Crowdfunding the creation of the next version of LFGSS

Velocio

Will traders get a personal page or something? What features are you thinking of for classifieds?

I'm asking because most classifieds end up on page 2 within the hour (and subsequently further down the archives by the day) and people often/generally don't utfs

I really want to solve classifieds.

Second to events after getting the basics vaguely right comes classifieds. And whereas events is somewhat simpler to get right, classifieds is quite a complex beast.

The biggest thing I can do to solve classifieds is search. Helping people find what they want.

It's less a problem that you disappear off of page 2 in an hour, it's that once you've disappeared off page 2 no-one can find the advert.

For bikes people search by attributes more than the top-line title. That is, find me 59cm bikes and frames, but also show me 58cm and 60cm bikes and frames.

For camera gear similarly people search by attributes: Interested in lenses between f1.4 and f2, or between 35mm and 50mm.

If I can fix the search functionality I hope to then make that drive other pages. Trader profile pages, equivalent to the eBay "Seller's Shop", is one obvious thing, but I'd also like to work out how to convert popular searches into pre-made pages "Bikes 55cm > 57cm, Bikes 57cm > 59cm, etc".

The two angles on that being "This seller has good stuff, what else is he selling?" and "I'm looking for one of these, what is there?".

But both of those pages require searching classifieds gets solved. Search is hard... so you'll have to forgive me for wanting to get the basics done first and to solve events before I move onto an area which will no doubt bog me down.