[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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A L
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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
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Typical Yahoo creating problems instead of solving them.
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Dan Baumgarten
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We need the message boards! Please restore them ASAP!
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WAYNE MYERS
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Terrible decision. Who made it? it certainly wasn't user feedback.
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David Engelkemier
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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!
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Richard Wiens
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This is insane. Messageboards were critical for helping to choose a draft date/time and discussing changes to the league rules. The fact that there's no desktop app for the Yahoo Chat App and that most of the features you say will be implemented aren't, means this was done very prematurely.
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Brian
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This is ********!!!
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Richard Thompson
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We have always used message board and text messages. Do not like chat and wish you could leave message board as an option.
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john steven uhouse
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Extremely disappointed that the message board is down & unavailable this year….. Our whole League used it frequently and it surely will be missed.
That’s basically how we communicated.
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Tony Longo
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Our league has been together for over 8 years and our message board is the PRIMARY way we communicate. By eliminating the message board, it will force us to reconsider who we use as our fantasy baseball platform. Please reconsider your decision. Thank you!
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Michael Buchanan
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This is devastating news. The message board is a fantastic feature. Please reconsider.
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Pete Kroone
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Message board is easiest way for entire league to see notifications
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D K
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How does this make sense? The message board is imperative to league records. Do you think I want to go through 100,000 emails to find pertinent information?
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Mike Capalbo
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Echoing the many posts here, but I've been a Yahoo Fantasy commissioner for over 20 years (baseball, football & pro pick'em) and this is absolutely the worst change I've seen made by Yahoo, completely senseless and unacceptable. A message board is a very basic tool that is so important for communication; weekly recaps, draft information, welcome & goodbye messages, updates on issues with Yahoo which have become so much more common, it's such a vital hub of our fantasy leagues that is absolutely needed! Chat is not a suitable replacement, especially for long weekly recap articles which would be so hard to read in there, and we need them to remain on the league page easy to be viewed at any time and in the future (history/research). This is an absolutely devastating thing to see as a very loyal, long-time Yahoo commish. I really hope you reverse this stupid decision by out-of-touch young people I'm sure. Listen to your users.
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Matt Reed
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Why on earth would you stop the message board? Please reverse this ridiculous decision.
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Shane Robinson
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I just went into my baseball league thru my computers web browser and there is no link to even CHAT. horrible idea not everyone uses a phone app to play fantasy sports. so how do I chat with my league if I am using a web browser and not a mobile phone app?????
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J J
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Why do you keep making TERRIBLE decisions? The message board is the ONLY way we all communicate- trades, what's offered, whats available, messages, reminders, dates, deadlines, conversations, notes, communications, arguments, etc.. Why would you hamstring the ONLY way to communicate openly and all together? This is so bad we are deciding to cancel the league and move to ESPN after 15 years. I mean why would you want us to email or chat- NO ONE wants this. NOT A **** PERSON. Bring them back today- I am a commish and have NO WAY to communicate things now- who made this terrible decision and why do they still have a job
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Shane Robinson
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please do not removed message boards. It is a vital part of our leagues communications!
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Robert Kleisch
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My league used the Message Board as its primary means of communication. We are not a 'trash talking' league. We used the board to share info, interesting stats, and in last few weeks of season to share Potential Playoff scenarios. This was much used by many in the League, Why was this discontinutied? Please restore ASAP! Thank you!
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Todd Thoman
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BAD move! I never used the chat and don't want to start. We really utilized the Message Boards to communicate about league moves and just things in general. I really liked it because it kept a complete record of all messages. several of my leagues some of the owners have been wanting to move to Fantrax and I have fought it as i liked the Yahoo format....now will have to rethink. Please bring back the Message Board. it's critical to our league.