[Chat/Message Boards] Message Board Removal Feedback
Fantasy league message boards are no longer available but you can still access historical message board posts through your fantasy profile. Moving forward, we're investing in Fantasy Chat as the place for league communication and urge you to check out some of the recent improvements we've made like adding threading and pinning with polls coming soon.
Check out the following post for additional improvements made to Fantasy Chat: https://bit.ly/3UQbvew
Adminjpaine
(Admin, Yahoo)
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Tyson Martens
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Absolutely terrible.. why would you do such a dumb thing...
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Tony Parslow
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One of the stupidest decisions along with Bud Light and Target. My Owners are having a great season of MLB Fantasy at FleaFlicker. With all of the money gained by Fantrax from this dumb decision they have improved their site. It's impressive and I plan on moving my Football Leagues there. I don't know why anyone would be loyal to a left leaning business like Yahoo who stifles free speech they don't like. Good riddens!
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Michael Souza
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I cannot overstate how absolutely crucial the message boards were to all my fantasy leagues on Yahoo. I am extremely unhappy about this decision, and I have a feeling that most of my league mates will feel the same way. To me, the chat function and the league message board had two completely different purposes. The chat function was more for keeping in touch and maybe trash talking. The league message board was essential for communicating critical league business. Anytime we considered any changes to statistics or the overall set-up of the league we would use the message board. A perfect example where the message board helped to solve a major problem was last season when the game between the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals ended up being cancelled due to the serious injury to Damar Hamlin. It happened during the fantasy playoffs and the message board was pivotal in determining a solution. I suppose we will be able to achieve the same type of communication with the chat function, but I'm afraid that it just won't be the same. I implore you to change your minds and please bring the message boards back. Thank you!
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Nick Hill
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Absolutely HATE the removal of the message boards. Our league will be switching to Fantrax next season if things don't run smoothly this one. We used Message Boards religiously for the last 12 years our group has had Fantasy Football and Hockey leagues. We may have actually started in 2010.
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Eugene Whong
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We went ahead with Yahoo for baseball after you took the message boards out. It's required us to make a league page on Facebook, thereby driving traffic away from your site.
I want to keep things 100% local and all in one place, so for football season, we're going to migrate our league over to a competitor.
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Robert Skorpil
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Why in the world would you do this??? Any logic behind not having your league chat on the same page as your other league info? Would love to see the slide deck on this proposal...
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Kevin Porter
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Everything is screwed up on Yahoo FF. Messages, I don't need to beat this dead horse, others have gave their concern, to which there's no response. There's no more pre draft player rankings, which I've used for 20+ years on here just in case I miss the draft. Very disappointing Yahoo, but apparently it doesn't matter what the masses think or express concern over.
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Jon Licata
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Removing the message board was stupid. Makes no sense.
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HUeyP ShaKa NaTUrNer
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CaN sOMeONe PLease HeLP Me fiX My LeaGUe.? i HaVe a UNeVeN 13teaMs iN WHat Was sUPPOse tO Be a 12teaM LeaGUe.!!!
THe settiNGs are sayiNG it's a eXtra reserVed teaM... PLease resPONd -
Anthony Megna
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So you want feedback, yet you apparently don't listen or read them. Bring League Message back.
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Michael Richmond
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I Agree with Mark Gonzales, Jeff & Paul gerlach, etc. in that Chat is a bad idea, Makes it useless/impossible for the COMMISH/LM to communicate with the League in an official matter. It also makes LIES, DEGRADE'N PEOPLE OR VULGER LANGUAGE GO UNCHECKED with the COMMISH/LM no power to delete such messages like they could on the League Message Board.
U are now the only Fantasy Leagues with NO LEAGUE MSG' BOARDS.............BAD, BAD, BAD, NOT GOOD! -
Mark Gonzales
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Chat only is a bad idea. We utilized Message Board to track ideas for next season, weekly prizes, etc. - keeping it in separate topics. Chat won't be able to do this for us. Please bring it back, thanks!!!
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Jeff
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We used chat for offline drafts. What is your solutions to the mess you have made!
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paul gerlach
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Please add the message board back! The new league news feed is makes it impossible to communicate. It makes no sense to have league moves, chat and everything all in one scrolling list. There are many topics I used to post on the message board that were organized/easy to find and up there as long as necessary. BRING MESSAGE BOARD BACK!
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John N
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I've made all FOUR of my leagues aware of the new chat function. Our preseason chit-chat is under way but it's all done via the mail function. NOT A SINGLE PERSON HAS USED THE CHAT.
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Tommy Tomasimo
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I don't like this at all. Our league conducts a lot of its business on the message board. The new chat room isn't even up yet? Or maybe I just don't know how to set it up? Hopefully the new system is good, but I'm not a fan at this current time.
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John Harris
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What on earth could have compelled Yahoo to remove the message boards!? I've been beating my head with a baseball bat over the last few days, and have still not been able to stumble into a comparatively awful idea... My leagues REQUIRE a method of organized communication for a wide variety of topics. It's like you didn't even freaking think to ask anybody that actually uses this site, if it would be a good idea. 99/100 people would tell you it is a colossally stupid idea, and that the 1/100 is the user that only does the bare minimum in site interaction who won't even notice. So dumb.... So, so, so, soooooo dumb... I cannot even think of WHY this was an "idea" at all. The person that thought it up should be suspended. The administrator who approved it should be fired on the spot. We will taking our league activities somewhere else if this is not fixed before the season.
Ridiculous....
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Nathan Wall
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This is ridiculous. Reinstate the message board. My league is a dynasty league that's been running for 20 years. We do our rookie draft, offline draft, trades, trading blocks, pick trades and more via our message board. Scrolling through thousands of IMs on the chat would be cumbersome and more debilitating to our league. Reinstate the message board post haste.
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Gabe Costea
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Please allow for consolation bracket playoffs for 16 team leagues... PLEASE
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Jackie McKeehan
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If there isn't going to be a message board get rid of it my keeper league, I run has messages in it from 6,4, and 2 years ago. Under recent messages. Acutely my managers would like the message boards back up and running.