I’m a big fan of saved searches because I love getting notifications for sits inside a specific city. However, I very often get a lot of saved search notifications for sits OUTSIDE of the city that I’ve created a saved search. In some cases that’s ok, it can be fun to see what’s “nearby” my saved search, but other times I really only want notifications for that specific city I created a saved search for.
Example: Creating a saved search for Vancouver, WA, but most of the sit notifications for that saved search being nearby Portland, OR.
I’m aware I can use the “sort by” and “distance” filters when I’m newly searching to show me sits in the specific city, but that doesn’t seem to help/apply when it’s turned into a saved search. Is there a way to have a saved search/notifications only apply to one specific city and not get notifications about sits outside that city in nearby towns?
Yes, it is annoying. One gets a choice of “Region” or “City” etc, but it does not make any difference: the search radius is 50 kilometers or so. Strange for an internet-based company that was sold for 100 million GBP.
The workaround that I use is saving map searches (in the web interface).
Thank you @pietkuip I also wish the “distance to this city” filter remained in place when you go back to view the saved search. Otherwise, it requires scrolling through quite a few sits to find the ones in the city of your saved search. But it seems like these kinds of options/updates may not be implemented for some time.
I agree that the search provides too large a geography and it would be great if we could get accurate results. I’d also like to suggest that there be a requirement in the set up to input any local info to the location that describes where the sit is. “Los Angeles” is too vast a term, for instance - and shouldn’t be allowed as an entry, imo, unless the home is in the city of Los Angeles. Either require cross-streets so we can see the location or at least a more specific name - such as “mid-city” or “mid-Wilshire” which show on Google Maps. Cross streets for the listing would probably be more ideal and are general enough to not invade the privacy of the homeowner.
I also wish the system would not keep notifiying me all the time to just draw me back to the list of sits that has not been updated since the last notification - meaning no new sits had been added. I already look at the app a zillion times a day as I’m a full time sitter - and want to find the sits in my preferred specific geography asap.
I hear what you are saying, but you really need to think more broadly. Sitters from all over the WORLD are looking for Sits in Southern CA, so the intricate detail would mean nothing to them.
I was born in San Francisco, CA. I look for Sits in San Francisco and Marin Counties. I have found that searching by County gives me the best results, and especially with a Saved Search, allows me to see results within the zones that I want.
You can also use the “distance” filter to see which Sits are closest to the location that you desire.
I think only because the geolocation on THS is broken and puts listings in random places miles away. Having done it, I know for a fact it’s not difficult to fix this and to offer a manual placement option for addresses Google maps can’t handle (looking at you rural UK). They can then just show a dot that covers like a 1km radius or something - like Airbnb does.
If you want a specific town/city in Southern CA, like Huntington Beach or Malibu, then you should search for that particular town/city and then filter by distance.
I DO think that Owners should mention their neighborhood in their listing, for example, Venice (which is a neighborhood in LA).
I just discovered something interesting in the app: There is a listing in Venice, CA which is labeled Venice, CA, however, the search term “Venice, CA” is not available when you search for it. On the map, the listing appears in Venice, CA (which is not technically a city; it is an area in LA).
I have a similar issue. I get notifications for a saved search for Gloucester MA. I open it and it only shows boston, even if I do map view. So for months I assumed nothing in Gloucester. Then I discovered if I do a new search for anywhere and select map view, there are indeed openings in Gloucester. If I search Gloucester and choose a previous saved search, I then only see Boston. So I need to delete the saved search, re-search Gloucester, then the Gloucester sits show up. So basically saving a search and requesting notifications is useless.
Yes, it’s an annoying and often-commented-upon failure of the app.
Put in ‘Bath’ (city in the UK) and sits within about a 50 mile radius come up (note that 50 miles is a large distance in small England!).
I would like that we could drag/draw a box around a specific search area that doesn’t have to be square - eg for searching along a 100mile stretch of coastline but avoiding all the inland sits. Or focusing along a major highway route as I often do.
As I’ve said (too many times!) for a company whose only job really is to be a tech platform, THS is really underwhelming.
