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We began Seeking Alpha three years ago with a mission to aggregate high quality market analysis from money managers and financial bloggers in an easily accessible manner, free for all individual and institutional investors. We’ve evolved to provide more comprehensive daily market news, while using the internet’s unique resources and tools to broaden the investor's information horizon in a manner no other financial site can match.
Our new design makes all of this a lot easier to do. The new site contains a whole host of enhancements incorporated throughout – from our homepage through article pages, sector pages and individual stock pages. Among the features of Seeking Alpha 2.0:
• Brighter spotlight on authors on article pages
• Enhanced search function, with auto-fill
• Clearer separation of community-submitted opinion articles from SA news briefs
• A sidebar widget indicating readers’ most popular articles and our editors' picks
• Clearer charts, data and comments on individual stocks
• Quick and easy registration for personalized email alerts and commenting
• Streamlined navigation
We hope you’ll take a few minutes to explore our new site and share your thoughts by leaving a comment below.
We’re currently developing a number of additional projects upon this new platform - most of them initiated by contributor and reader suggestions - so please continue sending in your ideas.
We see this new site as a turning point, as we've always believed that micropublishing, the smart hyperlink, and clear presentation will transform financial media.
Thanks as always for reading and contributing to Seeking Alpha.
* UPDATE 9/12: We're Listening: SA Homepage Now Includes Author Links
~ Mick Weinstein, Seeking Alpha Editor in Chief
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This article has 79 comments:
and the look is so slick...
thank :)
this gives the impression that A) authors are no longer important and that B) seeking alpha is coming up with all this content on its own.
please fix that..I wish this site the best but I think the authors first name needs to continue being highlighted at the beginning of EVERY article
thx
dan
Regarding the author byline - a central goal of the rebuild is to bring more attention to authors. Articles, like mine here, will contain a full sidebar element with not only a link to the author's site, but also a new link to the author's bio and articles that have been published on SA.
On RSS feeds and third party feeds, the intro byline will remain the same as it was on the old site, ie. 'Daniel Jacome submits:' with a link to your site.
Also, we plan to use the central box on the homepage to highlight an 'author of the week' that will rotate among our top contributors.
~ Mick
Nidhi
Nidhi
Looks much "prettier", but seemingly less functional ...
You can view headlines from all articles by clicking on the "More" link below the headlines in the "Opinion & Analysis" column on the home page. That link takes you here:
seekingalpha.com/artic.../
(The title for that page should be "Latest Articles", not "Article Pagination" -- a bug we just discovered.)
The headlines on that page are in reverse chronological order, so generally you don't need a date delimiter as most of the headlines you see will be today's.
Some explanation about the new home page design: Our goal was to show as many headlines on the home page as possible, while telling a coherent "story" instead of providing an undifferentiated river of headlines. The new home page looks as though it has fewer headlines, because the headlines are divided into News, Opinion & Analysis and Long Ideas/Short Ideas/Cramer/Transcrip... etc. But in fact in shows more headlines than the old home page, and groups them into coherent units that should hopefully be more useful. Showing dates, tickers and authors below headlines significantly restricted the number of headlines we could show on a page, so we opted to eliminate that info on the home page and the sector home pages.
We hope that the effect is that the Seeking Alpha home page is a much more powerful resource. It shows the top news stories in the left hand column, a wide selection of opinion and analysis in the center column, and transcripts in the right hand column. We hope this denser layout will be particularly powerful on the sector home pages -- if you work in the energy industry, for example, the Energy sector home page is now a far richer resource.
We tried to take care of the people who wanted the undifferentiated "river of headlines" by providing that "More" link. Also, the "All headlines" email we send out every morning lists all the articles by sector.
Best,
David
I can use my scroll wheel if you have more headlines than fit on one page, but the new layout just kills my ability to pick out meaningful articles. Unfortunately the quality of commentary is not uniform, and I don't want to read through a lot of trash or use the search function just to find something worth reading!
I do think the rebuild looks slick - there is way too much white space, in my opinion, but I can zoom out to help with that. I will stick with it and see how it wears.
The ability to filter articles by authors has definitely been lost and this was a biggie - you now have to wade through all the chaff to find the wheat, articles that were well written, well thought out.
That is why I complained earlier....can someone confirm this?
We're trying to transition all the pictures and bios to the new platform. Look at this article for an example of one with a picture etc:
seekingalpha.com/artic...
Walter Willis
walter.willis@gmail.co...
Thanks for this feedback -- v helpful. We're gathering input about author names on the front page, so this is helpful.
On email, we've had issues sending out emails the past couple of days (we send over 450,000 every day). Hopefully they are resolved -- by the time you read this you should have received your email alerts as usual.
David
Here are the links to the authors you were looking for:
seekingalpha.com/autho...
seekingalpha.com/autho...
seekingalpha.com/autho...
You can find Cramer directly via the link below the top bar on the home page and here:
seekingalpha.com/tag/c...
Having said that, we're listening carefully to comments about author names on the home page. Please see my comment above about the factors that influenced our decision about finding the best home page design.
Very interested to read this. When you mouse over Sectors, do you not get a flyout menu of all the different sectors? If not, please respond with browser/platform info etc.
Sadly, you leave me with WSJ's real estate email -- pale comparison to what you used to send. Loved Barry, especially Judy's summaries <sigh>, and a few others.
Well, thanks for giving us something to discuss when you used to send them out..
My only suggestion would be to relocate the author's byline from the bottom of the page to the top, just under the title. And the "more by this author" link could be carried along with it, to avoid adding extra lines of text on the screen.
I do kinda miss the photos of the authors, but I recognize that every image only slows page rendering, and will easily sacrifice the loss of the photos for faster page rendering.
I do wonder what will happen to graphics-laden pages, like David Fry's and Phil Davis. Perhaps some sort of compromise can be reached there to standardize on some low-bandwidth thumbnail images linking to pages (or something else, perhaps even (yuck) pop-ups).
would be nice to have it earlier in AM
I'm trying to respond to your comment to me from 1:58PM today. EVERYTHING IS JUST SO SLOW! Paint seems to be drying quicker than the pages are loading. Did what you said about finding David Fry articles. Was still presented with a long list without any dates. Picked the first as you suggested and got nothing except an error message. Maybe the readers should give you a couple of weeks to iron all the kinks out. At this point trying to get any info from the site is becoming too frustating.
Fantastic New Look!
Please continue your articles regarding BIOTECH, they are so
informative and resourceful to me and I'm sure to other readers too.
Best of all your authors are writing precise data and unbiased opinions giving the shareholders and investors the most realistic
viewpoints.
Best of Luck!
Most Appreciated!
jturano7423
One area where it could stand some improvement, however, is with the comments. Under "My Seeking Alpha," I would love to have the option to see comments that I have posted, and ideally if there have been additional responses after the fact. Anything to help build a community, I know there are tons and tons of smart people around here, being able to debate and kick ideas around would take this site to a different level.
Thanks.
Sorry about the inconvenience! -- David
I no longer get my ticker symbols. The system does not save them.
Thank you. SA is a great site.!!