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[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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  • Ben Mindek commented  ·   ·  Report

    I had already joined this league when I found out that messenger was no longer being used. This will be my LAST year in this league because if that. This is a STUPID idea and I hate it.

  • josh fothergill commented  ·   ·  Report

    100% TERRIBLE idea! I have a ton of managers that never even use the app or the “chat”. This needs to be reverted ASAP.

  • David Goswick commented  ·   ·  Report

    Very bad decision to abruptly remove message boards that are used extensively by most leagues. It would have been a far better business procedure to poll league commissioners BEFORE removing such a vital tool. The method being used of removing then asking for feedback was not thought out very well. It causes massive ill will and will result in many leagues migrating to a more friendly platform that does offer the much used message board. One of those already in the process of migrating is our league (13 continual years on the Yahoo platform.)

  • David Hart commented  ·   ·  Report

    We used this for almost every aspect of our league. Please bring it back ASAP.

  • Robert Zullo commented  ·   ·  Report

    HORRIBLE decision to remove the message board yahoo..... makes ZERO sense! ***** the commissioner notes and email.......and many people do not even use the app! i will be moving my 3 leagues to another platform along with many others based on all the comments on this MESSAGE BOARD (irony?!?). and we wont be back once established on another site. FIX THIS NOW!!!

  • Daniel Gordon commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is lame. Can’t we just have a message board?

  • Mike Gallay commented  ·   ·  Report

    Terrible move. At least give a season’s notice AND have your bugs and features in the “fantasy chat” worked out. There are so many integral communications which happen on boards used for 20+ years such as records of traded players and picks, rules, manager discussions, league previews, and the social history of a social game. Not everyone enjoys communicating exclusively on their phone, on an app, so you’ve restricted laptop/desktop users immensely. This is a mistake.

  • Benny McElyea commented  ·   ·  Report

    Not having message boards are a stupid idea in my opinion. Stupid enough that we are looking at FANTRACKS and other baseball homes.

  • Paul S Stepka commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ok so we are going to CHAT, Where TF is the chat link? I need to start my offline draft

  • D K commented  ·   ·  Report

    Of all the dumb changes possible. Removing a vital part of League communication without a sufficient replacement. The MESSAGE BOARD all my Leagues and I'm sure in every single League out there is a critical part of running a League, player communication, and more.
    This is just gonna cause a many players to leave, good Managers and make it ******* those that do remain

  • Paul Chussil commented  ·   ·  Report

    You are completing screwing up long-time leagues with members who live in different continents!! The message board has been an essential part of communication. Guess these leagues might have to consider moving to other platforms other than yahoo.

  • stephen hastings commented  ·   ·  Report

    I don't understand the change to remove the message boards. As someone in multiple dynasty leagues it will now be harder to reach out to people who are not as phone savvy. If you gave some warning it would be nice, as our baseball dynasty league has already started prep for this season and made multiple posts in the message board about changes.

  • Richard Upright commented  ·   ·  Report

    This was a dumb move! Why did you remove a very important feature when its replacement wasn't available yet? There is NO CHAT if you play online. I've had my league on Yahoo Fantasy since 2001, but will now consider moving it to ESPN.

  • David Marett commented  ·   ·  Report

    Its funny how our only way to complain is a....MESSAGE BOARD. It is basic. It is easy. It is vital. It has been around since the internet began. If there is a 'reason' why you are removing it let us know.

  • PJ A commented  ·   ·  Report

    This may be the cause of me moving my league to Fantfraxx

  • Hani Dee commented  ·   ·  Report

    Stupid decision made by suits or by people that have never played fantasy sports.

    The message board is an essential feature that allows managers and admin to communicate the league schedule, important dates, a place to store league rules, process trades involving prospects and draft picks since you don't give us any way to roster prospects or manage future draft picks.

    Many leagues also use it for drafting because the best feature of the message board is it notifies managers when a post is made there by making the draft pretty much hands off.

    Managers are already dropping out and leagues are going to fold, some of my leagues have decided to go to Fantrax or FleaFlicker

    It is your loss

  • Hani Dee commented  ·   ·  Report

    What the **** are you doing Yahoo?

    LEAGUES WILL FOLD AND PEOPLE WILL GO ELSE WHWERE

  • KP Watershed commented  ·   ·  Report

    514
    comments
    here,
    in just 9 days on this user issues forum.

    and yet this is the "12th ranked" issue.

    by comparison,
    the "1st ranked" issue only has 265 comments, after 452 days.

    let's be real,
    Message Board Removal is the #1 issue impacting Yahoo Fantasy.
    but @YahooFantasy won't even admit it.

    shameful.

  • C C commented  ·   ·  Report

    For dynasty leagues, you've made it a lot harder to remain on the Yahoo platform. I used the message board to organize our five round offseason draft. Not everyone uses mobile phones or is computer savvy enough to use the not-so-user-friendly chat feature Yahoo has. As a commissioner, you've made my job way harder now and I don't see how removing a message board improves the user experience in any fashion. It can't be a huge cost to Yahoo, so it feels like you're just making your product worse for no actual benefit to anyone.

  • Tony Parslow commented  ·   ·  Report

    I hope some people will move to FleaFlicker. I think it's a good site for Baseball. I'm doing football on Fantrax.

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