[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.
Adminjpaine
(Admin, Yahoo)
shared this idea
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Scott Kershaw
commented
I will defer to others, but I do like the message boards. More importantly though, I really think there needs to be a way to connect communications to managers text messages. People don't read emails anymore and many don't even check the message board. But they likely check their texts.
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Jeff Mann
commented
If something doesn't make sense, the answer is always money. These greedy decisions is why leagues will be looking for other options.
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Bradley Kilgore
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Last season on Yahoo without a Message Board. What is the point in having a League here? My League has Teams all over the World , and now no good was to communicate.
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Jeff Mann
commented
This is a horrible idea. Our league uses message boards to take poles, comment, make trades, make wagers, congratulate, etc. The message board was one of the features our leagues look forward to the most in both baseball and football.
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Bradley Kilgore
commented
Last season on Yahoo without a Message Board. What is the point in having a League here? My League has Teams all over the World , and now no good was to communicate.
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James Dawson
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I don't like it. You just made it harder for league owners to find managers to fill out their leagues. Message board allows you to send invitations to those who you played with last year and in other leagues and other fantasy sports. You just made it more difficult.
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John Wank
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If Yahoo had to pick between message boards and chat, it chose the wrong option. I will suffer through this for this baseball season, but I'm done after that unless message boards are restored. Chat is a terrible feature and should be eliminated. At the very least, allow leagues to disable it.
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Ryan
commented
... "we welcome your feedback [but ultimately we don't give a _____ about your feedback]."
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Saad Aslam
commented
why not? Why does Yahoo insist on trashing the best features of their platform?
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Jimmy Martin
commented
Removing the message boards is ********.
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Blake D Carmichael
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the functionality of phone/app and desktop needs to be more consistent no matter what you do about message boards etc. I can only set keepers on desktop, but can't use chat on desktop. Be consistent. Not everyone uses the same devices etc.
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M Vogel
commented
Still a terrible decision. Only complaining now a days to make this number one.
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Phill Snyder
commented
Can Fantasy Chat be accessed via desktop? The desktop site and mobile platform being so different is frustrating. With the message boards removed it seems there's no way for the league to communicate on desktop. It's also frustrating that Yahoo has forced everyone to use Chat before completing various planned upgrades.
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RocknRef
commented
Just another note: The Chat doesn't work when you are arranging a new league and still haven't drafted. I have no way to communicate with players who don't check yes to emails on their team settings. Many change it to no or use a remote email they don't use often.
And literally no players ever see the Commissioner Note. It's not available on the mobile app which most players use and is not readily visible when using a browser whether on a computer or a smartphone browser.I regret ever allowing email notifications for this "idea" as my personal email account has overflowed with complaints about you not having message boards this season. You implied changes were coming and_or this is not permanent. I pray for this to be true for the health of Yahoo Fantasy and for my email account.
Sincerely,
RocknRef
Multi-League Multi- Sport Commissioner -
Steven M. McGuire
commented
I like the boards. I will not use the chat.
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Green Raven
commented
Move to FANTRAX.
Stop ******* your head against the wall that is Yahoo. FANTRAX is free and has a great Message Board and threaded chat app and tons more stuff Yahoo doesn't have.
And FANTRAX has an excellent Help service that listens to you and actually "helps" you and they want your suggestions as well. It is the leader in fantasy sports platforms now because that is all it does and they take pride in what they do.
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Chris Benoit
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Confirming once more: terrible idea to remove the message board. Our team had to create a Facebook group to do what was once easy and convenient with Yahoo.
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David Hesford
commented
Meaning stupid Yahoo ********
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David Hesford
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******** stupid ********!!!!
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J Camet
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This was a horrible surprise! Used the message board for most communications and to spread the word about joining other leagues. Would have rather lost chat than the message board. Best communications were message board and email.