The company wrote about the move in a blog spot and explained that because of the brand new Yahoo Messenger application for all platforms including the mobile, Web and the Yahoo Mail on the desktop which the company had announced back in 2015, they were going to remove the predecessor. Therefore, the company has decided to give the older version a sell by date. However, Yahoo now has a modern cross-platform Messenger application which comprises of features that were not in the old version. The application was well used within the stock trading industry and also managed to get a good following in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the spokesperson. It debuted with a classic serif which was understood to stand for Yahoo. The software for the Yahoo Messenger app made its way onto the Internet scene back in the late 1990s.

Third party clients who used the API of the app will not be able to use it also, as confirmed by a spokesperson for the company.

However after the August 5 deadline, the user won’t be able even to send messages or log in in any capacity. Users can no longer download the old version of the messenger app from Yahoo. This is after Yahoo announced that the Yahoo Messenger application was going to be shut down on August 5.

One of the oldest messenger apps is about to go down.

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