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Even when it was an option it was terrible. You had to search for their exact username (as opposed to 'Melissa Harlow' or 'Terry Grant') to even have a chance of returning the result you're looking for. I've never understood why it was so poorly implemented, but it's one of like, 100 things I don't understand about this place. 🙂

Yes.

Yeah, these are the things that concern me. Zoom isn't exactly a smooth experience under the best of circumstances, and my track record with Fiverr's 'collaborative features' is uh, not great. I can't afford to test this out in a paid session, but I don't see another way to do so. I wonder what Fiverr had in mind when they added live direction as a gig extra. I wonder how specifically they expect it would all work.

I get asked occasionally to do directed reads (sometimes via Zoom), in which case I have to find a polite way to explain how all communication has to take place here, and so that isn't really going to work out the way they'd like. That said, I've never actually tried the built in zoom feature, so I'm curious if anyone has ever used it within the context of an order. Have you used it to take direction from a client? Can you loop in a 3rd party who isn't the client? (meaning my client's client) Can you mute just the client side audio (when recording), or do you have to mute yourself? Curious what everyone's experiences have been. cheers 🙂

If it matters at all, you're not missing much. PROs have all the same issues everyone else has with the site and the way it's run.

Just tried logging into The Regulars Lounge and it keeps telling me I need to be logged in, but I am logged in. It's not showing up in my list of clubs either, even though the 'clubs' tab is still right there.

@Lena Just a heads up - a month on now and this thing is still messed up. All the same issues. Missing gig extras, freezing when copy/pasting text, etc CS keeps insisting that I send them a screen recording of it happening and I keep explaining to them that it wouldn't do any good unless I also go to the trouble of recording voice over explaining the issues and essentially produce a full video outlining the problems. They refuse to escalate it to the tech devs without a screen recording, which is ridiculous, as the problems will be obvious to anyone who knows what they're doing. Appreciate your time on this. 🙂

Trust me when I say this - Yes. Yes it did.

Those of us in the US (I assume elsewhere too) can just write it off, as this is a textbook definition of a business expense, but there is a point at which it becomes about the principle of the thing, yeah? The only feature I find useful is the ability to turn on RTO when I am going to be out of town, and if they're going to charge everyone the same inflated rate, then I'll probably just cancel and only ever fire it up when I need RTO. Kind of like how I only have Netflix when they put something out I actually want to watch. Buyer Insights was kind of useful at first, then it became obvious the info they were providing was a generalized guess at best. My SM is a very nice person, but there isn't much she can really do for me, as maintaining a gig isn't rocket science and they're not allowed to act as CS either. I already get the 7 day clearance from TRS. The 'advanced stats' are laughable because again - maintaining a gig isn't hard. The partridge squawked too much and the pear tree died after a year, so what else is left?

Thank you @Lena Several gig extras are just gone (important ones too, like Rush Delivery, Full Buyout, etc) and if I copy/paste a block of text using a pre set key command it just freezes the whole window and I have to force quit Chrome and restart. This thing is broken.

@Lena Just a heads up, but the new window design came back and it still has all the same issues. Gig extras are missing and if I copy/paste text via a key command the whole page freezes and I have to quit Chrome and start over. It is nice though to finally be able to type and view more than one sentence at a time. I don't feel like I'm sending quotes on Instagram anymore. 😉

If it matters at all, I'm pretty sure Fiverr is too. I'm PRO and TRS and I have a 9.

You know what's funny about that? (well nothing really, but let me have this one) - that's how it used to be for me - for years - until this redesign. Every single gig extra I had ever created was listed in the custom order pop up and I couldn't do anything about it. Most of them were redundancies of each other because the stupid system is so finicky about the language and syntax you use when typing out the titles. One positive thing about this redesign - we can finally use the entire text box to type in because they moved the character counter out of the container that held the text box as well. I went back and forth with tech support and CS for years trying to get them to understand the problem with that. It was like trying to type messages on Instagram. Bleck...

Cheers Lena, thank you.

fwiw, I tried to report this to CS yesterday and at first I got the cut n paste 'unplug it and plug it back in' response, and after telling them that it wasn't any of that, they insisted I send them a screen recording explaining the problems in detail before they'd even consider kicking it up to tech support. Maybe someone here can get the ball rolling on a fix? @Kesha @ran_success @Lena @noahd_success