[StuffedParrot]

> Why should an organization support something they own when most people abandoned a platform and had years to archive and move elsewhere?

Organizations exist in a wider community and have multiple vested interests in its general health—the need for spending customers, need to attract talent, the need for stability and (in some cases like this one) culture to draw eyes. Negotiating these is much easier if they don’t act oblivious to the needs of their communities—and in this case, communities that they built. The massive value that they are no longer interested in maintaining because they can’t/won’t monetize any further (ok, fine) when compared to the tiny level of investment for letting the data continue to have value elsewhere is pathetically shortsighted, if not intentional.

Granted days at yahoo may indeed be so dire that this is the kind of quality you get out of a slowly liquidating company.