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Post by chris on Jan 28, 2014 19:12:41 GMT
Bug needs fixing:
I presume the auctions listed on the Lend page should be in date order, with the next to go live at the top of the list. It's been that way in the past, but it isn't that way at the moment. There are three auctions due to go live tomorrow. The last to go is at the top of the list, followed by the first and then the second. This might be because the one at the top of the list used to be due to go live first, but has been re-scheduled. Or it might be because the system is working only on the date and not the time. Or it might be some other reason entirely. Yup, it'll be one of those. I'll raise it with our front end dev.
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Post by jevans4949 on Jan 29, 2014 10:20:58 GMT
Just noticed a bug on the Dentist's and the Boilerman's drawdowns. On the first I had a bid for £100, and the other had 2 * £200 bids. The first has split into loan units of £80 and £20, the others have split into £100 + £80 + £20. I thought this split was only supposed to happen if the last unit was not exactly £100.
Not worth a re-run (IMO), but would be handy to fix this for the future.
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Post by chris on Jan 29, 2014 10:36:18 GMT
Just noticed a bug on the Dentist's and the Boilerman's drawdowns. On the first I had a bid for £100, and the other had 2 * £200 bids. The first has split into loan units of £80 and £20, the others have split into £100 + £80 + £20. I thought this split was only supposed to happen if the last unit was not exactly £100. Not worth a re-run (IMO), but would be handy to fix this for the future. Thanks for pointing that out, I've made a change that should fix this in future. It was a < that should have been a <=.
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Post by jevans4949 on Jan 29, 2014 10:40:26 GMT
Just noticed a bug on the Dentist's and the Boilerman's drawdowns. On the first I had a bid for £100, and the other had 2 * £200 bids. The first has split into loan units of £80 and £20, the others have split into £100 + £80 + £20. I thought this split was only supposed to happen if the last unit was not exactly £100. Not worth a re-run (IMO), but would be handy to fix this for the future. Thanks for pointing that out, I've made a change that should fix this in future. It was a < that should have been a <=. Thought it might be something like that. Easy mistake to make, as I know as an ex-programmer.
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Post by markr on Jan 30, 2014 8:33:00 GMT
A suggestion from another thread. It would be useful to know where a pre-bid is in the "queue", especially if it was placed when the loan was already over 100% full to judge how likely it is to become a real bid when the auction opens.
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Post by chris on Jan 30, 2014 10:11:14 GMT
A suggestion from another thread. It would be useful to know where a pre-bid is in the "queue", especially if it was placed when the loan was already over 100% full to judge how likely it is to become a real bid when the auction opens. Heard and added to our list - need to work out the best way of calculating that without affecting performance too much as it will be a fluid figure as money moves in and out of lender accounts.
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Post by batchoy on Jan 30, 2014 10:34:58 GMT
A suggestion from another thread. It would be useful to know where a pre-bid is in the "queue", especially if it was placed when the loan was already over 100% full to judge how likely it is to become a real bid when the auction opens. Heard and added to our list - need to work out the best way of calculating that without affecting performance too much as it will be a fluid figure as money moves in and out of lender accounts. Would it really need to be that liquid? Could it not simply be based on the pre-bids and not the pre-bids and the funds in the associated lender accounts. The later could be potentially more confusing than the former, since bids around the 100% mark could potentially be continually be fluctuating between being accepted and not accepted as earlier pre-bids are deleted and funds are added accounts associated with earlier pre-bids.
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Post by chris on Jan 30, 2014 10:37:39 GMT
Depends how useful or not you guys think that would be. It would be possible to show both - your position in the queue and the level of funded prebids ahead of you, but that would be a little bit more expensive to calculate dynamically so I'd need to check it out before committing to it.
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Post by j on Jan 30, 2014 10:45:52 GMT
Depends how useful or not you guys think that would be. It would be possible to show both - your position in the queue and the level of funded prebids ahead of you, but that would be a little bit more expensive to calculate dynamically so I'd need to check it out before committing to it. I would be quite happy simply knowing where in the queue I am, but also how much in total amount is ahead of money, simply to give me an idea whether I will have any chance with some pre-bid cancellation from others, or whether it would be better to cancel my pre-bids (e.g. if a loan is say £300k but there is £80k oversubscribed pre-bids ahead of me) - that way I might want to cancel that pre-bid & utilise the monies on another auction or the aftermarket. Hope that made sense chris 
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Post by chris on Jan 30, 2014 11:05:27 GMT
j - Yup, all makes sense. May be a bit of radio silence for the rest of the day as we are having our monthly board meeting.
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Post by chris on Feb 4, 2014 13:48:43 GMT
paul123: - The site isn't currently mobile optimised / responsive. This is definitely on our radar but we have some functionality to add to the site for commercial reasons before we can concentrate on a UI overhaul.
- Security best practice is that autocomplete should be disabled for all fields on all login / edit profile forms. This has come up before when various sites we as a team have built have been audited.
- For the Apple tweaks see 1.
- Completely agree with you, but again see 1. It will be done I just can't commit to a time frame yet.
- Setting the focus to the text entry boxes automatically is against accessibility guidelines (as drilled into us when we worked on a website that was under government scrutiny on this) as pressing tab is supposed to take you through the main menu options.
- Agree - we've raised this with the site admins.
- Ditto.
Don't want to fob you off as you are right about most of the points but there is a combination of resources currently being focussed elsewhere and "best practice" getting in the way. That doesn't mean I agree with the best practice and will certainly review it when the time comes.
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Post by mikes1531 on Feb 6, 2014 21:47:00 GMT
On the main 'Lend' page, Live Auctions are at the top, and Completed Auctions are below them. Among Complete loans, however, it's impossible to tell from this page which loans have been drawn down and which have not. To determine that, you have to view each auction -- one at a time -- and that's a pain. I can think of two possible solutions for the main page... - Divide the Completed list into 'Completed -- Awaiting Drawdown', and 'Completed' (or 'Completed - Drawn down'); or
- Show both the date the auction ended (as now) and the drawdown date.
Either solution would make it easy to identify the loans that hadn't been drawn down yet. I'd be happy with either solution, but one might be easier to implement.
Does anyone have any preferences between the two choices? Or, for that matter, does anyone have any other suggestions for providing the info?
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Post by Jim on Feb 7, 2014 0:27:20 GMT
I would suggest a third division of the Completed Auctions to separate those that have been repaid.
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Post by valerieb on Feb 7, 2014 22:35:35 GMT
On the main 'Lend' page, Live Auctions are at the top, and Completed Auctions are below them. Among Complete loans, however, it's impossible to tell from this page which loans have been drawn down and which have not. To determine that, you have to view each auction -- one at a time -- and that's a pain. I can think of two possible solutions for the main page... - Divide the Completed list into 'Completed -- Awaiting Drawdown', and 'Completed' (or 'Completed - Drawn down'); or
- Show both the date the auction ended (as now) and the drawdown date.
Either solution would make it easy to identify the loans that hadn't been drawn down yet. I'd be happy with either solution, but one might be easier to implement.
Does anyone have any preferences between the two choices? Or, for that matter, does anyone have any other suggestions for providing the info?
Do we really need this extra information on the main lend page? If we've invested, the details will be on our account page. Just think the main page will get rather unwieldy as the number of loans increase.
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Post by pepperpot on Feb 8, 2014 2:18:49 GMT
Do we really need this extra information on the main lend page? If we've invested, the details will be on our account page. Just think the main page will get rather unwieldy as the number of loans increase. Maybe house them under expandable/collapsible headings of completed, drawndown and repaid, or words to that effect. I'd also be happy for expandable headings to be used more on the summary page as I've got a fair old list of (multiple per auction) pre-bids to scroll though. Could pre-bids be treated the same as 'Your Accepted Bids'?
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