Yahoo Extends deadline for downloading Yahoo Groups data to Jan 31 2020
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The only solace I can take from the thousands of CAPTCHAs I solved that crazy week is that the image tagging is now so polluted that it’s going to be worthless for Google’s Waymo. Example: it insisted that the rumble strips (“drunk bumps”) on the side of the highway were actually crosswalks. I came to accept this in order to get on with joining groups. Also, an extremely broad definition of fire hydrant, by which I mean things that are absolutely not fire hydrants, but enough people bulk-solving CAPTCHAs in places that possibly don’t have traditional North American-style fire hydrants thought might be.
This kind of thing would happen when there's at least someone who still cares.
Why should an organization support something they own when most people abandoned a platform and had years to archive and move elsewhere?
Content is a garden, you plant a seed. If the land is barren why would you not move your seeds and seedlings elsewhere?
This business-based attitude of maximization and complete disregard for the long tail is exactly the reason business interests are killing the internet as we know/knew it.
A garden left fallow still hosts an abundance of life
> there isn’t a god nor souls.
You don't know that, you only believe it. Just like the other believers. Plus, soulless is an adjective, not a statement of fact.
There is very little reason for Yahoo not to be good stewards here. It's the difference between sportsmanship and cravenness.
Organizations exist in a wider community and have multiple vested interests in its general health—the need for spending customers, need to attract talent, the need for stability and (in some cases like this one) culture to draw eyes. Negotiating these is much easier if they don’t act oblivious to the needs of their communities—and in this case, communities that they built. The massive value that they are no longer interested in maintaining because they can’t/won’t monetize any further (ok, fine) when compared to the tiny level of investment for letting the data continue to have value elsewhere is pathetically shortsighted, if not intentional.
Granted days at yahoo may indeed be so dire that this is the kind of quality you get out of a slowly liquidating company.
That’s also why it would be crazy of them to officially allow “archive accounts”.
That’s pathway to lawsuits 101 if illegal content is present or even content that some user will ultimately argue that what they published publicly was private, see the Gmane case (was a mailing list archive) where the owner consistently got cease and desist letters or even formal notices from foreign governments about content that was in the archive.
Guess what will happen with a large company such as yahoo where there’s a financial incentive to sue too?
Pretty sure it's not "if" but definitely.
“We have extended the deadline for Yahoo Groups and will now process ALL requests to download data that are submitted before 11:59 PM PT on Jan 31, 2020 (originally Dec 14). As long as the request meets this deadline, the content will not be deleted until the download is complete.”