@fbusoni wrote:
@coins_artifacts
Perhaps you can start adding your own browser bookmarks?
Yes! Without bookmarks in my Chrome browser banner line (plus lesser ones in pulldown menus) I would spend half my time clicking around this site. Instead I can just jump directly to the page I need (including this Community group) with one click and minimal waiting. I haven't looked at my Seller Hub page in, like, forever...
@fbusoni wrote:
(Why eBay has middle school computer science students doing their coding is a mystery to me.)
Well, basically because they're cheap. You can give an assignment to an intern and he or she will give it their very best shot, because he or she is desperate to land the job. Nothing wrong with that at all; you can prove yourself and learn the company's product coding at the same time.
Where eBay falls down, in a major way, is two-fold:
- Their constant redesign of functional pages is a never-ending churn of poorly-thought-out changes (you should at least be able to explain what the problem is that you're trying to solve; replacing a one-click function with five clicks is not a solution to anything), and
- an utter lack of any coding QA, peer review or release testing. All the bugs have to be discovered by the users, as no one on the coding side seems to know how it will ultimately be used.
One of my long, ongoing frustrations has been that their communication with users, on the rare occasion when that occurs, is always carefully orchestrated to minimize pushback from users. For example, their one-hour interactive Weekly Chat was downgraded to an occasional post-now, answers-later "Ask Me About..." series that seems to have been completely abandoned now. The most recent Seller Update (2024 Summer Update) promised several days of Q&A on various topics, but after a few perfunctory replies, the answers simply stopped coming, and on the last day, no one from eBay even bothered to log in.
