[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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bobby dodson commented
As others have said, those of us in keeper/dynasty leagues have utilized the message board feature to work around many of Yahoo's deficiencies in fantasy baseball. I have long been a Yahoo truther, despite suggestions by other league managers that we move our leagues to a different platform, specifically Fantrax. We resisted the change because Fantrax was still missing some features that we wanted to maintain in Yahoo. Unfortunately, the past few years Fantrax has caught, and now surpassed, Yahoo in terms of fantasy sports. It is time the we cut our losses and move to a new platform. One of our dynasty leagues has agreed to move and the other two will follow. Fantrax knows how bad Yahoo messed up with their message board removal. They are advertising on Twitter with the headline "Message Boards and League Live Chats are going strong at Fantrax. Now is the perfect time to upgrade those fantasy baseball leagues and move to Fantrax." We brought this feedback forum to league managers attention and one responded, "I'm not getting involved. Yahoo will yahoo no matter what I say." Ouch, your customers truly believe their feedback has no bearing on the decisions made by Yahoo. Off to Fantrax we go.
Bobby D
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x ray commented
Speaking from a triad of branding, marketing, and the goal of optimizing enthusiastic participation; the message board communication has been essential for everything ranging from league discussions, owner recruitment, rule clarifications, how things work explanations, achievement congratulations, potential future settings, trivia, baseball commentary, member stories and posts of all of articles, links, laughs, and literally everything that makes a the yahoo fantasy baseball platform, the best and most uniquely equipped to maintain league cohesion and retention of passionate active participants. It is a MAJOR loss to the community-building aspects of competitively familiarity of league owners on the whole, especially in larger formats. It's a BIG mistake and I do hope that Yahoo realizes that removing the message board is a most disappointing and tone-deaf decision as to what makes Yahoo FBB so much more fun than other platforms. Please do reconsider with it only being February... the message board is a paramount tool for owner check-ins, declaring keepers, setting the draft order, coordinating draft days and times, posting season season predictions and so much more!!! There is plenty of time to bring it back. Please reflect and reinstate it, xray - 15yr Commish
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Diesel 88 commented
Please bring back the message boards. It is the only way some of the managers in my leagues communicate. You might as well remove the trade feature.
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Ed Newell commented
The message board was the only place to have league wide announcements and official record of informafion. Our league has used yahoo for 18 years and are considering moving to another platform as a result
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Nathan Street commented
Really surprised yahoo has removed the messageboard. It is a crucial feature to our leagues' activity, for informing everyone of the draft picks in offline drafts etc and keeping people engaged throughout the year.
A messy 1-thread messaging app that you cannot access from a browser just cannot replicate this.Will be moving all existing leagues to another site - fantrax probably - due to this issue alone. Which will be a sad and avoidable end to playing fantasy baseball here for about 15 years. We can't the only ones who will be leaving because of this. Will do the same with other fantasy sports if they go.
Please reconsider and bring back the messageboards asap.
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Roman Schwartz commented
How about adding back the message window in Yahoo Fantasy baseball. It's missing there for some reason.
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Tory Ford commented
Please bring back the message board, our lg uses it to converse with each other, bring up baseball subjects and it keeps our league strong and together as we build friendships and bring new people into our league, it gets them up to speed and one of the group.
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Joanne valinski commented
you can't run a viable fantasy league without quick, crisp mass communications. nothing faster than a commish post that immeadiatly shows up in our inbox while we aew working or playing online. It will also diminish all league rapport and the essetial to online advertising results ENGAEMENT and time spent, page views et al. It would be a hobbible management idea for yahoo to weaken their leagues with so many competitors ready to pick up disgruntled fantasy freaks.
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mark friedrich commented
Whose idea was this? Why do you feel it's necessary to "fix" things that aren't broken. Terrible, terrible decision that has screwed up essential communication in carefully constructed private leagues. Probably the worst decision in Yahoo Fantasy history - and that's saying something.
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Jeremy Dodd commented
You guys continue to find new ways to make it difficult to continue using Yahoo as the fantasy sports site of choice.
Message Boards are essential for a league. There's just no other way to describe it.
Bring them back or watch long time leagues wither on the vine.
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Big Otis commented
Please bring back the message boards, it is an absolutely critical feature for a fantasy league. We've been with Yahoo for over 20 years, but we'll have to switch platforms for the first time in 20 years if we don't have a message board. Hopefully you can add them back soon
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Chris L. commented
No Message board? No league for us. 20+ years down into the dumpster. We've always been a big Yahoo FBB lover but this is absurd. Good thing is, we have Fantrax if Yahoo can't make a quick pivot to add the Message Boards back on.
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louie beck commented
First remove all chat. Second install a feature that tells a manager what player he should pick up. What's next do away with all the drafts and let Yahoo pick our teams for us? I can remember when one actually had to watch and follow baseball in order to win a league, now Yahoo does everything for you!
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Ryan Mcgillicutty commented
What are you trying to do, reduce the number of people that play at Yahoo? I can not think of one good reason for this!
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Jason Glover commented
This was one of the reasons as to why Yahoo was better than ESPN and some of the rest.
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Noel Glover commented
This literally kills all communication within the league. It's like the commissioner of baseball telling all GM's that they are no longer allowed to communicate with other GM's.
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JAMES C. LEWIS commented
why? after 20 years would u do this leagues depend on this... league chat is noway near as good most people dont even know it exsists
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JAMES C. LEWIS commented
WHY? after over 20 years would you do this...leagues depend on this...league chat is no where near as good..most people doesnt know it exsists
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Edward Willis S commented
I commission four leagues on Yahoo fantasy baseball. All of my drafts use the messages board. Gathering feedback from league owners uses the ... Message board. Owners talking about league issues and seeking others' feedback uses the ... Message board. Taking this away ... I have to wonder why such a idiotic non-fantasy-friendly decision was made. And to do it without warning so commissioners in dynasty leagues had no planning time?
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JAMES C. LEWIS commented
WE NEED FOR OFFLINE DRAFTS