Comments on: The new Hollywood Stock Exchange website (recently redesigned) sucks as much as an indigestible fruit cake.

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By: WhiskeyKilo

WhiskeyKilo — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:05:25 +0000

Change is one thing, breaking the whole site and acting like its nothing happened is another. The whole concept of trading movie stocks, movie bonds and options have taken a backseat to making sure you can blog, add friends, and "Schmooze". The old portfolio page was color coded and extremely easy to understand, you instantly knew if you were making H$ or losing your shirt. Now the current portfolio page is a small box, one colour, light grey on a white backround and the type is half the size of the font here, also you can only see 12 stocks at any given moment. Whoever OK'd this part of the site has to have never traded any shares online before. From what I can gather, there was a beta version of this 3rd generation of the game, but no one paid any attention to the any of the feedback, two days after this new rollout, HSX.com started calling this new version a beta game, and what HSX staff there is say that portfolios are now their priority. However the only things that really work right now are the blogs, which pay H$10,000 a posting, adding friends pays traders H$1000, Online Polls, and Schmoozing. which paid initially H$1000, but now pays H$100 per reply. The only reason I see for paying traders to blog is to bring more eyeballs to the garish 728x90 and 300x225 ads on each page to pump the number of advertising views on HSX. But if this is part of the grand scheme here, I can't see Gold coin or Forex advertisers closing sales from a bunch of 13 year olds because all the veteran traders have left in disgust. I welcome Jed to read the HSX Support page: http://www.hsx.com/cms/forums/support and look around, I shudder to think this all is going to be a B-School case study on how to kill a successful site in under a week.

By: Chris F. Masse

Chris F. Masse — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:16:58 +0000

You are making a good point.
However, I read with great care what the HSX trader, said and I went myself on the HSX website. My informed opinion is negative.