lse.co.uk service update

Tuesday, 27th January 2009 12:31 - by Resident IFA

The staff at lse.co.uk are subscribers to the ‘Less is more’ school of thought. There is undoubtedly a need to keep our Members and Visitors informed of site issues and improvements, but realise that nobody is interested in what we ate for lunch! Time and experience helps us towards finding the happy-medium position in keeping you relevantly and properly updated. For example, if you are a regular visitor, it will not have escaped your notice that lse.co.uk has struggled with the vast amount of traffic it has attracted in the last fortnight. Our response to this was to immediately purchase a vastly more powerful server which can handle the current levels and a lot, lot more traffic. Said server arrived at 4.45 p.m. on Friday, leading to two members of lse.co.uk’s staff practically working through from then until late on Saturday with very little thought for sleep or personal well-being! Sincere thanks go to them and their unflinching dedication to lse.co.uk. At least I, like you, won’t have to refresh my browser between 2-5 times to get into the site from now on! GedW, as a man of experience, has also praised our speed and lack of ‘down-time’ in upgrading the server - see the General Chat section. In the next few days, we are hoping to launch some FTSE pages, adding to these over time i.e. to include ICB sector information such as Oil, Gas, Pharmaceutical, etc. Initially, these pages will focus on the four (100, 250, All-Share, and Small Cap) indices currently displayed on lse.co.uk’s homepage - clicking the titles to take you through to information pages. After all, a la Naked Trader, we realise that a lot of investors do more nowadays than simply trade shares - such as go ‘long’ or ‘short’ on, say, the FTSE100. Our mantra has always been that the Members and Visitors make lse.co.uk what it is. We listen to your ideas and feedback, taking as many on-board as we can and think sensible to at any given time. Please keep them coming. We too have many improvements we want to make to the site, asking for your patience and understanding - although we have never experienced anything but. Above all, we hope you continue to enjoy lse.co.uk and that it provides a rewarding user experience for share research, share news, share chat…and the list goes on. Until next time…