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[Chat/Message Boards] Message Board Removal Feedback

Feedback regarding the removal of message boards from Fantasy Baseball in the 2023 season.

Fantasy league message boards are not going to be available for the current season however you can still access historical message board posts through your fantasy profile. You can continue to communicate with your league via Fantasy Chat, email and commissioner notes. Moving forward we are investing in chat as the best place for league communication and will be adding threading, pinning, polls and more. We welcome your feedback below about how your league used message boards to help us make future improvements.

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  • Michael Hagesfeld commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am SO disappointed in removing the message boards! For one thing, the Chat interface is abysmal - no notifications on web, confusing league/person interface, tough to figure out in app. Secondly, I don't always want to do chat. I like the asynchronous interface of a message board, where we can go back and respond later (maybe go back and belatedly taunt someone crowing over their draft success, whatever). Our schedules do not align that "chatting" is the best interface - I like to have a static message with a topic, where people can respond specifically to that. It is ESPECIALLY critical in pre-season stuff, where people need to discuss potential rules changes, keepers, etc.

  • Terry J Chapman commented  ·   ·  Report

    Our league has 33 roster spots and if teams do not have 3 injured players we used the message board to communicate which players are not free agents. Removing this functionality which was the golden source of information prior to someone making a free agent pick-up is very annoying. We also kept track of free agent pick-ups on the message board as we allowed unlimited across our 33 person roster but only 5 new players could be added by each team every season. A chat is not a great way to track this type of information.

  • bob hope commented  ·   ·  Report

    The message board is the reason that some of the people in my league play fantasy sports. We are old friends from high school who all moved away, and this is our way of keeping in touch. Without this tool we are moving our league to another site, while our Yahoo league sits idle.

  • B Eric Bradley commented  ·   ·  Report

    Our league, like most, used the message board as a timely relay of information that didn't require leaving the league homepage environment. Nobody in my league who's expressed an opinion is happy that the message board has been removed. I can't even find Fantasy Chat to use it, and I'm the commissioner. Oh, and what is "UserVoice" and why do I have to be separately logged into that to be able to express the opinion you invited me here to express?

  • marc cardarelli commented  ·   ·  Report

    No message board is really bad, why was the tool removed? it was easy, quick and a lot of fun.

  • John Mills commented  ·   ·  Report

    There is a chat icon at the bottom right of my team page. It works on laptops. It's not nearly as good as the message board but it is something. The non-dinosaurs of the league were surprised I found it first. So it must be fairly new.

    But Yahoo does need to bring back the message boards and let us know someone is reading these.

  • ting t commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please let us fantasy players know if anyone at Yahoo is reading the messages. Most players won't take the time to write. But I know absolutely none that are happy with Yahoo's decision to eliminate the Message Board. It matters. Please try to understand that.

  • Laura Purcell commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please bring back the message board. This is the main way that our managers communicated. I am the commissioner of my league. I have players from age 62 to age 34. The Message Board was the easiest way for everyone to communiate. Everyone of all ages understands message boards. Two of my players (who are over the age of 60) don't have fantasy baseball on their smart phones. they do everything on their desktop computers. And I can't find Chat on the desktop computer, I assume chat is only on phones. BRING BACK THE MESSAGE BOARD ASAP PLEASE

  • Lee bedell commented  ·   ·  Report

    Not having a message board makes it very difficult to set up leagues and communicate with managers. We will likely find a new format to use next season if it is not reinstalled. If we leave, I have zero reason to use Yahoo for anything. There are better search engines to use. I stay on Yahoo because of fantasy baseball and football

  • David Hermansky commented  ·   ·  Report

    Bring the message boards back....These were used to track keepers, multi year trades, and overall league information that is visible by everyone. Our league will never use the chat feature since we're already friends and have group texts.

  • Evan Krpan commented  ·   ·  Report

    The chat is a nice feature but the message boards were integral. The message boards are the quickest and easiest way to disseminate information to the league where they can see it from both the app and browser. Furthermore the message boards are extremely redundant when every person already has some form of messenger, discord, Whatsapp!,etc. While forcing a competing product is good in theory it is more of a nuisance in actuality. I sincerely hope that the message boards will be back next year and more importantly are not removed from football leagues. As much as I love the Yahoo fantasy sports platform against all others, I would absolutely look to move both of my 15 year leagues to other sites if this is a permanent change.

  • Ted Farrand commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please put the message board back ! So much easier. Why is the answer when people are justifying their jobs always change for the sake of change ?

  • John Wank commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please fix this, apologize, and never speak of it again. The chat things is awful.

  • Kevin McMahon commented  ·   ·  Report

    Removing message boards is something that will make a huge yahoo fan leave yahoo. Its absolutely necessary for commissioners. Please change your position on this. Its one of the worst things you could do.

  • Mike Connors commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is the first time I've left feedback for anything in my 42 years on this planet. That's how bad of an idea removing message boards is.

    I just can't imagine that many resources are devoted to the message board that you couldn't keep it as option whilst enticing people to use chat. We've been with yahoo for 20 years but this will be the last if the message board is gone. (FYI I check the site 10% as often with no board)

  • aaaaaaa aaaaaaaa commented  ·   ·  Report

    The message boards were always important in my leagues because I used them to advertise my other leagues. Also used them to talk about what draft time would work for people.

  • Eric Hanson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Used it for multiple threads every year related to keepers, dues etc. Has already made the start of my league much more difficult.

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