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

To: SI Bob who wrote (1560)	9/28/2004 6:24:17 AM
From: Yorikke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6035

Bob, thanks for your response. I've developed software of considerable magnitude. I know what you are facing. I understand the block head mentality of most users; including myself. I do not relish your situation, even if things were going much better. New versions are the devil's own creation. Legacy code and features are always ghosts that haunt the system and user base long after programmers have cut the code from the system. June 18. Oh. Well you got me there. I thought you'd all gone on vacation, or scrapped the idea. I take responsibility for my lax attitude now that you point out your notice, but would have appreciated a note on friday just the same. Frankly I just don't like screens that rely on full screen small type face displays. It may be efficient, but it is near impossible to read without a 22 inch screen and a pair of glasses. Particularly if you sit back from the screen about 3 or 4 feet like I do. I go both for efficiency and simplicity. However is that in the coding or the user aspects of the interface? Full screen small point text may be efficient from a coding point of view but it is not a particularly efficient method for the user. Admittedly I can crank the resolution to its lowest and get text that is more readable, but then I have to crank it back up when I leave the sight. If your text were larger, and had fewer characters across a line then It would be readable at higher resolutions. But this is a problem I have with a lot of recently revised sites. Jamming a lot onto the screen seems to be the new web programming methodology. As I said before, I wish you all the best. I've seen you handle a lot of different kinds of problems over the years and have a lot of respect for you. I hope you get it all sorted out and come out making a good return on your invested time.

To: SI Bob who wrote (1560)	9/28/2004 10:22:51 AM
From: FiloF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6035

First of all, great job on the conversion -- I think it has gone quite smoothly, especially given what can go wrong with these thing. I am truly amazed at the number of posts asking for portfolios -- I can't see how it came as a surprise. Having said that, might I suggest that you send out a global email letting everyone know that they can access their portfolios through the Email link and that they should do it ASAP, since they will not have that access in XX days. This may cut down on the number of portfolio-related posts you are receiving and by providing one final notice, I think you would then be able to pretty much ignore any similar subsequent posts. By the way -- <<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.>> UGH! I guess you haven't been reading the Biotech boards, where there is little crap and there are numerous quality posters. Thanks for the hard work!