[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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Michael Boisselle
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bad idea Yahoo
my league has players who do know each other and its only way to communicate -
Chris T Artrip
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Dumbest idea yet Yahoo. I'm sure someone got offended somewhere and this is your response. I've been a yahoo member/fantasy player/commish, since 2001 but this may finish me off. You can provide 15 other ways to communicate with other teams, it won't make any difference, especially in the private leagues. Knee jerk reaction to a woke climate.
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chad m
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To say this is a bad idea is an understatement. Did anyone bother to ask your customers what they thought before doing this?
Luckily there are other options besides Yahoo. Anyone have any suggestions on better sites. I'm not running a 14 team fantasy league with out a message board.
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Dean Caulfield
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No No No
I am having to try yet another social media se=ite reddit] just to get check in done. The league message board in my custom leagues was the league record for such things as restricted Free agency and the Waiver draft Chat does not have the easily accessible historical element. And this will force me to leave Yahoo. I am trying to work with you on this but No message board is Unacceptable in any form If the issue ois liability or complaints, give control of whether or not to use a League message board to the Commish. especially given that you are not releasing the chat format you are developing until well until the future
This is hands down the most ridiculous thing yahoo has done since I have been playing on this site -
Matt Casella
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so dumb, message boards are simple and easy, chat has its purpose, but usually devolves into scattered conversations
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David Anderlik
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Very disappointing. There is really no need to get rid of the message boards. Its by far the easiest way to communicate with the league. As commissioner, chat, email, and any other form of communication is far less efficient. Poor decision by Yahoo in my opinion
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A Thomas
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I really do not see the reasoning for the removal of the message boards. It is a great place to post things that can be referenced easily all season long.
The chat is not a replacement or even a great substitute for the message board.
I do not receive any notifications of a new chat message, and I also sometimes don't even see there is a new chat message when I actually go in and look, quite often they appear 2 days later.
This feels like a big step backwards here
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Grant Ashe
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Absolutely ridiculous that you guys took away the message boards. Makes zero sense. You are going to push people away from your website for leagues.
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David Marett
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Message boards have been around since the beginning of the internet. Why? Because they are an easy, simple and most importantly vital way to communicate. What are you using for this feedback right now? A message board. Twitter, Reddit etc are all message boards. How you felt getting rid of them is a good idea makes zero sense. Is it a storage space/archive problem? Then delete past years message boards. No one cares about what was posted in 2002 in our league anymore. Having a message board is crucial to being able to play this year though.
Looking through what has been posted here it looks like well over 450 posts so far. Most from people who have been using Yahoo for 10-20 plus years. 450 posts from mostly commisioners which are representing their leagues so that is well over 5000 people. Every single message is saying the exact same thing. This is a horrible, terrible mistake.
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. K
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I have now set up all of my leagues on fleaflicker. I'll delete my Yahoo leagues after I've had a chance to save any league history that remains from the 2003-22 seasons. This is a shame. We were actually happy here until the message boards went away. And we still have no idea why they made this decision, forcing us to find another platform.
I'm afraid that I'm going to lose several league members in this transition to fleaflicker, but I just can't run my leagues through chat (and you can't even find it on the website to begin with). The only way to make the chat useable would be to make it work like a message board. You'd think they would have done that *before* deleting the feature that actually worked.
I'm disgusted.
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methodnine
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Bring back the message boards. They keep saying improvements to the chat coming…but they have no idea when the improvements are coming. But leagues are open now. Why scrap message boards before the chat upgrades? In its current form, chat is unusable.
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Robert Zullo
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are you guys reading all the negative comments? message board is critical for dynasty leagues and offline drafts.....and highly utilized for communications in other leagues as well! i trust many of your users are not 20 something year olds who use their smart phones for everything-i am one of those people. phone screens are too small for me to see not to mention the tight layout sucks! bring back the message boards or i will be moving my (3) leagues to another platform.
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Wm Murphy
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Please stop changing things for the sake of change.....things become successful for a reason , (because people like it) ....sometimes change makes things worse....leave a good thing alone...
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Bunker Hill
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Message boards are a CRITICAL component to fantasy sports leagues. Many leagues use these to conduct their off line drafts, make decisions on league set up, and to communicate league info. Message boards have been used in our league for over 20 years and are one of the most important parts of yahoo leagues. You can look up historical info on past years, which means next year there will be nothing to look at. Will have to find another platform to use for fantasy leagues if this decision remains.
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Jeff Jackson
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How can you communicate with everyone in the league easily without message boards? They are a critical part of fantasy leagues; especially keeper leagues; which are the best. Please do not remove message boards!
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First Name Last Name
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This is an extremely bad decision! I'm in multiple fantasy leagues in multiple sports and run many of them as a commish as well.
It's difficult enough as it is to get managers to check emails and reply - most don't even use the chat function. If it's an older manager who isn't tech savvy, forget communication of any kind if there are no message boards.
Please reverse this decision or we will also look to move to another platform.
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BiG Tuna Tuna
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This is a fatal mistake on yahoo’s part. First there was no chat during the draft. Now you are taking out the boards? Why? Way to drive away hundreds of thousands of managers to other fantasy platforms. You guys should be thinking about how to retain customers not silencing them.
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Brian Parodi
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Without the message board, we have no reason to continue with Yahoo!. We've been here over 20 years, and our message board sees thousands of messages per year. For some league members, it's more important than their team.
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Robbie Brown
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Of all the changes yahoo could have made they decided on killing the message board? The app is useless except for drafting. I’m in all dynasty leagues and we’ve used the message boards for 20 years over the four sports. How the **** do we go forward now? I will suggest to our commissioners that we move to another platform. Way to go guys, dumbest decision I’ve ever seen yahoo make.
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carl davis
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Yahoo is so against free speech that they now want to silence a message board that only 11 other people can see. You would think that Yahoo would have more to worry about than a "message" that only 11 other league members can see. You talk about being petty, this takes the cake.