Yahoo Groups, once the largest message board system, will be shut down on December 15

Yahoo Groups, once the largest messaging board system, will close later this year. Yahoo has announced in a message on its website that it has decided to shut down Yahoo Groups from December 15 due to its steady decline in usage over the last several years. Verizon, which bought Yahoo in 2017, announced the decision on Tuesday.

Users whose data is in this have until December 14 to save their data. "Photos and files can be saved from the Yahoo Groups site or you can download the data from the privacy dashboard," the company said.

After a journey of two decades Yahoo Groups is going to be shut down and users have until December 14 to provide data services. The Verizon-owned company has disabled uploading content to the Yahoo Groups site. From December 14, each group will be privatized and content previously uploaded by the website will be removed. 

"Privacy is important and we've made this decision in line with our principles," the e-mail said. If you want to keep any content posted or stored in your Yahoo Group, download it by December 14. The company said that the photos and files can be served from Yahoo Groups' site or you can download your data from the Privacy Dashboard. The Yahoo Group was launched in 2001 and has been used by millions of people around the world for the past 18 years, but the Internet has changed a lot since 2001 and Yahoo has made this decision in view of the changing interests of Internet users.

Yahoo has begun the process of helping active Yahoo groups migrate to its e-mail platform. Yahoo Group's service was launched in 2001, about 19 years ago, and in 2017, American wireless communications company Verizon bought Yahoo's Internet business for 8 4.8 billion.