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Yes, it's happening to me now. It seems every time you change something, there is the dreaded slow down. The algorithm needs to relearn the changes. VERY slow now.

I have started sending the order prior to the delivery date, getting the approval, then sending it as the final delivery so the revisions are minimal. I also do think a delivery extension has weight too. I had to take several weeks off to help my parents and I am suffering through the bounce back now. I have no idea what the new AI algorithm thinks about your time off. It’s been a bit crickets but I know just when I think I am a complete looser it all turns around lol. So now I am just enjoying other projects.

Very insightful @breals This is how I felt when someone stole my voice! A longtime client had the nerve to use some of our project content and create a synthetic voice. Not on this platform by the way! Then created videos with it! Yuck! How embarrassing for me as my voice was the brand so it sounded terrible! NAVA has a wonderful rider so voice actors can use it in their order requirements. You should somehow explain that your portfolio samples are all created by you but you may already do that. I am not sure if the description in each portfolio is part of the algorithm but my guess is that it is so use it for that purpose! It depends on your portfolio too. My portfolio samples are all my voice. Some I created but most are what the client created. Since we are limited to 50mb I always have to cut out a portion of the project to make it fit. I think Fiverr is working on upgrading the space limitations.

The best we can all do …is just do our best. I wonder if Fiverr will look back on this period of time and feel a bit sorry for using AI to somehow level the playing field of great freelancers and cause a bit of chaos. I was just telling my husband about an incredible review I got… I mean the kind of review you share with your family…and yet a buyer could be having a bad day with a bad client and take it out on me and ruin my account with an average review. It hasn’t happened yet but I feel like it’s a matter of time. I don’t like to be guided by fear. And fear is what we seem to feel with this new system. We are at the mercy of stupid AI and now instead of embracing it, we all fear it. A longtime client of mine used my voice files to train a synthetic voice without my consent or permission and created videos with my fake voice. AI in the wrong hands or situation can take over and leave the humans scratching their heads and asking why did they really do that? It’s more challenging to figure out a problem out using your own brain, and sometimes big business suffers by getting on the bandwagon because it seems easier and more modern…but not in a good way.

When you search for a person, it looks suspicious that you can’t find them. Did they disappear? Banned? Quit? It makes it seem like something happened to the seller because they can’t be found. So unless a person hearts your gig or knows how to search for a previous project they are forced to use an outside of the platform search?? That is not right for any user to go through so many steps in this day of AI!!

I do share the link but I also just tell people to search my name. I had to search for someone the other day and I just used Google. It seems strange that you would need to go outside the platform to search for a person.

Thank you! That works! I hope it’s not just a matter of time before they delete it from the App. You would think I would know that! I know they moderate the forum for ideas and issues so let’s keep this going!

Yes that is a work around for sure.

I use my phone every day for business. It doesn’t matter if you are on the App or website, you still can’t search for a person.

We really need this back! It’s terrible for marketing.

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.

So for example, I searched your gig and this is what I see (attached screenshot)

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."

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?