coerdelion
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"In today's dynamic digital environment [...]" - no one even scanned that article for the blindingly obvious ...
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@Yoav.M, when it comes to Fiverr webinars, past performance *is* indicative of future performance. These webinars tend to the basic, not really offering anything new or radical in the way of information. They seem to misunderstand the difference between "reassurance" and "clarity".
They are, by the way, neither ... although I'm prepared to accept they're well intentioned.@emmaki's questions are reasonable, show a depth of understanding - and worry about - Fiverr's increasing use of AI.
I like to think I'm pretty tech savvy, as well as knowing enough about AI to be dangerous.
Emmaki's knowledge of AI vastly outstrips mine. And possibly yours ...-
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To be fair, Fiverr has always been an hour out for as long as I've been here. Sign up for a webinar, supposed to start at 2.00 BST and it will start at 3.00 BST. Same problem with GMT.
Fiverr just doesn't recognise that the UK actually *has* its own time zone, but thinks it should have the same one as France.
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Resistance is futile ...
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7 minutes ago, emmaki said:
The best part of the whole inquiry that followed is hard to pick, but two highlights for me were:
- Rupert Murdoch pretending to be s*nile
- Wendi Deng (Rupe's ex-wife, alleged "close friend" of Tony Blair) kickboxing a comedian who broke into court to chuck a cream pie at Rupert
They were divorced shortly after that ... maybe Wendy's time off for good behaviour ... ?
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If you eat a meal in a restaurant and leave a tip, it's generally in the form of folding money. The server slips the whole lot into their pocket, smiles, says thank you and y'all move on with your lives.
If, on the other hand, you don't want to or are unable to leave folding money, you add an amount to the bill when presented and pay with your credit card. This probably doesn't get noticed by the server. They're taxed on it, since it shows up in their pay. And the restaurant probably takes a cut, too.
Moving on to how Fiverr deals with tips. It's the latter method, rather than the former.
There's no way for a seller to be paid in cash - that would be communication outside Fiverr, which would be a breach of TOS.
Fiverr takes 20% of *all* transactions. That's clear from TOS. Their margin is a good deal less than working through agencies, which margin is generally around 35%, only they don't tell you about that usually.
Also, Fiverr is not a restaurant.-
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Thank you. @emmaki - that's going to be really useful
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According to Moz, Fiverr has a 47% spam score. One wonders how it managed to stay indexed ...
Still, google hasn't finished the core rollout yet, so there's more to come ...
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14 hours ago, smashradio said:
A user just made me aware of this:
Fiverr International Ltd. has announced a plan to repurchase up to $100 million of its ordinary shares, a move that may be contested by the company’s creditors within a 30-day period. If no objections are filed, the buyback will proceed without the need for court approval. The execution of this share buyback plan will depend on market conditions and other factors, and the company reserves the right to adjust or cancel the program at any time.
Source: Fiverr Announces $100 Million Share Buyback - TipRanks.com
As I said to them:
I'm willing to bet that they think it's undervalued and is a good buy. I'd say they're right, but it depends on their plans in the future, and we don't really know what they are. But they must think it will go back up again at some point. That, or they're just trying to improve earnings per share. Another reason to hold, I'd say, but then again, I'm no expert trader, even though I have a bit of stock in Fiverr.
Perhaps someone with a better grasp on the stock market want to speculate?
It's interesting timing for this announcement. Fiverr has 30 days to follow through, which takes us to May 3rd - 6 days before Q1 results are expected to be published. Today's market cap is just under $805m, so $100m is a significant portion of the current value.
Are they really expecting share price to rise as a result of Q1 results?
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Thanks for this, @emmaki - great job!
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35 minutes ago, levinewman said:
I don't want to jinx myself here, but I pay the $29 and I still have yet to get the email.
Me, too!
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@emmaki- you may want to add a bit into your ebook about not using the same password for everything. Particularly Fiverr and their payment method.
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33 minutes ago, emmaki said:
EDIT: I just went to check the AI policy page in Community Standards and this popped up:
I shall say no more.
Well, *that's* 🤮
35 minutes ago, emmaki said:Although @coerdelion, you did just give me an idea: a $5 gig selling this ebook to sellers, which can be customized by changing the author name from my name to "sellername" to comply with TOS.
I was joking - but the more I think about it, the more I'm behind that idea ...
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1 hour ago, emmaki said:
I am writing a little "new buyer booklet" to explain to new buyers how Fiverr works
I would certainly be willing to pay, say, $5 for a copy of that, complete with dissemination rights ...
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I just visited your profile and noticed the new order has, unfortunately, been unkind to you. Very sorry that happened to you.
However, I looked at your gigs and noted that as @vickiespencer said, the reviews for each gig are defaulting to most relevant, with an option to change that to most recent. Ditto on your main propile.
The reason the options you mentioned have disappeared is that they are now only available to Seller Plus members or TRS-
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I suggest you familiarise yourself with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) under ADA. Here's the link: https://adasitecompliance.com/color-blind-website-accessibility/
Litigation under these guidelines is increasing, according to the compliance people and is costing companies a great deal of money every year.
Ignoring the guidelines during the design process opens your clients up to being sued. Who do you think they will blame if they get sued due to your design not taking colour blindness into account?-
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14 minutes ago, vhskid said:
As a UX / UI designer with over 15 years of experience, I don't agree.
Colorblind and vision loss interface versions are much less pleasant to look at and use for "regular" folks.
I don't believe in forcing the majority to use something accommodated to the minority.
I'm more "let's have stairs but also elevators and ramps" kind of guy. Thus the separate / accessible interface version argument.
As you say, that's not a popular choice with those paying the bills. However, excluding 8% of the population out of ... let's say "determination", isn't a great solution either.
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7 minutes ago, emmaki said:
re: accessibility, Fiverr already has this, which would probably help with colors for people with rubbish eyes:
Before anyone gets mad about me calling their eyes rubbish I have rubbish myopic eyes. And yes, I am writing this in tiny text.
Yes, Userway solved a lot of problems
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8 minutes ago, vhskid said:
While I agree that creating accessible interfaces for those with disabilities is important, designing one to be efficient, useful, attractive, and accessible to everyone is impossible.
That's what contrasting / accessible separate interface versions should be for. This being additional cost makes it rare, and people with disabilities don't have it easy online as well.
I get it that you're proud of your design idea - agreed it's lovely.
It is, however, fairly straightforward to adjust for accessibility - I had a fairly popular gig to do just that when everyone was panicking about ADA a few years back.
For visual issues it's often just a question of increasing contrast, reducing flashing and movement, adding texture, differentiating saturation levels between colours and making interesting use of shapes.
Frankly, the whole emojis thing could easily be solved by going back to stars ...
Adding a screen reader doesn't hurt-
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1 hour ago, vhskid said:
My approach still uses a progressive scale with text labels, so the deficiencies in color perception are not a factor that would interfere with the user experience and won't skew the results of the survey.
Emojis on the other hand are very much troublesome due to the reasons I mentioned in my first post.
Similar saturation in all the colours makes the buttons appear a uniform grey to those with colour blindness. This is not a personal criticism of you - or even your design, really.
It's important to me, however, that visual impairments of all kinds are taken into account in design. Colour blindness, like deafness, is not often considered in design of anything. The reason I think about it is a result of various male relatives who are colour blind - their world is grey, so it's texture and movement that brings it to life.
Also, accessibility in design for all folks with all kinds of challenges is important these days - ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) still exists and people are still suing companies under its terms.-
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17 minutes ago, carineb said:
You deserve 5 stars and a bonus but I really don't agree with the idea of colors.
Colors have different meanings in different countries, cultures and religions. A color that's positive in your country may mean something very different in another. I'll just mention red, which is commonly used to represent something negative in my country, whereas red represents something extremely positive in Asia!
The questions asked to clients are used to assign star ratings to sellers. So clients have to assign stars, not anything else.
Arbitrarily deciding that a face is worth a certain number of stars is neither honest nor TRANSPARENT!
If Fiverr assigns a number of stars instead of the client, it looks like review manipulation!I understand that Fiverr wants the ratings to be more heterogeneous to make it easier for clients to choose. It's a very good idea, but the way it's done is really BAD!
Colours are a great idea ... except for people who are colour blind - there's a lot of that about.
Much of the confusion could be sorted out by making the emojis bigger, so that people could see more clearly what they're choosing!-
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14 minutes ago, emmaki said:
Although babies are not exactly the best choice for a roadtrip buddy either...
Having had three of them, I can only agree ...
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2 hours ago, emmaki said:
If this was a substance or any other thing I had to nervously keep checking or doing regularly, it would be called a badword, and recognized as a serious health problem by the medical community
Sounds like a baby to me ...
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Fiverr system not covering BST timezone.
in Fiverr.com Feedback
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Wow! That was rude.
That confirms it: Fiverr's broken clock isn't even right twice a day ...