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So many great and loyal sellers losing faith in the platform should be a major concern for Fiverr.

$25k! that's impressive. Especially on fiver. The 20% cut must have hurt though?

Yeah, there seems to be a disconnect between what we are actually doing and what the scores are reflecting. It doesn't make sense to have happy clients and decreasing level metrics. Thank you for sharing.

Interesting, it seems that the new level system has left the Fiverr platform divided. Some people are seeing progress and others are taking a couple steps back. I think the main issue is that in trying to make things more transparent they completely made things worse. Nobody can point to one thing that they can say is the reason for their recent success or failure. The "new math" is a mystery for sure. We are all in the dark tweaking everything and anything in hopes that it will fix our problems.

Hmm, I wonder if it's a niche thing. I've noticed a few people in the Music and Audio category sharing the same issue regarding not recieving new Clients and relying on repeat work. I also started to see a decline in inquiries somewhere in March. The spam thing is also an issue. The messages I did receive were from people that would initiate a conversation then go silent or it was someone from another platform looking for work. This never happened before the new system was introduced. Thank you for sharing. It makes me feel a little better knowing that I am not the only person struggling at the moment.

Hi, does anyone have a clue how the new rating system works or where all the buyers have gone? I noticed a massive decline in new inquires. I have some theories of my own. Fiverr has provided more people with access to the promotion feature. More people promoting their gigs may mean that all the work is going to the highest bidders. Fiverr is switching to paid promotion and is phasing out or limiting organic reach. This may be a plan to increase revenue by pushing more sellers to use the promotion feature There may be a disconnect on what your performance metrics are showing verses what is actually happening on your profile. In the old system I could see how the algorithm reacted to me completing an order. Regardless of the final outcome, whether it was good or bad you could see the impact your work had. Now nothing moves the needle. This may be a back end problem. I don't know its just a theory This is temporary and the algo is trying to collect more data before everything is back to normal. I hope it's this, I really do. There's a button that's not working so new buyers can't reach me. This one is a stretch but at this point I have no clue what's happening.😅 These are just theories and I hope things improve over time. My niche doesn't get the most traffic (Music and Audio). Before the new system I managed to get a handful of jobs every week but In the past 30days I've completed 1 job. No new inquires? I know as freelancers we go though periods of ups and downs but this time I'm concerned because it feels like a button was turned of over night. I've never been a forum guy but recently I've been spending more time here everyday hoping I can find a reason to why things are going down hill. Anyway, enough from me I would love to hear your theories on where all the buyers have gone? Or perhaps you've seen an uptick in traffic let me know?

In a perfect world filled with perfect people we would keep 100% of our tips. Unfortunately, some people will exploit such a system. That's why Fiverr takes money from all your earnings. Hope that helps.

Yeah, I've also noticed a decline in new orders recently. I find my self reducing prices to try compensate for low inquires. I recently became a TRS and have not seen any major growth. In fact as I have mentioned, things have slowed down.

This is so true. Fiverr really needs to spend some time on fixing the little things. It will really go a long way in helping us provide a better service. Don't get me started with the scam messages. Ever since I started using the promote feature, I've been receiving more scam/spam messages. The Algorithm is doing a poor job at filtering them out.

I really hope they look into this. It would be great if we got notified in real time. It makes working with briefs and communications a lot easier for us.

This is true. I've never received a response from briefs. I haven't been lucky with them. I think fiver should implement a system that notifies us sellers when a brief has been booked. Or perhaps they can go as far as disabling the ability to create an offer once the brief has been booked with another seller.

Hi I'm Pro seller on Fiverr and I have noticed a concerning issue with briefs. Whenever I receive a notification for a "new brief". I tend to check when the buyer was last seen or if they are currently online. I've noticed that even when I receive a new notification from Fiverr for a brief, all the buyers seem to have been offline for hours sometimes more. This means that I am only seeing the supposed new brief hours after it was submitted by the buyer "sometimes it's more than a day late?". This is very odd. Are there sellers who get priority. I've never received a response from a buyer which leads me to believe that by the time I send a proposal the buyer has already communicated to sellers that saw the brief first. What is the point of notifying me about a new brief if it's been active for hours. Has anybody else noticed this?