The OLD iHub Wish List

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

Done and done. Thanks!

[WTMHouston]

Was just looking around at things on the site and came across a couple of things you might want to take a look at.

You ought to copy the free v. premium graphic from:

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/regUser.asp

to the bottom of the page on:

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/subscribe.asp

It is a good graphic and should probably be in the place where folks hit buttons to spend money. It would certainly be better than the text only that is on the subscribe.asp page now.

From the regUser.asp

Investors Hub has been online for two years and currently has over 15,000 Members who have posted over 550,000 Messages on over 1300 Boards. Our Members currently write an average of about 2,000 new Messages per market day.

You ought to link the member, message, and board counts to be automatically updated like they are on the home page. It will keep it current automatically without you having to monitor and update it.

FWIW.....

Troy

[mlsoft]

Bob...

Just a suggestion for a good feature that I like on Yahoo (I know, an oxymoron). The have a "suggested post" feature where the reader can click if he finds a particular post to be a very good one. The heading of the post then shows how many recommendations the post has received. Personally, I always wished they had the opposite, where you could recommend a post to be worthless and a waste of time to read, but they have never done so. I have had many times since I first came here that I would have liked to acknowledged a good post (or pan a bad one).

I finally caved in and became a lifetime member today - please don't fold anytime soon.

Nice boards, thanks.

mlsoft

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

I have this board boardmarked but in reality I'm never going to be able to get through the whole thing. Considering starting a new one when/if I get caught up on current projects.

As for tagging posts ontopic/offtopic, I've considered that but for now prefer to rely on members to just keep off-topic in the minority. Each additional piece of programming complexity brings with it overhead and possibly more screen complication, which I try to avoid. Not like the plague, mind you. I just want to be sure the benefit is worth the cost.

[stack]

Or maybe, (this is only brainstorming), it would make sense to think about more options to mark a post. Not only on/off topic. But also daytrading relevant/irrelevant, official company release, press release, rumor....etc, etc, etc.

And make it possible to sort messages after this criteria.

This is not well thought out, but maybe something to talk about.

Regards


(Would make IHub more unique and would be and improvement that focuses on the user, wouldn't it?)

[stack]

Maybe a good idea would be to implement an option to post a message as off topic and another option for the reader to only show on topic posts. Should be easy to implement. I am thinking about the Transmeta board, were probably not everybody wants to read the world cup soccer posts...


Maybe also a good fuction to browse back posts quicker for DD.

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

I just looked at what it'd take to add spell-checking to the Edit Message screen, and it's a biggie. Won't be doing it anytime soon. There are 4 modules that have to be modified for this, and in 3 of them, they have to have code added to deal with yet another possible module that can call them. The tough part is all the necessary bouncing back and forth between modules and keeping it all straight.

Definitely have to come up with a little more motivation before I tackle this one, as it'll be a rather frustrating few days making it work.

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

Make spell-check available from the Edit Message screen.

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

Windoze.

[Wise Investment]

What platform are you running ? Windows or Linux ?
Wise

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

The only improvement I've been wanting to add but haven't yet is to have it offer suggested spellings. I started on it, but it's a bit on the tough side. For example, using the typo "impliment", you and I can look at it and know there's only one letter wrong. But to have software do the same thing is pretty tough. If you narrow it down to only words that have the same Soundex() and the same number of characters, you still get a list of about 40 words.

And stepping through the word one character at a time and doing the same with each of the 40 possible candidates is pretty processor-intensive.

But it still may end up being how I do it.

The alternative would be to have the system keep track of frequent "typos" and regularly add them to the dictionary or add a field that shows what the correct spelling of a frequent typo is.

[Wise Investment]

We need a good spell checker program please.
Wise

[ergo sum]

Matt

Wish list.

Editing within spell checker.

Having messages marked as read even thought they haven't been read. Favorities problem.

Ihub info. Free zone stuff should he included in Ihub Talk.

Only stocks that go up should be mentioned.

Ergo Sum

[cicero]

Matt: Can you please change HSNS to new co. name Summus -- SUMU ?

[WTMHouston]

I just discovered a "feature" that I really dislike. I open IHUB and click my favorites to find (simplified to explain this) two threads with new posts. While reading posts on one thread on my favorites list, thread 1, a post contains a link to a post on another thread that is also on my favorites list, thread 2. After I finish reading everything on thread 1, I click back to my favorites to find the new posts on thread two and they are no longer there.

The process of clicking on the link to a post in thread two while in thread one has caused everything in thread two to be removed from "new" in my favorites list. When there are just two threads with new posts this is not such a big deal, but if I have 20 threads with new posts and there are interlinking posts among 4 or 5 of them, there is little chance that I will remember precisely which threads were read. Even if I manage to remember, I have to play hit and miss to figure out which posts are new and which are old. If this involves only a few posts it is not a big deal. If it involves 600+ (like just happened) there is little to no chance I can either find them easily or will do so.

From an IHUB business perspective, this will also result in fewer hits.

Troy

Edit PS - is "IHUB" really misspelled?

[extelecom]

Matt, Should the
characters making the BOLD and Underscore show up in the board messages? It would be nice if it didn't..

et

[WTMHouston]

The time on the posts should indicate the applicable time zone. They may all be CST, but without a label, I (and probably others) will not know for sure.

Troy

[sarals]

It's almost like that... on your favorites screen if you click on the "# Unread" it takes you to the first unread message and you can read from there. The only problem is that if you respond to a message or go elsewhere it clears all the messages as read even if you haven't read them all yet.


Sara

[cicero]

Matt: I wish there was some way that you could mark which posts have been read recently like rb and agora. TIA

[zzt1234]

Matt,
Will we ever be able to see archived chat sessions? I follow the NVEI board and often arrive home late from work so I miss what I consider important info.


D Urman
zzt1234
[e-mail]


Thanks

[bbgold]

Hi Matt, I thought that might be the case. I just was not aware that there was too much of a problem here with spamming. Take Care Matt! bbgold :^)

[Mattu]

Spammers. When posts get deleted on RB and SI, the numbers re-do themselves..

I know for sure on SI they do. Maybe not on RB.

But here, they numbers don't get redone, so you can see where a spammer got hit by my truck or someone got a post removed.

MB

[bbgold]

Hi Matt, Why are there so many deleted posts from this board? Having some problems? I also agree with sarals in that it would be nice to have an indicator as to if someone else agrees or disagrees with a post. Of course if someone is part of a cartel then I guess that they could just have all of their friends agree with them <gg>. Keep up the great work. iHub is Great! Sincerely, bbgold :^)

[sarals]

p.s. you could then also feature most recommended (yeah) posts on the Hot! page... or possibly feature it on the home page.

[sarals]

I'd like to see a way to rate posts, both yeah and nay... kind of a community way to agree or disagree with a post. Each post would have counts for the number of each it has gotten.

Sara

[Joemoney]

That is a good idea. Like a board web counter or statistic page.

Joe

[Paule]

Suggestion or request......


As a chairman of a thread it would be nice to know how many people come visit. Many times many people are lurking but not posting. I can think of several ways this could help a chairman.




Paule "The Walnut" lives!

[Mattu]

I'll have to put a bit more thought into it...

but...

>>This gives me another idea, how about flashing or pulsing text on the Thread header when the Ibox has been changed!

I do like this, for now!

[Ruellit]

Matt,
For a new idea I still like my concept better, here's why. As we do research on different stocks, like on Xxrayeyes board, and on my Hot Biotech board we are adding different companys to the list almost daily. What happens is good stock tips are quickly buried and forgoten, until you see the stock running and say to yourself, Oh yeah, I saw that one last week!! With an editable post for this purpose this how I see it working. The post would be linked in the Ibox, the link would take you to the latest post in the series where all the previously created data would be in tact and even dated if you wanted. With post like these the reader would be getting a refresher course of all the data he'd read before, maybe cueing the memory of investment ideas previously thought!
The convenience comes into play when the link in the Ibox Board Manager is clicked it brings up the latest version for editing or adding more info while maintaining the old information. Sure there's problems to work out, but nothing insurmountable. When you say "Negatives of this: You couldn't see a true 'history' or 'archives' of what really happened as it changed. New folks might hide the ibox and never see the links or know to go back to post #10. Several things". this all reconcilable through programming and the new folks need to learn that the Ibox contains a lot of good information and should be read!
This gives me another idea, how about flashing or pulsing text on the Thread header when the Ibox has been changed!





muel <g>

[Mattu]

muel:

The idea sounds interesting, but to me, the way it is now seems to be more effective.

For example:

In your way, you would post say post #1-10 all about the company. They would always be 1-10 and the ibox would just link to them. But you could edit them anytime you wanted. Pretty simple to do.

Negatives of this: You couldn't see a true 'history' or 'archives' of what really happened as it changed. New folks might hide the ibox and never see the links or know to go back to post #10. Several things.

But the way it is now, you can keep a rolling history of the companies in the board archives, you can also post the new 'research' as the latest message for ALL to see AND link it to the iBox.

Thoughts?

[Ruellit]

Matt,
As a Chairman of several boards I have a request that I think would make keeping the board up to date easier for many Chairmen.
What I would like is a series of posts (say 10 or so) that stay editable and are controlled from the Board Manager, so only the Chairman or Director of the board can edit theses posts. The purpose of these posts would be to contain such things as stock research, (that is continually changing) posting rules or regs., or anything else the board managers want to use it for! These posts should automatically update the link to them in the Ibox and on the board. TIA




muel <g>

[murag]

How about a category for "Consumer Products"? I find the "Retail-Wholesale" category doesn't have quite the inference that "Consumer Products" would.

[Mattu]

VIA PM:

Matt,

Could you add a total message count to the # of posts column on one's favorite's page for each board? Or in the next column where the date and time is of the last post?

Same thing for one's favorite posters. Total posts on iHub.

It's a copy of what S.I. does but it's useful for stalking and grubbing. :~)

[Mattu]

When you leave your post sitting there, then come back later, just click "Refresh" or the green button on your browser.

Then, it will display the Next button, clickable.

See if that does the trick.

MB

[gernb1]

Matt, apologies for not making myself clear. I'll see if I can paint a clearer picture now. I usually leave my browser open with a window of IHub. When I come back at a later date and new posts are added I have to go to favorites on IE and reload my investor's hub bookmark instead of having a clickable link to go directly to the latest posts. This is because when I left I had looked at the last post up to that point in time and so <next post> is dead and the title for that board is a dead link (again because all the posts were viewed at that time. I hope I've made myself clear in this post. Feel free to let me know if I have not or if you have any other questions.

cheers

[Ruellit]

Matt,
For the quotes, could we have a symbol entry box at the top middle of each message box? Example, On this message box between the Posted by: and the message # box, there would be a quote box for symbol entry that would take the poster to Askresearch or Yahoo. It would be an assist to researching stocks. TIA

muel <ggg>

[Bird of Prey]

Matt, this may or may not be what gemb was talking about, but I did remind me of something I wanted to ask.

When you are scrolling through the messages on a board or the messages list for a persons profile. Instead of or in addition to the options of Next 50 and Previous 50 it would be nice if one could scroll back to view several groups of fifty back. For instance on a board with a thousand posts you would currently have to hit the Previous 50 link 16 times to review posts 200 through 250. Imagine the difficulty on a board with 10,000 posts and you want to look at 5,000-5,050. Perhaps instead of backing up fifty posts you could select from a group of pages of 100 posts and with each 100 posts a new page would be added.
One more thing, when scrolling back through posts via the Previous 50 link you get a page can't be displayed error when you try to select Previous 50 and there isn't another previous post list to display.

Thanks for having such a great place to post!


David Weed
aka the Bird of Prey
www.warp-drive.com

[Mattu]

gernb,

I am not quite sure what you are talking about..

Are you saying that when you read a post, you don't see a 'next' button?

MB

[gernb1]

Matt, I would love to be able to go to the next post instead of the next 50 (which is inactive in most cases) without having to open a post or otherwise backtrack in links to go forward. Any chance of this being added anytime soon? Thanks for all your hard work. This place is a haven for the basher-addled investor.

cheers

[Ruellit]

Matt,
Don't know how your going to handle the RT Quote thing, but here's an idea. Why not have the RT Quote box for symbol entry in the Ibox at the bottom for all boards, or maybe just below the Ibox?

ProfitOften
See ya,
muel <g>

[LGJ]

Hi Matt,
Board Navigation Wish:

Across the top of the board we have several navigation options which include the following.

Post New Message Add Board Mark Next 50 Previous 50 Show iBox

Would it be possible to add "Recent 50" to the options? Right now, I just click the refresh button.

Thanks,
Joe

[Ruellit]

I'll second the motion Matt! Great idea BOP.

Later
muel

[Bird of Prey]

Ok Matt,

I'm officially putting in my request to the Wish list.

I wish that when posting a message I could select from a few preloaded signatures.
For example...

my standard sig

David Weed
aka the Bird of Prey
www.warp-drive.com

or one with a one-liner included.

"Bother," said Pooh, noticing he'd deleted his source code.
David Weed
aka the Bird of Prey
www.warp-drive.com

or an anonymous sig

birdofprey

[Mattu]

Hi Greg,

It has more to do right now with "who I know" kind of thing.

I plan to do a bit of a writeup tonight to help people understand more of what IH is, where it came from, and where it's going.

Will explain on the lovely Q&A board tonight/tommorow morning.

MB

[greg s]

Matt,

Thought I'd stop by with my wish. I'm serious about this and do not mean it in an ironic or snide way.

I wish that iHub would do more to attract traffic from serious investors in mid- and large-cap stocks, including the tech issues. So far the majority of serious stock discussion in in "penny flipper" or bulletin board stocks. The rest of the discussions are so far removed from the stock market that they don't even deserve the moniker "Investors". An active community of investors in the more bread-and-butter stocks will help bring "good" attention to the site and help it rise above the sludge of the Yahoos and Raging Bulls. Just my $0.02 worth.

Kind regards,

greg

[WillyWizard]

You guys are as slow as molasis. Your lucky you are filthy rich and don't need any revenue. Just throw some of that $$$$ my way. I could use it. :)

Willy

[Anthony M]

Hello


Matt,
I would like to join in the suggestions wish list.


Can we have email updates of developments on IHub features?

Thanks,

Anthony

[The Original dpb5!]

Matt, regarding IH being out of Beta...

"IH is now out of BETA! Please update your bookmarks to http://.....

I think it would be good to show this message on the HomePage of IHub and to send it out to ALL Members via email!

About the latest Log In Problem, perhaps it is just taking the server tooo long to allow postings after Logging In. I just noticed that after being on the site about five minutes, I could then post with no problems at all. Thought you'd like to know.

Have a great weekend.

[The Original dpb5!]

I wish that I could Log In, and have the system keep my logged in, so I could post.

I suspect that usership of Ihub would rise dramatically if this bug were fixed.

[Mattu]

I know Hal...

We aren't making any $ either spinning no ads...

Will update you this weekend.

MB