Five 2000s Websites Vanish After Drawing 40 Million Users and 84 Million Yahoo Answers Questions
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Updated · Boy Genius Report · Aug 23
Five 2000s Websites Vanish After Drawing 40 Million Users and 84 Million Yahoo Answers Questions
2 articles · Updated · Boy Genius Report · Aug 23
Summary
8Tracks, Bebo, Yahoo Answers, StumbleUpon and Polyvore are no longer fully accessible on the web, despite once drawing large online communities in the 2000s and 2010s.
Financial strain, tougher competition and ownership changes drove the disappearances: 8Tracks said it could not cover royalties or product costs, while Polyvore shut after acquisitions by Yahoo and Ssense.
Several sites peaked at sizable scale before fading — StumbleUpon served more than 40 million users and nearly 60 billion stumbles, while Yahoo Answers archivists scraped about 84 million questions before its 2021 closure.
Some remnants survive through archives or redirects rather than functioning platforms: StumbleUpon became Mix, Polyvore now redirects to Ssense, and Yahoo Japan's Chiebukuro remains online.