***Coming Soon: New Discussion Board Improvements & Special Maintenance Outage***
January 27, 2009 | 11:18AM PST/PT
Hi everyone...This is Garnor Morantes, and I help manage our Online Forums. As many of you know firsthand, eBay’s Discussion Boards have been an important part of the eBay experience for many years. With many forums on all kinds of subjects –from Selling and Buying to Clothing and Collectibles --- our forums help members connect with others for business and for fun.
Hundreds of thousands of members participate in our discussion boards every day. If you haven’t visited already, we encourage you to browse and see what they have to offer – and if you see a discussion that interests you, add your own thoughts or tips.
Coming soon – A New look, plus some cool new features
Next week, we’ll be upgrading the discussion boards to offer several new features; along with a new look that is more “eBay.” Here are the highlights:
* More Personalization and Layout Options. In addition to showing My World profile images, we’re providing tools that will allow you to quickly access those discussion topics that are most important to you.
* Time-saving Features. Hover over a discussion thread title and catch a glimpse of the conversation that’s taking place before you decide to click into the thread. We’ll also rotate through some discussion board posts at the bottom of certain pages that let you see what people are currently talking about.
* Enhanced Control Over Your Experience. Sort from newest to oldest, change the number of threads appearing on a board hub page, or automatically “quote” an earlier post. The upgrade provides more ways you can tailor your experience, so that you get what you need fast.
US Discussion Boards Unavailable from 4 p.m. to Midnight PT on Tuesday, February 3rd
In order to add these new upgrades, eBay Discussion Boards will be taken offline on Tuesday, Feb. 3rd from approximately 4 p.m. Pacific time to midnight. Once we’re back online, I hope you’ll go in and check out all the new features.
Our team will also be around after the launch to answer your questions about the new discussion boards experience. In the meantime, check out our Launch Board for a couple of examples of what the new experience will look like.
Sincerely,
Garnor Morantes
Seller Experience
Trust me on this, I have seen what is coming and it will be a BIG improvement. The new features are really cool 🙂 It needs getting used to but it will be much better than Groups and better than the present Discussion Boards, IMHO.
There will be a special place for help by eBay, I will post the link to that place when the time comes.
This change will NOT come to eBay.CA right away but at a later date.
There will be an announcement notice affixed to the top of each board w/in the next few hours on eBay.COM.
January 27, 2009 | 11:18AM PST/PT
Hi everyone...This is Garnor Morantes, and I help manage our Online Forums. As many of you know firsthand, eBay’s Discussion Boards have been an important part of the eBay experience for many years. With many forums on all kinds of subjects –from Selling and Buying to Clothing and Collectibles --- our forums help members connect with others for business and for fun.
Hundreds of thousands of members participate in our discussion boards every day. If you haven’t visited already, we encourage you to browse and see what they have to offer – and if you see a discussion that interests you, add your own thoughts or tips.
Coming soon – A New look, plus some cool new features
Next week, we’ll be upgrading the discussion boards to offer several new features; along with a new look that is more “eBay.” Here are the highlights:
* More Personalization and Layout Options. In addition to showing My World profile images, we’re providing tools that will allow you to quickly access those discussion topics that are most important to you.
* Time-saving Features. Hover over a discussion thread title and catch a glimpse of the conversation that’s taking place before you decide to click into the thread. We’ll also rotate through some discussion board posts at the bottom of certain pages that let you see what people are currently talking about.
* Enhanced Control Over Your Experience. Sort from newest to oldest, change the number of threads appearing on a board hub page, or automatically “quote” an earlier post. The upgrade provides more ways you can tailor your experience, so that you get what you need fast.
US Discussion Boards Unavailable from 4 p.m. to Midnight PT on Tuesday, February 3rd
In order to add these new upgrades, eBay Discussion Boards will be taken offline on Tuesday, Feb. 3rd from approximately 4 p.m. Pacific time to midnight. Once we’re back online, I hope you’ll go in and check out all the new features.
Our team will also be around after the launch to answer your questions about the new discussion boards experience. In the meantime, check out our Launch Board for a couple of examples of what the new experience will look like.
Sincerely,
Garnor Morantes
Seller Experience
Trust me on this, I have seen what is coming and it will be a BIG improvement. The new features are really cool 🙂 It needs getting used to but it will be much better than Groups and better than the present Discussion Boards, IMHO.
There will be a special place for help by eBay, I will post the link to that place when the time comes.
This change will NOT come to eBay.CA right away but at a later date.
There will be an announcement notice affixed to the top of each board w/in the next few hours on eBay.COM.
I looks like the eBay.CA Discussion Forums will switch to the new look in about 1 month's time if all goes well with the .COM launch. I expect that it will. 🙂
I hope you take the time to visit the .COM Boards next week to get accustomed to the new look, this would allow for an easier transition.
Bookmarked boards and threads will still work. eBay will be redirecting anything that you have saved.
I hope you take the time to visit the .COM Boards next week to get accustomed to the new look, this would allow for an easier transition.
Bookmarked boards and threads will still work. eBay will be redirecting anything that you have saved.
REMINDER:
US Discussion Boards Unavailable from 4 p.m. to Midnight PT on Tuesday, February 3rd
In order to add these new upgrades, eBay Discussion Boards will be taken offline on Tuesday, Feb. 3rd from approximately 4 p.m. Pacific time to midnight. Once we’re back online, I hope you’ll go in and check out all the new features.
http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200901.shtml#2009-01-27111100
US Discussion Boards Unavailable from 4 p.m. to Midnight PT on Tuesday, February 3rd
In order to add these new upgrades, eBay Discussion Boards will be taken offline on Tuesday, Feb. 3rd from approximately 4 p.m. Pacific time to midnight. Once we’re back online, I hope you’ll go in and check out all the new features.
http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200901.shtml#2009-01-27111100
