I was concerned about losing the message board and my concerns have been realized. As much as I have tried to promote usage of the League Chat, posts are down by 90% (you can validate this yourself if you want). I have been commissioner of this league for decades and a majority of the managers have been playing in this league for over 10 years. We have had a running in-house rule where each week managers make a post get bonus Aquisition Dollars. I just discontinued this in-house rule, because posts (League Chats) are very rarely made by anyone but me this year. So very disappointed. One manager just suggested we move to a different league where there is a more user friendly message board.
While I appreciate Yahoo's effort to try and make the message board funner, it has been a disaster and quite frankly has ruined the league atmosphere.

concur. It's just one confusing continuous stream now...maybe be keep it, but allow for separate threads

BRING BACK MESSAGE BOARDS ASAP!!!!!

PLEASE bring back the chat boards!!

Here's a radical idea. Bring back the message boards. This thread feature is horrendous and impossible to follow for active leagues. Had we discovered that messages were being removed sooner than 10 days before the start of the season, we would have searched for a different host site for our league, who has used Yahoo to host since 2001. Incredibly disappointing

Revert to "old" message boards, the "new" chat is just terrible..

Yahoo + is a joke. I've tried reaching out via email and get no response. I try to chat to resolve some issues but I have to sign up for the gimmick idea Yahoo+. This along with the removal of message boards gives me a constant reminder to never use Yahoo. Will be moving the league elsewhere due to these terrible updates. Yahoo in general is just awful.

Removing message board is the worst thing Yahoo has done in at least the 15 years we have been using the site. You received 100s of negative comments and feedback stressing the importance of message boards. Bring them back please.

What we need is a way to have multiple active threads so that the replies can be tracked within each conversation.

For example, i do a weekly article for my football league, which managers comment on. I would like to keep that separate from league transactions and other topics of conversation. I’ve tried “pinning” the article, but that doesn’t have the same effect.

In the current chat feature, it’s just one big mess of comments and transactions. And i know the transactions can be turned off, that doesn’t really help with the multiple threads issue.

We’ve had the same group of guys in fantasy basketball since 2003 and are all very disappointed that your company decided to cancel message boards and “invest” in the chat feature.

Fantasy Chat is horrible. No formatting. It is like texting in the 1990's. Can't even skip spaces to make a new paragraph. If you hit ENTER it sends the message.

I used to do weekly write-ups for awards, weekly bonus contests, side-bets, etc. on my league football message boards. Now I'm limited to short one-liners in chat threads that get lost in dozens of player transactions. Deleting the message boards was dumb. If they aren't back by the start of baseball again, me and my 3 leagues and 30 players are out of here.

We get it, you like the Chat.....so improve it.
I just posted a reminder in our Keeper's chat about a post I made three weeks ago about Keeper's Deadline, but no one will see the reply because it's lost in three weeks of threads. So basically I am requesting when someone replies, that the thread is moved to the first location everyone sees when they open chat. Otherwise the replies don't get seen. You know what would be even better? A message board.

I for one have been a commissioner for 15 years. I’m seriously considering moving my league to another app. A few years ago the video posting on chat was removed. This year message board was removed, which I used to post week to week reactions and bold predictions for the league to consume and engage in. And now the new chat doesn’t allow me to post photos from my camera roll and I can’t even use their gif feature. What’s the point of a new and improved chat if nothing works?!

I really should be out of control and they want. The Messenger board turn on Fantasy football. We do a lot of talking back-and-forth. We enjoy our Messenger board for the last 2 weeks. It's been very boring. Our commissioner should be able to decide if the Messenger board has been misuse.

New message chat in Fantasy leagues sucks. Why mess with stuff that works fine? The new system flawed , try making a poll just to see how it works and dont know how too. Tried looking it up couldn't find how too. Please bring back old chat systems .

I agree with Grey 100% and everyone else who has chimed in supporting the desire to reinstate the message board. If users are suggesting using another app to help with communication, you're R&D team is failing pretty bad. Fix it, please. Obviously the code already exits, just copy/paste that **** back in. Do that and this issue is resolved. It's a Win Win...

@Dacat, there shouldn't be a need to download another app to simply communicate within the league. The message board provided everything the league needed when it comes to communication. Most, if not all, of our managers would not be interested in having to rely on another source to give us what the yahoo platform already have the capabilities in doing. Posting .gif's is quite low on our wish list.

I set up a group foir each of my Yahoo leagues on Whatsapp. It's been great. You can DM anyone to discuss trades or message the group. Excellent for commish. You've just got to get everyone on whatsapp. Plus, you can play with gifs all you want unlike yahoo.

BRING THE MESSAGE BOARDS BACK!

Everyone in our league is disappointed in the decision to get rid of the message board, even those managers who don't post a lot. It allows the league to communicate with one another without having to check their phones for text alerts or email. We post weekly tid bits, enthusiastic discussions, odd stats based on our own league history and are able to easily schedule get togethers during the season. We do not want to take our league to another platform but will have to consider it if those in decision making positions choose to stick with this new format.

Message Boards!!!!
Yahoo you seriously need to bring back the message boards for all leagues. Instead of improving the experience you are making it worse. Bring back ASAP!!!!!! Before hockey season starts!!!!