ebay 'saved searches' they killed Kenny.

jpaul

jpaul

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Ebay new and improved look and feel, with pictures for those with small screens ?
saved searches as a opposed to a text list of saved searches,
it now has a damn picture of an object from each search all arranged in a gallery - is there any way to get back to the original look and feel, which is much quicker to navigate if you have a basic understanding of english.

Are they just trying to make ebay unusable ?

Listing filters - distance from your post-code if you setup such a filter, and then, ordered listings by nearest first ,they used to display the (crow-flies) distance - not any more, you have to click through on the individual item pictures, to see that.


edit: an example of new saved searches pictures - less efficient than old list/text style

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Diddums said:
He also doesn't know how to quote so copies and pastes the text from the post he wants to quote and then hits italic.
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illogical ?
if people are actually following threads, then they know what has already been posted and which are phrases they have used, so quoting them is unecessary/triggering,
and generally posts from them are the only replies worth seeing,
as opposed to drive by scatter gun posts other folks deposit, who probably don't remember what they posted yesterday.
you may be waiting for alerts from quotes of what you posted - not everyones a social media pawn(bot - @Malevolence) - waiting for the next alert, on their mobile device.
 
jpaul said:
illogical ?
if people are actually following threads, then they know what has already been posted and which are phrases they have used, so quoting them is unecessary/triggering,
and generally posts from them are the only replies worth seeing,
as opposed to drive by scatter gun posts other folks deposit, who probably don't remember what they posted yesterday.
you may be waiting for alerts from quotes of what you posted - not everyones a social media pawn(bot - @Malevolence) - waiting for the next alert, on their mobile device.
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Quoting someone is triggering :cry::cry::cry:
 
he/diddums is sulking now - or, a non-interruptible activity - do they exist ?

Bug One said:
If they don't get alerted of your quote. surely that's less of a trigger.
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but people hammer out some reply on their mobile device, versus a reflective reply - you've heard of the slow food movement, how about an internet parallel
 
jpaul said:
he/diddums is sulking now - or, a non-interruptible activity - do they exist ?


but people hammer out some reply on their mobile device, versus a reflective reply - you've heard of the slow food movement, how about an internet parallel
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Are you on drugs or something? :confused:
 
.. intoxication of your patronage

anyway - if anyone else hates the new ebay layout a complete thread

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Share...d-Searches-page/td-p/32709521/page/2?nobounce

For those not quite ready to implement a CSS hack, another possible option:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Ask-a-Mentor/my-saved-searches-list-has-changed/m-p/32712254/highlight...

www.ebay.com##DIV[class=[/URL]"saved-ebay-image"]
[URL='http://www.ebay.com##DIV[class=']www.ebay.com##DIV[class=[/URL]"search-image search-image-js js-only search-item__bg-image"]

Using a custom ad blocker filter rule or two, it is possible to suppress the large images and reduce the page to a multi-column text list of links.
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or, the firefox fix that that thread shows
@-moz-document domain([URL='http://www.ebay.com']www.ebay.com
) {
.grid {
max-width:unset !important;
}
.mainContent {
min-width:unset !important;
}
.saved-ebay-image {
height:100% !important;
}
.saved-search-main {
width:100% !important;
}
.saved-searches {
display:flex !important;
margin-right:0 !important;
width:100% !important;
}
.saved-searches .search-item__bg-image {
height:60px !important;
min-width:75px !important;
position:relative !important;
width:75px !important;
}
.saved-searches .search-item-bottom {
display:flex !important;
margin-top:0 !important;
margin-left:20px !important;
margin-right:0 !important;
min-width:0 !important;
width:100% !important;
}
.saved-searches .search-item__title-section {
min-width:0 !important;
}
.saved-searches .search-item__title-section .ebayui-ellipsis-2 {
max-width:unset !important;
}
.saved-searches .search-item__subtitle {
width:auto !important;
}
}

edit: OR ..
via the Feed page using a link on the main ebay.com page that says "Saved" by the little heart icon next to the "Home" link:
 
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ebay messing around with their interface generally - if it's not broken ...
but like amazon/google I guess they want to try and manipulate what you search for to buy what is most profitable to them - like the sweets/crisps at the checkout.
obfuscation of past purchase history or just not giving you older than 3 years are other gripes

'saved searches' Further problem with their new interface- seems to redirect some searches onto USA ebay site so you get the results in dollars.
 
jpaul said:
ebay messing around with their interface generally - if it's not broken ...
but like amazon/google I guess they want to try and manipulate what you search for to buy what is most profitable to them - like the sweets/crisps at the checkout.
obfuscation of past purchase history or just not giving you older than 3 years are other gripes

'saved searches' Further problem with their new interface- seems to redirect some searches onto USA ebay site so you get the results in dollars.
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Yeah its certainly become much harder to search your own purchase history and regular search just lists piles of presumably promoted stuff rather than whats the best value/cheapest/what you might actually be looking for
 
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