New stock threads

[smellylegend (Rich)]

Jesus, tiger, you sound a bit stressed.

[Barbellion]

Saying you don’t have a problem with it is fair enough but saying those who do are stressed and its just a first world problem is not. Sounds like you have problems so i won’t engage with you again.

[Freetrade_Team]

Hi all

We realise that when we have a big batch of stocks like this week, it can take up a lot of space on the forum for a few hours.

This is just one part of what is extremely time-consuming and detailed work in preparing new stocks — multiple teams work on this and there is a lot going on behind the scenes to make it happen!

We’d love to investigate an automated creation of them for that reason alone, and in fact, did so at one point a while ago when we created all the missing threads for the in-app banners.

Watch this space, and appreciate your patience — hopefully the brief noise these new posts make is worth it to continue to expand your stock universe!

[Big-g]

I think most understand this totally It is a necessary evil but it could be good to add a comment of “coming soon” , “look for confirmation list soon” or just a “due date” copy and pasted to each new thread so people don’t get disappointed looking for the stock when the thread opens.

Other than that excellent work on the many new stocks this week!!!

[ralf]

@Freetrade_Team

Watch this space, and appreciate your patience — hopefully the brief noise these new posts make is worth it to continue to expand your stock universe!

It isn’t so much the noise it creates that’s the problem, it’s the fact that other, potentially useful threads are jumbled in with these threads.

If you scroll through the list you’ll see posts from people starting new threads with ideas or asking for help with problems, but these are far too easy to miss with all the noise.

[ralf]

@HighlandTiger

@ralf

One hypothetical solution, for instance, would be to have a ticker search function

Do we not already have a search function on the forum?

Yes we do. However, if you’d quoted the rest of the sentence instead of cutting off “that takes you to the relevant thread or creates it”, the answer would be no.

The problem isn’t one of finding the thread for the stock you’re interested in, the problem is finding other newly created threads scattered among the hundreds of empty threads.