- Carriage returns in posts now work properly
- Links in posts are now clickable

- Carriage returns in posts now work properly
- Links in posts are now clickable
If someone replies to an earlier post, does that post get bumped to the top? (it doesn’t seem like it). Would we want it to? (and can it be done?)
I really like the “Most Recent Comments” nav on the right, but today there were so many comments that some of them likely rolled off the bottom, resulting in me manually looking through a bunch of older posts that I really liked to see if there had been any new info added…
I agree with Rastard. The Most Recent Comments is useful but I have several improvements to suggest.
- time stamp of some kind, either “18 minutes ago” or straight out time stamp
- ability to select how many are displayed: either N posts OR some kind of “more” button
- ability to sort by either Poster OR Thread, so “Nicu on …” OR “What a mess! has 5 new posts”
I understand that this means more work for you, but I feel this would deliver a large increase in usability for the time invested.
It is not matter of will, it is matter of time. I have a list of things I will be changing/adding as soon as time permits.
@RattyUK
- Charts are most urgent one. Old traderhood had nice quick charts showing basic technical analysis. I am working right now on new charts that are 100% free of flash.
- Then I want to introduce some form of “Live Trading Chat” as we had in old hood. This time based on hTML5
- then I will do improvements to existing Discussions section which will include many points you guys made, including having pictures and video in posts.
Okay don’t laff. Seems funny though. I think some users may not be able to see the charts. According to wiki, “Daltonism” (color blindness) 7-10% of the population have difficulty with color, mostly males. [red/green-orange/lime.green : is the commonest] The -3 months, 10 Days/Price, 10 Days/Volume charts would be tough or impossible for some to see. Wiki’s article : “Category : Articles with images not understandable by color blind users” provides some clues. I think this is why Forbes, Silicon Alley Insider, Yahoo Finance, Google Finance … and maybe even Apple’s OS UI etc, use Black and White, Blue, and Gray. Those 4 colors, lets call them that, are probably what everyone can see. This c.b. phenomenon, interestingly, exists in less than 0.4% of females. I’ve read rare females even have hyper color vision that puts them in the same category of being able to see colors like a bird or a butterfly. So when you see business websites using a very limited array of colors and tones, it’s because people get sort of aggressive or messed up if they have issues easily seeing the content, maybe more so if its intellectual in nature. And, like when did anyone ever hear someone complain about an inability to see a color or the differences between colors : never : odd too when 7-10% have Daltonism. I thought of this because when Calan was invited to TH his response was, the colors didn’t do anything for him. Otherwise, in my life time the 7 or 8 people that I’ve know and secretly followed or studied that had Daltonism proved to have certain qualities in common. Pattern recognition was one of them. I will go out on a limb and believe that throughout Art history the men who were sculptors probably were the likely ones who had trouble with color and chose form, tone and light instead. Architects too, to boot. jmho.
@Zee
I don’t buy it. There is a reason why signal lights are using red and green and during the night they are on the dark background.
Previous traderhood was all dark background, but I realized that it can get a little depressing to look at dark background. And people are used to read dark letters on white background from books and newspapers. That’s why I changed the design and made articles/discussions section light. But for charts and headers I love dark background and full page charts that are coming are on dark background too. As for little charts at the top, they are meant to be just little snapshots for quick overview of certain things (and there will be more of them). Consider them to be a little sketch for time being. We are still in (early) beta.
Men have inferior colour vision. However, men have superior night vision. A very small subset of men even have vision that stretches into the infra-red band, and can see the glow from the end of a TV remote control in complete darkness.
Evolutionary biologists surmise that evolutionary pressures selected superior night vision for men (hunters), who would need to hunt even at night. Women (gatherers) would be more successful choosing the ripest/best/most correct berries/nuts/seeds with superior colour vision.
Sorry for OT post, but I find this topic interesting.
Getting back on topic, honestly, I don’t ever use the charts on TH as I have other websites for that. Chat would be great, but with a HUGE buffer please.
