New Classifieds Feedback and Bug Hunting

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Post here with bugs and critique.

Already potentially found by @Sitting Duck - some notifications for 'questions' not coming through. Potentially down to the posts merging when replying to someone.

Improvement: Make the thumbnails use up all the thumbnail space and not sit with a wired whitespace to each size if a vertical picture.  Fixed

 
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Hyperlink to view the next page of 'questions' in a Classified ad doesn't seem to load. 

I'd like to see questions by the same user in one area instead of creating a new box for each question.

Clicking a notification doesn't 'jump' to where the reaction/comment is. Instead it just brings you to the ad. 

To get people to start posting in the new classifieds perhaps one could do with renaming? At the moment they're both called 'Classifieds'. 

 
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calling it a night for responding

but will answer questions in morning

loading 2nd page - don't work too great

have to right click open in new tab

answering question takes me to first page not wanting to go to 2nd page

big reply box bollocks

edit stuff/responses maybe

good but needs a few things ironed out

 
Thanks guys. Might be the weekend before I can get about to addressing these, but will keep you posted.

 
Not a bug.  As the strap line for Feedback says - Whether it is good or bad we want to know about who you just sold/bought from!

The Seller/Buyer Feedback sub-forum needs to be located in with the Classifieds as well, so that we can see comments about previous sales. There are a few members that I would not buy from based on reading their feedback.

 
At the very least I can have it prompt someone with the link as they close their listing. At best I might have a slightly more in-depth, on-profile feedback system we can implement akin to the way ZeroIn do it. If that's the case it's entirely possible that I can then call those values and display people's feedback on their listings - this isn't possible with a subforum due to the adhoc nature of how they're formed, but if it were added to your profile then finding ones feedback would be quite easy.

Something for the weekend though :)

 
A separate feedback system just for sales would be handy. Perhaps a rating out of 10 next to the reputation icon would work? This then links to an area on the users profile for sales feedback.

On completion of a sale a user would be given the option of leaving feedback similar to how it is on eBay - with an area on the profile showing who they traded with and a quick message from the user on how it went. 

 
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As far as I know many of the out of the box solutions already do that, yes. Really what I'd be looking to do is linking it and the new classifieds together in such a way that makes feedback immediately obvious and encourages a user to leave some when they're done too. Maybe I could even have it trigger an email reminder a week after or something, but that's something I think would need further discussion given that it's a bit more intrusive.

 
Any limits to current sale items ???

Just wondering if say 3 items or 5 items max listing at one time running

Just to stop possible traders/scammers (not saying traders are scammers btw)

but to limit being flooded by "new members" all of a sudden with nearly new stuff

Most of the time this crap shouldn't be needed tbh

But just to limit new member listing up say 2 G36's, 2 AK's, 2 M4's never skirmished etc...

 
A limit and then an option to notify an admin for post approval. This limit will increase or decrease depending on the user's sales feedback.

Most people put a bunch of stuff in one post though. Could just be a waste of time. 

 
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Sitting Duck said:
Any limits to current sale items ???

Just wondering if say 3 items or 5 items max listing at one time running

Just to stop possible traders/scammers (not saying traders are scammers btw)

but to limit being flooded by "new members" all of a sudden with nearly new stuff

Most of the time this crap shouldn't be needed tbh

But just to limit new member listing up say 2 G36's, 2 AK's, 2 M4's never skirmished etc...
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Obviously anyone scamming sould be dipped in boiling oil before being full auto'd by everyone who has ever been scammed. But wouldnt a trader who offered good deals be welcomed? Especially if they did special prices for af-uk members. Please dont shout at me as im asking out of ignorance and certainly wouldnt want to see the forum commercialised. But cheap consumables?? May be even af-uk branded?? Im all for bringing the cost of playing down. 

 
Pease add more sub categories like zeroin. Where do I put my gas sniper? Sniper is listed under spring and it isn’t a GBBR. Same as gas shotguns. 

Cant we just copy/paste their sales layout. It’s much less dicking around to look for specific stuff

 
Wo1f said:
Pease add more sub categories like zeroin. Where do I put my gas sniper? Sniper is listed under spring and it isn’t a GBBR. Same as gas shotguns. 

Cant we just copy/paste their sales layout. It’s much less dicking around to look for specific stuff
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Just because Zero In has a layout, does not make it better, and certainly do not want a copy pasta of that. A gas shotgun is still a gas gun, and how many are ever actually up for sale. I would just search on word shotgun, and hope the seller is smart enough to include the fact that is what he is selling in the title. Agree, may need to change the sniper category. Maybe also include a Two-Tone guns section to put all those in one place away from the RIFs.

 
Duff posted a comment on my advert but I didn't get a notification for it. 

 
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Pease add more sub categories like zeroin. Where do I put my gas sniper? Sniper is listed under spring and it isn’t a GBBR. Same as gas shotguns. 

Cant we just copy/paste their sales layout. It’s much less dicking around to look for specific stuff
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Jedi_Master said:
Just because Zero In has a layout, does not make it better, and certainly do not want a copy pasta of that. A gas shotgun is still a gas gun, and how many are ever actually up for sale. I would just search on word shotgun, and hope the seller is smart enough to include the fact that is what he is selling in the title. Agree, may need to change the sniper category. Maybe also include a Two-Tone guns section to put all those in one place away from the RIFs.
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I do think we can do better on the categories, but we're working on this. Certainly less can be more when it comes to it, but again we do need to strike a better balance I think.

 
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I never understood the point of forum feedback... you make a suggestion (Zeroin IS the place to go to sell stuff and it’s not just me that thinks it) and you get the typical “bleh bleh we don’t need that!” attitude. 

Zeroin IS better for buying and selling. 10 seconds after the lights got turned on the only section being posted in was the sales. It’s not got any magic discount code or anything like that, it’s just better laid out. This forum is great, but it needs to start listening  

 
I don't disagree necessarily, but it can be hard to separate whether ZeroIn is better for selling because more people use it or if it's better for selling because it's better. I'm inclined to think the former given just how much downtime its had in the past year or so.

Also removing forum feedback because you think people shit on every suggestion? That's a pretty unfair characterisation. I was in fact mostly agreeing with you there that it's not where we want it right now.

 
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I never understood the point of forum feedback... you make a suggestion (Zeroin IS the place to go to sell stuff and it’s not just me that thinks it) and you get the typical “bleh bleh we don’t need that!” attitude.
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Forum Feedback - Tell us what you think of AF-UK! Is there anything missing?

Just because you like an idea, does not mean that everyone will, and I have a counter viewpoint to "ZeroIn IS Bestest".  However, I am not deciding what is or is not in the Classifieds, that is down to proffrink. Feedback is a way of offering up suggestions or critique. Hopefully some other members will add their thoughts.

 
I actually prefer the classifieds here to ZeroIn, a lot easier to search, easier to read, and use a better layout. (Might be because I do everything on phone rather than desktop)

A note on this, the new classified pages doesn’t format well with phones. You can’t scroll sideways to view the other listings easy enough.(if you can’t tell I’m a PC Noob)

 
I will look into that, thanks.

Regarding ZeroIn's classifieds format vs. ours: Again I want to stress the current format is far from final and we will vote in some way on how the categories are formatted.

 
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