Yahoo! announced that Yahoo Groups will be permanently closing, and deleting all previously posted material on December 14, 2019. This page will be updated with news and links to help fans preserve what they can from this shutdown .
OTW/Open Doors information
- Yahoo Groups Closure – What You Can Do (Open Doors AO3 post 20 October 2019)
- Yahoo Groups Closure – What You Can Do Part 2 (Open Doors AO3 post 2 November 2019)
Other information (non-OTW)
- Yahoo-Geddon
- Yahoo Groups Will Be Shutting Down – What Each of You Can Do (reference document)
- Current Archive Efforts (November 9, 2019)
- Save Yahoo Groups on Dreamwidth and Discord (October 2024)
- Archive Team
Yahoo Groups Stored by Open Doors
- DoyleCordy (Fanlore page) stored until 28 July 2023
- FrodoHealers (Fanlore page) stored until 17 August 2023
- Gilmore Girls Adult Fic (Fanlore page) stored until 6 July 2023
- Gilmore Girls Slash (Fanlore page) stored until 6 July 2023
- KatherineNeville & KatherineNeville2 (Fanlore page) stored until 15 March 2023
- rawhide-fic (Fanlore page) stored until 30 August 2023
- Where Monsters are in Dreams (Fanlore page) stored until 18 June 2023
- WWFSML (Fanlore page) storied until 5 September 2023
Yahoo Groups Imported to AO3
| Date | Title | Content | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/09/13 | Forging Ghost | Forging Ghost, a Spike/Angel Yahoo! Group, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3). For more information about the move to the AO3, please refer to the announcement post. Read (or edit!) the page on Fanlore! | 2025-09-13 01:49:37 |
| 2024/08/06 | Sentinel Angst | Sentinel Angst, a Gen-only writers Yahoo Group active from 1999-2019 is moving in with the Archive Of Our Own (AO3). For more information about the AO3 move, please see the announcement post. Read (or edit!) the page on Fanlore! | 2024-08-06 21:12:17 |
| 2024/04/29 | Unit B | Unit B and Cellblock 5, archives which accepted “any and all Oz fanfiction about any and all Oz characters” including crossover fiction, are being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3). For more information about the move to the AO3, please refer to the announcement post. Read (or edit!) the page on Fanlore! | 2024-04-29 04:39:14 |
| 2024/04/29 | Twisted Sisterhood | Twisted Sisterhood and TSXF, archives which focussed on the character Chris Keller and the canonical pairing of Toby Beecher/Chris Keller in HBO’s Oz TV series, are being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3). For more information about the move to the AO3, please refer to the announcement post. Read (or edit!) the page on Fanlore! | 2024-04-29 04:31:28 |
| 2022/04/17 | WWFSML | WWFSML, a pro wrestling slash fanfiction archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3). For more information about the move to the AO3, please refer to the announcement post. Read (or edit!) the page on Fanlore! | 2022-04-17 00:21:53 |
| 2021/03/27 | Gilmore Girls Slash | Gilmore Girls Slash encompassed all femslash and slash couplings in Gilmore Girls, and stories from authors who saw the chemistry between Rory and Paris, along with Lorelai and her various flirtations with women. The fanworks are being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3). For more information about the move to the AO3, please see the announcement post. The import was completed in November 2021. Read (or edit!) the Gilmore Girls Slash page on Fanlore! | 2021-03-27 01:16:01 |
| 2021/03/27 | Gilmore Girls Adult Fic | Gilmore Girls Adult Fic was a safe place for writers to write about their favorite Gilmore Girls couples without the limitations of the most prominent fic archive of the time, but also provided moderation and proper rules so that those who only wished to write misogynistic works about the Girls were not welcome. The fanworks are being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3). For more information about the move to the AO3, please see the announcement post. The import was completed in October 2021. Read (or edit!) the Gilmore Girls Adult Fic page on Fanlore! | 2021-03-27 01:09:13 |
| 2021/02/20 | FrodoHealers | FrodoHealers, a Lord of the Rings fanfiction archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3). For more information about the 2021 move to the AO3, please see the announcement post. The import was completed in July 2022. Read (or edit!) the FrodoHealers page on Fanlore! | 2021-02-20 23:13:38 |
| 2020/11/25 | Rawhide-fic | Rawhide-fic, an archive of fanworks for Rawhide, a TV show from 1959 about a cattle drive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3). The import was completed in June 2021. For more information about the move to the AO3, please see the announcement post. Read (or edit!) the Rawhide-fic page on Fanlore! | 2020-11-25 23:56:21 |
| 2020/10/22 | DoyleCordy | DoyleCordy, an Angel (the Series) fanfiction archive focusing on the Cordelia/Doyle ship, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3). For more information about the move to the AO3, please see the announcement post. The move was completed in April 2021. Read (or edit!) the DoyleCordy page on Fanlore! | 2020-10-22 00:56:33 |