Looks like the guys at TSCM have totally cleaned up the interface for Real Money. This is a well done, needed improvement for their premium site:
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August 24th, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Krugman’s blog notified about signs of incorrect stimulus sizing around start of 2009. It seems that the package was designed 1.2 Trillions short of what was required (just about 800 B$ was given). Does it mean that there is a possibility of announcement of 1.2T stimulus package now (jackson hole on 26th)
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/what-should-we-have-known-about-fiscal-stimulus/
August 24th, 2011 at 12:43 pm
8.24.2011
To the contrary, one must first define what “cleaned up” actually means. The fact of the matter is that overwhelming response to the site for several reasons has been quite negative. One need only had perused the comments for many days after to quickly realize that long time subscribers were not at all pleased with numerous navigation errors and
worse, with a slow site loaded down with pretty pictures that are often intellectually insulting in their obviousness.
Real Money was a no nonsense venue where serious traders have had the opportunity to interface daily with many seasoned professionals like BR in fact whose own columns were once featured there, that has been compromised in an apparent effort to “clean up” something which did not really need this kind of un-necessary clean up disguising what appears to actually be a “repositioning” of subscription levels that has left many vowing to not renew theirs !
Sincerely
Lindsay Holt
Santa Fe, New Mexico
August 24th, 2011 at 2:16 pm
It looks good as a design. The actual use of the site has gone from bleeding from the eyeball frustrating to annoying and mildly frustrating over 4 days . Discount everybody’s hysteria in the comments section. Allow them some slack for the always chancy chancy of a complex site. It’s STILL after 4 days of scrambling, where it should have been in the first hour. It works worse than the previous version. And that is NOT GOOD for what is supposed to be a tool to make money.
It may get there. But if it does , it will be because it once again, functions like the first version.
Kute Kartoon Kharacters? Spare me the pictures of gold bars, charts, boats, shoes, and wrenches. That is Parker Bros Monopoly ™ frou frou.
August 24th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
They should really go back to where they started back in 1999. This layout is about 50% wasted space. They can’t get their css right and content bleeds all over other sections. Have to open the browser across almost the whole desktop to see the right hand margin. Still don’t have chart thumbnails – who wants to have to click on a chart except for more detail? Moved more authors over to the premium section. I started with them in 1999 – spent a year on realmoney silver, then got frustrated with yet another product segmentation pushed the useful content into their “money manager product”. Moved back to realmoney only for Tim and Tim. At this point – it is getting to be a waster of time. Whomever is doing their internet presence is a dolt.
August 24th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Visually it looks nicer but what dan10400 said about moving authors over to the premium section makes me feel cheated.
I’m sure every RM subscriber feels the same.
August 24th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Part of the issue is that the “first mover” advantage of TSC/RM is long gone. Keeping the existing subscribers with them during the changeover was the #1 priority. The job did not get done.
I was told that they sent the site to a select few who said, “It looks good.” and then the previewers went back to using the old site with out wringing out the functionality of the new one. The first iteration was so bad that many of the users were near incoherent about all the issues. When you can’t find anything, where do you start?
My frustration level was really low. I just didn’t use the sites for the first two days. I couldn’t. I had money in play, and I had other sites that I use and still other sites as ready alternatives, and I took the time to look into one or more replacements for RMS if they didn’t come around quickly. When I needed a break, I went to the RM sites, gave them a spin, and built up a list and motivation, and then called in to my personal account exec.
I spent about 20 minutes on the first call explaining how I used the old site site and how I couldn’t do any of those things on the new site. Over the next four days, there wasn’t anything I brought up that either didn’t get fixed within a day or two and sometimes within hours. And I’m willing to bet that there wasn’t much of anything that I asked for that someone hadn’t already asked for or didn’t ask for soon after. I’m talking basic functionality. I even got some of the non functional things I asked for, like the acknowledgement on the site that there were fixes needed and in the works, and the acknowledgement that some vital fixes that had already been accomplished and that they were listed in their own section on the site.
It’ll probably work out OK in the end. Ninety percent of my issues with function have been answered. Site density is still an issue. The world is awash with content. I want to click on or move on within seconds and within a click or three of having the site come up. Too much blank space and silly grade school graphics and stuff ordered in two or three layer deep drop downs .
But why the hell would you implement the new format so poorly in this day and age of online competitiveness that it takes a week of wailing and gnashing of teeth to get where you should have been in the first 4 hours?
I feel much better now…..
August 24th, 2011 at 11:46 pm
I completely disagree with Barry. The new site is a disaster. My RM Silver annual subscription is up in a couple of weeks. I called my guy and told him not to renew me, but to let me know if they get their shit together.
I hate that you have to click so many god damn times to get basic info off the site–it’s still virtually impossible to “scan” for useful commentary without dozens of clicks. Frankly, the value proposition of RM Silver has been really iffy for a couple of years. Lots of the information is available elsewhere, if not immediately, then within hours, or days. I’m not a day trader, so I don’t especially care at what second I get the information. I’ve always used it more as part of an overall mosaic.
Honestly, I really don’t think I’ll miss it. Unless something material changes, I doubt they’ll attract additional subscribers with the new design. Further, I’ll bet they lose a not inconsequential number of existing/prior paid subs.
August 25th, 2011 at 2:16 pm
DISASTER!
I am an “original” RM subscriber…back with Toddo, BR, and Tony Crecenzi.
I find the graphics and “improvements” totally laughable. Short TSCM.