[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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Caillie
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It's been almost 3 weeks since this particular feedback page was created, and we still have no answers from Yahoo. This is unacceptable. I've had several issues with Yahoo over the last 20 years, but I've never seen a feedback page like this. Literally every comment on this topic is negative. Removing the message boards without having a backup option readily available is ridiculous. DO SOMETHING YAHOO, LEAGUES NEED TO COMMUNICATE NOW. Key Dates: March 30 (Opening Day). We need to figure out keepers & draft details well before then.
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John Riservato
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Not sure I am understanding why you are removing this feature. If it is not broken don't fix it. Message Boards are better then chat and email. I don't want my email clogged up and chat can be done via phones and such. Message Board always provides me with some sort of anticipation upon pulling up my fantasy everyday, especially during football season. Yahoo is great for fantasy sports, but if you start removing features, especially popular ones, our league may look at other platforms.
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william smith
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This league uses the message board for basic communication between players and as commish, for the maintenance of the league. Discontinuing the message board is a huge mistake.
On a second subject. The new players info pages are amazingly stupid. Yahoo has removed about 90% of the content to add a large picture of the player. The old format gave us the last ten games line scores. Everything we needed to see if we want to add a player, now we can only see two stats. The player news feaature had been destroyed as useful. -
Bill Stone
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I'm looking all over for chat and apparently it's only on the app. ????
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Robert Zullo
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removing the message board is incredibly stew pid and the "chat" sucks! fire anyone at yahoo that had a hand in this. makes ZERO sense!!!
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Michael Kilburn
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I know I have added my comments before, but have seen no comments or replies from Yahoo. The majority of people on this feedback forum, are against the change and I am one as well. The message board was the easiest and most convenient way to reach all managers and to make sure there was history of the decision. My league has been going for 12 years and everything is shared on those message boards.
I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YAHOO DOES NOT GET RID OF THIS MESSAGE BOARD, AND BRINGS IT BACK FOR THIS SEASON.
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sam krauter
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The message boards are literally the only way we can organize our league. There is zero communication without them. This is going to kill leagues.
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Craig Mitchell
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This is incredibly stupid. Message boards kept everything organized by thread and reduced the emails and having another chat I have to follow. I am looking to move all of my leagues off of Yahoo as a result. Having chat without threads to track conversations and having every league roster move included is incredibly cluttered. You need to a solution to this ASAP or bring back the message boards. The chat also is on on the app, so from a desktop is useless.
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Alec Husztek
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Absolutely terrible. This will be the end of my keeper baseball league. You made a terrible error Yahoo. Must have made lots of layoffs, eh? 🗑️
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Jim Barsness
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One day closer to opening day and the forced end of my Yahoo Baseball days. Congrats on your awful decision.
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mark januszewski
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the no message board thing really sucks... we have a bimonthly posting and other cool stuff... league has had the same EIGHT core players since 2007... this blows.. weekly recaps, rumors, etc... Plus the Swami checked in with predictions ... this once wonderful product continues to deterioate ... ugggh. I'm 73, 15 years ago some most of the guys in the league were still in college... now grown with families... Yes, we LOVE baseball... Yes, we love torturing ourselves with this marvleously maddening game... but now the treasure is the rivalries and friendship that were built on those message boards.
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Tony Parslow
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My 10 year Baseball Leagues are now deleted. Good job Yahoo. :( Next comes my Football Leagues.
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Jon Barber
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It was a MUCH BETTER way to approach a trade and offer it up to the whole league. Felt less sneaky than a chat.
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Chris L.
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Message boards gone? We'll be gone with them. What a clownshow over at Yahoo nowadays.
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DENNIS R ST.PIERRE
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ABSURD. Chat is not useful enough for what we use the message board for. All league functions we use in the pore season are through them message board. Can't even begin to do that through chat. Yahoo without the message boards goes from being one of the very best fantasy sports sites to the worst. You seriously need to reconsider this horrendous mistake on your part
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Cory Brown
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Message board is critical for league communication. Not all players use the fantasy app, and rely solely on the message board for communication.
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J B
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This was a terrible decision as you can see from the responses. The message board was/is the easiest way to communicate with the whole league. BRING BACK THE MESSAGE BOARDS!
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Ryan
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Does this have to do with the layoffs at Yahoo??? is getting rid of the message boards a vindictive move by unhappy Yahoo employees (or soon-to-be ex-employees), perpetrated to intentionally push people away from Yahoo??? [It's the only motive that makes sense]
It's ridiculous how (when posting here), it says "How can we make Fantasy Baseball better?"
Fully explain why Message Boards were abruptly taken away OR put them back on so we can follow through with at least one more season of fantasy sports with Yahoo.
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J Barnes
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Poor decision yahoo
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Ryan
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Message Boards are CRITICAL. Literally, this change will obliterate the Yahoo Fantasy user-base. Those who made this change have to realize that - I wonder if it has something to do with the Yahoo layoffs - like, truthfully, is it a vindictive move by unhappy Yahoo employees (or soon-to-be ex-employees), perpetrated to intentionally push people away from Yahoo??? [It's the only motive that makes sense]