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SI - Site Forums : Silicon Investor - Legacy Interface Discussion (2004-2011) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yorikke who wrote (1542)	9/27/2004 11:56:52 PM
From: Anonymous	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6035

I've been around since early 1997 and I came on the other day and found myself with this new format. I went looking for my portfolios and haven't been able to link up with them yet. Has that feature been eliminated? After several days I went to my ISP and established one there. I don't like it because it is so slow. I'm on a telephone dial-up......Anon

To: Yorikke who wrote (1542)	9/28/2004 12:10:06 AM
From: puget206	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6035

"Most Important, you have in the past been most kind in telling us of any impending changes or down time. This time it came without warning. Not allowing long term users to at least capture their portfolios seems to me the height of disrespect for the user. That may not have been your particular responsibility, but you evidently have some authority over those who perpetrated this insult on the vast majority of users." Agreed. Discovered portfolios disappeared today. Considered that feature to be very important. Of course, less things, that I can't bookmark, since that feature was apparently trashed as well.

To: Yorikke who wrote (1542)	9/28/2004 2:54:10 AM
From: SI Bob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6035

Most Important, you have in the past been most kind in telling us of any impending changes or down time. This time it came without warning. Not allowing long term users to at least capture their portfolios seems to me the height of disrespect for the user. That may not have been your particular responsibility, but you evidently have some authority over those who perpetrated this insult on the vast majority of users. I know I'm gonna say this a million more times, but it's really getting old how many times I've said it already. On June 18th, I sent a PM to EVERY user of the site warning that, among other things, portfolios wouldn't be around much longer. Though I agree that the speaker is more responsible for communication than the listener, if the listener refuses to hear, the speaker can't be held at fault. And we're working on making portfolios available directly through here for migration to other sites, plus if you click the Email link, you can log in there to retrieve your portfolio. I'm spending a lot of money to keep that extra server running just so I can accomodate people who didn't read the PM I sent them. But, no. You'd think I was running around slitting throats. Geez. I'd bet money that when the remaining old server gets shut down in short order, I'm gonna have a lot of people complaining that I mistreated them by removing access to email without warning. Care to make a wager? I find this new setup unreadable, unintelligible, and simply unremarkable. It differs that much from the old site or any other site? I mean, it still looks like largely English words on a screen. But I'm not sticking around if the site is not readable, The other site wasn't readable. Apparently. Gotta be the only explanation for so many people not having read the PM I sent out 3 months ago discussing this change. I mean, it can't be their faults. You may be left with the high number posters, but I bet a lot of long term low level posters will drop away. Don't mistake the chatter for the quality. SI may be sigmificantly impacted when people cease to stop by, read a few threads, and post occasionally. Many of these people are crucial to the quality of the threads. I think you have made such activity more difficult. You're apparently unaware of just how many people left the site before because of problems with it that never got fixed and other problems. This move is to save the site. Ever heard of Investors Hub? I'm the programmer and President/CEO of that company. That company acquired Silicon Investor last year. How did that come to be? Because SI was so effed up, we were taking away most of its high-quality users. We stepped in last year to acquire and preserve it so it wouldn't have gone away. Which it certainly would've. We'd already taken most of its better participants. Most of the discussion here now is nothing but a bunch of worthless noise about politics. That happened before we took it over and was a symptom of the sickness of the site some people (mostly free ones who simply used portfolios and didn't participate) don't seem to realize exists. We will be changing that. I urge you to consider an option that is as clean as the old SI format ( is that now the VERY OLD SI Format??) As a programmer, I worship at two altars: Efficiency and simplicity. This is by no means a completed product. It has a lot of features the old version didn't have, but unlike the previous owners, I'm not considering that good enough. I consider this version as clean as the old (Classic) format, though it's definitely different. It definitely pained me to just add the "EMAIL" link to the top menu because I want as few things as possible getting in the way of an interface that is simply an efficient way to access and write messages.