FPA Reviews Upgrade – Now your reviews can tie to your account

Search the site more convenient. Yes. Updated comments, thanks.
:)Programmer to feed not tried? That would be from the cage not run away?)))

The programmers get fed at least once a day. They've also got beer on tap in their cages. I have no idea why this one broke out.

about Reviews Upgrade:

* I would locate link to Review Page somewhere on menu bar at the upper top of the page.

This is main concept to have all site summary on the top of all other topics discussed on this site.


* Why “Review &Tests” label? It would be more user friendly, if say “Forex and Binary Companies Review”. Sound long, but says about itself. Site is very useful and I believe that visitors here are people from around the world whose English is not native. I believe that lot of visitors use translators to understand many words here in context. You should remember about this when work on software.


* When review page appears 1st time it should look like list of companies in alphabetic order (previous version was better). Now, first impression – looks like advertising.


* Filters – I wouldn’t split into Categories and Tags. Most of all, User should be able search by company name. This search doesn’t give expected results properly: If user searches for the company which exist in data base then yes, works as expected. But if searched company not in data base, then should be “No results found for your search criteria - Company name: BLABLA.COM” and nothing in the results section. User should see what search criteria was used. And have a link forwarding back “Change your search criteria”. But now, search result is showing some companies – which is wrong.


* Sure, User should be able to find recommended companies (with 4-5 stars) in between Forex or Binary companies. That is why I think they should belong to one category. I mean 2 check boxes for category. Now, If I search by Binary checkbox only for 4 and 5 stars, the search result gives wrong results. I would advise to test search function - now gives unexpected results


* I do not think, that so many filters required. Too much to test…Do we need all of them?


* The process to modify these search criteria: you need identify requirements with use cases and expected results and after give to programmer and after coded to tester.

For items 1 and 2, the designers have to make this work for computers, tablets, and phones, so the menus are a little compressed. You can either double-click on Reviews and Test or click it once and then click Reviews and Ratings from the dropdown menu.

For item 3, look on the far left in the Sort By bar. Those two icons toggle between the "blocky" listing of review pages and the old style list.

I'm having some discussions with the coders over the filters involving categories and tags and filtering. Some of the filter selections are operating as OR instead of AND. I've explained to the coders that few readers would want a mixed list of all brokers offering MT4 intermingled with all forex mentors. I sincerely hope to see some improvements by the end of September.

Hello all,

My suggestion might be biased, but i hope it makes sense nonetheless. The "category" area (collapsible area showing/hiding only 6 additional tick boxes) should probably be always expanded as they are few and important. I.e. the "categories" area does not really need a show/hide arrow button (like the tags do due to the number of options).

As it is at the moment it is not obvious enough that there are other hidden major categories that require expanding the menu.

Thank you for considering this

I noticed the reviews user profile only links to other reviews. It does not have a link to their FPA user profile. The FPA user profile would show their full activity as a user.