雅虎問答（Yahoo Answers）是網際網路歷史上執行時間最長、最富傳奇色彩的網路問答平臺之一，將於5月4日關閉。這一天雅虎答案網站將開始重定向到雅虎主頁，所有平臺的檔案顯然將不復存在。該平臺自2005年開始執行，在這幾年中，它作為一個模因天堂的重要性一直保持不變，而作為一個論壇的實用性在Reddit、Quora和其他競爭網際網路的崛起中逐漸減弱。

在2017年Verizon以近50億美元的價格**給電信公司後，雅虎（Yahoo）現在是Verizon Media Group的一部分，該公司在Yahoo Answers主頁頂部宣佈了這一變化。該訊息連結到一個常見問題，其中詳細說明了關閉的時間表。FAQ解釋說，從4月20日開始，該平臺將不再接受新的提交。

使用者在6月30日之前還必須請求他們的資料，否則之後將無法訪問。雅虎表示，這包括“所有使用者生成的內容，包括你的問題列表、問題、答案列表、答案和任何圖片”，但“你將無法下載其他使用者的內容、問題或答案”

一份發給活躍的Yahoo Answers會員的通知更詳細地說明了雅虎為何關閉該平臺，其中包括“多年來，該平臺越來越不受歡迎”，以及該公司“決定將我們的資源從該產品轉移到”專注於更好地為會員服務的產品“

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

考慮到該網站似乎充斥著極右陰謀者的垃圾，關閉網站或許是最好的選擇。雅虎目前的主頁在其“發現”部分突出了“美國能在喬·拜登的4年中倖存嗎？”？“以及”今年夏天會不會是土地管理局和反**武裝的暴亂記錄？“以及這一瞬間的經典，”斯大林說的一切都對嗎？”

願所有任性的靈魂雅虎答案現在找到資訊，他們正在尋找更可靠的地方，並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美國東部時間：增加了更多的資訊和有關雅虎答案的歷史和遺產的連結。