WSO - What Do You Hate?

Keep up the good work.

The only thing that I really find annoying is the spam that litters the first page of posts from time to time.

PS -- Get your sleep while you can now....you won't be getting much soon. Good luck and congrats.

Webinars are great, I've been participating in a lot of them lately. I would like for them to be easier to track. I rely on the 30 minute heads up I get via e-mail. If I miss them, I oftentimes miss the 24 hours they are up for free before moving to the paid video library, the pricing of which is pretty steep. I would like to see more mock interviews as well. Maybe offer people a discount if they are willing to have their video posted publicly? Or circle back with people 6 months - year after their interview when they may be less sensitive about having it posted.

Consider making each webinar its own forum thread for people to follow up on the topic.

Overall the worst part of the site is how repetitive the forum content is but I don't know how his can be helped

I wish webinars could be hosted on Youtube so I can go back and watch them later.

One thing I wish there was (and I don't know if this is possible), is a 'Preview Post' option. That way if you're writing a long post, or using any sort of HTML or weird formatting you can fix it without having to publish a comment first.

Another thing that I noticed is that when you are stacking quotes (quoting someone who quoted someone), it loses the formatting and doesn't look good.

Other than those two things, well done! There's only so much you can do about spam..

It still seems like the color scheme makes things a little harder to read than before. I think the text should be a little darker and the background a little less bright/white

Also looks like the feature to see what users other people are following has disappeared

congrats to patrick to becoming a dad soon. :)

I think the forum is still too bright.

On my phone, the site forgets my login when viewed in Private mode (applies to both Safari and Chrome). Another forum I use doesn't have this problem. That said, I'm probably in the minority in using Private mode so feel free to leave it.

I get errors around about 75% of the time I give bananas or MS.

Possibly implement some way to filter out serial unfunny trollers. However, I imagine that's not easy and if we have to live with it, so be it.

Otherwise, I'm fine with it all.

Good work and well done.

Quick thoughts on UX: - serif fonts generally are more readable for large blocks of text. It's fine (looks "better", today) to have headers in sans-serif or exotic fonts. See Quora for a modern example (and they are a very data driven design team), or read both Claude Hopkins or David Ogilvy for the old timers (especially Ogilvy as he loved his long form). - your top navbar is fixed (http://getbootstrap.com/examples/navbar-fixed-top/). But it's also huge. I would look at how many times people actually use the navbar after scrolling down, and decide whether you want to go static (http://getbootstrap.com/examples/navbar-static-top/). As an aside, there's a slight glitch as the navbar "detaches" to follow the scrolling - it only starts moving when the top of the window hits the second row, which is unsightly. - your logo (top left corner) is pixellated (slightly) on a Retina display. You might want to vectorize it or put a higher res one there. Loads of articles on designing for Retina generally, quick Google puts this guy at the top: http://www.leemunroe.com/designing-for-high-resolution-retina-displays/ - type wise, you should make more use of grays (which are part of your colour palette) to avoid people having to read unnecessary stuff. You can create a hierarchy of content using size, colours and fonts, which automatically direct people's eyes where you want them to go. As a quick example, "Comment" above this reply box does not need to be bold and black. Another might be the user names, timestamps on posts, etc. - focus on content. Quora is again a great example. - links don't need to all be blue.

On the positive side, love the use of whitespace, of colours and size to direct reading (e.g. 2nd row of navbar vs first - bold and bright blue = I go there first), the cleaner UX generally.

Putting Responsive Hat On Good: - nice breakpoints, the site content seems to scale well

Bad: - after what looks like your mid breakpoint, the navbar looks really ugly because of its two rows - I was previously fooled into believing the second row of the navbar (which is blue/bold) was the most important. Why do you fold that one in first? If it's important, fold the "FINANCIAL MODELING [typo btw] etc." row first. If not, rethink your content hierarchy.

YMMV, I don't know much, I've just read a few books and done stuff for myself.

COuld it be that the "Top WSO blogger" page is not working or is it just me?

when i go to post in a thread but have to log in, upon logging in i will be sent to my user profile and will have to then go back and find the thread i was trying to post in again.

this new interface is an upgradge, though

When I first tried to start a topic, it took 5-10 minutes for me to find the green button. It is also ineffective when that green button is only on the first page. I would put it right under the recent tab; feels more intuitive and accessible.

*revised it is also ineffective when some pages dont have that green button.

Im not sure about everyone else but webinars are around inconvenient times; 6-7pm. Can you make it like 9 pm or have a poll of when is the best time for everyone.

Facebook uses this technique that I think you should incorporate-- when someone replies to a comment, instead of putting it on the bottom of the page, just put it right below the comment it replies too.

I hate blonde men. They just aren't trustworthy.

The fact that when I login I get redirected to my profile page instead of to the page I was in middle of reading. (This was a problem before the site redesign too.)

I can't see people's job title and industry any more. That info used to show up in user profile. Did you move that to somewhere else or is it simply going to be hidden from now on?

I really liked the old light blue/blue background and darker text. It is too bright. I also liked the "new comments" when scrolling through forums being colored yellow or having the mail opened or whatever that symbol was instead of the just blue lettered "new". I like scrolling through articles in the forums and the white background just make the article titles look lumped together so i don't read as many. A differentiation in color makes it easier to see which articles I want to read.

when i hover over the "career, recent, firms, forums, etc" it doesn't show the full words. Also, mobile mode kind of sucks and would like an app. Lastly, I like the old format better, this is way too bright.

positive side: the content is the best on the internet. keep it up users

Is it possible to block user? I'd love to put a few on ignore that I keep seeing.

alyyas please inbox me you suggestions.

aliyayasir sent!

This is going to sound retarded, but it might be cool to have like a sign to show posters that the actual OP saw the post in their posted thread like Whatsapp does. Maybe I'm just too sleep deprived...

This is probably more of a glitch but this came up when I clicked on a post, and I didn't do anything except click on it:

" Oops, looks like this request tried to create an infinite loop. We do not allow such things here. We are a professional website!"

Gave a guy monkey shit by accident. (I blame the trackpad.) Can't un-shit him. Any way to alter this?

I'm still trying to figure out how to know whether someone has quoted me or replied to one of my posts. I use my iphone and I can't see where to view this? Perhaps you send an automatic email which notifies me. No idea seeing as I don't check that email account.

Congrats on the little un!

ok, quick update:

1. Header on mobile fixed so that you can actually read your username and get to your inbox

2. User profiles closer to done. Now you can see what subscriptions you have on WSO (job board, video library, company database and when they expire, as well as convenient "cancel" links if you want to stop your subscription).

more on the way...

I still think the website is too bright (too much white and light gray). I would love an option to have WSO in our old vintage blue/dark grey colour. Everything else is awesome!

Oh, and congrats on the kid!

this is an old problem but when clicking an "in reply to:" I can't view the prior comment if it's on a different page. would be nice to see the original comment no matter what page it's on

dramatic change in contrast / brightness about to get pushed live to try and make the site less bright and easier to read. Stay tuned in the next hour...

Agree about the above... didn't notice any difference in the colors. Maybe try something like Optimizely to A/B test several dozen variations.

One big thing I've noticed recently is the header bar at the top of all the pages. On my 13 inch laptop, it takes up about 25% of the screen. Can it be shortened? The "my profile" section (greyed out monkey, name) is also buggy, overlaps with the words on the line above it (JOBS, EVENTS), and my username an off-white color that is nearly invisible.

any other thoughts on the "brightness" now? We darkened the background pretty significantly yesterday, so I thought that would help.

@Going Concern" chicandtoughness skydiver mjs3goldenknights @FutureWaller" thoughts? To me, it's much easier on the eyes and easier to read the contrast in the comments, etc...

More fixes coming next week including the redirect when logging in...it will take you to the thread you were reading, NOT your profile.

Thanks guys

hey gals & girls, so quick update:

1. now when you are on a thread and login, you will be redirected back to that same thread so you don't lose your place skydiver Barcadia

2. Your profiles now show your current subscriptions and roles (WSO Company Database, WSO Job Board, WSO Video Library, etc) with simple 1 click cancellation and the expire date

3. We are still running the script to transfer over profile fields...what this means for you is that it may take another week for your industry / status icon and roles to show up properly on your profiles CRE -- thanks for your patience

4. Been fixing a ton of SEO bugs the last weeks so Google doesn't drop the hammer on us...think we see the light at the end of the tunnel on this one, but waiting on our next report from Moz.com

5. fixing a few minor theming issues from darkening the background last week...as well as getting the report violation links onto PMs to make sure we are getting spam everywhere...please keep flagging spam guys, it's the fastest way to get rid of it (only takes 2 flags to block and remove all content from new users :-)

Thanks and stay tuned! Patrick

One thing I've been noticing - and I'm not sure if I just have my profile set to "vain" or whatever - but when someone mentions me I get two messages for the same mention. I do want one, however two is a bit overkill.

Getting that infinite loop warning again. http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/worst-interview-experience

In the recent section of the site getting the new sign next to old threads with out any recent comments is probably my biggest beef

All this morning, the site was telling me that I was trying to create an infinite loop or something. I was just clicking "add comment"

Also, WSO runs fine on IE on my work PC, but it really struggles at home on firefox on mac. I'll try to be more specific tonight and list specific problems.