Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and the Yahoo Answers website is now in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
What is the purpose of shutting down Yahoo Answers? This venue was a valuable source for people to speak freely.?
I have viewed YA as a valuable tool to educate many people on divergent perspectives and now there will be nowhere where people can discuss today's problems person to person.
I don't get it. Yahoo doesn't have enough money to run an app? They couldn't throw a commercial or two on the margins. because there is a lot of margins?
1 Answer
- .Lv 74 weeks ago
The venue didn't exist for people to "speak freely" it was a VERY abused Q&A site that hasn't generated enough revenue to support itself in quite a while. Since it has no value to Verizon Media, they are ending it instead of continuing to spend money to support a forum overrun by trolls and site abusers.