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    Ryan H commented  · 

    I find the decision to remove message boards and lean on chat to be ridiculous.
    Not everyone does chat but everyone could see the message board. And, considering some people don't even allow emails from their leagues, you're making communication with other GMs more complicated than it needs to be.
    At least with message boards it was possible for everyone to access communications and respond regardless. You all at Yahoo know exactly what I'm talking about and I'm sure you can run the analytics around chat, who uses it/who doesn't, email, who granted permission to their league to receive league emails/who doesn't and what communication takes places ovary message boards.
    If you make things harder, people will find the path of late resistance and leave. My league of 10 yrs is contemplating leaving next season.
    Oh and if chat/email are the only options, allow me to email managers in my league via the Yahoo Sports app so I at least have options.
    Are message boards really what you think is important to change/fix?

    How about fixing all the "broiling" GMs so leagues are more competitive rather than limiting how GMs can communicate/coordinate with one another?

    I understand some people may use message boards to bully or verbally abuse others so if that's behind this change, punish those not acting appropriately instead. I also understand in a chat based world where people text you might have thought forcing people away fun message boards wasn't going to be an issue... Well it is. I don't know anyone in any of my leagues that's happy and this. Turn message boards back on otherwise a ton of us are going to leave I've been playing fantasy baseball in some capacity since 1997 (maybe before) and outside of a couple exceptions maybe very early on, I've been exclusively using Yahoo for my fantasy sports. There was a point in time when Yahoo and ESPN were pretty much it for fantasy sports... But that's not the way it is anymore. Make ridiculous decisions like these again, you're going to have a lot of us veterans telling you guys to go pound sand. There's an acronym KISS... Keep it simple silly (silly isn't the actual word but I'm sure you get the point). So keep it simple and maybe consider polling your customers/users before making changes.
    Rant over.

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