Say farewell to the old Yahoo Messenger on August fifth

After over 18 years of administration, steadfastly moving your messages, emojis and A/S/L asks for forward and backward over the web, Yahoo has reported they will close down and shutting its old Messenger application for good on August fifth. The application propelled in 1998 under the inconceivably dated name "Yippee Pager," however is taking off into the product nightfall after the organization presented a more cutting edge form a year ago.

As VentureBeat calls attention to, the old Messenger was well known with clients in the Asia-Pacific locale, and as per Bloomberg, the old Yahoo Messenger quite had an oddly solid after among oil dealers who utilized the application to offer and talk on items costs. Evidently those two gatherings aren't sufficient to continue supporting such a dinosaur of an application. In a blog entry, Yahoo clarified the close down:

While today we give fundamental interoperation between the legacy item and the new Messenger, we energize the majority of our clients to finish their move to the new Yahoo Messenger as we will no longer bolster the legacy stage as of August 5, 2016. We expect to proceed with our engaged endeavors on the new Messenger, with an objective of conveying the best experience to our clients.

After August fifth, despite everything anybody utilizing the legacy Messenger will never again have the capacity to sign in or send messages. Same goes for messages sent through outsider applications based on top of Yahoo's API. The new Messenger, be that as it may, is still accessible on the App Store and Google Play.