[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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todd meier
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Beyond stupid. Bring it back. Next year I will move to ESPN if it’s not.
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Ryan
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Post on this thread too ^^^
Let's push multiple threads about this to the Top 10.
The title of this thread is merely "Removal Feedback"
Getting the title of the thread linked above ("Bring Back Message Boards") into the Top 10 sends a stronger message that Yahoo has intentionally screwed over its users
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Paul Pascuzzi
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Message boards are critical for the Commissioner and fellow managers to effectively communicate during the season. How many members of Yahoo Fantasy Baseball do you plan to lose by this misguided decision?
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jac gould
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very poor decision on your part. It's been a useful tool for other owners to communicate.
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Barry Dunham
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can't believe your removing something as simple and useful as the message boards. horrible decision.
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Mark Haanraadts
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Yahoo, seriously? No wonder your company is doing so poorly.
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thomas griffiths
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This is useless for a on line site. How can we talk to each other?
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Sludge
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I think there's a lot of reasons to have a message board. I've used it when I accidentally dropped a player I didn't mean to drop and the league let me pick him back up because I posted it was mistake. I've used it in the past to document the happenings in the league, journalist style, to add some flavor to a league with friends. You can post polls, joke around, or post anything practical or reminders. It's a good place to float trade requests and keep logs of housekeeping.
Obviously it can be rife so abuse too (like idiots who complain or post tone-deaf rants about their gripes with baseball politics), but so is ANYTHING. A league can be thrown because someone drops their whole roster no matter what you do.
Insane to delete the message boards. What are you thinking Yahoo???
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Tom Goldstein
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what's the deal. How are we suppose to communicate?
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Kyle Coker
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Our fantasy league has never met in person so it is the only way we communicate.
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jacovny .
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FANTRAX looks like the league most of us are switching to. I've also been advised to investigate a platform called "Sleeper", but FanTrax looks pretty good so far. Our draft is next week so I'll be interested to see what that interface is like in an auction format, but as far as basic site functionality, it's working out really well. If you want to let YAHOO know that this is unacceptable, do what my league did and make the jump to FANTRAX!
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jpete804
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As a long time keeper league, I have to say...it's really ******* annoying that the message boards are gone. Scheduling a live draft through a mobile app that not everyone uses (because it sucks) is near impossible. Thanks Yahoo. You suck!
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Brandon Harrigan
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Why are you doing this? Why would we want to bother people with emails to their personal accounts every time we want to say something about fantasy baseball?
Put the message boards back. Absolutely ridiculous decision.
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Andrew Sherwood
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Still can't contact league mates (with a suppressed email) to organize a draft because you all took down message boards without a replacement
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Rick E Zolzer
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I have been with you for a long time and played the 3 major sports leagues (right now I have 10 hoops teams and 10 baseball teams w/2 different emails) ...I have stopped playing with others because you do it best but this is a dumb decision and could bit you ********** because taking away for the league to stay connected seems like you are jumping over dollars to pick up quarters
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Mary Zolzer
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I have been with you for a long time and played the 3 major sports leagues (right now I have 10 hoops teams and 10 baseball teams w/2 different emails) ...I have stoped playing with others because you do it best but this is a dumb decision and could bit you ********** because taking away for the league to stay connected seems like you are jumping over dollars to pick up quarters
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Steve Whitmore, Jr
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Terrible . We need the message board . We’re losing league members because we can’t communicate on the desktop site .
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Anil Poulose
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We used to use message boards for communication but then switched to email and then a group chat. We use GroupMe. Stores pictures; polls; calendar dates for live draft events.
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William Van Rickley
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Why have you removed the message board???? How are we suppose to communicate effectively. We are trying to take a vote on some scoring changes. Normally you would see everybody's vote which is great for transparency. Taking this simple vote is not simple anymore. You can't tell me you are saving a ton of money by not having this function. You are making leagues that have been with you start to look somewhere else.
We have already dealt with your poor rankings of players in fantasy baseball. Which I figure a computer does it. Now this. Running a league should not be difficult.
We will start looking for a new host.