[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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Michael J
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Let's be honest-- this is all about the continuing censorship of the internet for open-minded discussions and the intentional centralization of information online. They can't moderate all of the thousands of independent Message Boards for each league, so they just remove the entire thing for everyone.
We're done with you, Yahoo.
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Alan Partridge
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This has to be reinstated or I have to go elsewhere.
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Terry J Hatala
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Dumbest idea I’ve ever heard. Just when I thought no platform can be worse than ESPN, voila, a new candidate emerges. Message boards are very important, even lousy ESPN recognizes that. Regain your sanity and restore the message board!!!
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Green Raven
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Well this has gotten totally crazy. Everyone is telling you what you should have already known. Without the Message Board you can't use Yahoo ... period.
Yet all we get back in reply from you is crickets.
This suggestion site and the "Help" thing is pretty well hidden to keep us away anyhow. But we found it despite your efforts and still you try to hide away and not address this major issue. Yeah such a really good business model that.
I hope someone builds a website showcasing how little you care about your long term clients. If "they build it I will come" and sign petitions, post, whatever. Do everything I can to make it clear your actions (1) made no sense at all, (2) are driving us away in droves so (3) never use Yahoo again for anything because when told the basic truth about how Fantasy Sports are played, Yahoo still hides and stonewalls and does nothing to correct their mistakes.
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Roberto Arias
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Hey, my commish is talking about leaving Yahoo because we no longer have the message board. Is there something that can be done?
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Aaron Wybrow
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Removing the message boards has to be one of the most mind-boggling decisions that I have ever seen happen in my lifetime. I admit that I don't have the statistics that Yahoo will have to showcase the overall percentage of usage of the message boards in public and private leagues compared to the Yahoo Chat Feature and the number of posts reported to Yahoo for inappropriate/profane content. However, with all of that aside, I have been an active user of Yahoo Fantasy sports since 2001 both as a manager and a commissioner and the message board in an integral part to the fantasy experience. The leagues that I run are reliant upon the message board to be able to conduct the set up for our private settings and without them, the leagues will have to move to an alternative site.
This appears to be either a direct ploy to entirely phase out Fantasy Sports and focus solely on the far-more-profitable daily fantasy slate or it is an egregious error in judgement that will haunt Yahoo for years to come. Don't you understand that it is easier to retain your customers than try to win new ones?? I can only imagine the cheers at fantasy sports sites across the internet as what is widely considered to be the leader of all fantasy sports sites creates one of the largest blunders ever seen.
All in all, I am so angry at this which may seem to be completely illogical given that fantasy sports really mean nothing in the grand scheme of life, however I can guarantee that without the message boards appearing by March 1st, I will be moving all of my fantasy experiences to an alternative site in what I can only imagine is the greatest mass exodus in fantasy sports history.
I don't even think that if Yahoo Sports was embroiled in some public scandal that they would lose a fraction of the membership base that they are set to lose this year.
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Nick D.
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You got to bring back the message boards for fantasy baseball. There’s no way to communicate with managers anymore. What is going on? How much is yahoo saving for removing it? Come on!
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Bob Zander
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Eliminating the message board from your fantasy baseball site was a really dumb idea. I have been managing multiple teams and commissioning multiple Yahoo leagues since 2004. The message board is an integral part of participating, whether as a manager or a commissioner. You leave me no choice but to seek out a different platform that gives a **** about its users.
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Tom Schmansky
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I run several leagues in each of the four major sports. I also participate in several other leagues. The message boards have and will continue to be a critical part for many of these leagues. I can foresee moving to another platform our disbanding the leagues.
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Tony Parslow
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I'm not so naive to think Yahoo didn't know what they were doing and the response that would follow. They must have their reasons and believe they are so good they don't need to care about their customers preferences.
They aren't bringing back the message boards. Their way or the highway! Fine, I was playing Fantasy before Yahoo and will be after. I will be better off anyway if I don't see their liberal ***** on their sports stories on their site. Time to go back to a strictly "Fantasy" site. Adios!!
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Steve Tammen
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No messaging... we are going backwards in technology is it? C'mon man!
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Pavel Ackerman
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Twitter: @jlanzone - the Yahoo! sports CEO
Twitter: @apolloglobal - the company that bought yahoo from Verizon.They deserve a total bombardment of messages regarding thisterrible decision.
#poorchoice #PoorDecisionMaking #flub #mistake #blunder #blooper #error
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Sean Michael
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We need our league message boards back from the previous year 2022 baseball season as we have valuable information on there. Whoever thought it was a genius idea to remove it without warning is an imbecile. Fantasy sports might be free but we bring in advertising dollars and a lot of the players play the fantasy daily options. If we all start leaving Yahoo because someone decided to take this drastic change without notifying people you are going to cost your company millions. All for turning off the message boards. No one likes the chat function as it takes forever to find things on it, its just a way to communicate and the old timers do not want to use it. Do everyone a favor and restore the message boards so we can conduct business like normal. Especially since you did not add anything new this year for free leagues.
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Pat Hogan
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Imperative that message boards remain or else we are back in the public leagues. My leagues all use the message boards on Yahoo as there is a lot of banter back and forth regarding all manner of subject matter from trade information, weekly awards, policy changes, commish information, fellowship. etc. Taking the message boards from us just moves us to another platform. Believe me, we will seek our entertainment elsewhere.
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Mark Haanraadts
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I am in 6 leagues, and all of them are looking into alternatives. I have no idea why Yahoo thought it was a good idea to remove this (maybe to save a few dollars on cloud storage?) but organizing a league only using chat is simply impossible. How do we keep track of changes? Announce more complicated trades? Take care of pay-outs? The chat function doesn't work and most people I talk to don't want to deal with a third party message board. Whoever is in charge of Yahoo Fantasy and approved this should be fired on the spot.
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Dan Rackauskas
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Why would you delete the message boards? Are you actively trying to drive users away?
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Sal Cipriano
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League Message Boards are without a doubt the most important communication tool we have.
Not everyone opts into emails and not everyone has or wants the app (many players play on their desk/laptops only).
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dj sacco
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We need the message board back ASAP. wtf.....
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Rick Whetsel
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while we are working to get everyone organized and setup to start the season, we need a way to communicate get feedback on draft dates and other league matters that everyone can see.
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Ray West
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The message board is a critical function in the fantasy baseball game. Fantasy baseball isn't just about geeking out on stats and players- it's about friendly competition with friends and family. The message board is a vital tool for communication. It's where we debate changes to league settings, congratulate each other on our successes and rib each other about failures. It is the heart and soul of our fantasy baseball game. The Yahoo developers are making a critical error eliminating this feature. If you insist on pursuing this foolish course I will be forced to migrate my league elsewhere. I sincerely hope that does not come to pass. The only reason I have a Yahoo email account or use any Yahoo services is for fantasy baseball. Please don't let those foolishness drive me away from a platform I enjoy and appreciate.