Get ready to say goodbye to starwars.yahoo.com, the GFFA outpost founded back to 2007 to… Uh, we’re not sure, exactly. In any case, the URL will redirect to StarWars.com as of December 15, 2009. (via)
Yahoo’s Star Wars site to fade out soon
November 16th, 2009 by Dunc · 8 Comments
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8 responses so far ↓
1 Andrew // Nov 16, 2009 at 7:20 pm
That date is a great date! I may be a bit biased though… it’s my birthday :P
2 Dion Detterer // Nov 16, 2009 at 8:48 pm
It was always totally mystifying. What niche was it meant to fill? The whole Web 2.0 thing?
3 Sarlacc-Pitt // Nov 16, 2009 at 11:29 pm
I actually signed up over there when it first launched. It was cool… for about 3 minutes.
Yahoo didn’t really seem to care about it at all… as you can see, the main article on the homepage – that’s been there since 2008 – is about seeing the “new” CW trailer… for the movie… from TWO summers ago. LOL! I mean, really… pretty pathetic.
4 Dunc // Nov 17, 2009 at 6:36 am
Even the StarWars.com box – which you’d think would be automated – is linking to stuff from 2008. Very odd.
It took me like a dozen tries to get my profile stuff up, and by the time it worked I had stopped caring. Ahh well.
5 Mark Newbold // Nov 17, 2009 at 9:01 am
yeah, that was a case of too much stuff at once. TCW had launched and then this – kind of overkill. Never underrstaood why LFL allowed another site to draw folks away from the official site/blog/blogs.
Ahhh well, another ideas bites the dust. Anyone remember Homestead..?
6 Dunc // Nov 17, 2009 at 9:09 am
Oh yes, Homestead. For those times that GeoCities was just too classy.
7 izikavazo // Nov 17, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Never heard of it. Looks like I didn’t miss out on anything.
8 Mark Newbold // Nov 18, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Izikavazo – you didn’t miss anything, believe us…
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