Verizon extends deadline for Yahoo Groups shutdown to January 31, 2020

Hi all, Archive Team is still working on backing up as much of Yahoo Groups as they're able to, as discussed in this previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21737696

Info about the archival process: https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Groups

Details about downloading groups you're a member of: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qNCAgMN-Q9koFK1EzEFek2k4...

Tooling to do this from the CLI: https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/yahoo-group-archiver

If you want to help the effort, run yahoogroups-joiner to help the Archive Team join as many public groups as possible: https://github.com/davidferguson/yahoogroups-joiner

Run the Archive Team Warrior if you have available compute/storage: https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior

(Disclaimer: I don't work directly with Archive Team, but I work for the Internet Archive, which is where most of this data will end up living hopefully forever. We're also in the midst of our annual fund drive -- https://archive.org/donate/ if you're able and interested in helping out monetarily.)

The title of this post is very misleading. Verizon has made no change to the schedule of the shutdown other than allowing more time for end-users to request a partial download of data that they've posted. These downloads are incomplete and do not contain much of the metadata required to be useful for archiving.

Verizon are giving a tiny, meaningless concession to change the narrative and make everything seem fine now, but it is not. A vast trove of important historical information will become inaccessible and essentially lost forever in less than four days.

Verizon provides no way for anyone to download a complete, archival quality copy of groups. The only method currently available is by using the third party software that Verizon is attempting to block and this method will become completely unavailable after the 14th.