As most of you know, Slope of Hope has its own customized comments system (whose development was funded through the advertisements displayed on the site). There are a few recent improvements that I'd like you to know about:
Cleaner Tool Bar
The tool bar has always been there, but after the umpteenth person asked me to add a Search function to the comments system (which has been there for a while), I decided to make it a little more obvious. Also, there's a new link – "Shares" – which I'll discuss in a moment.
Top Shared Items
There are four kinds of "comments" you can add – (1) a comment (2) a trading idea, either long or short (3) a link to something of interest (4) a chart. The comments system tracks the most popular links (that is, type #3 which Slopers have posted) and lets you see an organized list of the most popular items. I guess the current top link isn't too much of a shock.
Better Searching
There are a couple of improvements to search. First, the results are now returned in reverse chronological order. Second, you can now click on a user's name and get just the results for your search from that one particular individual. For instance, in the dialog below, a search for the word "absurd" yields some results. Let's say I just wanted to see instances of this in which just Goatmug used this word. I would click on his username:
…..and, voila……
Tweetable Comments
This is probably the coolest new feature of all – for those of you using Twitter, you can now Tweet a specific comment to all your followers. In other words, they will be provided a link which will zip right down to the specific comment. Just click the new Tweet button. Cool stuff, eh?
By the way, if you have your own blog and you like this comment system, you can get it for free. Anyway, I hope you enjoy these new features. We have the most active community of any financial blog, and I think it's getting better all the time!
