Find A pet Sitter format

[Lokstar]

I noticed a short while ago that the website shows Find A Sitter in a new format. You used to be able to enter the place name & it would show the number of sitters and then multiple pages of thumbails of each sitter & number of reviews- maybe 40/50 profiles per page. Now it shows one sitter at a time, with their last review, and you scroll down, only 10 per page. I looked for my own profile and had to scroll to page 6 before finding mine. I am a sitter but if I was a host looking for a sitter I’d find it very time consuming having to scroll through so many pages and the 1st few I saw would get priority. Are the profiles displayed randomly? I.e each time logging on they are displayed in a different order? I preferred the previous format where you could glance at a large number of faces and see who you felt drawn to. Why has this been changed? I wonder what others think?

[Kelownagurl]

It’s a trial run for 50% of the sitters. You may want to check out this thread.

New sitter homepage

Hi Everyone, We are running a test on the website over the next couple of weeks to improve the usability of the website for sitters. This will only show for 50% of existing sitter members. The following changes will be made: The homepage will be replaced with the existing Find A Sit page. This is the page that sitters use the most so by landing you on this page you will be able to find new sits more quickly. As part of this change we have simplified the header navigation. To get to the find …

[Snowbird]

@Kelownagurl I think @Lokstar is asking about ‘find a sitter’, not ‘find a sit’. If I remember Ben’s answer correctly from a while ago, his response to this point is that they are testing various ways to display the sitters. I know mine changed. Although I’m a sitter, I sometimes look at ‘find a sitter’, for various reasons. I’m not sure Ben’s comment was in a dedicated post, so I won’t try looking for it.

@Lokstar, mine displays the new way for sitters and I agree that it severely reduces the number of sitters displayed per page. I’m going to tag @Ben-ProductManager and ask that he repeat his explanation when he returns online, after his vacation.

[Lokstar]

I am not one of those 50%- but interesting to see.
I was referring to the Find a Sitter page format- not Sits.
Sometimes I just like to browse through fellow sitter profiles.

[LTD]

I wonder if a sitter makes one single change to his / her profile, eg a spelling change, then does their profile jump to the top of the list ie page 1?

[Kelownagurl]

It has whenever I have tested that. Sometimes it takes 15 min or so to bump me to the top.

[Lokstar]

@Snowbird thank you. It would be interesting to know the thought behind this change.