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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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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yahoo, do you really think reducing the ways a league can communicate with each other is a good idea? And, you don't even have your chat in a place where it can adequately serve your audience. As far I can tell you can't even access it if you're on a web page version of the fantasy site.

    You can't seriously think this is the best course of action. I can only assume this has to do with money, perhaps spamming us with unwanted ads in some way in the chat.

    What is wrong with you?

    The sooner you realize your mistake and bring back message boards the better off you will be.

  • mark wilson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Bye Bye Yahoo, I guess you thought you were the only game in town, boy was you wrong.

  • Tim McBride commented  ·   ·  Report

    Message Boards were the primary and key communication function in my leagues. I think it is an extremely poor decision to get rid of them.

  • Nick Rosse commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi,

    I run 20 team dynasty leagues for football, baseball, and basketball that we have done on the Yahoo platform for almost 20 years. While the chat is used by most, some don't have the app and can use the chat for news, instructions, etc. Additionally, the commissioner notes are helpful for me to instruct managers on certain things, but they can't comment back and have a discussion.

    We use the message board to setup the draft dates and times, communicate when someone is "on the clock", discuss rule changes, vote on said rule changes, make sure all 20 teams are returning (we live all over the world).

    Please bring them back.

    Thank you,

    Nick Rosse

  • larry butler sr. commented  ·   ·  Report

    Not that it is going to make a difference but I join all these other commissioners and coaches that think this is one of your worst decisions EVER! We used the message boards extensively in many of my leagues. In fantasy football, we conducted drafts via the message board. Also used the message boards in our fantasy baseball leagues so that everyone could see who you named for keepers. At one time, I ran a couple of leagues that drafted in Yahoo groups beginning on January 2nd. We had to move those to another site, and now I run 6 such leagues drafting that way. I also participate in more than a dozen leagues that used to draft in Yahoo groups and now uses another site. I belong to more than a dozen dynasty leagues in Yahoo fantasy baseball where we used the message board frequently. I was going to start a new dynasty league here at Yahoo but now I'm not so sure. I have no idea what you will take away from your fantasy site next.

  • Nicholas Doran commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have been playing fantasy baseball on Yahoo for 25 years. I am the commissioner of two dynasty baseball leagues. We use the message board to coordinate our offline draft and to facilitate all rules discussions. The message board is a key part of our league camaraderie and is a major reason we have stuck together for decades. A chat window is simply no substitute for a message board. I simply do not understand why you would discontinue something as simple and basic as a message board. What do you gain by getting rid of it? It can't save you much money if any at all. Why get rid of the message board before the chat window is fully functional? Did you poll the community before making this decision? Who made this decision? Making your product less useful is not a smart business plan.

  • Neil Townsend commented  ·   ·  Report

    We have used the message boards to conduct our offline draft for 20+ years.

    Like others, we are now seriously considering moving to a different platform like Fantrax. The chat feature is not conducive for offline drafts.

    It’s amazing to me how Yahoo pushes features that no one cares about (Yahoo plus, chat, getting 3 versions of the same update for players, etc.) and neglects or removes features that made them great in the first place.

    I’ve thought Yahoo was slipping for years, but this may be the final straw that sends me elsewhere. I’m really disappointed with this decision.

  • David Marett commented  ·   ·  Report

    Not sure why you would think removing message boards was a good idea. Read what every single person has posted. Ive never seen any issue so universally agreed upon like this anywhere. Listen to your customers before you lose them all.

  • Terry Hothem commented  ·   ·  Report

    Very poor decision !!! Our league has always used the message board extensively since we started our league approximately 20 years ago for communicating and having one place that all managers can go back to for many issues. If you are not going to bring the message board back, at a minimum, I hope you will allow all managers to have access to the "commissioner notes" - not just the commissioner. PLEASE BRING THE MESSAGE BOARD BACK.

  • Carl Kanoff commented  ·   ·  Report

    The message board is very important for our 20 year private league as we are spread across the country. We use it for rule reminders, trade protests, payout lists, rule change suggestions, anecdotes, observations, trading block advertising, etc etc and all things baseball talk. We wish this function was not taken away!!!!

  • David Marett commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have been playing and commishing fantasy football, baseball, hockey and basketball leagues on yahoo for the past 25 years. This is the worst decision/change you have ever made. Message boards are the most important part of the leagues I have run. It is the main way we communicate. Its where we have always done our fantasy football drafts.

    If you continue with this you will be losing us as customers.

  • Stick glover commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yahoo fantasy baseball is now run by the woke far left, that hate free speech. It's time for everyone who supports free speech, to flush this Yahoo **** straight down the toilet and head straight to FANTRAX for their fantasy baseball fun.

  • Christopher Patrick commented  ·   ·  Report

    22 pages with over 20 posts gives you 440 replies with nearly every single people saying they want message boards back. I hate the fantasy chat, thats for trash talk and my league is full of adults. Threading? WTF is that. Polls? We just took one: Bring back Message Boards is the most popular answer. Pinning? WTF is that again?
    Fantrax here we come

  • J Jack Elder commented  ·   ·  Report

    All of my leagues span 4 or more time zones. We can never hold a live draft together, and most of us don't want our phone numbers out there. The Message Board is how we communicate. Chat ****, threads, come on, man! That may be cheap for Yahoo, but message specifism is something threads don't do nearly as well.

    Bring back the Message Board.

    Meanwhile my leagues are researching other hosts, and while I've been with Yahoo baseball since '95, we will move to something with customizable cats and a message board, if necessary.

  • Dan Baumgarten commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am commish of many leagues. The message board is vital for communication. We may have to move to CBS, ESPN, or another fantasy platform without them

  • Richard Balestra commented  ·   ·  Report

    Really, you deleted the message board and said use fantasy chat. There is no menu item that says fantasy chat.???????????????????????????????????????

  • G. K. commented  ·   ·  Report

    Keep the message boards! Seriously!

  • Harold Mix commented  ·   ·  Report

    I use the app, however I use the website via my laptop much more. Our league drafts offline using the message board. This will be a huge inconvenience not having the message board feature. This is the main way we communicate as a league.

  • Dan Sanscartier commented  ·   ·  Report

    The league I run used it to track prospect drafts, trades and questions. We also used it to check with all managers if they were returning and to allow them to propose rules or settings changes. Managers could post their proposals for everyone to see and the thread could remain active for a lengthy period of time - and also be referenced at a later date or season for verification.
    Note: A lot of managers do not know each other outside of the leagues and quite a few of them do not want to be known outside of the leagues. I'm not sure how chat will affect this. Also, some managers aren't as active as others or live in different time zones, have different work hours etc so the message boards were perfect for allowing them to respond or weigh in on items at their own leisure. I personally dislike chat of any type and deliberately avoid it in all aspects of my life. I am in 6 to 8 pools per season and I am not excited about having to use chat. I may head elsewhere to be honest.

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