[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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Kirk Gularte commented
oh goodness, you guys are getting worse and worse. Why not just have drafts and statistics not available this season as well. Sad to see that your business model is to REMOVE functions rather than stay the course or improve...paid or not. Glad I went to Fantrax for the important leagues....
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Dylan commented
I cannot do in chat what I can do in messages.
(1) not everybody reveals their email address.
(2) Fair and just communication from a commissioner or manager (trades posts, league deadlines and game "emotions") are far superior on a message board than in a chat string or Commish Notes - which are exclusive to the commish.
(3) The message board does well to host community interaction and create a "record" /archive of important posts.
(4) Many of my managers (four leagues/64 managers 21st year) have been playing for 10 or more years. We're old school and don't like change.
(5) Chat is hardly used and emails are not communally advantageous in my leagues.
(6) Some sidebar talks go by email that often alienates other managers.
(7) Commissioners like me are successful because I have a message board to post periodic "news" stories about who's doing well and who isn't. The reporting and drama is what brings people back every year.Please turn the message board back on.
Thank you,
Thoughts from the El Nido Leagues Universe.
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John Gingerheadman commented
Well thanks for the heads up. My commissioner can't post a thread about keepers. It was the easiest thing in the world to keep leagues running year to year. You are one of the worst companies online
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Green Raven commented
Hey Oceans 45 - Fantrax has improved recently. Like guy said below offline drafts are easy there. The chat feature if used on laptop can be clicked up to full screen so it is like the size of a message board to read now, And, oh yes, a for real MESSAGE BOARD.
Also Fantrax is free and specializes in BASEBALL Fantasy as it's main sport whereas Yahoo only cares about Football and some about Basketball. They obviously hate the Baseball part.
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JOHN M WIELICKI commented
I never really used them much so not a big deal. What is the story on Mock drafts? Now that's a big thing to me. Are they going to held later or is that feature history?
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Jason Kaplan commented
Also, why was there no prior notice and why are you NOW asking for feedback? The time for feedback should have been before the decision was made.
When municipalities are considering big projects there are public meetings for residents to voice their concerns. Feedback after the fact is just wasted breath, unless you're actually going to listen to the users and bring the boards back this year. -
DJ Rounsley commented
I’ve only ever played Yahoo fantasy, in the 19th, 15th and 14th year of my keeper leagues. Just signed up for Fantrax. Moving them. It was disappointing when I saw yahoo made ZERO additions to fantasy in the “what’s new” section, but then this, removing the message board? Started looking around and saw that Fantrax offers offline “slow drafts” that we would do on yahoo message board - except as an actually option, then trading multiple future years of picks and 3 team+ trades…Oh and minor league option for the dynasty league to control minor leaguers. Yeah, yahoo… bye Felicia.
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JOHN M WIELICKI commented
I never really used them much so not a big deal. What is the story on Mock drafts? Now that's a big thing to me. Are they going to held later or is that feature history?
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Jason Kaplan commented
Bring back the message boards. Many dynasty leagues use the boards to conduct offline drafts.
I don't find the Fantasy Chat to be useful at all. All leagues are clumped into one window, plus there is no e-mail notification when a new message is received. Also, who needs to see a bunch of posts about who added/droped a player? I've never used the Fantasy Chat and would move to an alternate site with free message board capabilities before using it. -
Dennis Welshans commented
Eliminating the message boards may be the single worst decision in the history of Yahoo fantasy baseball! And that's saying a LOT! You're going to lose a LOT of leagues over this!
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Oceans 45 commented
2008-present
Commissioner - 5 Dynasty Baseball LeaguesI conduct our Rookie Drafts each new season on the Message Board. This was the only thing Yahoo had better than Fantrax, ease and organization of communicating with the Leagues.
I tried using chat. It is so disorganized I can't even tell who I am talking to, much less what league I am talking to.
Please do not go through with this decision. You will force me to move to Fantrax, as the communication ease and overall familiarity and user interface was the only thing keeping me here to begin with. They have tremendous player information and player pool depth compared to Yahoo. -
Christopher Patrick commented
Over 10 pages of commissioners freaking out and Yahoo says "meh". I'm already moving my 14 year league to another site. Thanks Yahoo. Can't wait till your site collapses.
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Dan D Levering commented
Message Boards are absolutely critical in our league. We draft with it. Discuss rules through it. Talk trash through it.
Really bad move and poor form to remove this feature Yahoo!.
My league mates will likely vote to move on to another platform if you don't reverse course.
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Dave Batista commented
This is a stupid idea I ever seen before.
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david aguiar commented
We use this feature very often
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SCOTT ZALKIND commented
Disabling a major feature with no notice was such a clown shoes move.
My league is ******. Thanks for creating a bunch of problems for me. All you had to do was email commissioners to let us know this was coming.
Unbelievable.
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Richard Griffin commented
Horrible idea, just unbelievable. The message boards are the main means of communication for the league and if you take this away if will destroy leagues, managers arent going to stick around for this nonsense.
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Steven Fulk commented
This is a ridiculously stupid move done with no notice whatsoever. Clearly, Yahoo couldn't care at all what their users and/or league commissioners say, so the only obvious solution is to move your leagues to Fantrax, CBS or ESPN before the season starts.
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Chris L. commented
Chat is trash at Yahoo. Bring back the message boards. Without them we are moving to Fantrax after 20+ years at Yahoo. What a clown move, someone deserves a pink slip for the way this was handled.
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andrew tisellano commented
allow people to chat from lap top not just app on phone