[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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Nicholas Doran commented
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.
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Neil Townsend commented
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.
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David Marett commented
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.
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Terry Hothem commented
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.
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Carl Kanoff commented
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!!!!
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David Marett commented
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.
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Stick glover commented
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.
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Christopher Patrick commented
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?
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J Jack Elder commented
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.
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Dan Baumgarten commented
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
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Gavin Corcelli commented
Fantrax >>>>>
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Richard Balestra commented
Really, you deleted the message board and said use fantasy chat. There is no menu item that says fantasy chat.???????????????????????????????????????
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G. K. commented
Keep the message boards! Seriously!
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Harold Mix commented
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.
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Dan Sanscartier commented
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. -
methodnine commented
How is this only ranked 13th? 400+ comments in a week. I don't think our feedback will do a thing...but I'll give it anyway: message boards were our number one communication tool. Private league, 20+ years, we used the message board all the time. Bring it back.
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Rick West commented
People don't always read e-mails and these were extremely important ways of communicating with the league. Everybody who is involved usually checks them daily. I see nothing positive in removing them.
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Ed Kielb commented
Ya awful change, even in public leagues the comments were very useful and in private leagues they were invaluable. Been playing for 15 years and this is the single worst decision made in that entire time.
I can't even think of what the reasoning behind removing them would be. There's literally no upside.
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Mike DeFilippis commented
Awful change. We rely on the message boards heavily.
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chris mccollum commented
The execution of the removal of comments raises questions of fundamental mismanagement of its business. Everyone who uses yahoo for fantasy hosting depends on the company providing a sufficient platform. Yahoo's willingness to go backwards constitutes a breach of trust. Furthermore, yahoo's poor communication regarding its plans have exacerbated the situation.