Oh-oh -- eBay sellers better read the following -- what could possibly go wrong?

[1786davycrockett]

In case you may have overlooked this latest eBay announcement, you'd better give it a glom, before the gloom sets in --

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/New-Platform-Same-Amazing-Community/ba-p/35635703

[a_c_green]

Ayup; saw that. It seems to suggest that they're dumping Khoros. Hopefully they will not be relying on their own contract programmers for whatever the next iteration turns out to be.

[mr_lincoln]

@1786davycrockett 

I am actually looking forward to this change.  I know this may not relate to all users but one thing I think this will address is new Community Members being able to find their threads when they come here for the first time seeking advice, guidance and answers to questions they have using eBay (both Buyers and Sellers).  

Regardless of the board, and there are currently many, OPs post questions and receive answers from members but often seem to ghost their own thread ... or more likely can't find it.

Change is inevitable and I seem to recall going through a similar experience years ago when this space used to be referred to as The Discussion Boards and was changed to The Community.  Will there be a few bumps in the road with the new launch?  Sure.  Will there be a few glitches that need to be corrected?  Sure.  Will features be added, subtracted, refined over time?  Sure.  

Thanks for posting that announcement by the way.

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

First, a word of thanks to eBay----it is Q2, not Q4. Thank you for that.

Second: All the changes in the world won't matter if you continue to NOT post announcements about changes, and if you fail to respond to over half the queries directed at the Community Team. What we really need is much better COMMUNICATION from ebay. Just one simple example:

".... some existing activities will not be available on our new platform."

Real communication would not leave us hanging like that, speculating on what will not be available. Real communication would be " "The following activities will no longer be available:..."

And the cynic in me asks: I wonder how long they've been planning this, or is this a response to the GameStop takeover effort? LOL

[dhbookds]

When they warn us that "some existing activities will not be available on our new platform", makes me nervous.  We lost a lot of posters in the last reiteration......hopefully not this time.  

[kibble-net]

I'm looking forward to this change. Maybe with the new platform they can automatically close old threads instead of having to rely on moderators to manually close them when they don't want people continuing an older discussion.

[dhbookds]

reconsidered the post.........and deleted it.  

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

Well, at least this explains why the Community Team has been here, asking us what changes we, as community members, would like to see in the Community pages.

Oh, wait, no, that was just a dream I had a while ago.

[ebooksdiva]

Saw it, read it….whatever. 

[tarotfindsandmore]

Works for me!  Maybe I'll stop getting FINAL WARNING!!! messages from the mods every five minutes. 

Zero gloom here 😁

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

OK, to be fair: This could be a REAL improvement. So, I'll wait and see. And I'll hope that this change will create a more vibrant community. We'll know soon enough. 

[toomuchstuffagain35]

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@dhbookds wrote:

When they warn us that "some existing activities will not be available on our new platform", makes me nervous.  We lost a lot of posters in the last reiteration......hopefully not this time.  

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Maybe they could do another amnesty to bring back all the great posters we lost for no good reason.

Maybe a little MORE participation from the ebay community employees again as well.

[toomuchstuffagain35]

Oh they did do that at one point but they seagulled never to be seen again after their initial postings lol

[toomuchstuffagain35]

For a start they could bring back the link to 'community' front and centre on the home page.

[mamacassidy]

I would like for there to be a HUGE search bar at the top of the homepage saying "WHAT'S YOUR QUESTION/ ISSUE?" in the search bar.

Then users would be prompted to search before starting a new thread. That would help eliminate the thousands of identical threads that pop up every week (ie, why does ebay charge fees on shipping? why am I receiving these offers on items I just looked at? etc)