Old Yahoo Messenger to shut down on Aug. 5

Yahoo has announced that it is shutting down its chat service Yahoo Messenger. The company has asked all its users to transition to the new version introduced last year.
The old Yahoo Messenger will no longer work from Aug. 5 this year, reports NDTV. The chat service was introduced in 1998, and was very popular.
The old version saw a decline in user base eventually, with several new services rising to the fore, including Google Talk, and social networks like Facebook.
Yahoo tried to revive its Messenger service by updating its Android and iOS apps, apart from its Web counterpart last year in December.
It brought along a completely new design, and many new features. The best among them was the new Unsend feature, which allows users to retrace their footsteps and undo sending messages.
Explaining its move, Yahoo Chief Architect Amotz Maimon says, “In December of 2015, we announced a brand new Yahoo Messenger for mobile, the Web and in Yahoo Mail on the desktop, built on a new modern platform. This complete revamp brings users an incredibly fast, beautiful and smart way to send — and unsend — messages, photos and animated GIFs in 1:1 and group conversations.
“While today we provide basic interoperation between the legacy product and the new Messenger, we encourage all of our users to complete their transition to the new Yahoo Messenger as we will no longer support the legacy platform as of August 5, 2016. We intend to continue our focused efforts on the new Messenger, with a goal of delivering the best experience to our users.”