baz657
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Post by baz657 on Jul 29, 2014 23:23:38 GMT
Nicer looking with more information (inc. bid ranges) in the top area which stays there when you change credit/financial/etc. tabs. Nice touch.
There's also a refresh icon that appears to only work on the bid figures without reloading the whole page - maybe that will increase the accuracy at the end of busy auctions?
Here's hoping it doesn't all break down soon.
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chrisf
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Post by chrisf on Jul 30, 2014 7:31:33 GMT
The bidding page did have a different look when I checked this morning around 7.30 (Including the innovation that the picture was round instead of rectangular), but bidding seemed very temperamental, I kept getting 'Unable to bid at this time', and now I see they have rolled it back to the old version. Not sure if it was a quick test, or an attempted upgrade which failed.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Jul 30, 2014 8:24:48 GMT
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Post by p2perrr on Jul 30, 2014 10:49:53 GMT
Becky has posted on the FC forum details of how to preview the new style page: link |
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Jul 30, 2014 10:50:32 GMT
Yep, I just noticed/posted same thing.
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Post by p2perrr on Jul 30, 2014 10:54:04 GMT
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blender
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Post by blender on Jul 30, 2014 11:11:48 GMT
Hmmm, like the design but on looking at a loan to bid on (not identified) found and have copied and pasted this, with updates on:
Rate Total Amount Status
10.8% £700 rejected
10.6% £600 live
10.3% £100 live
10.8% £3,240 rejected
10.8% £2,520 live
10.7% £7,060 live
Apart from that I would like more vertical space for that panel (on a PC using chrome). Cannot see enough of what is going on.
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blender
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Post by blender on Jul 30, 2014 11:47:43 GMT
And this on another loan:
Rate Total Amount Status
9.8% £140 rejected
9.7% £40 live
9.6% £40 live
9.4% £20 live
9% £40 live
9.8% £1,994 rejected
9.8% £2,922 live
9.7% £5,480 live
With Auto update on we seem to be seeing the detail of how the first (latest) rejected amount was replaced by new lower live bids, in this case how £140 at 9.8% was replaced by four lower bids. Only then do we see material relevant to our bidding, by which time the vertical window has run out. You have to refresh to remove the upper part. The top part, five lines in this case, is not needed and confusing and should not be displayed. New lenders would be baffled, and driven to Autobid.
Sure it will get fixed.
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Post by aloanatlast on Jul 31, 2014 9:13:17 GMT
Well I was going to post something in another place, but it seems they've improved it, to the extent that I'm no longer seeing any kind of reply or post button anywhere, so it looks like I'm reduced to lurking.
Well I don't expect anybody to actually test their websites in Windows 8 on a tablet, but the number of sites that happen to sort of work by accident is declining rapidly.
As for the new loan page, quite unusable. Tried to put 25 bids into an auction, got about 3 in, gave up.
I'm starting to get the impression that I may not quite fit FC's image of the ideal lender.
Oh well, it was good while it lasted.
What worries me now is that they'll improve the selling page and I won't be able to sell anything.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Jul 31, 2014 10:27:02 GMT
I can still post in the other place, and the new loan page doesn't delight me either (no least because it broke a lot of scripting). It could be better than the old one, but it ain't yet there, and as for tablets, I prefer the 'desktop' site even if I have to pan zoom and scroll a lot (although the dropdown boxes on the loan parts page are just plain nasty, either way).
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Post by jimbo on Jul 31, 2014 10:57:05 GMT
I found the new loan page as slow as hell.
Also, if I'd built a scraper bot, I'd be a bit miffed. Wonder what's happened to the (7 months and counting) overdue API...
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Jul 31, 2014 12:16:00 GMT
Over there in the long grass, along with the upgraded loan book, whole loans public release, improved official forum, and various other promises. But fear not .. We have round photos now !!!! 8>.
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blender
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Post by blender on Jul 31, 2014 12:25:43 GMT
Making things difficult for scraper bots and forgetting the API would be consistent with supporting the App as the preferred automated access.
The withdrawal of our loanbook (they are our loans not FC's) is more serious, a breach of trust and promised transparency, a regulatory issue imo. The old one works well enough and must still be there. It has been deliberately hidden from lenders, imo.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Jul 31, 2014 14:23:29 GMT
The app is not, afaik, in any way shape or form automated (not having an Ipad I can't check) and it is supposed to use the same API we don't have.
The bid bots will be temporarily inconvenienced (mine's staggering back to life, slowly), although I am sure the big players have had advance notice since apparently FC can't live without them.
I agree about the loan book - when FC noticed it was still available they went and hid it.
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Post by goldservice on Jul 31, 2014 16:53:44 GMT
The new look loans page has many niggles, for example, after placing your first bid the bid button moves down slightly so the pointer may no longer be on it so you have to take aim again before placing subsequent bids. Also, the pop up New Bid! boxes spread down the screen (when several bids are made) until they cover the 'Total bid so far', and then they cover the bid button itself so you have to stop bidding. Annoying. It makes me think that (as happens so often in software development) the FC manager, designer, writer and tester are not actually users of the product themselves and get to think in the end that users are a pain. Re-educate the lot, I say!
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