Yahoo is extending the date that it plans to delete all Yahoo Teams data, which was originally scheduled to happen this week.
It was introduced in October that every one content material on Yahoo Groups could be deleted by way of December 14. Now, Yahoo says it's going to now not delete Groups knowledge until January 31, 2020.
A Verizon Media spokesperson despatched the next commentary by means of email:
“we are surprised on the colourful group Yahoo Groups has turn into, that is why we would like to reinforce our Teams users during the subsequent phase of the transition by means of providing a way to download up to now published content. Yahoo Teams isn't going away – however we are making changes to in the end serve you better.”
Yahoo additionally confirmed the cut-off date extension on Twitter:
We Can prevent making the content material available or viewable from the https://t.co/AI347YbZxo portal at 11:59 PM PT on Dec 14, 2019, but we won't delete it till all requests submitted prior to Jan 31, 2020 had been processed.
— Yahoo Purchaser Care (@YahooCare) December 10, 2019
Customers now have till January 31 to request a download in their Yahoo Teams knowledge. The content will no longer be viewable on the web after December 14, but Yahoo assures users that knowledge won't be deleted until all requests submitted through January 31 are processed.
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Yahoo Groups is not as relevant as it as soon as was once, but it does grasp a vital quantity of the web’s early historical past. Jason Scott of The Web Archive has pledged to maintain as much Yahoo Teams content material as possible, because of this it might now not all be lost ceaselessly.
After All Archive Group is going to move after it. We Will Be Able To take an enormous-ass picture, and those will lose all of the capability of access, search, reference. that is the value that's paid – we turn issues into snapshots in preference to reference books and dwelling things.
— Jason Scott (@textfiles) October SIXTEEN, 2019
Person customers can obtain any content they’ve posted on Yahoo Groups from the privacy dashboard in their Yahoo account. Once the content material is deleted after January 31, the one factor customers can be able to do on the platform is e-mail individuals of groups they belong to.
