I still remember the first time I visited a message board on iHub. All I saw was the iBox (now intro message). That particular iBox was a mess, and I immediately had the wrong impression of iHub because of that. I thought it was a stupid, childish site, and it took me some time to return and get used to iHub. Now I love iHub! But I can imagine some people having the same impression that I had when they first visit iHub. Especially when they visit a stock with a messy iBox.
So my suggestion is to;
a) close the iBox as a standard setting
b) move the iBox under the messages
c) make it optional for the admin to choose the position of the iBox. (below or above the messages, open or closed).
Maybe an option to place iBox information in tabs, instead of in 1 continues page? Like a tab for charts, news, articles, management, video's, etc...
And a notification to users when the iBox gets updated!
It would also be nice to have the option to show the latest headlines above the messages, like it is possible to open or close the iBox and quote page.
iHub doesn't have a rating system, and as a free member, I don't have the option to keep messages in an archive, which is not really a big problem. What I was thinking about was a way to use the kept messages from users as a kind of rating system.
Only the best messages are kept by users. So wouldn't it be a good idea that when a message is kept by a certain amount of users, that they would end up in a "Recommended Message list"? This would make it easier for new visitors to find the most interesting messages more easy. Free users could use a "recommend message" button to ad messages to that list.
Maybe the best messages from all the boards could also be added to a single board as well, as a way to promote certain stocks...
That's about it...
Just wanted to ad that I love iHub now!
Keep up the good work!
Money doesn't buy happiness...
It buys freedom!
Happy Trading,
Danny
