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Re:Yahoo Groups Archiving Progress by fouc on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:12AM (#22201015)
That chart was interesting. Interesting how the growth of yahoo groups memberships really dropped off right around 2014.
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Re:Yahoo Groups Archiving Progress by betamaxthetape on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:28AM (#22201892)
I don't want to say something I can't substantiate, however in 2013 Yahoo rolled out the "Neo" interface to Groups that was vastly unpopular with existing users [0], and many groups chose that point to switch away.

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/03/yahoo_groups_neo_de...

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Re:Yahoo Groups Archiving Progress by Izkata on Friday January 31, 2020 @02:07PM (#22204529)
It wasn't just unpopular, it was actually broken - constant javascript and server errors that prevented things from loading.
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