[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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Mike Moore commented
Message boards are important for each league's individual communication. Please revisit and bring it back
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Ryan Yell commented
boooooooooo
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Dennis Vickers commented
Fantasy leagues don't need a "chat" but participants do need a means of quickly communicating with the other members of their league. Although some other fantasy league providers do offer "chat" they do so along with a provision for messaging. It would appear that the extra chat features Yahoo is promising to offer already exist on the previously provided message board. It's difficult to understand how this decision to eliminate the message board and offer only a chat feature benefits the fantasy league player. Please consider the consumer.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
D. L. Vickers (yahoo fantasy player for more than ten years) -
Gregg Kubala commented
Plain and simple...makes ZERO sense
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Tristan H commented
Over 500 messages and 29 pages of people PLEADING for message boards to return, and commenting on how negative a decision this is -- and that is just the people who are voicing their opinion. Plenty are already jumping ship to other sites. Yahoo has to reverse this decision. WE NEED THE BOARDS! #BRINGBACKTHEBOARDS. No other thread has half as many comments. The closer we get to the start of the fantasy season, the worse this will be!!!! FIX THIS DECISION!!
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Richard Black commented
My league definitely needs the Message board. That is our number one way to communicate and store league details. As it is, we use Fantrax to do our slow draft. Now we need to find a place to replace the message board. As much as I hate to, my league may want to move our league over to Fantrax if the message board is not returned in Yahoo. I am shocked at your decision to remove the message board.
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Max Waiser commented
Why not both Message Boards and Fantasy Chat? Why choose one over the other? Many have voiced their disapproval so why be so extreme to remove the message board entirely? If you want to push the Fantasy Chat feature introduce it this year along with keeping the Message Boards.
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Nicolaikovich Spiceovski commented
BAD CALL. The message boards are the only reliable, transparent and efficient way to communicate key league issues, from draft date & time to trades etc...This is especially true where there is a lot of back and forth communication on a topic. I agree with many of the posts, this move by Yahoo is a significant downgrade. Email & chat are simply not as functional for league communication.
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Kenneth Newberry commented
Message boards are essential to the functionality of our league! As commissioner, I use the message board to relay important information to the league weekly. First, this is how keeper reminders are sent out (WHERE IS THE KEEPER FUNCTIONALITY IN THE APP??), second - my league has weekly challenges where I provide updates league-wide. Email is inefficient, and I'm not typing these updates into a chat feature. Finally, since I do run a keeper league - I use previous years message board posts for historical context, that way I can track mangers with keeper-players on expiring contracts. This is a disappointing update, and seemingly unnecessary. I hope Yahoo will reconsider eliminating the message boards, but if not, I am fairly confident that my leagues will migrate to a different service.
Update: Commissioner notes need to be added to the app. Managers cannot see notes.
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Jeremy Michael commented
We still have a lot of managers that don't even use your app. Communication with multiple people using multiple levels of tech needs to be considered. I'm sure we'll adapt. But the message board was the center of our league communication.
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Clayton Courtney commented
Is there a way to use Chat if you are connected on a PC and not a phone or tablet?
If you are going to remove the message board then make sure that the chat is accessible from all places where the league is accessible. And before you remove the message board make sure the Chat works as opposed to taking away the message board THEN adding threading, pinning, polls and more. -
Michael Sliger commented
My league is now struggling to get things started this year without a message board in place. Only 4 or our 12 owners are communicating with the group since Chat is not available on the website (and new messages on the Android app are hard to notice with the tiny icon change). The Commish Notes need a long scroll down to see them on the website and cannot be found on the Android app at all, so barely anyone is seeing them. If emails are being sent through the built-in email system, they are not being received by myself right now.
The league message board system may not have been pretty, but if was functional. If you cannot immediately replace it with an equally or more highly functional system, then you need to restore the boards ASAP.
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David Weddington commented
Why, Why??? Want it back. Who is responsible. This is needed for notes. You cannot go back and look at notes when there are hundreds of messages through the messenger. This is needed. Why is this being removed?
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Gregg Kubala commented
If any league was on the fence about changing sites...this pushes us all over the edge.
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Gregg Kubala commented
LMAO...no message boards? Why would you take this away? We not only use this to trash talk, but we also use it to post important league conversations. We always go back to previous years and look at message boards to see what discussions we have had as a league, who voted for certain issues, etc. The chat feature is not as reliable, nor easy to navigate to quickly find these past items. Not happy about this at all.
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A L commented
This is like the Hasbro Wizards of the Coast OGL all over again!
Worst decision a company can make!
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Mark W commented
Typical Yahoo creating problems instead of solving them.
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Dan Baumgarten commented
We need the message boards! Please restore them ASAP!
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WAYNE MYERS commented
Terrible decision. Who made it? it certainly wasn't user feedback.
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David Engelkemier commented
Please return message board. Message board is essential for sharing info for teams with keepers, to show who was kept in the previous season and who is eligible to be kept again, posting league rules. We have people literally all over the world. There's no desktop chat app. Come on!
We post end of year stuff (like keeper lists, draft position, etc) at end of the previous season so you can easily and quickly find it for the next season and repost on the new league year.
Bring it back!