Yahoo to finally log out of its legacy Messenger by August

In news that could leave millenials all over the world heaving a collective sigh, Yahoo has announced that it will be discontinuing its legacy Messenger, in favour of a newer improved version. By August 5 this year, you will have to have downloaded the newest version if you want to continue using their services.

Yahoo took to its official  blog to officially make the announcement, “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.”

Yahoo had first launched its Messenger as Yahoo Pager in the year 1998 and now, downloads of the older version of messenger will no longer be available after August this year. After which, users will not be able to log in or send messages on it or use any third party-clients that used its application programming interface (API), a spokesperson from Yahoo confirmed to VentureBeat.

“We intend to continue our focused efforts on the new Messenger, with a goal of delivering the best experience to our users.” wrote Yahoo in their blog. The changes in the new Messenger will affect Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. It  now includes improved group chats, the option of ’liking’ messages sent or received, the ability to share photos faster and an option to chat directly from his/her Yahoo mailbox.