Probably the wrong forum - but here's my query Strawman. I added 4 companies to my Strawman.com scorecard yesterday afternoon - well before the market closed. Three of those companies were added at the day's closing price. However one (TGG) was not - and is still showing as "Pending". Now I know they traded yesterday because I bought more TGG into two of my real-life portfolios at $1.185 and at $1.19. They closed up 2c (for the day) at $1.19. Why then are they still shown as "Pending"? Two of the four companies I added to my scorecard yesterday were added AFTER I added TGG, and those two companies were succesfully added at the day's closing price. So it's NOT because I added them too late in the day, and it's also NOT because they didn't trade on the day. What gives?
G'day Strawman
Firstly, love the newsfeed idea. Has been an excellent addition and pretty well executed.
I've got one small suggestion for possible improvement though. Can you explain to me the purpose of re-activating a straw?
Is that just for when a straw becomes stale due to time passing, the user can then reactivate it to keep it current? I've got a whole lot of news feed entries today for reactivated straws that I've already read. Doesn't really achieve much.
Cheers
Dangles
Ah right. So what we have done is to seperate "alerts" from new content. So the top right icon will light up and show you when:
Content from people or companies you follow now show up in the newsfeed (we've basically followed the approach used by Facebook and Twitter). So Straws, Valuations, Forum posts, new trade alerts all show up in your newsfeed -- just in chronological order. If you visit the associated company pages, you will still see unread markers on new content you havent seen.
We plan to offer greater personalisation features and even email alerts eventually, so users can customise things to their own preference. We might also add the unread icon to the items in the newsfeed. As with all of Strawman, it's an ongoing work in progress.
And we very much value the feedback of users too. We want to make this as useful a tool as we possibly can.
Let us know in this thread, or by emailing us at admin@strawman.com if you have any thoughts or suggestions. Our approach, in general, is to go with what a majority of users prefer -- so don't be backwards in coming forwards.