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Pastimes : SI Beta Site Launch - 7/01/99 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BryanB who wrote (1059)	7/30/1999 10:31:00 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 2340

Yes, thanks, Bryan, I know. Thing is, it's not as useful to me - no intra-day 1-day and 5-day charts, which i use a lot ... compare - quote.yahoo.com beta.siliconinvestor.com Neither service has made an effort to link to or to supply much relevant data, but Yahoo at least has the intra-day charts, which are quite handy when things get rolling. And they do tend to supply more generally on Canadian stocks than SI. They also have streaming Reuters news and a great many handy links, for instance YahooUK and YahooOz which my friend uses a lot - finance.uk.yahoo.com au.finance.yahoo.com No way can Go2net cover all this stuff in the near future. You can't be all things to all people right off the bot. The loss of my Yahoo button, by itself, is no big deal, it'll make it harder to check back into SI, that's all ... i just see it, like the Datek ad, as symptomatic of Go2netkultur's disastrous influence on a great medium. Better to do what you can do and do it well. The vision of the Dryers that is expressed so well in real Classic SI is that the post is the centre of the forum - the focus - and everything that augments the post is Good, while everything that detracts from the post is Evil. I agree with this completely. The big dark swipe on the top of each post, currently blue, detracts from the post in that it distracts the eye and forces one to scroll down a greater distance. I can see no reason for so many lines of unnecessary stuff on top of the post. Navigation could be easily handled on two lines, with one line for the inevitable Go2net ad. Put the quote box and the redundant 'SI Navigation' box down on the bottom. Compress the rest. Then a person could read maybe the first five lines of a post without scrolling. Classic SI could even be improved a little in that respect, imho. I have the same post up right now in both Classic SI and Go2netbeta, and i'm not sure if it's optical illusion or not, but i think the print is smaller in Gbeta .... whatever the cause, it's considerably harder to read ... maybe the eye is just being distracted by the unnecessary dark blotches. Also, while i don't pretend to understand the technology, nobody is going to convince me that you can squeeze all that dark colour through the lines and end up with the same loading speed. And loading speed is critical. One feature that it would be nice to see incorporated into Classic SI, besides .... um, survival, would be the View 10 posts url - very good idea, that would save a lot of clicking. Thanks for your response, and for not calling my favourite site bad names -g- .. cheers

To: BryanB who wrote (1059)	7/30/1999 10:52:00 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 2340

Another Canuck concern - there are no links to Carlson Online in the Go2net copy. Compare these two - beta.siliconinvestor.com #Subject-12441 Same thread, supposedly ... but click 'Carlson On-line' in the latter and you get this - fin-info.com .. which is extremely handy, gives you websites and NRs and a direct link to the sedars. I use it umpteen times a day. There is no substitute. Maybe Go2net plans to install them later, i don't know. If so, that's great. But they're already here in real Classic SI, working fine -g-

To: BryanB who wrote (1059)	7/30/1999 11:23:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2340

Once upon a time i could have bought an Edsel or a Pontiac or a Caddy even, any of those tarted-up finny showboat creations that sucked barrels of gas through those big motors till the body rotted out and the doors fell off about two and a half years later. But i didn't - I bought a Volkswagen [and invested the other two-thirds of the money]. It worked great, i kept it even after getting a pickup years later. Cheap to buy, cheap to run, excellent traction, quality German engineering - it outlasted several of my friends' Detroit finned monsters, and got me from Point A to Point B and back very well indeed. And best of all - it was plug ugly. I really liked that. There was no compromise made from its basic function, that of transportation. This principle could be applied to financial discussion websites, imho. And has been ..... until Go2net came along. Please reconsider. Don't kill our Volkswagen.