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Type of site | Electronic mailing lists and Internet forums |
|---|---|
| Dissolved | December 15, 2020 |
| Owner | Yahoo! |
| URL | Archived official website at the Wayback Machine (archive index) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | January 30, 2001[1] |
| Current status | Defunct |
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.[2][3]
- ^ "Yahoo! Opens A New Place For Communities With Yahoo! Groups" (Press release). Santa Clara, California: Yahoo!. January 30, 2001. Archived from the original on May 2, 2006. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
- ^ "Yahoo Groups to shut down on December 15, 2020". Yahoo!. October 13, 2020. Retrieved October 13, 2020.
- ^ Brinkmann, Martin (October 14, 2020). "Farewell Yahoo Groups! Shutting down on December 15, 2020". Ghacks. Retrieved October 26, 2020.