What Discussion?

What the heck is up with Google Finance's discussion feature? For a service that tags itself as industry leading, it sure is lacking in some basic features. Posts to the discussion forums attached to stocks have an hour delay for authorised members, and a 24 hour delay for your account to become "approved". Phew! Trading is a living discussion which beats on a second-to-second level, waiting an hour for a discussion to take place is well... redundant. This is evident as people are just not using the feature... a feature which if set up properly I'm sure would be thriving.

Also I'm wondering who controls the company data in GF... as it is usually outdated in terms of board membership and current financial releases, and the events data is painfully slow to update and sometimes completely lacking (the latest B&B corporate action deadline for example). I have the events from my portfolio attached to my Google calendar, and sometimes I think I just shouldn't bother at all!

As a final rant about GF, I have to talk about alerts. There is no alert system whatsoever! No SMS service or even email alert system... what is going on with that? If Google Calendar can SMS me about a meeting I've set up, why can't GF do the same to tell me that I need to dump a B&B lookalike?

On the plus side; I'm relly liking the fact that GF finally went live with NYSE data... now all we need is the LSE to go live and I'll be a happy guy.