while we are working to get everyone organized and setup to start the season, we need a way to communicate get feedback on draft dates and other league matters that everyone can see.

The message board is a critical function in the fantasy baseball game. Fantasy baseball isn't just about geeking out on stats and players- it's about friendly competition with friends and family. The message board is a vital tool for communication. It's where we debate changes to league settings, congratulate each other on our successes and rib each other about failures. It is the heart and soul of our fantasy baseball game. The Yahoo developers are making a critical error eliminating this feature. If you insist on pursuing this foolish course I will be forced to migrate my league elsewhere. I sincerely hope that does not come to pass. The only reason I have a Yahoo email account or use any Yahoo services is for fantasy baseball. Please don't let those foolishness drive me away from a platform I enjoy and appreciate.

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

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?

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.

are you really removing the message boards

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.

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

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???

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!

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

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.

Please reconsider adding back message boards to yahoo fantasy baseball

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.

Bring back the boards!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."