"What have you done to my beloved forum?!" - Page 2  

Originally Posted by sellahi22 


2. the new B&S sucks. people are used to having B&S in threads, where you can list multiple things, bump threads, etc. the best sellers have threads with dozens of items and people want to see those organized in threads, not the bullshit item by item thing. what you end up having is like a million item listings that no one has the time or patience to browse.

Originally Posted by sellahi22 

2. the new B&S sucks. people are used to having B&S in threads, where you can list multiple things, bump threads, etc. the best sellers have threads with dozens of items and people want to see those organized in threads, not the bullshit item by item thing. what you end up having is like a million item listings that no one has the time or patience to browse.

Originally Posted by sellahi22 

Good post, but you have buried the 2-3 main concerns in a long list of trivial crap. Briefly, the core problems that 100s of people have vocalized in the support threads are:

1. the site is ugly. fonts are too large, too much vertical space, and too much scrolling. it looks shitty within threads, but the real problem is the forum display. way too much space in between thread titles so it's inconvenient to quickly check what threads are new. same issue with search results. 10 thread titles per page in search results is a massive inconvenience when you have 500 thread results. should be more like 50, with minimum space in between thread titles so you can quickly locate your result. wasted space, excessive scrolling etc. make this site very unpleasant to use.

2. the new B&S sucks. people are used to having B&S in threads, where you can list multiple things, bump threads, etc. the best sellers have threads with dozens of items and people want to see those organized in threads, not the bullshit item by item thing. what you end up having is like a million item listings that no one has the time or patience to browse.

3. all the ads, javascript, etc. makes it very slow to use. i can easily browse at home where i have a fast laptop with firefox and noscript (which disables the scripts), but I can no longer browse efficiently at work. also it's terrible that the website landing page isn't the forum listing. no one cares about the bullshit that is currently on the front page.

If you don't sort the above out, I will probably still visit the site often, but eventually our collective enthusiasm will fade and we will drift toward other places to hang out on the internet.

Remember that we weren't born as men's clothing aficionados. Most of us found this site because we had some random curiosity about clothes and decided to stick around because we found there to be a good community, interesting discussions, high volume of new threads, etc. Your sponsors and advertisers benefit from that phenomenon; I've bought a ton of stuff that I didn't even know about without SF. If that stuff disappears we'll sooner or later just hop to a different forum on a completely different topic (watches, a/v equipment, cars, sports, whatever) and enrich those advertisers.

Originally Posted by KitAkira 

Rule 8 for sellers.

 

Edit: @Astronaut.

 

Geez, step away for a second and get ninja'd out by 3 people

Originally Posted by Astronaut888 







I don't see a rule 8

Only 7

Originally Posted by davesmith 

does anyone else find themselves having to post a classified and then edit it 100 times before it looks normal because they cant make it look right the first time??

the editor that opens when i click make a new classified doesnt let me do anything like add colors and the spoilers always messes up, then when i edit it i get to use the rich format editor which fixes everything

Originally Posted by Steve Smith 


This is actually my only problem with the new system. It would be better for me (efficient to list a number of items), better for my buyers (have a chance to see all of my 15.5-34 shirts in one place, for example), and other sellers (one bumped post containing 150 items only pushes the other guy's add one spot down the front page. 150 bumped posts of individual items blasts his listing to page 4). The previous system required me to consolidate a large number of items into a single post, and I think there was solid reasoning behind that policy. Now I am prohibited from putting multiple items in a single post.

Also, here is a question which I posted in another thread. It didn't get answered there: I just posted a Black Fleece jacket for sale in size BB1. I have the same jacket in sizes BB2, BB3, and BB4. By my interpretation of the sales rules, it would be a violation for me to list the other sizes in the post. Is this correct? I seems that one of the goals of the old system to keep a Power Seller from blasting a one-item occasional seller off page 1 with only a few minutes of exposure, but this system is set up to do just that. If I have 4 khaki BF jackets and 7 colors of BB Solid Repp silk ties ($30 each so they miss the $25 threshhold) , how does it benefit anyone for me to make 11 sales posts instead of 2?


I understand the need for the change of software, and the rest of it all works OK for me.

Originally Posted by globetrotter 

J, you provide a home and a hang out for us, and it would be very ingracious of us to complain about how you choose to run this great home you provide for us. we'll be patient, and it will be better than ever before with a little time

Originally Posted by globetrotter 

J, you provide a home and a hang out for us, and it would be very ingracious of us to complain about how you choose to run this great home you provide for us. we'll be patient, and it will be better than ever before with a little time