Messages Read On

[ellinx]

Hi Fiverr! it would be a great idea if you could make the messages display their time of being/been read so that we can be much more informed if the person we are talking to have read the messages we sent to them :)>-

[ellinx]

This will also reduce the repetitiveness of same messages 😉

[kay2809]

You heard of privacy ? We don’t want fiverr to turn into whatsapp or facebook.

That’s how half of the breakups and some divorces happened in the world.

[ellinx]

Reply to @kay2809: I see what you mean but you don’t have to be negative about it that way.



IT IS Important. to see if your customer sees what you have said. It is additional information that can help.

[kay2809]

Reply to @ellinx: It wouldn’t take too long for it to backfire at us. These are just my thoughts.

Others can also comment. Although there are some important features in the queue to be implemented for now.

[emasonwrites]

I’m kind of with Kay–if I’m getting a lot of messages throughout the day or someone asks for something truly ridiculous, I’ll only spend my time answering the people I’m actually interested in working with. That might be a little harsh, but on a busy day, I’m not going to respond to the people who are asking for something I clearly state in my gig description I won’t do. Or, I’ll read a message on a break but won’t answer it until the end of my work day, which could be a six hour gap. All I can see happening is the buyers I either don’t respond to at all or the ones I don’t respond to “quickly enough” sending me messages like "I know you’ve read this, why won’t you respond!?"



So while it might be nice to be able to see if your buyer has read your message, I think it would likely end up making the sellers’ lives harder.

[kay2809]

Reply to @emasonwrites: Next feature I would like to have is 24x7 live video stream from seller’s/buyer’s phone so that I can see when they are free and I can message them and check status. Just to be sure they are not busy or something.

[academictext]

Reply to @emasonwrites:

Completely agree with you and kay on this one - I’m not sure how it benefits anyone and I’m not convinced that the timestamps are necessarily accurate as to when someone has actually ‘read’ the message. I know I sometimes click on things but don’t read them there and then.



As well as the privacy argument, sometimes you want time to think carefully about how to respond to a message which means you don’t reply instantly. I manage a couple of successful international collaborations where, due to timezone differences, we can often only email once a day at best but this just means you have to put more thought and time into communication, which I don’t think would hurt many people on Fiverr at all.

[mrproofreading]

Reply to @kay2809: I’ve been thinking about the possibility of implementing chains. The chain automatically locks when the seller receives a message, and it only unlocks when they provide a response.



Surveillance + chains = maximum efficiency

[kay2809]

Reply to @mrproofreading: Hey, eat a snickers. You become Satan when you’re hungry…

…Better ?

[ellinx]

Thank You Everyone! I must agree it would be tough for us if this ever be implemented. Thanks for the honest words and enlightenment!

[draius]

Well, the function could work based on your marked chats. So just like to see if the client/s that you are focusing on has readen your message.

[draius]

I also have a customer that wrote me a message days ago and, because I was in a vacation, I was offline for 4 days. So I replied. But I’m still waiting for an answer, because he said that it was going to be a great scope for tourism in a country. But I’m loosing any hopes that he will reply back. The worst thing is that I don’t know if he has read my messages.

[draius]

Thank You Everyone! I must agree it would be tough for us if this ever be implemented. Thanks for the honest words and enlightenment!

I love your idea ellinx, I was thinking the exact same thing as you too.

[djgodknows]

I love your idea ellinx, I was thinking the exact same thing as you too.

Do you realize you are responding to a thread post after 2 years?

[catwriter]

I also have a customer that wrote me a message days ago and, because I was in a vacation, I was offline for 4 days. So I replied. But I’m still waiting for an answer, because he said that it was going to be a great scope for tourism in a country. But I’m loosing any hopes that he will reply back. The worst thing is that I don’t know if he has read my messages.

The worst thing is that I don’t know if he has read my messages.

What difference would that make? He will either answer you at some point, or he won’t. Knowing that he has read your messages (or not) wouldn’t change a thing.

[Anna]

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