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OptimusBain Posted February 9, 2021 Posted February 9, 2021 (edited) Good day everyone, I was wondering if I could get your opinion on what would be the "best way" to share articles with stock analysis on my forum. I have not launched it yet because I need to make some important decisions is sharing a weekly video analysis I do about certain american stocks. I've been using vBulletin forum for years; I've been working on IPS for the last year where I have been migrating the data. I am not sure where or how I should share this kind of information. These video analysis are posts of about 3 to 5 thousand words and a video analysis. I share one a week and I wanted to have a sort of "ordered" archive with all the analysis for the last few years. I have hundreds of these videos and posts and I don't want to lose them. I want to organize them.in such a way that they are easily accessible and also have an archive. I also have dozens of love webinars recordings and their corresponding articles. What would be your suggestion? Articles in a blog category maybe? How would you organise hundreds of video posts in as much an accessible manner and easily navigate through them? Thanks a lot for your time and patience! Edited February 10, 2021 by OptimusBain
Joel R Posted February 9, 2021 Posted February 9, 2021 (edited) Can you answer the following questions: Is it important to show both video + text? OR mainly just video? Are you the primary poster? OR Are many people posting? From what I've read, you want both video + text and you're the primary poster. If that is true, I would recommend: IP.Pages -- Pages is the most powerful (and confusing!) application. Nothing like it exists in vBulletin. It basically allows you to create multiple front-end CMS systems. You would basically define a custom Pages database for your videos, where you would define: a YouTube / video field, text, comments, custom tagging, etc. You will need to customize the layout, so I would recommend you tap a third-party dev like @opentype. Pages is good if you want to publish definitive news. IP.Blog -- If you want to allow multiple people to post their stock analysis, then blogs would be the recommended way. Some other notes: The default editor, which is used universally in IPS, allows YouTube embeds. This is probably recommended rather than you uploading the raw video to your file server. Youtube takes care of transcoding, bitrate transmission, and display on all screen sizes. If you upload to your own server, users literally have to download the file to their device and then manually play. You can create multiple databases in Pages. You can have one dedicated to video analysis, one dedicated to research reports, one dedicated to market news, etc. Each one can have a totally different layout, styling, and fields. Pages is very, very powerful. There are a ton of features in IPS that you can probably utilize beyond your video analysis. To give you some examples: Q&A boards / Mark as Solved -- If users have a question in the forums, you can help percolate the most valuable or most correct answer. Clubs - You can start investor circles and launch in their own clubs. Blogs -- If users want to post their own stock market journeys, then Blogs would be perfect. IPS actually uses Pages for their own company blog (https://invisioncommunity.com/news/). Edited February 9, 2021 by Joel R OptimusBain 1
OptimusBain Posted February 9, 2021 Author Posted February 9, 2021 4 hours ago, Joel R said: Can you answer the following questions: Is it important to show both video + text? OR mainly just video? Are you the primary poster? OR Are many people posting? From what I've read, you want both video + text and you're the primary poster. If that is true, I would recommend: IP.Pages -- Pages is the most powerful (and confusing!) application. Nothing like it exists in vBulletin. It basically allows you to create multiple front-end CMS systems. You would basically define a custom Pages database for your videos, where you would define: a YouTube / video field, text, comments, custom tagging, etc. You will need to customize the layout, so I would recommend you tap a third-party dev like @opentype. Pages is good if you want to publish definitive news. IP.Blog -- If you want to allow multiple people to post their stock analysis, then blogs would be the recommended way. Some other notes: The default editor, which is used universally in IPS, allows YouTube embeds. This is probably recommended rather than you uploading the raw video to your file server. Youtube takes care of transcoding, bitrate transmission, and display on all screen sizes. If you upload to your own server, users literally have to download the file to their device and then manually play. You can create multiple databases in Pages. You can have one dedicated to video analysis, one dedicated to research reports, one dedicated to market news, etc. Each one can have a totally different layout, styling, and fields. Pages is very, very powerful. There are a ton of features in IPS that you can probably utilize beyond your video analysis. To give you some examples: Q&A boards / Mark as Solved -- If users have a question in the forums, you can help percolate the most valuable or most correct answer. Clubs - You can start investor circles and launch in their own clubs. Blogs -- If users want to post their own stock market journeys, then Blogs would be perfect. IPS actually uses Pages for their own company blog (https://invisioncommunity.com/news/). I am the only poster and it's not important to have show video and text. The important thing is to have the archive of posts structure and easily accessible.
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