Not yet. This is very much a work in progress.
The plan has been to implement core functionality here and move everyone to this platform and the site into the new business model, make sure it works and is stable, then start adding in the extra features.
Things like the old charts, email, and portfolios won't be coming back, though. We're going to focus on just being the best message board we can be, and the above 3 items make no sense from a business perspective because of the following.
Charts: They weren't ours. They belonged to InfoSpace and could be yanked at any time. We have a new quotes/charts provider here, but it's not the same charts people were used to on the old site. And the cost is quite high. I haven't done the analysis yet, but suspect they're costing us far more than the ad revenue they're generating.
Email: We were having to pay for those email accounts, and most of the people who had them weren't active members of the site. Nothing but cost for us. To what end? To compete with hotmail, mail.yahoo.com, and gmail.com? No way! They can have that market!
Portfolios: Also an InfoSpace product that we didn't own. With a very expensive feed if we had to get the feed on our own.
We've kept the portfolio data, though, and though we tried our best to let everyone know far in advance that portfolios were going away, a lot of people apparently never found out. Dave's working on a way to make the data available so people can move their portfolios to one of the many excellent portfolio providers already out there. And we're also keeping the data intact in case a provider is found who can take over without costing us an arm and a leg for it.
Preview/Spellcheck is a very high priority item and though it is a very large project that'll take a lot of time to complete, it's going to be front-burner as soon as I'm satisfied the site is stable and running fairly efficiently. |
