[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
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Steve Strange
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Anyone at Yahoo: Please explain the rationale behind eliminating the message board. Unless some revolutionary point is presented, this is the worst decision in the history of bad decisions with your site.
I'm not going to waste time elaborating on the different reasons this is horrible. Anyone with the slightest fantasy sports leadership acumen already knows why this is incredibly stupid. Are you trying to drive people to ESPN? Is that the goal?
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matt bench
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Message board is a critically important tool for league administration and communication
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matt bench
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bring back the message board and bring back the "poll" feature. The poll feature allowed the commissioner to ask the league to vote for keeper league rule changes and respond to other questions. Add it a weekly and overall tally for message board posts by team managers. I would use this to give rewards for those who make the most posts.
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matt bench
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I have been a yahoo commissioner and player for decades. I am very disapointed with the message board being taken away. I was also bummed when the "poll" feature was deactivated. I actually used the message board to award extra budget aquisition dollars for weekly posts to help keep banter alive. The chat feature does not allow to follow "message threads" which is critical in keeping track of responses to questions and topics. The message board is the VERY FAVORITE part of the league for me.
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Caleb Lippmann
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We have multiple keeper leagues on Yahoo and used the message board to post, and reply to the post with confirmations of keepers. Throughout the year the entire league times many leagues were all able to go to one spot quickly from app or desktop to see who the keepers were to make trades. Now it looks like either the Commish has to track down every single manager including the "hey, that was today" guy to compile the list by the deadline(s) and post as a Commish Note, incredible amount of more work for a Commish. Or it gets thrown into the chat and by Week 10 managers are scrolling for hours in the chat trying to find the leagues' keepers, times each league. Not all messages are equal, chat is trash talking, message board was administrative, now Yahoo is making administration exponentially more difficult. Why did the trade get vetoed, look to the message board for what rule was broken and then everyone understands, so simple, now likely to be much more confusion and frustration which is what playing fantasy football is to escape. I also experienced the same issue of entering one chat then had to shut down the app to get out of that one chat. If I have to end and restart my app multiple times a day I will assure you this will get old fast. I am for the first time in 20 years looking at new platforms.
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Kevin Burns
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Hello. We used the message board to post our weekly recaps summarizing how the teams in our league performed. This was an important tradition in our league. Is there another tool that will allow us to do that?
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Taylor Wags
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Bring back message board. It was crucial for league money breakdowns and announcements. I can't even access the chat from desktop.
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Dave Malchow
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I have a live draft starting in 7 minutes and nobody can enter the lobby...so the updates are not good. HELP!
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adam souza
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Our league draft is supposed to start in 10 minutes and no one can access the draft room
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Dave Simpson
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How are slow drafts now to be handled? We don't want to leave for other platforms after all these years with Yahoo? In one league the commish is making everyone a co-commish to keep it better organized. But it's a workaround. Other easy to use ideas?
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Mike t Lane
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This is nonsense. Might be time to leave Yahoo and go with someone else
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Johnny Du
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If you're going to force us to an inferior option, then at least make it, you know, work?
On the iOS app, on my League's home page, if I tap the League Chat button on top, it takes me to the chat.... and there's literally no button or arrow to allow me to go back to the previous page, so I have to force close the app and reopen it. Great job, Yahoo!
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R. Maxwell
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We ended up moving out chats to GroupMe. Yahoo needs to make a good amount of improvements to stay competitive and retain their user base.
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Andy Hanf
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I gave my initial feedback without "Playing around" with the new chat format.
I learned how to pin a chat, but that has little value unless you can title the thread. The next step beyond that would be able to do a search to find that title.
I'm sorry to say, but even if that were in place, that is still a downgrade from the previous message board.
I do not like the fact that you can not get to the next line by hitting 'enter" button. Enter sends the entire message.I'll keep playing around a little bit, but I am also for the first time in 10 years looking at other sites to host our league. I'd hate to lose all the historical data, record books.
I've read on multiple responses from Yahoo, that Message Board is no longer supported. I'm starting to believe you. Not to be over dramatic, but that very well may be the reason for leaving this site.
My advise is: find a way to make it happen! Bring back the message board! Then make that better- have polls, have ability to edit messages- use bold or italics. -
Mike Flanagan
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What a crock of @#$%!!!!! Message boards are integral to fantasy sports. What conceivable reason could you have for removing them? What kind of censorship is this? Absolutely ridiculous. One more thing ruined by the progressive movement.
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Danny O Reilly
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Ridiculous!
Baseball league switched to Fantrax
Message boards are vital to league.
Chat system is a joke.
Been W/Yahoo forever now need to look else where.
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methodnine
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Trash idea. We use the message board as our #1 communication tool for our dynasty league. Same for baseball, but all the posts in this thread didn't matter for baseball, doesn't matter for football. They don't care.
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Andy Hanf
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We have used the message board to discuss rule changes, weekly recaps, use for historical records, take a poll/voting. I love to reference this. Every year I go back to it, cut and paste our Keeper Rules for example.
Please reconsider bringing it back.
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Duane Ludden
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Why must this be either/or??!! Communication is at the core of these leagues. You just took one away. Maybe you should/have to do this for public leagues given the vile comments I"ve seen there. But NO reason to eliminate for private leagues. This reduces communication. And forcing me as commissioner, at request of the league, to look at other sites for our league...after 21 years on yahoo. Sux. We used the message board for voting on rule changes, tracking details of trades, recording for prospective rule changes for next year, historical context, among other things. Who the heck does Yahoo talk to in making these decisions?? Certainly not league commissioners. Very unsettling. I have not used Fantrax but some of the comments here sound good. I guess I will need to review.
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larry landon
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DO NOT REMOVE THE MESG BOARD!