Google Groups will stop hosting new Usenet posts starting February 22th, 2024
Google Groups will stop hosting new Usenet posts starting February 22th, 2024
If you work with Usenet groups in Google Groups, support for these groups is ending soon. What’s changing? Starting on February 22, 2024, you can no longer use Google Groups (at groups.google.com) t
This may not be new information but I only learned of it now.
Google claims that "you can continue to view and search for historical Usenet content posted before February 22, 2024 on Google Groups," but personally I would take this as a sign to start archiving anything and everything you can - I'm not one to trust tech companies at their word. (While this obviously doesn't spell the end of Usenet altogether, it is the death of a prominent method of accessing Usenet posts online without any specialized protocols.)