Pretty sure this has been discussed like 400 times.

I believe there's a mobile version of the site but there won't be an app in the short term if I remember what Patrick said about it most recently.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
 

What additional things would people want on a WSO app that isn't already presented in the mobile version...? I know my fair share of iOS developers that would (believe it or not) probably be willing to code things up as a side project. But if there's no time-cost benefit to a mobile app, then why devote the time to write the code.

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Maybe nothing really different but having the same functionality and maybe even some added stuff would be pretty cool. In essence, you guys wouldn't have to create something entirely new. If you want/need a referral to a good coder who can do the development for you at a low cost let me know, Patrick.

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Add Wall Street Oasis to Flipboard on iOS or Android. Looks beautiful and gives you everything a native app would in this case.

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I appreciate your Effort which used for provide some interesting data. The feedback process is definitely not as smooth as it could be / should be. For example, even the popups that show up now in some apps, that ask for a review only link the user to the app’s app store page. It is then up to them to find the ratings section and click on that to get to the “leave a review” page. I recently visit one Iphone App Reviews website, which is also helpful for us.

 

Has there been new developments on the possibility of an app? I would totally be willing to pay a few bucks for an ad free version of a WSO app!

"I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
 

Question related: Whats with the top nav bar now? Before we had the top nav bar with the icons but now below that we also have "Inbox (x)" "My Profile" "Logout" with the other "Recent" "FAQs" etc.

Basically the features are in two places on the screen now.

Frank Sinatra - "Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy."
 
yeahright:

See the top? Two logout options, two profile options, two inbox options.

wow, your screen is all sorts of messed up....can you tell me what browser you are in?

your start button is split in 2, the 468x60 ad is not properly aligned and you are seeing 2 sets of menus...anyone else seeing this? please provide operating system/browser you are on.

Thanks!

 

that was IE8

this is IE7:

gonna clear cache and cookies and see if its picking up old stuff, see if it cleares anything up and will report back

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yeahright:

that was IE8
this is IE7:

gonna clear cache and cookies and see if its picking up old stuff, see if it cleares anything up and will report back

yeah, think it's your cache...please clear browser cache...

No change, it is honestly probably my bank and how they have settings set up... it may be blocking a portion of the code that determines the layout..

looks fine on Mac-->Safari at home and mobile site looks good

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yeahright:
WallStreetOasis.com:

yeahright:
that was IE8
this is IE7:

gonna clear cache and cookies and see if its picking up old stuff, see if it cleares anything up and will report back

yeah, think it's your cache...please clear browser cache...

No change, it is honestly probably my bank and how they have settings set up... it may be blocking a portion of the code that determines the layout..

looks fine on Mac-->Safari at home and mobile site looks good

hmmm, i have ie9 on my computer and only the Start Discussion button is messed up like yours...the menus are correct.

We will push a fix for the Start Discussion button asap so it also works in IE. site shoudl look good in FF, chrome and safari though...

 
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WallStreetOasis.com:

yeahright:
that was IE8
this is IE7:

gonna clear cache and cookies and see if its picking up old stuff, see if it cleares anything up and will report back
yeah, think it's your cache...please clear browser cache...

No change, it is honestly probably my bank and how they have settings set up... it may be blocking a portion of the code that determines the layout..
looks fine on Mac-->Safari at home and mobile site looks good

hmmm, i have ie9 on my computer and only the Start Discussion button is messed up like yours...the menus are correct.

We will push a fix for the Start Discussion button asap so it also works in IE. site shoudl look good in FF, chrome and safari though...

Sounds good about the button. Not sure what is going on with the "Toolbar" was that phased out for the options added in below? Or are the options below only supposed to show for mobile?

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My fat sausage fingers thank you.

We need more drunk Flake on the forums, so this is a good thing.

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I agree that an app would be great. Kind of like Quora's. I like how I can get emails on my iPhone and then I can click on the link to take me to the app because it is much more streamlined. I don't think it is bad to view the forums on Safari, but I don't comment when I am on my phone then (writing from a computer right now). Maybe if we had an online petition to see how much interest from the community there is, we could see who would be willing to pay 1 or 2 dollars, and then that could help cover development costs if you had a fundraising commitment on the website. Just a thought...

 

I agree with Dublin verbatim

I think you have to remember too that you can't really look at it from the perspective of 'make it like the facebook app'. You can't really compare Facebook to WSO in terms of usage, ROI etc. WSO is fantastic and has a fairly large group of users that post frequently but the cost of making an app similar to facebook's would be immense and I don't know if WSO has the community size to support that kind of expenditure. While I would love a WSO app, I'm just trying to be practical. Obviously Illini can speak to the other issues and obstacles involved but just something to think about...

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
 

What kinds of features are you guys looking for? Or just a mobile version of the website?

I think the iphone works so well because most messages that go through it are 100 characters in length, not 1000. Typing three paragraphs is a different use case than sending a one-sentence response via text. You can to keep reviewing different stuff in context and really need a larger area to work with visually. So the logistics of reading a post from WSO and responding to it are probably more complicated than a lot of folks first imagine.

There are ways to do this, but the developer certainly has his or her work cut out for him just for the read/post stuff. This is a place where you need an experienced GUI developer to handle this. Not some college kid or codemonkey on scriptlance.

It's a cost-benefit Patrick will need to evaluate. If Patrick needs a starting point on prices, he's got dozens of professional developers, some of whom invariably work with GUIs and network messaging, who are members of this site.

 

^^^ That sounds about right. I was thinking tens of thousands, bare minimum for anything with production-level quality.

The primary language for iphone development is C. It is a very cumbersome language to code for, although it runs very efficiently.

Now $50K-200K is a lot of money, but it might be easier to pay for it in the form of equity if it enhances the value of WSO by a certain percentage.

 

While I think the app would be cool, after thinking more about it, meh. I mean, you've got a lot of people visiting the site, but is it really going to make THAT big of a difference? I probably wouldn't ever use it, but thats cause the Incredible eats batteries like you wouldnt imagine.

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marcellus_wallace:
how do all you people in finance have iphones? or do you use 2 phones, a work and personal one?

I know what you mean but except editing docs (without the use of 3rd party apps), iPhone has all the features of a bb device. Hence, many bankers use iPhone as well.

 

Got two phones as well. I have a phone then my company bought me an iPhone. Company lets me pick any phone / service provider I want.

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yeah, in talks with a few potential developers. there are some tough challenges including upkeep, finding a good developer, making sure it's platform agnostic (since many finance people still use blackberry and android devices).

ideallly we get an html5 app developed, i just an not sure how whole process works -- and besides some insane quotes, haven't met a team or developer that can deliver something that meets these qualifications or stepped up. But we are active in looking so if anyone knows someone, please let us know

I think PhoneGap looks interesting, but how to maintain / host it worries me. I know we are going to go mobile, it's just a question on timing and making sure we do it right.

Thanks

 

Great idea. You program it.

IPhone apps are written in C I believe and are genuinely hard-core programming. This is not VBA, not even the lighter Java that I work with.

An easier solution might be to do an Iphone-friendly implementation. Patrick can set up a script to grab browser info and if it's IPhone's safari, redirect to a lighter weight version of the site.

 
IlliniProgrammer:
Great idea. You program it.

IPhone apps are written in C I believe and are genuinely hard-core programming. This is not VBA, not even the lighter Java that I work with.

An easier solution might be to do an Iphone-friendly implementation. Patrick can set up a script to grab browser info and if it's IPhone's safari, redirect to a lighter weight version of the site.

problem with this approach is the heavy caching for performance. We had a mobile version of the site (lighter weight) about 2 years ago, but what happens is that even though that lighter weight theme is only supposed to load when mobile devices hit the site...in reality, those mobile pages get cached and we were getting a lot of people in chrome saying they were getting the mobile version even though they were on their laptops/desktops.

that's why I'm thinking a mobile app might be a better, although admittedly harder way to go...

 

i've done both Android and iPhone development (still do) and I can tell you that keeping it agnostic is just about impossible. The approaches and languages and just so different that you can really only take it so far. With my apps, I can create a common web service and thats where the similarities end. So it's a SOA-based architecture, but you still need to main two codebases (or three if you do BB) in order to keep yourself working with both iPhone and Android. I happen to be very good to do what I do, but its somewhat challenging to find a single shop that can handle both Java and Objective C AND be versed on the process to actually deploy your app for each one of the platforms. Knowing how to navigate the Apple iTunes for developers alone is a skill in itself!

 

Agree that you can limit the scope to Android and iPhone. I don't know anyone that doesn't own one or the other in lieu of or in addition to their bberry.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
 

...but yeah, ok, I hear you - I'd be fine just going android and iphone...at least it's a start.

GentlemanJack: "challenging to find a single shop that can handle both Java and Objective C AND be versed on the process to actually deploy your app for each one of the platforms. Knowing how to navigate the Apple iTunes for developers alone is a skill in itself!"

...that is becoming more and more obvious to me each month that passes. The issue is as a forum heavy website, we need something that allows user to easily comment from their mobile device, so it can't be just a pretty set of RSS feeds.

GJ, do you think you'd be able to pull it off? Do you have the tme?

Thanks, Patrick

 

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