[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)
shared this idea
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Edward Thomas Harris
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Message Boards were not broken, so why did you think you had to fix them?
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Edward Thomas Harris
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I agree with everyone that want the messages boards returned.
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Christopher Stearns Lockheardt
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For the two decades I've been running my Yahoo fantasy football league, the message board has been my greatest tool for creating an entertaining and informative experience for my team owners. I posted weekly messages with fun stats, game previews, personal news and milestones. The message board was also the backbone of our league history, since it was easy to access archived messages from seasons past. The "blink and you miss it" nature of a chat stream does not serve any of these crucial communication needs well or even adequately. Please stop constantly trying to dumb down and dilute your fantasy football offering. Fantasy football leagues are for growing and nurturing communities of friends and sports fans. It's not just supposed to be another excuse to tap on your phone during beer commercials on a Sunday.
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Eric Girard
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The original message board was the heart of my league's communication: a way to share stories, discuss league decisions, share historical league facts, congratulate winners. It wasn't the most versatile board, but it did its job well, and for a time it was a way for people to even look in the past for old messages for a dose of nostalgia (from players who have passed on for example). A "topic and responses" format has better organizational structure of thoughts than a "spew of serial chat". One could use an outside message board instead, but not everyone shares the same social platforms (sometimes actively avoiding doing so), and why should they? This is where the league is. Why can't a message board continue to be a feature here when it's been done adequately enough for more than two decades? It's been a 21 year run for my Yahoo! league, but I seriously am considering looking into other options for next year if the message board does not return.
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Henry Tien
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Yeah this new message board is terrible. Please bring back the old message board. I need to post useful information on this such as weekly recaps, etc. This is cluttered, hard to use, only shows a little bit of the message at first glance just to name a few of the faults of this new format.
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Boris Gonzo
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Please bring back message boards we post a lot of information there.
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Jeff Koenig
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I'm pretty upset that the message boards are gone. League Chat is not the same; and it doesn't really make any logical sense as to why the message boards were removed.
Any kind of random post now will get lost in the shuffle of player movement league posts.Yahoo used to be so simple, and that's why I loved it.
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Charlie
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I strongly prefer message boards instead of this new chat
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Sim
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Message boards from every season of our keeper league have disappeared. All of our keeper selections, player costs, draft order, waiver priority, and keeper rules were on our message boards, and now they are gone. There is no way we can continue to operate our league unless the message boards are restored. If this issue is not addressed, we will no longer be playing any fantasy sports on Yahoo. You should stop investing in your new League Chat feature immediately. Your loyal customers do not want this major downgrade. Please do not disable comments in this post. Let our voices be heard.
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Ryan Roozeboom
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This is a HORRIBLE idea. Email league function is impossible to find. Removing league chat makes it impossible to talk to league mates about trade collusion. No smack talk. How does your platform get worse every year instead of improving? Last year I use yahoo.
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Alex Hudimatch
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I like the old message boards and have also been asking for poll functionality for quite some time. The chat gets bogged down with irrelevant chit-chat and trash talk and key messages/conversations are lost. We need a forum to sort by topic and discuss important issues like draft dates, keeper settings, rule changes, etc.
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Kyle Carlstrom
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Yahoo removing the message board is completely asinine. We used the message boards for fun and engaging conversations like weekly power rankings and such. And all we get now is a league chat that NOBODY uses. This will probably be the last year our league uses Yahoo Fantasy as it has gotten worse and worse each year.
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Punj Wal
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Bring it back
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Toby Glanville
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We would use the Message Board for tracking draft pick trades. It wasn't critical tho, and we actively use Fantasy Chat daily. It's just cool going back 20 years to see trades and debates that we had.
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Fly Fly
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Worst idea ever. No way to communicate on desktop. Disaster
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adam kotarski
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For years leagues have used the message board to post important messages. Teams could easily go back and find the topic. Now its a chat that one long thread that is basically useless unless people are just using it to chat.
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WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?
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mike l herron
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To not have it is beyond crazy to me. You have to have it. WILD
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Clint Lundmark
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We used the message board for a weekly "Fantasy Update" newsletter. About half are written by the commissioner, but each manager usually writes at least one per season. Because it is a newsletter it has an issue title (Topic) representing the week and is almost always written in paragraph format with each issue consisting of 3 - 5 paragraphs. As expected in Fantasy Football they contain a lot of gloating and taunting. Other managers, often of the teams being taunted, could reply. Because it was kept contained per season, for all previous seasons it is easy to go back and read a past favorite. Further, as the league changes over time, new-to-the-league managers can read past issues they never would have received another way. League Chat is close, but not quite the same experience and is much more suited for league-wide banter and discussion outside of the newsletter.
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Alejandro Perreira
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Put the message board back on the league page. Why would you take that out? It's vital for posting news under distinct and separate topics that won't get lost in the chat.