A few months ago I was invited to move my website to TheMaven.Net/Mishtalk.
Giving up control of a domain is not an easy decision.
I did so because I like the Maven Team. I believe they will better promote the “Mish” brand than I can personally.
Maven Team
- James Heckman / Founder and CEO – Background: Head of Global Media Strategy for Yahoo!; Chief Strategy Officer at Fox Digital; architected a $900 million ad alliance between Google and Myspace; founder/CEO of 5to1.com (sold to Yahoo!); CSO of Zazzle.com; Founder/CEO of Scout.com (sold to Fox); Founder/CEO of Rivals.com and Rivals.net (sold to Yahoo!)
- Josh Jacobs / Executive Co-Chair – Background: President of services at Kik Interactive, one of the world’s largest messaging apps; global CEO of Accuen Media; president of the Omnicom Media Group
- Bill Sornsin / Chief Operating Officer – Background: Ran MSN’s Core Technology team before joining Rivals.com as co-founder and CTO in 1999; co-founded Scout.com as CTO/COO; VP Engineering & Operations at Fox Interactive Media following its acquisition of Scout.
- Ben Joldersma / Chief Technology Officer – Background: CTO and chief architect of the single-platform national sports network Scout.com; CTO of the digital media advertising management firm 5to1; senior software engineer at Google where he researched and developed image visualization systems for Google Maps; a principal software engineer in the advertising platform unit at Yahoo!
- Ross Levinsohn / Director – Background: CEO at Yahoo! in 2012; President of Fox Interactive where he helped create one of the largest digital businesses amongst the traditional media companies; co-founded Fuse Capital in 2005; General Manager at AltaVista Network; Vice President of Programming and Executive Producer at CBS Sportsline.
That’s a partial list of names as well as a partial list of accomplishments.
What’s In it for Me ?
- Ultimately, I expect more ad income or I would not move.
- I am also struggling to get readership up on Mish Moments, my photography website. I reckon the Maven team can help.
What’s In it for You ?
- Rooms: Many people complain about political posts. Others love them. If you do not want to read about foreign or US politics, you can easily skip such posts.
- Ask Mish: I have a new room called Ask Mish. If you have a question, ask away. Others are free to respond or to comment on my comments.
- Easier signup. You can use any existing email address to join.
- Easier commenting.
- I have two moderators who can remove offensive comments and make minor edits to posts.
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Once live, Mishtalk.Com will automatically redirect to TheMaven.Net/Mishtalk.
Thousands of articles have been converted minus the comments.
However, all existing posts and comments on MishTalk.Com will be available in Archive format shortly. That URL is Archive.Mishtalk.Com.
Welcome to MishTalk on The Maven.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
OUCH – this new site just cluttered and visually assaulting – please make it go away Mish! Make the bad men who are horrible web designers go away and take their pictures with text embedded headlines with them.
another OVERLY cluttered site, too much time to sort, plow through the weeds, not worth the time etc = GOODBYE
I gotta tell you though @WildBull, I am absolutely loving the content and the discussion here (at least in the econ threads). A guy can learn a lot from grumpy old men once he learns how to put up with them. lol.
This place is haunted by a bunch of grumpy old men.
Hi Lloyd. I’m anxious to see the improved format. Hang in there. You are getting pounded pretty hard. I’ve written enough software to know that you will never be right 😉 Best Regards
i am absolutely with wildbull on this, please declutter and simplify to the point of stupidity, and then simplify some more…..i hate buttons, clicky things, subfolders, sub pages……..everyone talks simplicity and no one does it…..one list top to bottom,….arranged by date. and no like, dislike buttons either…..
“Need an all stories page” – the home page shows all stories. And you can get a straight chronological sort by clicking icon at upper left and choosing “Newest”.
@WildBull The good news is that’s not my intention at all. 🙂 I’m not going to go so far as completely agree with your pov on the current layout (I have my pride) but I will say its current format is far too pinteresty for my taste, if you know what I mean… I guess the other good news is you and I aren’t alone so a layout change that prioritizes Mish’s recent articles over contributors and does so in a more orderly manner is almost ready for release. I can’t guarantee that you’ll like it but I can tell you that it is in response to this very criticism. Anyway, feel free to ping me with tech support questions. I’m just one of the engineers that work on this for Mish so if you don’t abuse me I’ll be more than happy to help explain/prioritize/fix whatever’s bugging you. I believe we already fixed the sort issue you guys were reporting early in the thread and we’ll just keep on knocking things off your list.
Hi Lloyd, I don’t want subscriptions turned on. I have more than enough things that go beep, ding and buzz, and more email than I can stand. Mostly junk. I’d like to come to this site and see the latest articles in a neat organized format. This looks disorganized and frankly is disorganized — at least from my perspective. If it is your goal is eventually to force me to search around so that I can be lead past a bunch of click bait, you will lose me and half of the other readers here.
I used to read this site on my Kindle Fire first thing in the morning while having breakfast. The summary of three or four items that showed up with a single quick data load was perfect. Now, the site has become unreadable on the Kindle because there is just too much stuff, the vast majority of which I have no interest in for the limited capabilities of the Kindle to handle effectively. If I have to use my desktop to read the site, I have a whole bunch of other sites on it that give me much more comprehensive information on the things that I am interested in. I think the site is now way too cluttered and takes too much of my limited breakfast time to sort through in order to get to the stuff that I find interesting. I would like Mish to bring back the single load 3 or 4 item summary of items he thinks are important that I can subscribe to.
Layout is cluttered and off-putting. Give me a list, PLEASE. Newest to oldest, top to bottom. One column.
@MD17 To get new stories pushed to your email you can click “Turn On Notifications” in the room settings (the slider button at the right of the menu). There are currently more subscription options in the apps.
Really don’t need a top stories page. Need an all stories page. Please arrange by posting time. I read everyday shouldn’t have to browse through randomly sorted dates to find the new ones.
@AndrewDibb lol. Tell us how you really feel. 😉
>The design is overly fussy and ugly. Obviously I am here for the quality of the content, despite the now hideous presentation.
@CWCW rss links will be posted shortly
@avilner that is a great idea. One of our engineers read your post and jumped on it with the rss thing.
Site looks great on my Galaxy S7
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/maven-news-community/id1254283617?mt=8
Also, the iphone app is in the app store and android app is in development but I take your point on mobile page sizes. A fella get’s spoiled by big screens and high bandwidth. We could detect mobile and load less. This really is great feedback. Thanks again.
I think people should give it time. It’s a young platform with new features added every week (and we’re a team that takes feature requests). There are now action items for every item in this thread so even though it’s not all great, I’m super grateful for the feedback nonetheless.
I really hopes this shitty page disapears, otherwhise Good luck. I’m out.
New posts are not being delivered via email or RSS. Seems like this is a bust…
Seriously, this has to be one of the worst sites on mobile devices I have experienced for a while. I fear you have been beguiled by hucksters who know *NOTHING* about delivering content on mobile devices.
Under Global Politics… Of the top 7 articles listed, five are from Valentines Day or earlier 2017. Two are from 2016. One is from 2015. WHY? Why would anyone have an interest in the October 11, 2016 article saying that Trump destroyed Trump in the debate with Hillary and that he has no election chance?
Finally checked out the site on a PC. At least I can read it. But I can’t find the posts I want to see. Can someone tell me how to find the most recent posts? “Top posts” is not interesting to me. “Most recent posts” should at least be an option. But I can’t figure it out. A regular reader has no interest in 2 day old posts, burying recent posts doesn’t make sense.
Is there a way to get the daily digest delivered to email, like it was done in the past, without having to visit the site itself? I liked the summary with clickable links to articles…
Could you provide URLs for the new RSS feeds?
Seriously, the first three articles, when preferences are by most recent, under Politics includes a post from February 14. This isn’t working. I have to mentally resort all the postings by date to try and figure out which ones are actually new.
I hope you are able to get these issues sorted out and soon. I could send you a screenshot but you haven’t an email address here nor can I provide attachments.
This is difficult to use. I have discovered that the articles appear not in chronological sequence even when selected to display based on “most recent”. The risk is that I will miss content because it’s not popular enough to warrant rising to the top — just like any other social media site. As you may realize, it’s not the popular articles that are always the most important…
For me personally, I don’t care to separate the articles into Politics or Economics or Popularity but would be quite happy with a display of articles that are simply in the sequence that they were posted, you know, chronological only. These other display methods require more “hunt & peck” in trying to find the articles and creates a level of frustration usually reserved for Facebook and CNN.
–cont’d
–I am not an adolescent who needs technicolor teaser photos with gaping faces and superimposed histograms to induce a click. Please revert to the previous printed list.
…Continued Hmm… Pressing enter terminates the comment. Use shift + enter to create a new paragraph. Ridiculous function evidently copied from Farcebook.
–site doesn’t render at all on iPad air
–only single column on Android smart phone that devours bandwidth because it is infinitely long ! Please revert to short single page load with page arrows to newer and older posts
–confirm that there is no chronology
Catastrophic site
New site is the pits. Huge step backwards.
I am having trouble seeing what is most recent; would be nice to have a simple list with blog entries by time. There is an option for viewing by time, but articles are not listed in order, and are interspersed with comments, poor overview…
No appearances on finviz anymore! Can that be restored please? (Best wishes with this move.)
Will we still receive the daily email? If so, how do we set that up, I cannot find anything to set that up. If it is not possible, then that would be huge loss.
Further to my previous post and having endured the klunky amateurish commenting facility I really have to ask a pointed question: if Maven are so good at what they do why can they not provide commenting support that is not an embarrassment? It is not rocket science.
As a long time fan if your site I understand your decision and wish you every success with it. However I have to be honest and say that I really dislike the new site. It renders poorly on mobile devices. It is slow, too complicated and confusing. The design is overly fussy and ugly. Obviously I am here for the quality of the content, despite the now hideous presentation.
I agree with previous comments, this fancy format is not user friendly, even when viewing on a laptop. Cluttered, slow to load, disorganized non- chronological random placed articles, no clear distinction between economic vs political, hard to navigate as scrolling suddenly has quantum leaps past the article. I see no benefit in having the 4 categories. Please consider keeping it simple with tried and test features making changes slowly.
If not able to see the main info within a limited time… actually seconds… you have lost the reader. Could skim the old blog very quickly. Timeline is also not in order, so have to search to verify what is latest… What you see if you return a few minutes later, or an hour later…do not know. Do you have to rescan all? There was a web designer in Russia who was very successful, in fact copyrighted or trademarked “web designer”… Simple, black & white, clean, easy to understand graphics… hook the customer fast. The advertising and video popups on so many present sites has now made them almost unusable.
It functions OK on desktop, but difficult to view by time. Of course this can be an aspect of marketing. On mobile… same problem as I had recently advised a friend about his website interface, Scroll, scroll, scroll…Before you could view Mish quickly.
Gotta agree with Longtimereader. The site seems horribly cluttered and disorganized on my laptop. So far I’ve been unable to login with my iPhone but at least the comments are readable. Best wishes.
Mish congrats on the move. Do whatever you need to do for you that is best. I don’t pretend to think my opinion matters all that much. However, for what it’s worth, I have read you for nearly a decade religiously. I have told countless people to read you. I have cross promoted you and spoken with you numerous times. So I don’t mean to sound alarmist when I say this because I absolutely love your work. Unfortunately though the new format and site currently sucks. It doesn’t render on mobile, it’s cluttered and confusing, and its slow. Drudge works because it’s simple. Your old blog worked because it was simple. If I wanted a current financial news media format I’d read a current financial news media site. I understand the transition to the new media content format but this to me is a bad move for your style and readership. Maybe you don’t care though and just want more numbers or views? Similarly I also appreciate your desire to promote Mish moments and your hobby. That too is your prerogative as well and I love that it makes you happy. On the other hand I don’t read your blog to look at or hear about photography which is of no interest to me. I suspect that is probably the case for many readers. Not to say your images aren’t nice or interesting just that they aren’t interesting to me as an economic blog reader. So again congrats on the move. My two cents if it is helpful would be If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Mish talk was a move to a similar style and format with better features. This site so far is not the same transition type and thus far is frustrating.
I’m fine with change, but on my iPhone the site doesn’t render at all 🙁
Stuki – you cannot reply to someone now. But within a couple weeks you will be able to.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/archive.html?year=2017&month=10&page=1
Here’s what I think is a better way to combine pictures with a headline and excerpt.
I preferred the old layout. It was easier to read and quickly scan the titles. Perhaps there could be an option for a text-only main page? It’s cluttered, but that is the trend this year. Googlenews has adopted the same layout style. But the writing is great and there are few sites anywhere that have such intelligent and honest commentary on world events, so I’ll be a regular visitor no matter what. Keep up the great writing.
Weird. Now that I created a login, the layout works just fine.
I’m glad you found a better platform. I’m still stuck on blogger, although I don’t market my site at all (and it has nothing to do with finances.). There seem to be a few bugs yet. The 2+ column layout doesn’t scale properly on my iPad, using either Chrome or Safari. Pklus it’s hard to tell the chronology of posts. I’m not fond of the multi column layout in general, but I’m just one guy.