Forum Topics Next Strawman Update Suggestions
innuendo
a month ago

I've seen a couple posts allude to this, but...

Improving discoverability and navigation of the forum would be a godsend.

As a newer member, I'd love to be able to browse through older discussion posts which are not company-specific. I'm sure there are some great intellectual conversations hiding in the forum which contain more general investing/other knowledge and are not getting the eyeballs they deserve.

There are loads of things that can be done here but a "simple" start would be a split of forum content into company-specific and "General discussion topics" with the ability to sort general discussion topics by popularity.

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edgescape
a month ago

Totally agree

I'm seeing the more popular stocks threads (without naming names) dominate the smaller obscure discussions

Even the suggestions and bugs discussion threads are getting drowned out.


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Strawman
a month ago

Let us have a look. Hopefully there's some low hanging fruit that can give us some good quality of life improvements.

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thunderhead
a month ago

This dovetails well with my earlier request/suggestion to make forum threads "followable", and track our favourited ones from a page on our profiles. Starring/bookmarking individual posts would be the cherry on top.

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edgescape
a month ago

Is there any way to create an ignore list of companies or ticker codes you don't want appearing on your feed?

Would think putting this in the filter option is the best place.

Thanks again.

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Bear77
a month ago

Abso-friggin-lutely!! I would love that option. There are a bunch of companies that I'm not interested in that I'd love to exclude from my feed. I haven't used the Mute feature at all yet here, for members or forums, but I would definitely use it for individual companies!

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Strawman
a month ago

Nice one. We'll take a look.

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edgescape
a month ago

Thanks for looking into this. Hopefully that will help uncover some little known gems as well.

And thanks for all the great work so far.

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edgescape
2 months ago

Has adding Excel or Text files to straws or forum posts been suggested?

Thanks


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thunderhead
3 months ago

A great feature will be to add an option to "follow" forum topics/threads that we are interested in. It will be great if we can access the followed topics/threads on a separate page in our profiles (like followed companies or members currently), and be notified of new posts.

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Strawman
3 months ago

I like it @thunderhead -- adding it to our wish list.

Speaking of which, we have been quietly working away in the background to release a more customisable index function. It's fiddly stuff, but should be a nice feature to have.

Just recently, that has taken a bit of a back seat as we explore a new data provider. Partly due to cost, but I'd really like the ability to have more current pricing, access to offshore markets and the ability to display financial info and metrics. It may to come to nothing -- we've looked at a lot of other things previously that ultimately proved unworkable -- but it's definitely something worth looking at.

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thunderhead
3 months ago

Appreciate it @Strawman. I look forward to this and other updates!

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