If you’ve commented here recently, I hear you. We’ve all been patient long enough. But after I saw that the table view had been adjusted into what I’ll call a “card view” on mobile – which broke any ability to compare rows of the table or sort by the column headers – I hit the feedback button and shared some gripes over the weekend.
I got a Slack message yesterday (Monday). I had a meeting with a small team of developers today (Tuesday). One of them has been here about as long as my TMF tenure + the age of CAPS combined, so he understands what this means for those who have been playing for 20 years.
I always thought (perhaps accurately) that the fate of CAPS would depend on David Gardner’s direct support and influence behind the scenes. For the first time since he stepped back in 2021, I’m optimistic that CAPS will improve.
I have no budget or influence on tech priorities. I have no timeline I can offer. But I had a meeting today where I shared a laundry list of features we did have a decade ago and we should have had this whole time:
- keeping the tables sortable by column, but adding a pinned ticker column so they’d still be scrollable horizontally on mobile
- having Prev/Next buttons that actually work for those with more than 20 picks
- having a cancel button for pending picks that haven’t processed yet
- clarity on when picks process when submitted near/outside of market hours
- visibly listed refresh rates/lag times for scores and stock prices
- default sorting the daily change by % instead of $, and maybe splitting these so a dollar sort is still available
- FAQ updates (several already in progress)
- when and where login breaks for me
- updating how it’s indexed so you can Google the Apple CAPS page, etc. etc. etc.
And this group of techies were appreciative to hear this. They thought some of these were obvious and others might’ve just required a real user to say so before they could proceed.
If your expectations are on the floor, I’d understand if you keep them there for now because you’ve been disappointed enough. But if you needed to hear something positive, the pendulum is swinging back in the direction where CAPS is actively supported and not the shadow of its former self that it’s been for years now.
The bullhorn icon on CAPS.fool.com is the feedback button, and it works.
-Loren
P.S. I’m over on the paid side of the Community daily, but I rarely venture over here on the free side. Please forgive me if you reply in the coming days and I don’t see it.