Old Fool Site Navigation post mortem

[Raylight]

Great post. I’ll add a few:

• The Next button allows quick browsing through time.

  You can also easily find your way to a specific point in time:

  

• You can bookmark and link to a specific point in time. Great for picking up were you left, for example. Random example of link to a specific point: https://boards.fool.com/sauls-investing-discussions-120980.aspx?mid=35147829

• From any post or thread, clicking on the board name takes you back to the board to the point in time where the post/thread was. In other words, you have context. Don’t wanna derail this thread, but find it easiest to illustrate this by using a thread in the new layout:

LET'S QUIT MARKET TIMING AND GET BACK TO STOCKS

We now have 49 posts on a thread about market timing and several secondary threads besides, on a board that is meant to be about DISCUSSING INDIVIDUAL STOCKS. I know that I contributed too, but it’s time to get back to this boards imperative which is stock discussions. There are other great boards for technical analysis. It’s been an enlightening discussion but it’s time to move on and I’D APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION. Thanks, Saul

Clicking on the board title (on the old site) takes you back to where the post is located and you can find out what the fuzz was all about.

• The list of posts/threads displays absolute dates, making it quick and easy to connect posts to important events, e.g. a Fed meeting or a company reporting results for the quarter.

• The layout within a thread is compact with minimal padding between posts, and most of the screen space is used for the actual content. This makes it easy to fit long posts or discussions and get an overview with minimal scrolling. Or see the whole post.