Announcing InvestChat (previously known as InvestEd)

I am delighted to relaunch the site formerly known as InvestEd as a new online community for investors called InvestChat.

InvestChat :: Australian Investment and Wealth Management Community

Please read my welcome post here: Welcome to InvestChat

If you previously had a member account on InvestEd, your account has been migrated across, along with all post content. If you can't remember your username, try the forgotten password facility. If all else fails, email [email protected] to help you get back into your account.

InvestChat is about investing across all asset classes, including shares, managed funds, ETFs, real estate, even business. It covers topics such as superannuation and self managed super funds, insurance, estate planning, and more.

So there is a small crossover between the topics on PropertyChat and InvestChat, but I really only include the real estate discussions there for completeness, or for discussion in the context of portfolio structuring (eg using shares and property together in your portfolio).

We're working through the old content on the site now and cleaning up a bit of spam and advertising which has crept in over recent years.

I'm really excited to finally get this site upgraded and relaunched - it's been neglected for far too long.

 

FAQ: can I use my PropertyChat login details on InvestChat?

InvestChat is a separate website - you will need to register a new account if you didn't already have one on the old InvestEd website.

If you link your PropertyChat and InvestChat accounts with your social media logins, you can get logged in to both sites automatically.

Just go here: https://www.propertychat.com.au/community/account/external-accounts to link to your Facebook, Twitter and/or Google accounts and once linked, you'll be able to log in to PropertyChat instantly provided you are already logged in to your social media account on your computer.

Note that this is only used for login to this site - we don't post to your social media accounts at any time.

The link for InvestChat is here: https://www.investchat.com.au/community/account/external-accounts
For BusinessChat users, go here: https://www.businesschat.com.au/community/account/external-accounts

 

Yeah, I admit that I've kind of let the site go in recent years. I do plan on being much more actively involved from now on.

There's plenty of sites out there for traders - I'm not interested in trying to compete with them. That being said - trading is still a valid activity for generating cashflow to allow you to invest more.

But it's like the commercial vs residential or the cashflow vs capital growth and other arguments we have on here - there's a time and a place for them, but forcing your point of view in every thread isn't going to add value.

I will be encouraging people to move these discussions over to InvestChat.

 

Hehe - expressing your dislike for what someone posts isn't necessarily a personal attack.

 

I didn't say you couldn't post here, just that I will be encouraging people to post there instead

I admit I haven't read any of his posts recently - I'll take a look and try and rein him in if he's being a bit too dogmatic about stuff.

 

Harsh? Perhaps. Unfair? No - not unfair at all, quite justified I feel.

I freely (and regretfully) admit to neglecting InvestEd - we rode the pre-GFC boom and grew fantastically well, but in the post-GFC years, traffic dropped, advertising revenue dried up and my focus moved to other things.

The site has depressed me for years - both from seeing what it had been at its peak, and then what it had become, compounded by my inability to find the time or energy to fix it and invest what is required to get it back on track.

A large part of that was technical limitations - because of the way I'd customised the site, it has been very much a non-trivial exercise to migrate to a new software platform. It's only because of the work I've done over the past 15 months on PropertyChat that I've been able to get the new site rebuilt so quickly - I've been able to reuse a lot of code and have already solved many of the problems I faced when building the new site.

Your comments and concerns are some of the reasons we decided to rebrand - to put some of the legacy of the site behind us and start afresh with a renewed vision and clarity that was lacking before.

Now that I've got a framework (based on the model I've developed for PropertyChat) for how I want to run the site, I think it will be much easier to keep things under control. I've already posted to that effect - New Forum Rules ... and I do fully intend to enforce those rules and have already appointed my first moderator who has been flooding me with reported posts for spam and DFP assignment swapping which I am busy cleaning up now.

So please, do give us a chance to transform the site into something much more than what InvestEd had become - but also please do challenge me and give me your honest feedback about what needs to change and what can be improved now that we are InvestChat.

I'm genuinely excited about the site for the first time in many years.

 

Not a chance - I'm aiming for a very different dynamic to what you see on most of those share forums.

 

Moderation can manage this. We haven't really had real moderators on InvestEd before now. That's already changed.

Don't write it off yet please - and don't judge the new site based on what has happened before today - I'm looking to start afresh.