New: Seeking Alpha Forums

A while ago a few Seeking Alpha contributors asked for help in setting up subscription-based investment newsletters. Later, we found that we wanted to tell our contributors that their submissions to Seeking Alpha would be appearing on Yahoo Finance. And we discovered that we had no good way to communicate with our community of contributors, and our contributors and readers had no way to communicate with each other (other than comments on articles).

So we've launched Forums.SeekingAlpha.com. Our Web developer Rob Sanheim has done an amazing job choosing the best forum software (Beast, which uses Ruby on Rails, for those who care...) and integrating it into the SA website. Posting on the forums requires no additional registration (other than the standard SA registration that allows you to get free emails and to comment), and you can subscribe to new forum posts via RSS.

Please take a look at the forums; we think they could be really useful for our readers, contributors and potential contributors.

Have a great weekend,
David Jackson

Comments

[carlivar:]

Your forums keep asking me to login even though I am definitely logged into the rest of seekingalpha. In fact, the login link goes to my account settings page rather than a password prompt, so I know it seems me logged in. I cannot post in the forums.

2006 Oct 13 02:31 AM

[David Jackson:]

Hi Carl, our tech team is looking into this and will reply to your comment soon. We're sorry for the frustration and hassle.

2006 Oct 13 07:34 AM

[Rob Sanheim:]

Hi Carl

I'll be looking into the issue - thanks for sending the cookie info via email, it should help me track it down.

- Rob

2006 Oct 13 02:45 PM

[shisya:]

I had a question to ask but looks like the forum site is down. Is the forum still functional?

Anyways on a remotely related note, how does one search for top authors (most bookmarked & reputation, Gold and silver seal) here on seeking alpha? I want to add them to my list but cant find a search option to find them all quickly.

2008 Dec 22 10:24 PM