Yahoo Answers, one of the longest running platforms online questions and answers to his story Internet, closes on May 4.
This will be the day the Yahoo Answers site starts redirecting to the Yahoo home page and all archives of the platform will obviously cease to exist.
The platform has been operating since 2005.
Yahoo, which is now a member of Verizon Media Group after selling the company for nearly $5 billion in 2017, announced the change at the top of the Yahoo Answers platform home page. The message links to an FAQ, which details the timeline for the shutdown.
From April 20, the platform will no longer accept new submissions, he says the FAQ.
Users will also have until June 30 to request their data because after that date they will no longer be accessible.
That data includes "all user-generated content, including the Question List, Answer List, and any images," says Yahoo, but "you will not be able to download content, questions, or answers from other users."
A message sent to active members of Yahoo Answers provides a little more detail as to why the company is closing the platform. For these reasons he states that "it has become less popular over the years" and that they decided to "focus on products that better serve our members".
