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

To: kirby49 who wrote (2846)	12/8/2004 5:58:27 PM
From: SI Dave	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6035

That made me dizzy. I'll leave it for Bob to decide how he wants to handle it. I was really trying to explain to older GF/Life members that they haven't had any features previously available on the old system taken away and re-published as a Premium feature. They have had some new features added without upgrading, and more will undoubtedly follow. Someone else mentioned another post that "I should get all new features forever no matter what" - that has been answered on more than one occasion, and I'm not interested in restating what Bob has already explained quite well. And, someone else suggested and we agree there's room for improvement in the "You can't do this" communication when a user clicks on an non-entitled function, as well as having more explanation in the feature list (the capability already exists). If there were only 240 hours in a day. I understand better than ever how it completely impossible is was for Bob to do development work and act as Admin.

To: kirby49 who wrote (2846)	12/8/2004 11:11:42 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6035

Bob I'm guessing it works like iHub (Dave ??) You know you click on a favourite poster's new counter number and it delivers you a stream of all of his posts irrespective of which board the post is on just like when reading posts nnn at a time.... no headers to click..... Didn't we always go to a profile before when clicking the counter... (which was pretty lame compared to iHub for us paid ups or grandfathered (or both like me :o) and yeah it reset the counter but I thought we still had to click on each header to open the post... just like now... I reckon Bob Z. could make it a little more elegant by checking the userlevel and redirecting the user appropriately when the couner is clicked..... this might not even have come up... BUT this is a marketing hook to get you interested in seeing what you could have... but it seems to be ticking off folks instead... win some lose some... I know I was mildly annoyed... but have already stopped clicking the counter :o) Then I think well SI almost went under before because you got to make money to stay in business.. I post on stockhouse from time to time and the only board features I prefer there are 1) the threaded view from time to time... and the ability to easily embed HTML for charts etc.. Search ? wazzat ? Might be a good idea 1) to have a few happy hours on SI like iHub had.... to folks familiar with new features... 2) to make the billing a little more flexible... ie.. add features independently... 20 bucks for everything OR 8 bucks to read the user posts like iHub 15 for the Advanced search ... I dunno... especially 'cause it depends on the individual ..... Personally the ability to 'file' public posts as well as PMs is a huge bonus for me..... much easier to save stuff you might want to come back to later... and it was a freebie .... shhh!! regards B.