TheDriver
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Post by TheDriver on Nov 5, 2016 15:57:16 GMT
From an off-topic discussion in a previous thread: LendingCrowd seem to have changed the Current Investments page back to how it used to look. Now you have to click the '+' to the left of each individual loan to view the outstanding principal etc. Surely it would be much better for investors to have all this information in one, easy to view table, as other platforms do. I would really like to see the number of remaining payments without having to click 'Manage' on each individual loan.
Agree with the second half of the post, but I can still see the dumbed-down revised version; in the old version some numeric details were displayed, and the only thing the + did was display loan status, and LC inferred that it was hard-coded to live! Are you getting confused by the example listing shown on the blog post , which actually showed much more useful information - when I asked why it was all missing from the released screens I was told they had to make room for the loan title!
After another look at the blog, that version looks like the original layout I saw (before October) with the addition of two colour-coded columns. The new version I get is as lionelrichtea describes, just showing the (still often inaccurate) status and next repayment date against each loan, having to click '+' beside each loan for amounts of Repayment Due, Principle and Interest; to me, less useful than the previous data (as blogged).
As an aside, while using my Android tablet I happened upon an interesting phenomenon: before the final display, I get a fleeting glimpse of the listing showing the '+' values in columns added to the listing, which would at least be more use! I do have screenshots but they include loan names, so can only be shown to registered LC users!
It almost seems to me that the programmer's brief was to jazz up the listing with colourised info, without being told that the existing columns were to be retained - and when they realised the '+' was now redundant decided to pull in some disparate details to make it look cleverer, at the expense of usefulness and ease of reference - a common techie foible!
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Post by TheDriver on Nov 6, 2016 13:43:03 GMT
![]() Here's an example of the right half of what I get briefly displayed before the live version  before finally:  apologies for the small image, I can't see how to make them bigger - hope it's enough to get the idea
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Post by adrianc on Nov 6, 2016 14:02:47 GMT
![]() apologies for the small image, I can't see how to make them bigger - hope it's enough to get the idea s'ok. Click on 'em, and they open full size. Bet I can guess which one of your loans is... <grin> What you're seeing is the page resizing to best suit your screen. Those of us looking on PCs or higher-resolution tablets see all the columns, as your first image shows. If you're on a PC, then resize the browser window downwards, and it reaches a point at which it then resets itself and hides them. Resize upwards again, and they reappear. The width of the white central portion of page remains the same, and the grey borders vary in size - right up until the grey would disappear, then the central portion rearranges and narrows - again, the grey borders then take up size variations, up until the white fills the width again. At that point, the white rearranges again into a third, narrower, format. The Current Assets pane moves to the top. Once the screen narrows that far again, everything starts to shuffle up a bit. The four Summary figures then go to 2x2, loan names start to wrap to additional lines etc... I s'pose you could call the three formats "pc", "tablet" and "phone".
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Post by TheDriver on Nov 6, 2016 15:48:40 GMT
Ah yes, good - and I think the date in red would give it away even if I'd completely blanked the first letter, but unfortunately it's not the only one!
Thanks for all that feedback adrianc. Glad I got around to posting the examples, as following your explanation I can now view it in one with my Netbook set to 85% - got to work out how to zoom the tablet, although I have seen the "third" version displayed when I rotate it vertically! If they'd made the Current Investments frame full width, instead of wasting a quarter of it blank, I presume it would display first time on my 10" screens!
It still leaves the issue that the blog shows the original (more useful) data with the two new columns, while the live version has those three generally rather less useful ones. (And the blog also shows the red loan as if it's listed on the LE, even tho' it obviously won't be!)
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Post by lionelrichtea on Nov 7, 2016 11:02:01 GMT
Huh, so I guess at some point the website decided my laptop was actually a tablet; I have to set the zoom to 90% to see the full table.
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