Flooded with U.S. sits! THS needs new filters

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Hello, fellow sitters! I feel so grateful to THS for bringing us a world of opportunities, including this Forum to pitch ideas.

My idea is a new filter-by-exclusion function for searches.

THS is undisputed world leader for house- and pet-sitting. Great! But its success in the U.S. market means my saved searches are flooded with U.S. sits. (There are 340 million people in that country!)

Right now, it’s next to impossible to sort by location. It would be so simple to add an Include/Exclude option to the filter. How about it, THS? Are there other sitters out there who’d welcome this function?

My example uses the U.S., but I could imagine many other uses, such as excluding one’s own country, or a place too distant, etc., etc.

Please let me know what you think.

All the best,
Maryanne

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I would find that feature helpful. I also find it frustrating that we can’t filter out dates we are already booked. The filters are lacking; it would be great if, like many other sites, we could create custom filters or at least an option to hide posts we aren’t currently interested in.

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I typically run my sit searches to only include my preferred destination. I also have several notifications set by county and city, then filtered by additional preferences. Running a global search has never been efficient for me, even with the option to exclude certain countries, the results would still be too overwhelming for me.

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@Maryanne, like @Themavericksitter then we use Saved Searches based on the destination geography. So we are searching ‘for’ a geography rather than ‘excluding’ a geography. Seems to work just dandy. We see no US housesit listings other than those that we previously favourited.
That said, I’ll give get another kick for a geographic filter for Schengen zone.

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Thanks for your thoughts and insights. I have three saved searches, filtering by: dates; pets; duration. One is for my home country, the other two are “world,” because there’s no way to specify multiple locations (for instance: Europe and Australia).
I do manage, but it would be easier if I could exclude locations, especially when using the app/mobile interface.
Thanks for your comments!