topic Re: New Community Platform Announcement in Community Spirit

New Community Platform Announcement

twyngwyn — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:04:53 GMT

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/New-Platform-Same-Amazing-Community/ba-p/35635703

Re: New Community Platform Announcement

twyngwyn — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:15:07 GMT

from the U.S. boards:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Oh-oh-eBay-sellers-better-read-the-following-what-could-possibly/m-p/35637208#M2701106

Re: New Community Platform Announcement

sandypebbles — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:35:21 GMT

Well, if eBay are saying it will be better, you know it is a big ol' crock pot of carp

Re: New Community Platform Announcement

mtnlane — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:19:35 GMT

In an effort to create a more streamlined experience, some existing activities will not be available on our new platform.

Wouldn't it have been great for them to tell us exactly WHAT EXISTING ACTIVITIES would no longer be available on their new platform?

Lack of definitive information from eBay has always been the bane of this site🤔🤔🙄🙄🍄🍄🍄

Re: New Community Platform Announcement

twyngwyn — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:21:04 GMT

And take copies now, if you want anything prior to 2023….

Re: New Community Platform Announcement

sandypebbles — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:26:39 GMT

I'm thinking things like community spirit most likely

*Sends eBay another bird

Re: New Community Platform Announcement

mtnlane — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:47:04 GMT

That is exactly what I was thinking sandypebbles 😠

Re: New Community Platform Announcement

countessalmirena — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:38:12 GMT

Lack of detail, insufficient clarity…

Are they trying to drive people away?

Re: New Community Platform Announcement

mtnlane — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:22:30 GMT

Away from 'Community Spirit' ?

I suspect so countessalmirena 😠😠😠

Re: New Community Platform Announcement

*casey* — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:08:27 GMT

"this new community space is built to help you get even more value from every interaction"

Press 1 for AI, press 2 for eBay Help, press 3 for accurate information from other members

Re: New Community Platform Announcement

imastawka — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:26:56 GMT

@sandypebbles wrote:
I'm thinking things like community spirit most likely

*Sends eBay another bird

They tried to rid the boards of Community Spirit a few years back.

But they quietly asked for opinions and didn't expect the blowback from members. Most members didn't know Community Spirit was in danger.

I don't think they're bothering with opinions this time around and will do as they please.

Re: New Community Platform Announcement

countessalmirena — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:04:02 GMT

Without a place to interact such as Community Spirit, there will be fewer posters who would be here at all, let alone bother helping with replies on eBay issues.

Let’s face it: these boards are not humming and buzzing with a huge crowd. It’s just enough to give helpful information based on personal experience and/or dissecting eBay policies and announcements to help fellow eBayer who could do with a hand.

That leads me to a suspicion that I hope is nonsense. AI-generated board answers.

If that happens, it will be disastrous (in my view). AI content is obvious. It doesn’t work on Facebook groups etc where AI responses stick out like a sore thumb. The eBay chatbot shows how unhelpful and frustrating non-human responses are… AI gets things wrong and can’t properly self-correct.

I can’t express just how annoying I find those stupid AI “answers” on google. I do a great deal of searching online for a wide variety of information or research or sources, and while I can’t stop my eyes from absorbing that summation at the top of the search results, I look at the search result links to get things started with research etc. In that brief glance, I can spot dubious AI hallucinations, and it doesn’t take long before my search proper turns up information contradicting the AI result, or confirming that the answer is highly debated, and so on.

AI will do the same for eBay issues; in fact, it does.

Anyway, I hope that my speculation about the new transformer super-duper eBay Community boards is way off base. Human experience is a growing and valuable asset, and intrinsically I doubt that generative content based on outside-in data-gobbling of a static period or periods of posted experience can substitute adequately for the real thing.

Re: New Community Platform Announcement

pnc75 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:26:07 GMT

As they always have!

Re: New Community Platform Announcement

domino-710 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:26:22 GMT

When doing any search one is able to ' bypass ' - do away with - not even see AI - by adding to your search at the end - -AI.

That is minus AI.

Re: New Community Platform Announcement

countessalmirena — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:12:09 GMT

Yes, I recently started doing it, but I noticed fewer results popping up. AI seemed to be punishing me. Did you notice this happening or am I the only one?

(One of the topics was re some French conductus pieces.)

Re: New Community Platform Announcement

domino-710 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:27:11 GMT

Try ABBA..................

Re: New Community Platform Announcement

countessalmirena — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:41:01 GMT

Right… and to what am I comparing the results? (I’ve never googled ABBA before!)

Re: New Community Platform Announcement

countessalmirena — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:45:47 GMT

As an aside… as a slight little bypass…

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7uhqbe

(French and Saunders are ABBA.)