017213955weblink">weblink October 17, 2000, In 2001 Yahoo! deleted adult groups from its search directory, making it very difficult to locate Yahoo! groups with adult content. The Groups Updates Email feature was introduced in 2010. It summarized, in a single email, all the updates that occurred every twenty-four hours in all groups. In September 2010, a major facelift was rolled out, making Yahoo! Groups look very similar to Facebook. (File:Yahoo! Groups (2009-2013).png|thumb|Former Yahoo! Groups logo, used from 2009 until 2013.)(File:Yahoo! Groups (2013-2019).png|thumb|Former Yahoo! Groups logo, used from 2013 until 2019.)In December, Yahoo! Groups Japan emailed its users, and posted a notice on its homepage, to announce that its service, which commenced in February 2004, would be closing on May 28, 2014.WEB, Yahoo! Groups Japan,weblink dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131219032801weblink">weblink December 19, 2013, December 22, 2013, yahoo.co.jp, ja, In October 2019, Yahoo announced that all content that had been posted to Yahoo Groups will be deleted on December 14, 2019;WEB,weblink Yahoo Groups Is Winding Down and All Content Will Be Permanently Removedlast=Pearsonpublisher=Vice MediaDATE=DECEMBER 13, 2019URL-STATUS=DEADDATE=OCTOBER 17, 2019, October 17, 2019, November 9, 2019, Verizon Media, WEB, Understand what's changing in Yahoo Groups,weblink Yahoo! Help, Verizon Media, 8 November 2019, Once the content was deleted, users of Yahoo! Groups were only able to browse the Group directory, request invitations and, if members of a group, send messages to that group.WEB,weblink Yahoo Groups is shutting down: Act soon or lose all your old photos, message history, Dalvin, Brown, USA TODAY, WEB,weblink Yahoo will delete all Yahoo Groups content on December 14th, Jay, Peters, October 16, 2019, The Verge, On October 13, 2020, Yahoo announced they would be shutting down Yahoo Groups on December 15, 2020. The site was closed down a few days after the advertised date, displaying a message that the service was officially shut down.WEB,weblinkweblink Yahoo Groups Shutdown, Yahoo!, October 18, 2020, December 18, 2020, This message stopped appearing at the end of January 2021 and the Yahoo Groups web address began redirecting to the main Yahoo page.

Criticism and controversy

On August 31, 2010, Yahoo! Groups started rolling out a major software change,Yahoo! Groups Blog » Welcome to the improved Yahoo! Groups!. Ygroupsblog.com (August 31, 2010). Retrieved on 2010-11-20. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920023701weblink|date=September 20, 2010}} which was denounced by a large number of users.de beste bron van informatie over tch crunch {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308022555weblink |date=March 8, 2016 }}. tchcrunch.com. Retrieved on November 20, 2010. The re-model was completely abandoned on January 12, 2011.WEB,weblink Yahoo! Groups Blog » New Groups Experience Rollback, Ygroupsblog.com, January 10, 2011, May 4, 2012, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120524155415weblink">weblink May 24, 2012, According to a September 9, 2013 Reuters article, "Americans use the Internet to abandon children adopted from overseas", Yahoo! and Facebook groups were being used, illegally and without government regulation, by parents to advertise unwanted children for "private re-homing". Yahoo! immediately closed down the forums that Reuters brought to their attention, although Facebook did not.NEWS,weblink Americans use the Internet to abandon children adopted from overseas, December 12, 2014, Reuters,

Site statistics

In August 2008, Yahoo! Group staff reported that there were 113 million users, and nine million Groups using 22 languages.weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20091212101456weblink">Yahoo! Groups Blog. Ygroupsblog.com. Retrieved on November 20, 2010.In July 2010, the web analytics website Quantcast reported around 915 thousand unique visitors daily to the Yahoo! Groups website (US). In January 2011, that number had increased to 933 thousand unique visitors daily. The number did not include Yahoo! Group members who accessed the Groups site via email.WEB, August 31, 2013, Quantcast profile for Yahoo! Groups,weblink dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120616124409weblink">weblink June 16, 2012, September 6, 2013, Quantcast.com, In September 2010, at its "Product Runway" event, Yahoo! told reporters that Yahoo! Groups had 115 million group members and that there were 10 million Yahoo! Groups."Yahoo Refreshes, Upgrades Some Products"{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, eWeek.com, September 17, 2010.

See also

• Google Groups
• GroupSpaces (closed)
• Meetup.com
• MSN Groups (closed)
• Windows Live Groups (closed)
• Usenet

References

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External links

• {{official website}}

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