Watchlist update: My watchlist is now down to 9 non-car listings. A couple of months ago it would have been at least 100 listings. This is a shambles.
Not the first time they've released a complete flaming bag of DS onto their users without checking with anyone if it was a good idea. Won't be the last either, I'm afraid.
S, thanks ever so much for converting our concerns into marketspeak. That should hopefully improve our chances of a massive backpedal event.
Hi Michelle, Your post suggests that that maximum 10 items has been decided and our pleas not to completely destroy the usefulness of favouurites email has fallen on deaf ears. Correct?
Yes. This completely destroys the functionality of email alerts. I have 266 favourite searches, 29 favourite categories and 241 favourite sellers. Having only 10 arrive by email and then a link under them sending you to the favourites home page rather than the actual search itself is rifdiculous. I'm not browsing through your slow javascript bloated website for over 500 topics every day. My watchlist numbers have plummeted. Surely you have someone there monitoring your user's activities and can see from the stats that this new email favourite policy is garroting your power users interaction...
Yeah, you have to be in a location where "Search all of Trade Me" shows up in the top search box and you have to use that search box. If that's not showing in the box, you're already in the search jail with no chance of escape.
Hi Michelle, Confirming emails started arriving this morning. Thanks!
It's the sort of thing where someone decided to make the system "smarter" but it's actually a bit condescending, at it assumes the user wants something they quite likely don't. Commonly referred to as "Website enshittification".
OK, so I want to look at books that might have "Darfield" in the title. So I go to the home page and type "darfield" where it actually specifically says "search all of Trademe". What results do I get? I get pushed into the "Properties" listings and have to tell the system with an extra click "no, I did REALLY mean "ALL" of trademe. So I finally get the results I want, and end up at a page where I want to save as a favourite. I do so. If I now go to that favourite and click "darfield" to see results, the system does a bit of redirecting - from "undefined", to "darfield" and finally ends up w...
My email address I use for TM appears to be bloked by TM but only for favourite notification emails. If I change my account to an alternative email address, they arrive. If I change back to the account I want to use, they stop again. Other emails from TM appear fine. It would be nice to be able to drop a note to support via the website but you have to go through some AI gateway robot and the chat icon that apparently is the only way to get to it doesn't even appear on my browser. Is there a support email address that I could use to contact TM like in the good old days before website enshitt...