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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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  • Chris A commented  ·   ·  Report

    All you had to do was nothing at all... what the heck...

  • Keith . commented  ·   ·  Report

    Bring back the message boards, for christ's sake. My league is a bunch of old *****, don't make them have to learn a new chat feature. Let us do what we have been doing for the last 20 freaking years! Why must you make this so difficult?

  • Caillie commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have all of my notes for the last 20 YEARS of our fantasy baseball league saved on those message boards. Not only is there no message board for this season, but all of the previous season's boards have been removed as well. I have backup notes saved (knowing Yahoo would ***** this up eventually), but this is gonna be a deal breaker if they can't bring them back immediately.

  • Alan Ranta commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please reinstate the message boards. This will completely cripple league communications. Chat and direct email is not useful for posting league rules or debating trade vetoes. We need the message boards.

  • DANIEL MATEJA commented  ·   ·  Report

    The message board is critical to running all of my leagues. We will be switching platforms for baseball and football if this is permanent.

  • kevin orourke commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please reinstate the Message Boards. The Message Board is an essential tool for my league. The Commissioner send out league instructions... League Members need to communicate with each other, communicate with the commissioner. This cannot be done effectively via email. Why are you doing this???

  • Chuck Cecil commented  ·   ·  Report

    I appreciate the reply. I don't agree with the options as it is just too many steps and not as fluent as a league message board. I respect your decision to cut the message board but don't feel it is the right one. I can 100% understand doing so in public leagues but to do it in private leagues seems unnecessary. I regret to inform you that I will no longer be using Yahoo to play fantasy sports and my 3 other keeper leagues will be moving over to Fantrax. Best of luck to you!

  • Randy Hunt commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is crazy - this will force a lot of people to leave Yahoo.

  • hardyworld . commented  ·   ·  Report

    Has YahooFantasy forgotten that Fantasy sports is a social game that requires communication to enjoy? Message Boards are the glue that hold a league together. Message Boards are CRITICAL to enjoying fantasy sports. If you don't archive previous years message boards (after giving everyone significant notice of such), that's fine, but an active league requires communication between the managers on the league page. I always defended Yahoo as the best site for FantasySports, but this singular change immediately makes Fantrax my preferred site to spend my money (rather than Yahoo). I'm only one user, but I'm not going to pay for YahooPlus and play several $50 leagues each year on your site if I can get a lot more enjoyment playing the same game on a different site (communication between players is a major part of the enjoyment of a fantasy league). It should be obvious to Yahoo that this is a social game we play, but they apparently don't want this FantasySports business anymore.

  • DahVinMan Miller commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please reconsider adding back message boards to yahoo fantasy baseball

  • Robb Foxx commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have 11 years worth of rules and keeper information stored on our league message board. If I've lost access to those posts, I'm unable to run my league.

    I fear that the league I've commissioned for over a decade is going to end, because I've lost all of that information.

  • Jeff Smader commented  ·   ·  Report

    Need information from last year's message board to run this year's league. Makes no sense to remove message boards as a whole. Especaillay for keeper leagues that continue from year to year.

  • Kyle Tellier commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agree with Ron Hall. Should at least be an option.
    Losing all the messages from last season without a heads up is poor form on your part, Yahoo.

    Please bring back the message boards. We would greatly appreciate it.

  • Ron Hall commented  ·   ·  Report

    The message board is one of the primary communication methods for our league. I understand that isn't the case for all leagues, but would like to see it as an optional feature at least.

  • Jeff Smader commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have all our league rules, set up instructions, keeper posts, trade posts, ect. all set up from year to year on message board. I would have no problem switching these to a new format, but not only did you take away the message board for this year, I have no access to last years where I would copy and paste to this year. If there is anyway for me to access that so I can get the information I need, it is very important information.

  • Michael Grill commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am good to go for the 2023 season.

    In the event you were not aware, the Message Board is gone. Yahoo is no longer providing it for us. I suspect not having the message board available is Yahoo's way of forcing everyone to use a different communications modality. So we can likely say good by to Yahoo Fantasy League Message boards permanently. Yahoo has never taken longer than a few weeks to fix any bugs or problems, so if there was a problem it would not take a whole season to correct. Also, in Yahoo's message about the message boards, there is no mention of any problems with it. Just that it will not be available.

    I have a few options which may work in place of the MB.

    In the bottom right corners of the League and Team Page there is a purple icon for a chat function. From this you will be able to see all messages across your entire Yahoo fantasy leagues. Each message will be preceded by the name of the league name for each message. One of my hockey leagues uses this and it really works well. This way emails can still be used for team to team private interaction.

    In another league I learned about an App that might work for us. Here is what he said about it.

    "I have been using the app Slack for league communication for several years now. It is a free App accessible via desktop or mobile. Very simple to use and customizable which the yahoo chat does not have. Separate 'channels' can be created for various topics instead of having to have all communication in one long string which we'd have using the Yahoo chat."

    "You only need to sign up via email address and be invited to the channel by whoever creates it. I am willing to help set it up if this is something the league would want to use."

  • B commented  ·   ·  Report

    I echo a lot of what has been said already. It's not only the decision to remove an important feature, but it's the lack of communication in advance, the lack of any explanation with reasons, the lack of consideration for leagues with historical data, the lack of planning to ensure there is a suitable alternative (the chat is not a suitable alternative), and the lack of general care for your loyal users. What you need to do is bring back the boards for this season, and if a change is necessary for the future, give us advance warning of the reasons it's necessary and to provide us with the required information to allow people to plan ahead.

  • K K commented  ·   ·  Report

    Eliminating the message boards was the worst possible decision you could make. Yeah the casual 1 year renewal leagues could probably get by without it, but for any hardcore baseball league, especially keeper & dynasty leagues, these message boards are absolutely critical. These is no way you can replace the organizational value of the message boards with a scrolling chat. I get a headache just thinking about how ridiculous and unrealistic that idea is. It makes me wonder if the decision makers here even play any fantasy sports, or they would know better than to make a boneheaded decision like this. We use these boards to conduct offline drafts, and to store critical information year to year. To eliminate previous years boards without even a heads up, well it sure seems the decision makers have no clue about how the product they are providing for us is utilized. Please bring back the message boards, or you will lose your most valuable users, your hardcore players that love fantasy sports the most!

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