Fellow monkeys, I thought I'd type up a post to keep you all up to date on what's going on with WSO lately and new stuff we're working on now as well as ask for your feedback. I can always count on you to tell me where we are doing well and where we can improve:
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Nested replies coming soon. Instead of having the "in reply to" and # of replies collapsed under each comment, we are just going to nest replies to comments one level under. replies to that reply won't nest/indent any further...this should help prevent some confusion and make the forums a bit easier to follow (we will also be moving the "best response" comment to it's natural place instead of floating it to the top like it is now)...
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SPEED. We've been working a lot on trying to make things MUCH faster. We hit a bump in the road when we tried to install node js for real time notifications (disaster)...since then we've improved our page speed by optimizing how our css loads on each page, etc...hopefully you notice/care :-)
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Content. We continue to reach out to potential authors to try and get new/unique bloggers as well as continuing to bring high quality webinars to the WSO Video Library & interview guides. On a related note, we're VERY excited about the latest iteration of the hedge fund interview Prep Pack (thanks beta testers!)... it is very much improved!
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SPAM. We have gotten much more aggressive combating spam in the forums...now if you're a new user and post spam, all it takes is one 'Report Violation" to wipe/unpublish all of your content. I think this more aggressive approach has been working well. Thank you to all of the members that flag the crap as it comes in.
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User testing...we've been doing user tests for a few months and it has really helped us catch a lot of bugs. We need to improve mobile theme more...on it.
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SUGGESTIONS? Where do you want to see WSO go for the rest of 2016? How can we make the platform better / more meaningful / more entertaining for you?
Thanks everyone!
Patrick, Andy, Joao, Alex, Ivy, Renae + the whole WSO Intern, Mentor & Resume Review Team
Having a "view first unread" option when clicking on a thread. It would make it much easier to jump right into the new replies in a thread visited before and not have to scroll through to try and find where you left off.
The improvements have been pretty dramatic and I think #1 sounds fantastic in particular. Some thoughts/things:
I am still unable to bury bad threads/posts in monkey shit. I understand the motivation behind the 24-hour restriction as we have discussed before, but it really takes away from the split second thrill of anonymously throwing internet poop at someone's comment. You are ruining my poo-related fun and I am still bitter. :) I'm not sure what that says about me though...probably nothing good.
The notifications are a bit wonky. I really like notifications and PM's being split but sometimes I will log in to "you have 14 unread messages" and I have no idea where or when they are from. Maybe it's an issue with the site recognizing that I click on them? I'm not sure.
I almost wonder if it would be better to do away with stored notifications entirely. Using reddit as a model, I am able to see when something gets upvoted or downvoted by clicking on my recent comments and I can sort my, or someone else's, comments by how many "points" they have, using "all time," "last week" etc. as sorting parameters. I think it's a good system, although I'm betting implementing it would take some time. It would make it easier to sort through past posts to find the gems, however.
This is pretty pointless, but as I was trying to find top posts/users earlier today, I noticed that the "ranking" in the user drop down menu has not updated for some time and does not reflect this http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/userpoints/0
It might be useful to have a thread auto-lock after a certain period of time - maybe 6 months? A year? Two years? I've noticed a lot of grave digging lately.
I noticed today that it's difficult to use the search function to search for posts by specific users. With people having spaces, punctuation, underscores, etc. I don't always remember a specific users exact name either when looking for a post from them.
Give us guys working in commodities our own tag under sales and trading! End the oppression! lol
done.
Woo! Looks clean!
Nested comments are a negative for me. I liked clocking on the "x new" link and knowing that every post from there on down was new content. If I was confused about what the post was in response to I could just click on the in reply to.
Now I waste too much time rereading posts that are located between the first new one and the next.
I have to go the other way on this. I hated clicking the "in reply to" button at the top of a post, especially since it didn't always work. Love the new layout and was about to say at much.
WallStreetOasis.com Perhaps if all new posts could be highlighted a different color or clearly labeled as such when you click on a thread, it would solve the issue F. Ro Jo said while maintaining the current layout clarity.
thanks for the feedback...we went this way because we think the majority of people and forums use nesting of some sort...
Do you see the red "new" tag under the time stamp in upper right corner?
Ah - attention to detail. Obviously a strength of mine.
Does the new tag show on mobile?
Specifically am on chrome and Android.
Best case scenario would be user getting to choose which format they prefer under settings.
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