melissaharlowvo Posted Thursday at 09:31 PM Share Posted Thursday at 09:31 PM So this is a real bummer. I often SEARCH (in the search field) for certain users to refer to them to buyers. I also tell others to, "just search my username or name and I come right up" but that ability to search for certain users NO LONGER WORKS. Why? What possibly would be the benefit to this? You can't even look someone up by their username. My guess is the search filed is being used for something else and doesn't function like normal search fields. All good websites have a search field so you can easily find things inside the website, especially one so robust as Fiverr. Also, it's so much more personal to communicate to people by their name, so I use peoples names frequently. I will always remember a name, but some usernames are so obscure and have nothing to do with the gig. Plus, why do we have our personal names in our description if we can't even be searched? This makes no sense. I feel bummed for all the people I have told to "just search my name" in Fiverr. Since that no longer works, I now have to start a list of individual links to gigs. That seems super old school to me and should not be the way you can connect referrals. What are your thoughts? 6 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnparsons01 Posted Thursday at 09:34 PM Share Posted Thursday at 09:34 PM I searched for another seller this morning by their username and they came up. I went to the Buyer side to do this. 5 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissaharlowvo Posted Thursday at 10:20 PM Author Share Posted Thursday at 10:20 PM Yes that's how I have always searched. Some people come up and some don't so I sent a message to CS and here is the response from Customer Service as of today, "I understand the users you invite to look for you on Fiverr are no longer able to locate your profile through the search feature. Previously, it was possible to search for a freelancer's username, and when the search yielded no gigs one would be asked if they wanted to search through available freelancers. This option is no longer available, so I would suggest that you share a direct link to your profile instead of just your username." 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissaharlowvo Posted Thursday at 10:24 PM Author Share Posted Thursday at 10:24 PM So for example, I searched your gig and this is what I see (attached screenshot) 1 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scg2048 Posted Thursday at 10:28 PM Share Posted Thursday at 10:28 PM I just discovered this. Why did they remove the ability to search by username? Seems odd. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissaharlowvo Posted Friday at 02:21 AM Author Share Posted Friday at 02:21 AM 3 hours ago, scg2048 said: I just discovered this. Why did they remove the ability to search by username? Seems odd. It's not only odd it's not a best practice with any website! At least in my opinion. The search function is the most basic for all websites. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riaus_g Posted Friday at 04:56 AM Share Posted Friday at 04:56 AM Yes, this option is currently unavailable, but you can search on any search engine using username/fiverr. Is it legal to search for Fiverr profiles on any search engine, as Fiverr has removed this feature mnow. Does anyone have any insights or updates on this? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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akib0079 Posted Friday at 11:25 AM Share Posted Friday at 11:25 AM yes previously there was a option when suggestion came up regarding - "are you looking for the seller?" this should come back. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samiaislam26 Posted Friday at 02:07 PM Share Posted Friday at 02:07 PM Write the "username" fiverr on Google. It will come up this way! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnparsons01 Posted Sunday at 09:22 PM Share Posted Sunday at 09:22 PM On 9/19/2024 at 6:24 PM, melissaharlowvo said: So for example, I searched your gig and this is what I see (attached screenshot) Interesting. As of a couple days ago - I had a link under the "We Couldn't find any services...." to "Find Users with this Username" or something like that. I just checked again and sure enough - it has now gone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsmike Posted yesterday at 02:14 AM Share Posted yesterday at 02:14 AM (edited) On 9/19/2024 at 4:31 PM, melissaharlowvo said: So this is a real bummer. I often SEARCH (in the search field) for certain users to refer to them to buyers. I also tell others to, "just search my username or name and I come right up" but that ability to search for certain users NO LONGER WORKS. Why? What possibly would be the benefit to this? You can't even look someone up by their username. My guess is the search filed is being used for something else and doesn't function like normal search fields. All good websites have a search field so you can easily find things inside the website, especially one so robust as Fiverr. Also, it's so much more personal to communicate to people by their name, so I use peoples names frequently. I will always remember a name, but some usernames are so obscure and have nothing to do with the gig. Plus, why do we have our personal names in our description if we can't even be searched? This makes no sense. I feel bummed for all the people I have told to "just search my name" in Fiverr. Since that no longer works, I now have to start a list of individual links to gigs. That seems super old school to me and should not be the way you can connect referrals. What are your thoughts? This has been broken for a while. I just always use a web search like this and it found you even though I misspelled your name. Edited yesterday at 02:15 AM by newsmike 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michmikaia Posted yesterday at 04:38 AM Share Posted yesterday at 04:38 AM We can still do the search on mobile App (buyer mode). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsmike Posted yesterday at 05:36 AM Share Posted yesterday at 05:36 AM True, but I doubt any serious buyers are using their phone to conduct business of any magnitude. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk1000 Posted yesterday at 09:11 AM Share Posted yesterday at 09:11 AM (edited) 6 hours ago, newsmike said: This has been broken for a while. I just always use a web search But web search won't necessarily have all the sellers shown there (just because they're in a sitemap doesn't mean Google will keep an up to date index of all of them). In the Fiverr version you could do partial searches too and it should have about every active seller. Both will have some advantages, but I don't think Fiverr should have removed it as it could making finding some sellers more difficult. Edited yesterday at 09:12 AM by uk1000 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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