"Yahoo is deleting all content ever posted to Yahoo Groups"

[kane_magus]

That's pretty shitty for anyone who was ever a big user of that service.

That said, the only thing I ever used on Yahoo Groups was the Otakuwars! Mailing List. I've already sent a message to there to alert anyone who may still actually pay attention to it that it'll be gone after December 14, 2019. If I were to save anything from there, it would be, at most, my own shit, but I'm not sure if I care enough to do even that much, to be honest. :/

(EDIT)

So... just for shits and giggles, I initiated a "Groups Download" thing via the "Verizon Privacy Dashboard" (EDIT had to fix the link... I so fucking hate the fact that Facebook doesn't properly preserve URLs in posts when you copy/paste from there /EDIT) thing. It's currently doing one of those "we'll email you when your download is ready" things, so we'll see how that goes, I guess.

That said, I don't know if it's going to include the entire group, or just whatever I posted as "newkanemagus." Which would not include a single one of the posts I made from my original "kanemagus" account, given that I lost access to that years ago.

(/EDIT)

Comments

[owsf2000]

Regarding otakuwars.org, the funny thing is that back when that was still a thing and I saw everyone jumping onto the server, I knew there would be that issue with it killing virtually every OW! page on the planet when Korb no longer had that particular job. I was just surprised it happened as quickly as it did. Admittedly I let my own OW! pages to over to it, but I kept backups of everything so when otakuwars.org went down (relatively quickly imo) I was able to re-up them back to where they were originally.

Sadly I was in the minority on that, especially since a lot of website maintainers had left OW! before it went down.

And that shit about verification, yeah that pisses me off as well. I'm pretty much in the same boat with all my shit now since lycos axed their free email service. I did move everything I could think of from there to google, but google also has verification bullshit. And now and then it bugs me to confirm, which naturally I -can't-. I suppose I could put my phone number on the google account at the very least.

[kane_magus]

Otakuwars.org went down, like, what, after only a year or so, right? I can't recall when it was actually started, but the earliest archive.org snapshot is from October 2000. The latest semi-viable archive.org version is from July 2001, but then, the next snapshot from January 2003 (nothing in 2002, apparently) and everything after that just leads to those not-a-real-website websites that they replace defunct websites with.

Anyway, I never even bothered trying to do much with what I had on there. Even the angelfire site had more shit on it than that. (Oh man... this thing... ugh. *eye roll*)

And... holy shit, speaking of my angelfire site, it still exists. I'm actually shocked at that. Not that it really matters, given that I can't log in anymore, but the fact that it's still there at all is kind of weird. *shrug*

And I forgot that the ML was actually started on eGroups (and it's a damn good thing that we didn't try to move it from there to otakuwars.org) and that eGroups was later bought by Yahoo. And now Verizon owns Yahoo, and shit sucks.

[kane_magus]

and it's a damn good thing that we didn't try to move it from there to otakuwars.org

On the other hand, maybe if we had moved it all to otakuwars.org, it's possible it would still be available now via archive.org, which is more than can be said for the Yahoo Groups ML. (Or, at least, up to the point where otakuwars.org also went the way of the dodo, anyway. After that, we'd have been SOL again, I guess.)