[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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José Pérez
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PLEASE, DO NOT GET RID OF THE MESSAGE BOARD. IT IS A VITAL TOOL FOR US!
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Matthew Pelliccione
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This is a terrible idea
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José Pérez
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We use the message board to make the Offline Draft every year in our keeper league, this is a decision that is giving us, all the managers, a second thought about leaving Yahoo if you're truly decided to get rid of this powerful tool. This arbitrary decision doesn't make any sense.
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Paul Long
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You'd think a $27B company would have their s**t together.
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Mister Fingers
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My feedback is we're going to leave yahoo for good. Your terrible chat function does replace the message boards. Every other platform makes improvements, and yahoo never does, only removes vital functionality.
HAHAHA Thank god I'll never have to prerank players for a draft using your 20+ year old platform, always was a nightmare!
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Donald Poor
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In all my leagues we have used message boards very often for our drafts and other purposes. It is critical in helping the leagues run better. PLease bring them back!
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Robert Holmes
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Hate the idea of getting rid of the league message boards. The Chat is not good! This might cause me to move any leagues I'M in to another platform.
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Dan Sevilla
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Are you kidding me? What an absolutely terrible move, Yahoo! Several managers are quitting because they don't want to be forced to use facebook, discord, etc. as an alternate means of communication. The Message Board is vital to the functioning of all my leagues! Come on!
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Dan Sevilla
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Are you kidding me? What an absolutely terrible move, Yahoo! Several managers are quitting because they don't want to be forced to use facebook, discord, etc. as an alternat means of communication. The Message Board is vital to the functioning of all my leagues! Come on!
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David Vuyadinov
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I am quite disappointed about the removal of Message boards. I might be old, but I don't like the chat function. Our league used Message boards as a simple way to just do roll call, trade choices and the like. We may not have been particularly active, but we are an old league and could add flavour to the league as the season progressed. Besides, to read a message, you have to filter out transactions. You would have to scroll through a lot of "noise" to get to a members concerns. How is this good? Does your team even play fantasy baseball?
I also would like to see "polls" restored. I cannot fathom why that option was removed as well. It's a simple way to get the "pulse" of the league.
I hope you don't become a "points" only league. I would delete the league on the spot.
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Mark WilliamKitzing
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We need message boards. Several of the leagues I am in use the boards to do slow drafts. Also, not all do chats.
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Mark WilliamKitzing
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No message boards then I will not participate in Yahoo fan baseball. Let your advertisers know.
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bart jones
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This is a really bad idea. The message boards are used regularly in my leagues to notify people of developments within the league (e.g. notifying managers of draft dates) and providing a means of managers to raise issues within the league as they arise. Please do not remove them.
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bucky Bieneck
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You cant run offline drafts in chats just bring the boards back!
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Craig Yonker
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Message boards are preferred to chats. Chats contain too much information such as moves teams make while message board was just messages and is easily accessed on computer.
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kenny george
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As commish of a league, I used the Message Board to communicate with the league as a whole, as opposed to individually through email. I would post weekly wrap-ups, and notify the other coaches of extended weeks, or shortened ones.
I would guess eliminating the Message Board was to eliminate some of the offensive trash talk some people say, but we never had a problem with that in my league.
I think you could at least make the Message Board an option that commissioners could implement through Settings, if they so desire. I'm disappointed in this sudden decision. -
Edmund J Pierce
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Taking away a feature that people like and use regularly is just another reason to move on from using Yahoo for our Fantasy Baseball league. We started in 2004 so that's how long we've been playing with Yahoo. In addition to the message boards, what is the logic behind opening the leagues, but not providing mock drafts? We use message boards for camaraderie and keeping our teams linked even though we're all over the country throughout the long season. Not having that feature -- and the mock drafts -- is reason to switch to another provider.
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karl rehmann
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A bad idea that was implemented very poorly.
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Darby L
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WTF. Who was the big brain that decided the message board should be axed? Whoever the decision maker was on this should be axed instead. It's obvious they don't use or understand their own product.
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Mike V
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Possibly the dumbest thing Yahoo has done with regards to their fantasy platform.