雅虎问答（Yahoo Answers）是互联网历史上运行时间最长、最富传奇色彩的网络问答平台之一，将于5月4日关闭。这一天雅虎答案网站将开始重定向到雅虎主页，所有平台的档案显然将不复存在。该平台自2005年开始运行，在这几年中，它作为一个模因天堂的重要性一直保持不变，而作为一个论坛的实用性在Reddit、Quora和其他竞争互联网的崛起中逐渐减弱。

在2017年Verizon以近50亿美元的价格**给电信公司后，雅虎（Yahoo）现在是Verizon Media Group的一部分，该公司在Yahoo Answers主页顶部宣布了这一变化。该消息链接到一个常见问题，其中详细说明了关闭的时间表。FAQ解释说，从4月20日开始，该平台将不再接受新的提交。

用户在6月30日之前还必须请求他们的数据，否则之后将无法访问。雅虎表示，这包括“所有用户生成的内容，包括你的问题列表、问题、答案列表、答案和任何图片”，但“你将无法下载其他用户的内容、问题或答案”

一份发给活跃的Yahoo Answers会员的通知更详细地说明了雅虎为何关闭该平台，其中包括“多年来，该平台越来越不受欢迎”，以及该公司“决定将我们的资源从该产品转移到”专注于更好地为会员服务的产品“

Dear Yahoo Answers Community,

We launched Yahoo Answers sixteen years ago to help people around the world connect and share information. With you and milli*** of other users, we built the best place on the web to ask and answer questi*** on a variety of topics, creating a community of global knowledge sharing. While we could not have been prouder of what we accomplished together, we are reaching out today to let you know that we have decided to shut down Yahoo Answers on May 4th, 2021.

While Yahoo Answers war once a key part of Yahoo’s products and services, it has become less popular over the years as the needs of our members have changed. To that end, we have decided to shift our resources away from Yahoo Answers to focus on products that better serve our members and deliver on Yahoo’s promise of providing premium trusted content.

Starting on April 20th you will no longer be able to post any new questi*** or answers. However, you can still view any posted questi*** and answers until May 4th. On May 4th the site will be shutting down. If you would like to download a copy of your questi*** and answers you have posted, you can do this by signing into Your Privacy Dashboard and requesting a download. You will be able to do this until June 30th, 2021 after which your Yahoo Answers data will be securely deleted and no longer available. The closure of Yahoo Answers will not affect your Yahoo account or other Yahoo services. For further information and instructi*** on how to download your data, please visit our Frequently Asked Questi*** or copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN35642.html

Thank you for contributing to Yahoo Answers — we’re proud and honored to have helped you connect with and learn from the Yahoo community these past sixteen years. If you’d like to provide feedback, please feel free to reach out to our team at [email protected].

Sincerely, The Yahoo Answers team

考虑到该网站似乎充斥着极右阴谋者的垃圾，关闭网站或许是最好的选择。雅虎目前的主页在其“发现”部分突出了“美国能在乔·拜登的4年中幸存吗？”？“以及”今年夏天会不会是土地管理局和反**武装的暴乱记录？“以及这一瞬间的经典，”斯大林说的一切都对吗？”

愿所有任性的灵魂雅虎答案现在找到信息，他们正在寻找更可靠的地方，并希望有人某天找到答案，巴比是如何形成的。

更新4月6日，上午10:22美国东部时间：增加了更多的信息和有关雅虎答案的历史和遗产的链接。