officially shut down. This message stopped appearing at the end of January 2021 and the Yahoo Groups web address began redirecting to the main Yahoo page. Criticism and controversy On August 31, 2010, Yahoo! Groups started rolling out a major software change, which was denounced by a large number of users. The re-model was completely abandoned on January 12, 2011. According to a September 9, 2013 Reuters article, "Americans use the Internet to abandon children adopted from overseas", Yahoo! and Facebook groups were being used, illegally and without government regulation, by parents to advertise unwanted children for "private re-homing". Yahoo! immediately closed down the forums that Reuters brought to their attention, although Facebook did not. Site statistics In August 2008, Yahoo! Group staff reported that there were 113 million users, and nine million Groups using 22 languages. In July 2010, the web analytics website Quantcast reported around 915 thousand unique visitors daily to the Yahoo! Groups website (US). In January 2011, that number had increased to 933 thousand unique visitors daily. The number did not include Yahoo! Group members who accessed the Groups site via email. In September 2010, at its "Product Runway" event, Yahoo! told reporters that Yahoo! Groups had 115 million group members and that there were 10 million Yahoo! Groups. See also Google Groups GroupSpaces (closed) Meetup.com MSN Groups (closed) Windows Live Groups (closed) Usenet References External links Computer-related introductions in 2001 Electronic mailing lists Internet forums Internet properties established in 2001 Internet properties disestablished in 2020 Web applications Groups Groups Groups Groups