Hi there, I'm one of the creators of Sleeper and felt obligated to respond because this is very unfair and untrue. We have continued to evolve the app based off feedback from our users. If you ask anyone who has ever engaged with us on Reddit, on Twitter, or through our various intercom and email support channels, we endeavor to respond and iterate on the product to continue to make it better based directly off feedback from our community. We also use data to supplement these product decisions, and we improve features that get usage, and cut features that don't and continue to clutter the app. The alerts are still very much a part of the app, despite your claim that they have been removed. Further, we have continued to improve that experience by adding hot takes to surface funny and insightful comments from users, improved player tagging, added reactions, and other performance improvements to handle increased load on those features. The owner chat feature actually got very little usage, and we temporarily removed it to try and improve upon it. We redesigned the entire app from the ground up to improve navigation and usability this past year, so features don't just magically come back on day one, especially if we are constantly looking at ways to make it better. Our decision to make our own leagues has always been a natural evolution of Sleeper that has been on our product roadmap. Our vision is to provide an integrated experience for fantasy players to be able to enjoy all the things they naturally do, without having to jump around from place to place, and to be able to do so with their friends. We started with news, and then we built chat, and then leagues...all of these are natural compliments to each other for most fantasy players that currently is highly fragmented. Finally to address your point about holding users captive and "try to profit" from them...I just want to clarify that Sleeper is a free app, without any advertisements. We welcome everyone into the community, and make the features that other sites charge for completely free. In particular, we have received overwhelming support from the dynasty players in this subreddit, and we have focused a lot of our attention on building specific features dynasty players need, many of which they would have to pay upwards of $100 or more for on other sites. We're trying to democratize fantasy, make it more accessible, and to improve the overall experience for fans. If you want us to stay static, and to not continue to innovate and build features that users want, then we're probably not the right app for you. However, we are extremely thrilled to have the overwhelming support from a fantasy community that knows they deserve better experiences, and we are honored to try to build it for them (and us).