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Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoDang. I learned better posting skills at YA. Specifically, I learned to create more concise answers, quickly. My proving ground was the religious answers group, where I went head to head with the dominant anti-faith trolls.
- amyjess 6y agoMy main experience with Yahoo! Answers is that it's more of a trolling platform than anything else. The questions are trolls, and the answers are trolls. Nevertheless, I'm going to miss it. The trolling was fun to read, at least.
- judge2020 6y agohttps://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg
- ErikVandeWater 6y agoThank you! This was hilarious! Do you have any recommendations on how to find more content in this genre (dysfunctional humor / best of dumbest internet content)? It's hard to come up with search terms that would lead me to find this kind of video.
- andybak 6y agoThere's several hundred subreddits that would do the trick.
- eppsilon 6y agoThere's a podcast called My Brother My Brother and Me where they find ridiculous Yahoo Answers questions and respond with "advice".
- dceddia 6y agoNot video, but bash.org has some great exchanges. Like the hunter2 one: http://bash.org/?244321 http://bash.org/?244321
- easton 6y agoI think it knows, I clicked random and got this one: http://bash.org/?1824 http://bash.org/?1824
- matsemann 6y agoKenM, perhaps? https://www.reddit.com/r/KenM/ https://www.reddit.com/r/KenM/ And then people also post stuff in the same vein: https://www.reddit.com/r/NotKenM/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NotKenM/
- sjcsjc 6y agohttps://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100930083901AABMNzO https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201009300839... Best question I'm aware of on Yahoo Answers. And the infinite loop response is the best answer.
- IncRnd 6y agoThat is worrisome. If I get my wife's baby's baby pregnant (please read the linked post before commenting!), in the case that the little one needs a C-section, will that harm her mother, grandma, or my wife?
- CynicusRex 6y agoHaha, the first comment I thought of was “But how will I find out if I'm pregante?”
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoDid this come before or after the “how babby formed” meme? https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-is-babby-formed https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-is-babby-formed
- userbinator 6y agoI knew what that would be before I clicked on it. YA has little value in providing actual answers, but it's a great source of entertainment and possibly even illumination into how a certain subset of the population think.
- kmeisthax 6y agoExcept in Japan where it's basically Stack Overflow for some reason
- beardedscotsman 6y agoYahoo Japan was a JV between Yahoo and SoftBank. It’s pretty much a huge if not the biggest platform in Japan because of this. Yahoo Japan is not the same as yahoo globally.
- qalmakka 6y agoJapan it's basically it's own little world. Their local version of Yahoo is not only still very popular, but it looks like it's stuck in the early '00s for some inexplicable reason.
- ladberg 6y agoI think most Japanese websites look like that for some reason.
- Hamuko 6y agoThey're pretty decent now (apart from legacy) but it feels like 2004 lasted until about 2013 when it came to Japanese websites.
- Nadya 6y agoBecause most people accessed the internet on their clamshell phones and not through a PC/laptop. So most websites were designed to be mostly text and easily browsed from clamshell-phone internet browsers. Now that smartphones have become ubiquitous more sites are finally being designed to look nice on smartphones - sometimes still at the consequence of desktop use. It took a few years after the iPhone release (aka: for it to get widespread market adoption) for JP websites to start "catching up" with Western web design. There are some other reasons too - but I'd wager the above is the #1 reason and others are more of an "in addition to that" type thing. More info: https://randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-different/ https://randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-differe...
- ehsankia 6y agoIs that the experience of someone who actively used it for a period of time or of someone who just heard of it offhandedly. The latter would clearly only hear of the memes and trolling, since those bubble out much more than helpful answers.
- mkr-hn 6y agoMy Brother, My Brother and Me shared all the best with a regular roster of volunteer Yahoo miners credited for the questions.
- iJohnDoe 6y agoQuick, we need to get Archive.org on the case. /sarcasm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26703203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26703203
- news_to_me 6y agoWhy sarcasm? Yahoo Answers represents an important slice of online culture from the early 2000s. Are our kids supposed to just believe us when we tell them how babby is formed[1]? [1] https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080211063124AA26on8 https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080211063124A...
- causality0 6y agoYahoo Answers served as a social network for kids shortly after chatroom culture died. It was particularly the home of underrepresented and oppressed groups, like LGBT youth and minority religions. I spent time there as a teenager and saw a huge number of people ask about things and talk about things they couldn't in real life. Gay kids trying to figure out their place. Muslim kids questioning things they'd been taught. Terrified kids going through a pregnancy scare looking for guidance and reassurance. That it became an alt-right cesspit is a terrible shame. It was a silly place but it deserves a better place in internet history than that.
- dwighttk 6y agoThey’re around... they know you know how babby is formed
- IncRnd 6y ago> Are our kids supposed to just believe us when we tell them how babby is formed[1]? It comes done to how whell you parend the chiyelld. Good parendets explain to the chyelld how babby is achivet.
- Animats 6y agoWhy is Yahoo even still around? They got rid of search. They got rid of the directory. They sold Alibaba. What are they still doing, if anything? Verizon may be getting out of content. With antitrust regulation picking up, it's quite likely that telcos will be required to get out of the content business. Historically, the US made movie companies stop owning movie theaters, and car companies stop owning dealers. Although Yahoo is now such a loser that it's hard to make an antitrust case against Verizon owning them. AT&T and DirectTV, though...
- boplicity 6y agoVerizon, as part of their ownership of Yahoo and AOL, controls a significant proportion of email inboxes. There is quite a lot of strategic value in that. They've been particularly bad, from my perspective, in terms of allowing our emails to get through, but I shudder at the thought of email being under 90% control by Google.
- bellyfullofbac 6y agoI got my Yahoo Mail address in 1996 because teenage me thought my address @yahoo.com would be so cool. Nowadays I use it just for online shops, etc (I also use it for Facebook, which is a bad idea, because online shops upload their customer info to Facebook and, tada, guess whose profile matches for targetted advertising). Today I logged in and a stupid ad popped up (I wish I can remember what it was for). When I do a password reset on one of these shops, Yahoo also recognizes those kinds of emails and recommends LastPass or whatever password service they bought. Incidentally, they've also lost all my mail from before year 2001, when I actually use them for personal communications, meaning all those emails are now lost (well maybe I have a backup somewhere...). What a fucking useless company.
- dwighttk 6y agoI helped a person get back into their yahoo mail account and the web interface showed auto playing video ads with sound. I recommended they get a different account or at least use IMAP to check mail, but they were not interested.
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- js4ever 6y agoMay the 4th be with them forever
- pdimitar 6y agoWill there be an archive somewhere?
- marcodiego 6y agoThough I'm not a user and never liked the service myself, I'd like it to be preserved. It is part of internet history. Let's not let happen to answers what happened to geocities.
- dwighttk 6y agoSome things aren’t worth saving.
- nine_k 6y agoTell that to the future historians.
- dwighttk 6y agoGladly, but my comment probably won’t make it to the future because it will be voted down, proving its correctness.
- chris_wot 6y agoParadoxical then that as your comment won’t be worth preserving this makes it worth preserving?
- dwighttk 6y agoOh, it isn’t worth preserving. That was my original point.
- brainless 6y agoNo, voting down your comment does not mean it is correct. It means the voters (vote downers) disagree with it and are expressing that. You must not be smart enough to get that. But anyhow.
- dwighttk 6y ago
- DC1350 6y agoYahoo answers is the reason I was insecure about not having an average 8 inch penis when I was 11 years old. It was probably the lowest quality forum that I’ve ever seen and I’m glad to hear it’s shutting down.
- gotostatement 6y agoI am truley sorry for your lots
- DC1350 6y agoThanks
- approxim8ion 6y agoand then the penis clapped
- mitjak 6y agohow is babby formed
- xnx 6y agoThe complete endeavor of Yahoo was all worth it for the creation of this video alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg
- carols10cents 6y agohow girl get archeived?
- vmception 6y agowe need to do way abstain mother
- canjobear 6y agoWhen I opened the comments the first thing I did was Ctrl-F "babby"
- thirtyseven 6y agoRough year for the McElroys, huh?
- twobitshifter 6y agoThe answers idea has been tried by many and it’s the quality of the answers that matters most, but this is presumably out of the developers control. If you have yahoo answers, quora, metafilter, askReddit, and stackoverflow, the primary differences in my mind are the website cultures. Quora has apparently developed a very pro CCP slant lately, not something the developers intended (one hopes.) it also seems to be den of self promotion. Stackoverflow is genuinely useful for experts, but has many memes about the type of answers one can expect to a beginner question. Ask Reddit is not a place that you can expect to get an answer if it’s not interesting enough to gain upvotes or be made fun of. Yahoo answers tried to provide a simple Q&A format, but both the quality of questions and answers were unsatisfying (how is baby formed).
- keeganjw 6y agoWhat does this mean for My Brother, My Brother, and Me... Griffin's gonna be bummed.
- easton 6y agoIt had to end sometime, I suppose. Maybe they'll pull a archive somehow.
- RootReducer 6y agoThey've only been doing one or even no Yahoo questions per episode for a while now. I almost suspect this will relieve them and give then an "out" to pivot to different formats.
- smoldesu 6y agoIt's a sad year for McElroy listeners. Between this and Graduation, I'm not sure there will be anything left after 2021.
- spiralganglion 6y agoIt means Griffin is going to read a final Yahoo.
- alex_g 6y agoGonna have to archive this one for Franc R's gem of a contribution https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080603191133AAUUGxn https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080603191133A...
- wyxuan 6y agoIn any case I think I agree as Yahoo answers just became a site riddled with bots spamming link shorteners laden with ads. Twas good while it lasted though Source: Dude just trust me
- endisneigh 6y agoMy favorite question on YA https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090226170437AAajg6n https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090226170437A...
- com2kid 6y agoPublic libraries aren't a thing in many countries. The reason North America has a tradition of public libraries is that one of the richest men of the 20th century decided to leave behind a legacy of literacy [1]. Prior to that, quite a few protestant groups were big on literacy and invented the idea of public libraries for all. I have friends from other countries who have told me that libraries in their home countries are indeed commercial, you pay a small fee to rent a book for a fixed period of time. Stories from childhood, so I am not sure if such libraries are still common place in those countries, but the question is most certainly not stupid. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_libraries_in_North_America#Carnegie_libraries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_libraries_in_North_Amer...
- space_fountain 6y agoFor one example of this currently, here's what comes up when I search for Amsterdam Public library: https://www.oba.nl/service/word-lid.html https://www.oba.nl/service/word-lid.html (it also matches my memory of walking around the big public library in Amsterdam). That's $44 a year to checkout up to 50 items (only 6 ebooks) and $1 for every reservation you want to make. For $56 bucks you get unlimited checkout. Its not exactly a huge cost, but still not what I expected based on my experience in the US and my perception of Europe
- Kognito 6y ago> not what I expected based on my experience in the US and my perception of Europe I'm always fascinated to see comparisons between the US and Europe (as a European myself), as if the comparison were between two countries, rather than a country and a continent consisting of many, very different countries. You'll find some commonality between neighbouring European countries, but not in the same way you would between US states. Speaking from experience, the UK & Ireland have an extensive system of public libraries, usually each local area will have one, where books and materials can be checked out for free. Similarly my experience in France was the same, materials can be checked out for free. Can't speak for any other European countries.
- thinkafterbef 6y ago4.1M clicks about to go down. https://i.imgur.com/0pxHInh.png https://i.imgur.com/0pxHInh.png
- tyingq 6y agoAnd a bunch of scrapers trying to make a copies of it with lots of terrible domain name ideas.
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- jdlyga 6y agoYahoo gets rid of some of their best services. Yahoo Geolocation Service, besides Google which was license restricted, was the most accurate service for putting in an address and getting latitude/longitude coordinates. But they sadly shut it down. I sure hope they don't shut down Yahoo Finance. It's the best thing that Yahoo currently has.
- calvinmorrison 6y agoHow about the treasure trove that was geocities?
- jethro_tell 6y agomy stocks widget says that it's switching off finance (probably API?) next update because it's being discontinued. I have not validated that. I mostly use alpha vantage for my own projects now since finance (API) was down for a while.
- kristianc 6y ago> Yahoo gets rid of some of their best services. This was not one of them.
- challengly 6y agoYeah, though it was their funniest service.
- echelon 6y agoThe most memorable thing from Yahoo Answers is the "how is babby formed" meme. It never attracted high quality Q&A, and was a joke from day one.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agohttps://youtu.be/Ll-lia-FEIY https://youtu.be/Ll-lia-FEIY Still makes me laugh
- brudgers 6y ago
- com2kid 6y agoCompletely off topic: That is the longest list of "framework partners" that I have ever denied access to. There are 400 (!!!) "partners" listed just for personalized ads!
- SteveGerencser 6y agoJust think of all those low quality links placed there for SEO reasons that are about to vanish.
- tyingq 6y agoI do miss Yahoo! Pipes. I don't believe I'll miss Yahoo! Answers though. The questions they are curating on the front page are still terrible ones.
- mkr-hn 6y agoPeople joke like "ha-ha, let it burn!" but it's the ordinary folks and their creations that anthropologists desire most. Ancient graffiti in Rome tells you more about ancient Rome than privileged writings of the era. Yahoo Answers matters more to culture than any New York Times trend piece.
- acwan93 6y agoI wonder if in another 400 years some distant society will look at ours as the "Dark Ages" since all information is locked behind services that have since disappeared like Yahoo Answers, Geocities, AIM profiles, MySpace, and (maybe) Facebook.
- kristianc 6y agoUnlikely. Far more (printed) books are being published today than at any previous time in human history - certainly more so than in the Dark Ages where most had neither the equipment nor the education to write. And that’s before you include the likes of Wikipedia, which it’s inconceivable won’t be recorded in at least some form. We will have a pretty good record of our civilization to work with - down to the minutest cultural ephemera. https://ourworldindata.org/books https://ourworldindata.org/books
- Ekaros 6y agoI wonder how much of early web we have already lost. All of the forums, user generated content and so on just gone...
- cogman10 6y agoTons. There still exists some holdouts with long histories (such as anandtech). That said, once upon a time nearly all "social media" was forums for things of interest. It sort of makes me sad for the internet bygone. I really miss the fact that nearly every product had a half dozen fan pages dedicated to it. Things like https://www.massassi.net/ https://www.massassi.net/ were amazing back in their hayday. Now everything it consolidated into big social media locations :(
- softwaredoug 6y agoI do think it's interesting that we call the Web the "repository of human knowledge" when clearly everything is temporary, and you'd do better to buy a book on most subjects. (Not that I am complaining about it, I just think we should disabuse ourselves of this notion.)
- OakNinja 6y agoYahoo’s problem is mainly that they don’t seem to know how to get paid and what to get paid for. They run a popular service for free for years and then shut it down because they don’t make any money.
- ravenstine 6y agoFinally! Although search engines have finally deranked Yahoo Answers, I still resent it for all the years when I would look up something and the top results always included a Yahoo Answer written by a 12 year old. It's pretty much a warehouse of misinformation to such a degree that it makes Quora look like Encyclopedia Britannica in terms of credibility.
- DC-3 6y agoHey! My brother used to write answers to maths questions on Yahoo Answers when he was 12 and they were quite good, I think :-)
- umvi 6y ago> still resent it for all the years when I would look up something and the top results always included a Yahoo Answer written by a 12 year old Reminds me of the famous(ish) meme that came from Yahoo Answers: https://youtu.be/Ll-lia-FEIY https://youtu.be/Ll-lia-FEIY
- simias 6y agoI'm partial to this one myself: https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg
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- pmiller2 6y agoAt least you could actually read the answers, unlike, say, expertsexchange.com
- markdown 6y ago> it makes Quora look like Encyclopedia Britannica in terms of credibility. Have you looked recently? Quora is mostly online marketers. Only marginally better than 12yr olds.
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- terse_malvolio 6y agoWhen multiple parrot the same 'how is babby formed' meme it makes me think the forum has been invaded by bird people simply echoing the songs they know. Maybe birds and humans aren't so different after all. Squawk? Curious what answers HN found interesting? Algolia Search: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fanswers.yahoo.com%2F https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fanswers.yahoo.com%2F
- aviraldg 6y agoDoes this include Yahoo Answers Japan (which I believe is still quite active)?
- henearkr 6y agoNo, it seems like Chiebukuro (the Japanese version of Yahoo Answers) is not ending. At least, on their front page they do not hint at any such intention: https://chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/ https://chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/
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- justplay 6y agoAlthough I don't use it, hearing that Yahoo Answers is shutting down, I am upset. It feels like the internet became an utterly different place.
- unixhero 6y agoThey don't list the reason for *why*
- themadprogramer 6y agoAm I pregant? That will be all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgckQGnFEAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgckQGnFEAI
- particulars02 6y agobut....HOW IS BABBY FORMED?
- vforvendettador 6y agoIt's been long superseded by various similar platform. I used to use Yahoo Answers in their heyday but the quality of questions and answers never up to scratch and it's a spiral down to obscurity.
- didip 6y agoRandom trivia: Larry Page's brother Carl Page sold eGroups to Yahoo for $432 million which then turned into Yahoo Answers.
- GormanFletcher 6y agoFor read-heavy content sites like Yahoo Answers, I wonder why they get shut down instead of getting compiled into pregenerated static HTML and hosted as read-only.
- mkr-hn 6y agoSpeculation: Penny pinching executives cutting costs as much as they can to juice profits before turning the ship toward another sale.
- Someone1234 6y agoYou could throw a few ad scripts on them and even make a little money (likely more than the tiny hosting costs for static content). I agree: Strange choice. But as is the world of large corporations and decision-making.
- ericbarrett 6y agoThis would still be an ongoing product that would need integration into the current ad networks; security reviews; patches to the servers; OS upgrades; legal support (copyright, abuse, and right-to-be-forgotten claims); accessibility support; and probably a few other things I can't think of. It could be done, maybe for a profit, but how big a profit? My guess is any potential advocate inside Yahoo! has bigger fish to fry.
- 1123581321 6y agoA couple Yahoo product shutdowns supposedly happened because no one wanted to touch the code anymore. I’ve seen the same thing in much smaller product companies—the Elm app, the old Rails app after all the Ruby developers left, etc.
- CobrastanJorji 6y agoMy bet would be that no management at Yahoo wanted to own that. It'd just be a slow down-and-to-the-right graph over time. There'd be absolutely no upside to having your name attached to the project, and any engineer who volunteered who be stuck maintaining it forever with no hope of promotion. Sure, it's probably millions of dollars per year that they're throwing out by not keeping it passively online, so it'd be in the company's interest, but with apologies to Mitt Romney, corporations aren't people. If something isn't advantageous to at least one individual decision maker, it won't happen.
- llacb47 6y agoSad. Yahoo no longer wants to be responsible for hosting any UGC, they would rather sell ads.
- water8 6y agoUGC is what keeps yahoo alive. It's definitely not the journalism.
- astockwell 6y ago"...and thousands of physics/chemistry students all cried out at once, and then were silenced."
- hota_mazi 6y agoOh no! How are new generations going to learn how babbies are formed?
- tomaszs 6y agoIt is sad to hear Yahoo didn't take responsible steps to preserve the content of the service for future generations. It is a historical part of the Internet that should be available for research. I think there should be a law to force companies to move public data to public domain and make it available to download. Otherwise we just loose history of our times chunk by chunk. This is unprecedenced taking into an account it was never easier to backup and store such pieces of public data.
- bliteben 6y agoLooking back Yahoo is going to seem like an elaborate scam to extract money from stockholders.
- aerovistae 6y agoFirst they came for GeoCities, and I didn't say anything because I don't use GeoCities. Then they came for AIM, and I didn't say anything because I don't use AIM. Then they came for Yahoo Answers, and I didn't say anything because I don't use Yahoo Answers. Then they came for an app I cared about, and there was nobody left to say anything.
- Safety1stClyde 6y agoWhat did you want them to say?
- nicbou 6y ago"I'm moving to reddit!"
- newsbinator 6y agoWhat happens when they come for old.reddit.com or i.reddit.com?
- aerovistae 6y agoIt was just a joke, I didn't really mean anything.
- alsarea3 6y agoDoes Yahoo have an app that you care about?
- aerosmile 6y agoI still remember all the Techcrunch posts in 2006 when it became clear that Yahoo Answers was beating Google Answers [0]. Back then, Google was killing Yahoo in the same way that Amazon is killing Walmart today - very publicly and brutally, despite Walmart (and back then Yahoo) putting on a brave face and telling everyone that it can avoid the inevitable. So when Yahoo scored a tiny little victory, they celebrated it like it was the beginning of a new era. I imagine that Walmart would do the same today if the public gave them credit for building a better automated CX bot or scoring some other interesting but immaterial win. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2006/11/30/yahoos-big-win/ https://techcrunch.com/2006/11/30/yahoos-big-win/
- TameAntelope 6y agoAmazon is killing Walmart?
- aerosmile 6y agoI didn't realize that was up for debate. But I suppose in 2006, not everyone agreed that Google was killing Yahoo ("but what about their xyz, it's so much better than Google's xyz!!!"). In the last 5 years alone, AMZN grew 4x faster than WMT. For two direct competitors with a 4x difference in growth rate, how do you think the story ends?
- jjtheblunt 6y agoI wonder (honestly) if the answer is that AMZN owns remote and WMT owns in person?
- aerosmile 6y agoIn the long run, that would be a losing proposition for WMT. Kind of like where Yahoo ended up at.
- kgin 6y agohttps://xkcd.com/605/ https://xkcd.com/605/
- joshspankit 6y agoWe have ‘how is prangent formed’, so if we’re not getting a static copy at least I know the diamond that was created from it will continue on forever.
- jebeng 6y agoI believe it's: > How is babby formed? > how is babby formed > how girl get pragnent Let's at least try to preserve this gem accurately for future archaeologists. It should make it easier for future humans to wrap their heads around why we are in the state we're in.
- joshspankit 6y agoI mean sure if we want to go back to the origins, but personally I like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg
- aerosmile 6y agoAuntKatie will be disappointed - she wrote 143k answers. https://answers.yahoo.com/activity/questions?show=sjRwIxRCaa https://answers.yahoo.com/activity/questions?show=sjRwIxRCaa
- PiRho3141 6y agoNot only that, but her answers were "in memory of ...[of her husband], a gentle spirit, and in memory of my father, mother, aunts, uncles, friends, and many others who have lost the cancer battle." Way to hit the feelers.
- echelon 6y agoThis is heartbreaking, especially if you think about all the people like her. And your own family. All of it about to be annihilated... We're so transient, all that we love, experience, and care about. It hurts.
- seiferteric 6y agoGunna miss those classic Ken M Answers as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_M
- mb_72 6y agoIronically, considering the amount of sentiment being displayed here, Ken M is quoted as saying "I was appalled by the Yahoo comment section. It was such a toxic, shitty space." in this interview: https://redditblog.com/2015/10/03/ken-m-interview-internet-troll/ https://redditblog.com/2015/10/03/ken-m-interview-internet-t...
- someperson 6y agoSounds like he meant Yahoo News' comment section (where he got his start) not Yahoo Answers
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- brutal_chaos_ 6y agoMaybe this will be helpful: https://github.com/buren/wayback_archiver https://github.com/buren/wayback_archiver
- surround 6y agoDespite it's infamy, Yahoo Answers was the largest Q&A website for a long time and is a huge part of our digital heritage. Soon, it will be gone forever. The ArchiveTeam will be doing all they can back up as much as possible before it's too late, but IP address rate-limiting is a huge roadblock. If you want to help, download the ArchiveTeam Warrior and run it in the background. It doesn't use a ton of resources - they just need more IP addresses. https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior
- cormorant 6y agoI'm willing to donate my IP address, but is this active or is it still being set up? I downloaded the Warrior but don't see Yahoo Answers as an available project.
- ajayyy 6y agoIt is not active yet. If you select "recommended project", then it will probably switch when the time comes. For now, it is reddit. Check http://chat.efnet.org:9090/?channels=%23noanswers http://chat.efnet.org:9090/?channels=%23noanswers for updates.
- tech234a 6y agoThat was the link for the old project from 2016-2017. In 2020, Archive Team switched IRC networks, so the current link is https://webirc.hackint.org/#irc://irc.hackint.org/%23noanswers https://webirc.hackint.org/#irc://irc.hackint.org/%23noanswe...
- okanesen 6y agoMinor correction: https://webirc.hackint.org/#irc://irc.hackint.org/noanswers https://webirc.hackint.org/#irc://irc.hackint.org/noanswers Without the %23 prefix.
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- userbinator 6y agoWhen will I get my Yahoo Answers content? Our team works as fast as possible to make data available, but it can take up to 30 days to receive your content download. This sadly reminds me of what happened with the Yahoo Groups shutdown.
- ataylor32 6y agoThere have been multiple links to the "how is prangent formed" video, but let's not forget about the "Curse of The Weggy Board" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15nNY7uofNw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15nNY7uofNw
- anonytrary 6y agoWill they at least keep existing pages up as static content for historical and archival purposes? Yahoo Answers had some really useful comments on it. > Your Yahoo Answers data download will return all user-generated content including your Questions list, Questions, Answers list, Answers, and any images. You won't be able to download other users' content, questions, or answers. I guess not. Shame.
- plumsempy 6y agoThis reminds me of a couple of cute Yahoo! answers story. In a past life I was misplaced by the high schools sorting-hat counselor into the house of civil engineering. I was motivated and so our Hydrology professor made me the TA for his Hydraulics class. He would give me questions with no answers to go through in my sections. The questions were damn hard and I would sometimes ask them on Yahoo! answers and this particular guy from India would always come and answer them meticulously and write integrals using unholy script like: int(a,b)Sin x dx and such and I would happily decode them for half an hour before trying to understand the solution. Fun times. A similar guy helped me a lot when I was learning C. Hey Manjunath! if you're reading this thanks I'm a software engineer now.
- sn_master 6y agoFew university assignments I had ended up on Yahoo! Answers too.
- realchucknorris 6y agoi hope Manjunath reads this. he would be very proud
- cung 6y agoWhy is person-to-person knowledge being replaced with company-to-person? I recall in the 90’s and 00’s being able to google anything and find an answer on a forum or Yahoo Answers. Now all that is last and all google queries return spam sites with bad answers and tons of ads.
- visarga 6y agoGoogle came up with pagerank, that made developers do one of two things - ignore it or start SEO-ing their websites. Over the years, the original sites were replaced with SEO enhanced sites, which are often salads of links and keywords.
- sub7 6y agoQuora will be them as well, nobody has figured out how to maintain question/answer quality at scale Simple up/down voting systems are too easily gamed
- itsbits 6y agoOne of top contributers I see is . (dot) Yes. Just dot in symbol. https://answers.yahoo.com/activity/questions?show=AA11447210 https://answers.yahoo.com/activity/questions?show=AA11447210
- sadfev 6y agoNo! They were such a cesspool and also internet history!
- imvetri 6y agoTrain AI on its data. There wont be a need for archiving.
- hkt 6y agohow is singgularritty formed
- tijuco2 6y agoThat is so sad. Long time ago I was addicted to answer I.T stuff there. This website was a great idea!
- whenlambo 6y agoBeing always inspired by online communication, I’ve recently launched casual Q&A website https://ffun.io https://ffun.io
- teekert 6y agoOh no! We may loose this gem [0], thankfully we have the internet archive. [0] https://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20121030224201AAnKzZZ https://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201210302242...
- GolDDranks 6y agoI was scared that the Japanese version, Yahoo Chiebukuro would shut down also, but at least at the moment it seems to be only the English version that's shutting down. Yahoo Chiebukuro is an indispensable resource for me every time I want to ask stupid questions or see candid answers about Japanese culture / way of thinking.
- languagehacker 6y agoYahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021?
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- Taylor_OD 6y agoThis feel very similar to IMDB shutting down their forums. Did I use the service very often? No. Was the service even very good? Not really. Do I want it to exist? Absolutely.
- racl101 6y agoThe weirdest questions that you wouldn't ask on Quora ended up there. Like if you were interested in dating your first cousin for example lol.
- bobbydreamer 6y agoTo sad to see Y!A go. Quora used to be great 5yrs back now it's a shit. I get notifications of post like "I am earning $250k don't know what to do with my life", really. It's just essays of self boasting.... Y!A was precise in lots of things. They should have just reinvented, u mean just change the webdesign and restarted it. Yahoo has lots of bests not sure why they are falling. Yeah they made really bad acquisitions, but it can be re-engineered to work.
- tzs 6y ago> Quora used to be great 5yrs back now it's a shit. I get notifications of post like "I am earning $250k don't know what to do with my life", really. It's just essays of self boasting.... The daily digest Quora sends me almost always has a couple interesting questions or so with informative answers for me. It never had ones like you describe. I wonder why we are getting such different questions/answers?
- betwixthewires 6y agoI remember spending unhealthy amounts of time on that site in my 20s. I don't know why I did it. Friends would tell me "just use reddit" and eventually I did (for a time, no longer). Ive got to say though, good riddance.
- pknerd 6y agoI wonder whether robots.txt of Yahoo answers have links available?
- 13daug 6y agoReally
- roguson 6y agoI will surely miss Yahoo Answers! It will indeed become part of our digital history. Throughout my internet journey, I have learned and laughed a lot in the Yahoo Answers section. A lot of people will surely miss this.
- gpvos 6y ago>Yahoo has made the decision to shut down Yahoo Answers. To better assist you with this transition we've compiled a list of questions. Love it.