Message Boards are pretty much the entire thread that holds all of our managers together. We email a couple times in the offseason, but once the league opens up everything (from new rules discussions, to offline prospect drafting for our "minors", to trades and their review/discussion happens on the message boards. Some message threads last weeks to resolve, others are single posts. I suppose if the Chat feature were available on the desktop version we could try it out and see how well everyone is able to keep separate threads/topics from blending into each other, but I'm very skeptical that would be any sort of solution for replacing the message board and it's power to organize commentary. I think it's an absolute must that the message board be brought back.
Message Boards are pretty much the entire thread that holds all of our managers together. We email a couple times in the offseason, but once the league opens up everything (from new rules discussions, to offline prospect drafting for our "minors", to trades and their review/discussion happens on the message boards. Some message threads last weeks to resolve, others are single posts. I suppose if the Chat feature were available on the desktop version we could try it out and see how well everyone is able to keep separate threads/topics from blending into each other, but I'm very skeptical that would be any sort of solution for replacing the message board and it's power to organize commentary. I think it's an absolute must that the message board be brought back.