Yahoo Groups shutting down: now in read-only mode

[Epimethee]

To no one's surprise: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/10/16/yahoo-groups-shutting-down/

Hopefully, most of the community's work is already backed somewhere else...

[daglob]

I've suspected it would happen since Yahoo was bought by Verizon. Stuff has gone "missing" from some groups ever since. Last weekend, I tried checking all the groups, and it seemed like after downloading a few files, somehow the server got "lost". Awhile back, I went through all the groups and downloaded as much as I could; I hesitate to say I got everything, but I got most of it. Y'know, cuz I'm a content hoarder.

[cranlox]

one of your genius is to be content hoarder

I tried to take everything I could and I know

[Randomdays]

Hi all.

Please move this to its proper place if there's already a thread for saving the files.

For anyone who wants them, feel free to grab all the skins and meshes I have in my yahoo groups and put them safely away. I also give permission to repost them somewhere else for other members or to change/ edit them as well.

http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/swap_shop_attic/files/

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FF_Swap_Shop/files/

I think these are the only two groups I had.

Happy Holidays to all!

RD

[SickAlice]

RD! Nice to see ya! Thanks again for all the lessons and help, I've come a long way with all that.

[Randomdays]

Glad to see you're still here, along with some of the other hardcore FF fans. Happy Holidays to all!

[Panther_Gunn]

Meanwhile, while FR was suffering from Alzheimer's:

In a move that should surprise no-one, Yahoo Groups shut down completely back on Dec 15th.  So even the people that were still using it for email lists are now out of luck.  Way to stay classy & relevant, Yahoo.