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# The internet's breaking (Yahoo) Pipes
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2015/06/yahoo-pipes-site-failure/
- Published: 2015-06-08T15:14:49.000Z
- Updated: 2015-06-08T15:19:21.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: feeds, free, rss, yahoo

![Yahoo Pipes](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/06/Yahoo_Pipes_screenshot.png?resize=747%2C556)

The news that Yahoo is [killing Yahoo Pipes](http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/04/yahoo-sunsets-yahoo-pipes-an-iftt-precursor-along-with-yahoo-maps-and-more/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) has been met with more than a little mockery:

> NOOOOO, NOT YAHOO PIPES!
> 
> — Marco Arment (@marcoarment) [June 4, 2015](https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/606553059540398080?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

(At least I assume it’s mockery. It’s hard to tell sometimes.)

It’s easy to forget how much Yahoo Pipes has been used to [connect together feeds in interesting ways](http://scripting.com/2015/06/07/whatChangesAtMediumAndYahooPipesTeachUsAboutThePersistenceOfTheWeb.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> I wondered what will happen to the people who follow feeds produced by Yahoo Pipes? Yahoo doesn’t say they’ll provide free [redirection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL%5Fredirection?ref=onemanandhisblog.com#HTTP%5Fstatus%5Fcodes%5F3xx), but it would be good for the web if they did. And even if they did provide redirection, where would people redirect to? Because Yahoo was a big company people trusted and their service was free, little if any competition developed for Yahoo Pipes.

Many of the sites I worked on back in my rBI days used Pipes for some clever bits of plumbing – but the people who did that work have moved on. I’m left wondering if things are going to break on some of those sites in a few months, and the people running them now may have no idea what’s happened. In fact, Pipes has been such a unique piece of tech, that I bet little bits of functionality will break all over the web come September.

A free service can get far too comfy.