There is a really good tech team here, lets give them some ideas for enhancements or to cure any bugs we find.

In one way, this Forum is easy to read and also has some nice little quirky tit-bits you can use as well.

These days, to keep up, with modern technology, the web site does have a lot to do and needs to cater for fitting Wide Screen Monitors and also Mobile Phones and Tablets.

I guess the latter can be catered for with pertinent Apps and the former with the 'View Wide'/'View Normal' tabs at the top of the page.

Generally speaking it serves its purpose well.

If you look at something like the 'TALK TO YOURSELF THREAD', I do think this typifies how 'stale' MoneAM has become. There are about 6-10 regular posters having a political ding dong with each other and for the average user, it would be so very hard to even contribute to the thread as he/she would be readily seen not to 'fit in' just because it is so 'cliquey'.

Now for a forum web site this is bad!

You want everyone to fit in easily and feel confident to be able to make comments and ask questions.

I think if I ran this site as a business, I would try to make it a much more personable and personalisable place for its users and probably too, move over to one of the more modern Forum software formats, such as the Xenforo platform, thereby giving the place a 'makeover' and some extra forum tools. I would try to capitalise in the doing of this and use the PR available from such a makeover/renewal as a means of attracting lots of new members.

I would scrap the Traders Room and combine it with the Investors Room. However, I would introduce several more Forum Sections, perhaps by combining Shares Magazine into the site with an added subscription.

And then there are the foreign markets too.

Hey! Whoa! Hey Mike! Just take over ADVFN! :)

But it just might be time for a makeover, don't you think? Or have you still got the site for sale?

I like the idea of merging the traders & investors room into one???

"If you look at something like the 'TALK TO YOURSELF THREAD', I do think this typifies how 'stale' MoneAM has become. There are about 6-10 regular posters having a political ding dong with each other and for the average user, it would be so very hard to even contribute to the thread as he/she would be readily seen not to 'fit in' just because it is so 'cliquey'. "..........ends

absolutely untrue.

Everyone is welcome to post on that thread but two weeks ago we had a double handle poster who was out to cause trouble. Hes been dispatched now after some detective work which proved he was a spoiler from advfn.

In fact we have had over the last few months had genuine posters coming from advfn because they didnt like that boards use of links for non subscribers who have fitted in well on the thread.

I do admit it is a thread with more than the usual elderly experienced business man posting but that doesnt mean you will be just dismissed off hand.

If you want to really see an unfreindly board i suggest you visit the TMF pauly pilots pub and see how you are treated their if you have a contrarian view.

ABSOLUTELY TRUE GF!!!!!!!

Put the ftse competition up to £1000. :-))

GF

Whoa! :-)

Well anyone is of course, quite free to post on any thread on here.

But I didn't say a new poster on that thread would be unwelcome. I tried to say, that with so much particular political banter from the resident hard core of posters who regularly amuse themselves on there, it is hard for a newbie to launch him/herself into the middle of it.

I'm an old fart now. As a parallel, I don't think I would quite fit in, if I were to walk into one of the town centre pubs on a Friday night - sorta kinda. Now I can hold my own, it's just that I wouldn't go there because I feel I wouldn't really fit in. It's not because it's unfriendly. It's for the same sort of reason that I don't go with my missus to her 'Flower Club' night. I don't think I would feel totally comfortable surrounded by 97% women.

And I do appreciate, that the 'Talk to yourself thread' is the busiest thread on here by about 10 miles.

But IMHO, the Forum side of the site has become a bit stale. It's not unfriendly. It's been like it is for the last, well, at least more than a decade.

IMHO also, the data side of things is quite excellent, by the way. I do like the Charting particularly.

Does the site need a makeover? Would it add vibrancy?

I think it kinda does and I think it would.

I like it as it is but then I hate change. The home page indices do not have correct values eg for Dow