[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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R Lam commented
Worst decision ever. Whoever made this bonehead decision at Yahoo obviously does not participate in Yahoo fantasy sports and also incompetent in change management. WTF
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John Sugden commented
If you plan to replace the message boards with expanded functionality for chat - AT LEAST get the chat functions working before you rmove the message boards. The message boards could have used some upgrades - but they provided essential functionality to the leagues. They need to be restored ASAP.
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dave vanhooser commented
sorry off topic: i cant get the mock draft to open, says "the document you've selected cant be found". anybody know whats up??? thanks for any input
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Philip Martin commented
I've used Yahoo since 2001. I'll be finding a new home for my Fantasy Leagues. Bad decision folks.
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Caillie commented
Chat is not the best place for league communication. If you're going to invest in making it that way, you would need to make it into.... a message board. Stop trying to overcomplicate the ergonomics of the league page and just put the message board back. This is the most absurd change I have seen in 20 years of fantasy on Yahoo.
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William McClernan commented
While not used much in public leagues, the message board is an absolute must for private leagues, especially keeper leagues. Without it, you make messaging very difficult.
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Franklin Wilcox commented
Since you auto renew all the teams doesn't let me know that they're actually there. I used the message board for them to let me know when they're back. How can I do that now?
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Dan Baumgarten commented
We need the message boards. Please reverse course and bring them back.
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Anonymous commented
Time to figure out where my leagues will be playing now. It won't be Yahoo anymore. And I know it's been 25 plus years in Football and Baseball. Thís is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. I put things I need to remember in our message section. Things like rule changes for the upcoming seasons. It just makes it so easy to simply look there. If it ain't broke don't fix it! Please read all of the comments and everyone's opinion and realize what a mistake you are making!
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Jerry L Robertson JR. commented
We use the message board to communicate draft dates and times, spell out changes that occured within the league this year, and historical winners, and second place positions from prior years. Message boards are an easier way for those to go back to important information quickly. If chats are used, it becomes a little bit cumbersome, to thumb the chat communication to find important information. Chats are designed for one off questions or comments, not really a reliable source of communicating important information. Likewise with emails...it is hard to tell if an individual is replying to the sender, a select few, or the whole league...Message boards works very well with active and engaged managers. Jerry L. Robertson Jr.
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Joseph Offenback commented
This feature is an absolute must for most of our Yahoo leagues. This is ridiculous to stop having.
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Dave Chrischilles commented
Ever heard of free speech?
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jeff roberts commented
Terrible idea and not sure why? We have have an established dynasty league where our rules are unique and changes are hotly and opening debated on the message board. Having the discussion in front of everyone has proved successful for our league. As a Commish in a keeper league the early season is like herding cats sometimes and I find the Message Board critical to keeping everyone on track prior to the draft. We also use the message board to post trades made prior to our draft that are not done automatically by Yahoo. Just put it back! No one is in support of taking it away! So you got to ask yourself if none of the customers want you to eliminate it…why would I do it!
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Will Dickeson commented
This is a terrible blow for us who use the message boards for league wide decisions, year-to-year record keeping, and announcing keeper/prospect considerations in trades.
We also use the message boards for drafting.
The commissioner notes for us are good for League Constitutions, but regular owners can't use them.
Chat is fine for small talk, but that's not record keeping. We will be forced to use a non-Yahoo tool, which is really clunky.
Bad change. Needless.
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Andrew Stepanian commented
I agree with pretty much everyone else here, the message board is a well used and valuable tool for many leagues. It's an easy way to track and share individual league rules and information with everybody at once. It's especially helpful if you're playing with people you don't know, or are in a league with unique rules or use offline drafts and such as it allows players to do so virtually without having to schedule a meeting time that works for everybody in the league.
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Kevin Parker commented
Horrible decision.Not everyone in my leagues uses chat. Believe it or not, some people still dont have a smart phone and your chat app sucks. Email communication is way too cumbersome to keep track of league messages, rules changes, etc.
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Shaun Chaves commented
i dont know everybody in my league and some have hidden emails. being able to just share a message with the whole group on the main page is much better than constantly looking at your phone. And since the app is much worse than the web browser I dont use my phone to play, making chat even less important
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Ryan Goob commented
This is a massive step backwards. Message boards are essential & way easier for slow drafts, league-wide discussions, and basically anything else that requires more than a single message.
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Roland Sanders commented
This is a step backwards.
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DENNIS R ST.PIERRE commented
all of our league rules, posts, pre season trades, and fa adds and keepers in pre season are posted within the message boards. It is a good way for us to refer to league rules and communicate with each other about trades, raids rule s and more. Without the use of the message boards, I think we will need to leave yahoo after having leagues here for 30 years plus