“The usual reaction to change is; I hate it!”
I’ve noticed that “change” usually makes things worse.
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You know, you can possibly do it. But it will take patience and trial and error.
I know, it’s a bummer, but don’t lose your community because you don’t want to learn. It won’t be pretty and maybe frustrating, but I’ve been actually learning because every time i complain about this, I’ll try something and learn something else. eventually, it will fall into place. when i have mastered this interface, and i still don’t like it, then…well, at least i’ll know what I’m talking about.
Keep trying!
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I’ve been wrangling computers professionally for over 40 years. I would have been fired for running a port as buggy and badly implemented as this one was.
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We lost retention of all read posts. That means everything shows as unread. That’s a huge time waster for us all.
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It would have taken less than an hour to code and test a “Next” and “Previous” button to match the prior interface.
That’s terrible UI design. I already figured out a bad workaround. Oh well.
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Fully agree.
TMF needs to have this posted on the mirror above the sink.
You let the newbies destroy the experience of decades,
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I love the innovation, BUT this update it is the worst experience I had.
This change is destroying the community !!!
bring back the old one !!!
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Seems like its designed to look like a social media feed. Guess TMF thinks all the kidsa re going to quit scrolling insta and reddit to come here. Good luck with that!
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I just opened the boards up on my desktop to see what I’m missing. I’ve been liking that I can read it on my phone without having to pinch and zoom every line individually, have the page reload and lose my spot in the thread. That’s all an improvement over the old site. But one of the biggest improvements is the ability to post images - so you can now add graphs and figures. I can barely believe we had an active financial discussion site without the ability to add graphs.
I’m basically here because of the quality of a few posters; so in spite of-, and not because of- the quality of the website itself. If I were looking for a place to discuss investment ideas I’d likely have moved on years ago because the infrastructure sucked.
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It has become very time consuming to follow new posts. On the old board I could skip dozens of posts at a time because I could see the author’s name and/or the number of recs. If something picked my interest I coud still red the whole thread. If there is no way to do that with the new software this isn’t going to work for me.
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I have the same problem, unfortunately. I know that they were just trying to improve the site.
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Hi Maxthetrade - I’m not sure what type of device you are reading the boards on, it may make a difference. I’m reading them on a desktop and have the left hand sidebar open so that I can see all of my categories and tags that I want to follow. When I want to see who has posted what to each board (category or tag) I click on the board name and I get a list similar to the old boards. It shows me the posts (threads) how many folks liked them, etc. I can also see the number of new posts (a little link near the board name that says “n unread”) and I can click on that and just go to the post in the thread that I have not yet read. If I don’t want to follow a thread or a user, that’s easy to do as well.
Please keep at it - the new boards seem to have more features overall.
'38Packard
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Not Max here, but I agree with him. This suggestion is not the same. Nowhere near, IMHO. What this new site gives you is a list of topics (threads) with activity. They don’t tell you who posted that activity. (OK - you might get a little hint by looking at the avatars, but there are only 5 there and there’s no way to know if the most recent post(s) are by any of those authors.)
So you can’t screen out topics by just using your eyes and looking down a list of new posts. That means you have to open up every thread, then look to see who has posted. And even then, you only see one or maybe two posts because the entire content of the post is there. You have to scroll down, looking for the actual posters - and you can’t see how well others liked their post until you scroll to the bottom on the post.
I agree completely with Max - this format is much more time consuming. It almost forces you to look at everything rather than pick and choose what you want to see.
–Peter
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The new discussion board layout is a MASSIVE failure. They need to fire the fools who thought this was a good change and wasted their money - and return to the old format.
My God! I mean really…
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I don’t know about ya’ll but I am spending way more time here than I should have to spend. It just looks like I have to read “every” message posted whether I’m interested or not. I’ve got to figure out how to how to eliminate all the extra stuff and just get to what I’m interested in. I have printed ptheland’s instructions and plan to play around with them to see if I can get this mess to look like something I’m half way familiar with.
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Lets try to evaluate what do you think about the interfase
- I love the new interfase
- Its almost the same as the old one
- Please keep the old interfase
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It’s not horrible but it is time consuming to punch back and forth to read. I closed my 2 memberships today - the free board is actually what makes the Fool tick
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I don’t really get the point of this poll. If I were MF, the focus would be on making this new interface work (improvements, education, asking people to try features) vs. going back to the old interface. There is a giant loss from losing Mungofitch through this transition. That hurts them and it hurts all of us. But they have a business to run and a lot of us get a lot of value out of the boards that does not result in any benefit for MF. With this decision to the new interface, it seems backward to think that going back to the old one would make sense. Some of us will leave, many of us will stay. Its not great but neither was the old one. We just all learned to make use of it in the way it worked and to deal with the fact that formatting was terrible, charts couldn’t be posted, etc. That evolution will happen again and maybe a new set of younger folk will end up dominating the conversation. Who knows, maybe it will be better. But one thing that won’t be better is the loss of Mungofitch on this board. That was a windfall for most of us that can’t be replicated.
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If its free and they don’t get any revenues from it, how does the free board make the MF tick?
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That evolution will happen again and maybe a new set of younger folk will end up dominating the conversation. Who knows, maybe it will be better.
Perhaps. More likely, the investing environment between 1995 and 2005 was unique.
But one thing that won’t be better is the loss of Mungofitch. That was a windfall for most of us that can’t be replicated.
Sun Tsu had a list of types of grounds. One was Entrapping Ground: “Ground easy to get out of but difficult to return to.” Yeah, the old boards was that.
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If its free and they don’t get any revenues from it, how does the free board make the MF tick?
I’ve wondered about that for several years. All I can come up with is that without these boards – and the expertise that people like Jim have provided – how is the Motley Fool any different from any of the myriad of other investment touting sites? The one big thing they had was the Foolish Four, but that got debunked long ago.
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Don’t click tracked. Put your favorite boards in the Categories and your favorite stocks in Tags. That’s what I did and it works for me.
Razz
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RassMatazz, I did precisely that, that’s not the issue, I’m still unhappy with this interface. See my questions recently posted under “Mechanical Investing”.