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Changes to Boards

thecatspjs — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 07:36:40 GMT

Early next month eBay will be updating the Community forums in Australia. With these updates you'll enjoy a better experience, an updated look and feel and great new features, including:

A new "ask a question" feature The ability for you to give kudos to other users' posts When you ask a question, you'll be able to see when an answer is posted, and then "Accept the Solution" if you think the answer is a good one. Every time you accept a solution, you help other members who may have the same question find their answer even faster!

In order to make these enhancements, we will be placing the forums in "read-only" mode for a few days, starting Thursday, June 27th. After the updates are completed, you can continue to ask questions and talk with each other as you always do - your user name, previous posts and post counts will all stay the same. And there's nothing you need to do to take advantage of these new features - you'll have the same familiar navigation on the left of your screen and the same structure for Discussion Boards, Answer Centre, and Groups.

You can find more information about the changes here.

Hope its better with new mods too 😄

Re: Changes to Boards

*sparklz* — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 07:47:18 GMT

LOL I know one member that will use this to max

9. Can I edit and delete my personal posts?

Yes, you'll be able to edit and delete a post that you've made within a designated timeframe of when the post was made.

Re: Changes to Boards

foxette-in-sox — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 07:53:58 GMT

In order to make these enhancements, we will be placing the forums in "read-only" mode for a few days, starting Thursday, June 27th

:_|

Re: Changes to Boards

zanadoo_56 — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 08:10:55 GMT

Edit / delete your own posts? It's about time !!! 🙂

Re: Changes to Boards

thecatspjs — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 08:37:36 GMT

In order to make these enhancements, we will be placing the forums in "read-only" mode for a few days, starting Thursday, June 27th

:_|

:-D:-D:-D

Well some, like moi, might get a bit more listing done

Re: Changes to Boards

**tay** — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 09:28:26 GMT

I can see the edit your own posts feature being abused by some, I guess we'll see in time...

Re: Changes to Boards

dotcomdotayu — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:36:24 GMT

In order to make these enhancements, we will be placing the forums in "read-only" mode for a few days, starting Thursday, June 27th.

Oh, what will the button pushers do ...

Re: Changes to Boards

kopenhagen5 — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:10:38 GMT

I can see the edit your own posts feature being abused by some, I guess we'll see in time...

It will probably be that a post can only be edited within 5-10 mins of posting to alter grammar or errors.

Re: Changes to Boards

shahmink — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:17:55 GMT

If that's the case kopenhagen5, then there will be a lot of that going on from what I've seen so far in here.;-)

Re: Changes to Boards

*new2vintage — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:39:48 GMT

Was anyone online last night ? I couldn't access any part of the boards - only Live World's home page appeared. It seems like maybe they've started to work on the upgrades early.

Re: Changes to Boards

*new2vintage — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:43:21 GMT

" In order to make these enhancements, we will be placing the forums in "read-only" mode for a few days, starting Thursday, June 27th. "

You'll be lucky if you can read anything except boring crap about Live World.

Re: Changes to Boards

foxette-in-sox — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:47:20 GMT

This is showing as blank page to me

http://community.ebay.com.au/forum/New-Community-Experience/500001539

Re: Changes to Boards

thecatspjs — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:47:28 GMT

Won't be reading any thing much about Live World soon. Hopefully we might get some improved moderation when their contract finishes.

Live World press release.

San Jose, CA, & New York – May 24, 2013 – LiveWorld, Inc. (OTC Markets: LVWD), today announced that it is focusing on its broader social media presence and will spend fewer resources on the development and deployment of its Community Center solution set. Consistent with this transition, the company expects its contractual relationship with eBay to end during the summer 2013.

“We have had a wonderful working relationship over the years, and we look forward to their continued success,” said David Houston, Chief Financial Officer of LiveWorld. “This transition is consistent with our continuing business shift from solutions based on our proprietary central community web platform to solutions focused on the greater social web.”

More here on eCommerceBytes

Re: Changes to Boards

*new2vintage — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:54:12 GMT

I know about that announcement and I won't miss them. On their site they claim they use human moderation. I've suspected for a long time only computers deal with reported posts but we'll probably never know for sure. I've emailed ebay about the incident last night and I'm waiting ( up to 3 days ) for a reply.....

Re: Changes to Boards

thecatspjs — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:58:58 GMT

From eCommerceBytes.....

eBay discussion boards are down - and what's worse, trying to access them results in a long wait followed by being redirecting to the LiveWorld website. As we reported in May, eBay cancelled its contract with LiveWorld, and since then has migrated the discussion boards in Canada to its new platform provider, Lithium, with plans to roll out the rest of the international forums in the following weeks.

eBay's Director of Community Jeff Terrell told EcommerceBytes it was a "mutual parting" between eBay and LiveWorld, but this redirect, however unintentional and whose ever fault it may be, ultimately results in users being "hijacked" to LiveWorld.

Re: Changes to Boards

thecatspjs — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 02:01:26 GMT

Also from eCommerceBytes

Update: At 11:19, eBay posted the following notice on the Systems board:

Hello,
We are aware that members are currently experiencing problems accessing the eBay Community Center. We are working on a resolution for this issue as quickly as possible and will keep you updated.

Regards and apologies for the inconvenience,
The eBay Team

Re: Changes to Boards

*new2vintage — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 02:19:29 GMT

I've just received a reply from ebay and it contains the usual bull. I've been advised to clear my cookies and cache. Anyway thanks for confirming it's a technical issue cats.

Re: Changes to Boards

*new2vintage — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 03:47:03 GMT

This is showing as blank page to me

http://community.ebay.com.au/forum/New-Community-Experience/500001539

You can open a thread there Foxy which I've just done.

Re: Changes to Boards

2106greencat — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:28:49 GMT

Oh, what will the button pushers do ...

Push faster!! before you can edit :^O

Re: Changes to Boards

dotcomdotayu — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:58:44 GMT

Look out bandaid sellers! You'll be run off your feet! :^O