I always sigh when I see a new product update being announced here on the forum because I know it’s unlikely to be anything anyone here has actually requested or suggested and; another infantilising “improvement”. By the way, would you please stop calling us “pet parents”. I am not, and never shall be.
There is no way I am tidying any rooms I haven’t been in!
@Mark_B I don’t know why you always have to drop these bombs on a Monday. What an awful way to start your work week.
I’m usually diligent in reading required materials but the resources at the link you provided soon wore me down. It reads as a first draft, not a final product to the public.
- Has no one learned that bulleted lists are far easier to read?
- How many times did I have a to read ‘Find out …’?
- Why is it so slanted towards the sitter bowing down to the decisions of the owner/host (not pet parent) on items that should have been decided between them?
- Why do we only need flight information for owner/host travelling ‘overseas’? Do they not realize that people take flights within countries and not over seas?
OK, I could go on but I don’t want to mirror the ramblings of the materials in that link. This craziness of mismanagement is an embarrassment. I doubt I’ll ever finish reading that writing masterpiece. Sarcasm intended, and shaking my head emoji needed.
This list is ridiculous. It is so vague and non-specific that is literally pointless.
And I don’t like the words ‘Checkout Day’, my home is not a hotel or Air BNB.
Oh dear. I hadn’t noticed the “checkout” day. THS really is the master of the unfortunately clunky (and slightly insulting) turn of phrase
Yep. When I checkout of a hotel I settle the bill. Departure day would be fine.
@Mark_B I thought I’d give reading the sitter blog post another try. On the blog, this is what I saw for two separate blogs - side by side - both were updated this month:
Duh? Where is the logic that the one on the right is for the owner/host? The one for me, as the house and pet sitter, is the one on the left. It’s amazing that people are being paid to create these resources. 
I am out of words!
Another feature that no wanted, or asked for. How about THS listened to and respected the views of its members and started implementing many of the improvements that have been requested?
Here’s an odd one … I just looked at a listing and the HO’s most recent review is clearly written about them as though they are the sitters. I know some folks are both but the reviews shouldn’t intermingle like that!! Did something cross the matrix?
I commend anyone who’s read it all. When I saw the size of the button at the top of the scroll bar, compared to the length of the scroll bar, before I even started reading, my brain went “ugh, TL,DR”.
And barely 2 paragraphs into the page it’s interrupted by a big box with links to “top dog names”, “250+ gray cat names”… 
Then from that page there’s a link to another checklist. I get wanting to make it pretty, but for people printing it, which I assume it’s for, with the check boxes?, that’s a lot of ink & graphics.
I do think there are some good guidelines here, and good points that maybe not everyone will think of. I use checklists extensively, sits and otherwise. I often have very long nitpicky end-sit checklists.
I was unable to see the “departure checklist” because it wanted me to sign in, and then said my e-mail/password combination was incorrect. (It’s not.) I went to the main site, signed in, waded through that 
2FA, then tried again, and it still wanted me to sign in and said the combination was incorrect. So that needs fixed because we “might” want to read it on a decent sized screen and not a phone. It currently says “departure checklist in the app”. Put it on the website! Unless it’s just my browser, your departure checklist is not “live”… it’s… like, kinda ghosty. 
I have mixed feelings about it – good points as I said, but, if someone needs that much guidance, reminders to wash the dishes (?, I don’t know, did I mention I couldn’t see it) etc., then are they really capable sitters?
I’m up too late again and this influences my view of the blog page, but my first thought is that it’s way too TLDR.
Must be that new PR firm?
Verschlimmbesserung.
Making things worse
(Translated with Google Translate by the Forum Team)
It’s a bit more than that, more like “an attempted improvement, that actually makes things worse”.
Well that sounds pretty darn close to the definition of false economy.
Am I the only one who finds the heading of this thread misleading?
I had the exact same issue, I was never able to get to the checklist.
@Mark_B I had the same issue as @ABGM & couldn’t see the new departure check list. Can’t be bothered jumping through more 2FA sign in problems to read it. I’m so sick of the THS app & website user issues. Your extra fees are not delivering me a better user experience, if anything it’s now worse than ever.
No @ABGM as I said, I can’t be bothered
@Crookie ha, same. I just wondered if anyone went back and tried again a few days later. Like, if they had nothing else to do I didn’t either. I did get a PM that the problem has been “passed on to the team”. …Yay? 