[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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José Pérez
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It's unbelievable that there is still no formal response from Yahoo on this critical issue, the amount of comments on this page is rising like foam.
Sadly it looks like Yahoo does not respect the voice of their customer base and with every day of inaction they are just letting their customers go... What a shame!
I have decided with other managers to wait until the end of this week to take the final decision on moving our leagues to another fantasy baseball platform.
I hope that we get an official statement from Yahoo soon. I have been playing here for several years and I really don't want to leave.
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Manny Singh
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As a league commissioner I can say this is an absolutely horrible decision. I’ve got managers emailing me that they prefer not to be on phones too much and won’t download the app for chat. Yahoo either needs to keep the message boards or integrate the chat into the desktop site otherwise communications amongst managers will be hampered and that communication is a very big part of fantasy sports.
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Estevan H
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Getting rid of message board makes absolutely no sense. I understand trying to push the fantasy chat on mobile devices. But you do realize a significant amount of people like using their laptop/desktop for fantasy sports?? Why can’t you keep both message boards and fantasy chat? They both have their own functionality and serve their own purpose. One for quick chat on the phone and the other for posting information that doesn’t get lost and is easily accessible.
Sure the everyday random redraft leagues may not use the message boards because they rarely ever talk to other league mates. However, what about the keeper/dynasty leagues who all use the message board for important topics and information?
You are just ruining your own platform and making it easier for leagues to leave to other up and coming fantasy platforms. Why get rid of functions when you could instead add more to incentivize others to join your fantasy platform. Just goes to show that they don’t care to lose fantasy users.
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Zach
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I am the commissioner of dynasty leagues for baseball, basketball, and football. Across all sports we used the message board to do offline slow drafts. It will be difficult to complete those now that we've lost message boards. I'm intrigued by the upcoming changes to the chat, but would've liked have access to the message boards up until those changes are implemented.
The most helpful thing you could do for leagues like mine would be to add a slow draft feature (like Sleeper and other platforms have). That would be a HUGE improvement for dynasty leagues.
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john steven uhouse
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As a Yahoo Baseball Commish for 22 years, getting rid of the Message Board is one of the most ludicrous ideas I’ve ever heard of in Fantasy Sports. The person in POWER who finalized that idea should be fired immediately. The reason a lot of people play fantasy sports is not only for the sport, but for the comradeship the Message Board provides. Not sure I can keep my 22 year 12 team League together with no Message Board. I’m currently looking into another website for this season. Once again, the person who put their stamp of approval on this one has to be fired immediately. He or She is a total MORON !!!!!!!!!!!
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Dennis J. Sayer
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Critically Important to Most Longtime Fantasy Users & League Commissioners.... But NOT according to Yahoo this year! Sad but True! Time to Move ALL of My Fantasy Leagues over to a Better Platform that's a more User Friendly Platform!!!!? Even the Live Drafts are FULL of Unneeded BS on your screen!! It used to be so much cleaner and BETTER!! Yahoo has...
This Sucks & is Total BS....
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Kale Smith
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Sounds like Fantrax is the answer here
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Steve Morrow
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We have used Yahoo for over 20 years and I also use it for other leages (football, basketball, hockey). Having the message boards is critical for the league as it is one of the easiest ways to communicate with everyone and is accessible from the main league page. We use it to post messages on trades, prizes, historical records. It just wouldn't be the same if it goes away permanently. We definitely will have to explore other options if that is the case.
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Michael Kilburn
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Definitely used the message board for all league wide communications. Not everyone uses the mobile chat function or checks their emails, but the message board was a great feature for feedback from the managers. It was also seen by all other managers in the league. I don't think removing this without a suitable replacement is a smart move, and now hurts league communications. I would think it should be brought back, and removed next season with a reasonable replacement not what we have right now.
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Green Raven
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Do I hear the sound of crickets from Yahoo? No response except doubling down on their own idiotic decision.
We moved to Fantrax 3 days ago and I am loving it over there. Free and it has a Message Board and a full screen (laptop) advanced chat both. Imagine that, Yahoo. Oranges and apples both.
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John
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This is awful. Why did you guys NOT give us time to prepare for this? WTF are you thinking? Or were you at all? Before you implement a reduction in service at Yahoo, don't you give your guys time to plan? Or back up processes? Yet you didn't have the courtesy to give that to your user base. I will give you props for opening up early, but this is a total trash move by you guys. Before you bought out yahoo, the guys there knew what they were doing. Maybe you guys should get them to consult for you before you continue this horrible customer service move or any future moves that discontinue tools in these leagues.
The Integrated message boards were a place not only for commissioners to post league information but also for guys to post on topics , trades that maybe in question, and other legitimate league perspective changes. Our last years finish and draft order was there per last season's standing in finished championship and consolation brackets. But you guys decided to make this more difficult in finding the brackets in question.
If you guys actually read this and truly do want positive feedback, you should actually post polls before you make changes like this. No one wants an app forced on them when something they use is working great. Change is good, but not this one.
My best feedback is, put the message boards back on until you you have everything up and running fine. Then have both message boards and your new product in place and see which one the leagues use the most. That may be too complicated for you guys, but it is what is wanted and needed. Giving us an option to use which is best, makes this commish's job a lot more doable.
Thank you for your time.
John , Commish in the "Up and Coming" league
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Geoff Shurtleff
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Bad idea! This is how we manage our league by different subjects. This is how we do our no time limit offline draft, managers spread across multiple time zones and schedules.
We need a message system with different threads. If not we will move our leagues to different platform. Ten years plus Yahoo Fantasy user.
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Jake Ironside
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This was enough for me to leave for Fantrax. No added features in years and the ones you had are taken away. This is the death knell of yahoo fantasy.
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jpete804
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Obviously a terrible idea. So, now instead of a message board with individual topics...like draft dates, keeper info, league fees...we have to use the chat which also includes the daily add/drops. There's absolutely no way to have conversations this way, the message board is critical as a commissioner. C'mon yahoo, this is a dumb idea and should have never been implemented. Fire that person.
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Oceans 45
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Keith -
Fantrax is head and shoulders better than yahoo now.
Moved 1 of my 5 Dynasty Leagues there this weekend.
Planning on moving the other 4 there in the near future
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Keith .
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For those who are leaving, what site are you now using for your league? We've only ever played through Yahoo for the last 20 years, but we're ready to ditch them now that the board is gone.
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ryan moser
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Fantrax has to be enjoying this 🤣 -
I think I speak for most. Yahoo - you made a bad mistake. Fix it quick or your platform for fantasy sports is done and let’s be honest - what do you have left?
You have until the pitchers catchers report in a few days, if not, we all gone -
methodnine
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Excellent points. Mark F. I think it's because they just looked at their money leagues and sure, message boards probably aren't used as much in these leagues...but...the longtime private leagues, like the one I've been commissioner for 20+ years, we use the message board all the time. It's paramount to relay keeper information, rules changes/suggestions, draft time, etc...It's very important to private leagues.
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Mark Flaherty
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Would someone from Yahoo please answer some of these questions? For example, instead of simply stating "Fantasy league message boards are not going to be available for the current season" could you please give a reason why? Some people are speculating that it's some sort of free speech issue as if the boards were filled with politically controversial stuff. Others are guessing that Yahoo is somehow going to save money by cutting the message boards. And there are folks wondering if this is part of some nefarious plan to raise traffic on Yahoo chat. So what was the rationale behind this decision?
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Edgar
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super disappointed. i only like keeper leagues. we use the boards constantly especially when starting a new league. as a commissioner, using the message boards was critical as it was easy to locate and help plenty of information. not to mention that it is simply easier for me to use my laptop than my phone. maybe i'm getting too old for the newer yahoo formats. super disappointed.