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[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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  • Leo Mangini commented  ·   ·  Report

    Totally against removing the message board, I'm in at least 10 leagues and we all use this to communicate. I will end up using a different service other than yahoo so please do not do this.

  • David H. commented  ·   ·  Report

    Awful idea. Why would this even be a consideration? This is the heartbeat of every league.

  • Jeremy Dodd commented  ·   ·  Report

    The message boards are NOT coming back.

    They're just attempting to farm ideas to build the "improved chat" at some point during the season when it will be too late.

    That's why you aren't seeing a response to the feedback. None is intended.

    Again, the message boards are not coming back despite the clear indication that it's a horrible idea.

    Your best bet is to leave Yahoo for another service that still has boards like we're doing.

  • Robert Zullo commented  ·   ·  Report

    FORTY-NINE PAGES of comments on this subject-99.8% are NEGATIVE! hey yahoo.....get the not so subtle hint from your C U S T O M E R S and put back the **** message boards! this is a joke!!!!!

  • steve s commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is necessary to run leagues

  • Marcus F commented  ·   ·  Report

    In the real world one seeks "FEEDBACK" in order to not appease their clientele and customers, but to rather analyze the feedback, and then if consistent castigation of a poor decision is heard, then change occurs. YOU CLOWNS here at Yahoo are ignoring the HUNDREDS of appropriate comments ripping you idiots for getting rid of the message boards. You are gas lighting us. You have no intention of appropriately bringing them back, and even more sadly, as a business owned by NBC, you are beholden to your shareholders. You have hundreds of long-time players leaving you, and appropriately so. Eat your crow, and put the **** message boards back. And then fire the moron or morons who made this atrocious, ignorant decision. Thank you.

  • Rob Keough commented  ·   ·  Report

    Terrible decision - please bring back the usual message board.

  • Rook Dragonwolf commented  ·   ·  Report

    Its apparent that Yahoo is not run by Americans at all, otherwise Yahoo would know how important Yahoo league message board is. Yahoo a few years ago was in financial situation and laid off many folks, you manage to get back on your feet and now you gonna fall back flat on your face on your own doings. Come on, folks, listen to your customers, who understand the game (which Yahoo doesn't). bring back the message board.

  • hae7 Escontrias commented  ·   ·  Report

    In the past, proposed trades have been voted on via the message board. Other league business, changes, and proposals were posted and voted upon in the message board. Do not eliminate the Message Board.

  • Michael Stack commented  ·   ·  Report

    Frankly, cut down on the gambling ads every time I navigate to a new Fantasy page. That could free-up a few engineers.

  • Michael Stack commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just Yahoo Sports eating itself. The important thing here is to look into what other sites are doing this. I rarely use message boards anywhere other than Yahoo bc there are so many trades, etc., going on, and info that needs to be pushed to the forefront quickly, and sometimes needs a major vote/decision quickly. Chat is not the way to go. Some don't check their chat, (or email, lol) and even enabling it within the app is not pertinent to making the leagues work as efficiently. if LDI Sports shuts down all his leagues, I'm going elsewhere. It must be hard to jusy leave a good thing alone.

  • Bryan mueller commented  ·   ·  Report

    You are trying to fix something that isn't
    broken. Just leave it the way it was.
    Tweaking something just to tweak is
    going to cost you many hundreds if not
    thousands of leagues just calling it quits.

  • Easy E commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yahoo, just bring back the boards!

  • Tony Farthing commented  ·   ·  Report

    The necessity of having a message board is one that may require my groups to find other options than Yahoo! Why would you remove such an important option from your sites? Our league is constantly using the message boards to discuss trades, possible rule changes for upcoming seasons, posting keepers from year to year, and talking smack. With people playing from different areas in the country, it is imperative that the message boards be returned in order for us to stay with Yahoo!

  • D R commented  ·   ·  Report

    STUPID STUPID STUPID THIS YAHOO DECISION IS ASININE AND SKOULB BROUGHT BACK

  • James Risius commented  ·   ·  Report

    It is imperative that there be a messaging function that allows for threaded conversation.

    I'm in baseball and basketball leagues that have been running for 20+ years, and I strongly believe that they would not have held together if the main option for communication to the entire league was a chat feature only available on a smartphone. It strips the ability of including needed nuance and makes conversations more reactionary and reduces them to less thoughtful spam behavior.

    We don't want to have to manage using a 3rd party messaging service to supplement a now missing key functionality of Yahoo Fantasy Sports. Even if the plan is to introduce these needed features, it is poor execution to leave use with a gap of time where we are forced to use communication channels that are more difficult to use.

    There needs to be a web-based messaging option that allows for threads/posts that can individually be replied to. There needs to be a way to have multiple conversations happening because that's what happens when you have multiple managers having discussions on rule change suggestions, trade talk, real-life league team talk, offline draft picks, etc.

    The first thing that came up in our baseball league chat when we realized this change was put in place was if there were now better options than Yahoo for a fantasy sports platform.
    We've stuck with Yahoo because of the simple and easy-to-use setup. We favor a league with weekly lineups and transactions that process only once per week as well. The purpose is to allow us to fully participate in the league without having to constantly participate with our time throughout the week. This change of removing the message board I think goes against what my perception of Yahoo Fantasy Sports has always been. Also, it introduces yet another technological creep where if someone wants to participate in something that they enjoy then they must engage in it using a cell phone.

    Personally, I would prefer to not have the Yahoo Fantasy installed on my cell phone at all. I understand the need to develop for it. Heck, I understand that me saying that will make my voice less likely to be listened to since I am basically saying I want to be less engaged and use Yahoo services for less time than the average user. The usage numbers probably show that more people use a smartphone app than the web interface. And I'm assuming that is why things have unfolded as they have. The message board function couldn't be easily made to work in the smartphone app, and usage aka monetization is higher in the app. So scrap the message board entirely.

    Again, I don't want to have to find a different fantasy sports service. Many of my league members will not want to either. But if the product is now clearly inferior in our eyes, there is not a lot of friction keeping us from reacting to this change and the incentive to moving our leagues for what we have seen as a basic functionality for many years.

  • LDI President commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hello

    Ive been a yahoo commissioner for almost 20 years. ALL of my regular leagues and my keeper leagues had all trades are voted on and signings posted on the message boards. That way the whole league knew what was happening and there was transparency.

    THIS IS A DISASTER FOR MY LEAGUES.

    I have a following of over 200 yahoo players and organize over 20 leagues a season in baseball and over 30 in football for you guys. This will make running my leagues difficult if not impossible. I will consider disbanding my leagues...

    Checkout my history and you will see how my leagues run.

    PLEASE allow commissioners to choose message boards (if they elect to ) for their leagues.

    This NO message board mandate should be in public leagues only.

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