Tuesday 12 July 2011

Not long now...

The new site is very nearly ready for your delight and we're getting super excited here at Wightbay.

All that's left are the finishing touches, a bit of polishing here and there, and we're good to go!

We hope you are all looking forward to a shiny new Wightbay too.

51 comments:

Anonymous said...

what have you done bring back the old wightbay this is really bad.

Anonymous said...

dont think i'm gona use wightbay anymore!! Cant work it out, it's doing my head in?!! please change it back.

Anonymous said...

I cant find the message system to communicate with people replying to ads etc - is it hidden somewhere or not ready yet?

Anonymous said...

It would be a good idea to be able to contact the buyer/seller. Item description is sadly lacking as is users ability to get good visuals of the item from these tiny pics.
The old Wightbay although horribly slow, was at least user friendly.
Give us back the old site please until these critical problems are fixed, or I think the end of Wightbay is coming.... fast.

Anonymous said...

unfortunately i have gone off the idea of using WIGHTBAY with this new format website-please bring back the original site-everyone i have spoken to agrees..

Anonymous said...

if this is progress you can keep it wont be using wightbay much now,theres an old saying "if it aint broke dont fix it" this is awful

Anonymous said...

This is HIDEOUS. I am not adverse change when it brings improvements, but as I have 'fedback' this is a disaster. I hope to god they read this.

Anonymous said...

Where I the emails, Im in the middle of buying an item and cant find my emails to reply...!!!???

Anonymous said...

I cant repeat what i thought of this so called new and improved site all my history and feedback (only 1 star i hasten to add) has gone and to top it all your real name has taken the place of your user name so now is in full view for all those idiots out there who want to make life difficult and think its funny to mess you about.

Anonymous said...

I can see what you are trying to do but it's just not worked. Hope you are still tweaking it? The search system is failing which is really frustrating, I too would be likely to stop using Wightbay if it stays as is. Good luck with sorting asap

Anonymous said...

Well I think the new site looks great, found all the things I need and just sold an item. Some people just don't like change. You just need a little time and you will see things on Wightbay are working fine.

Well done Wightbay.

Anonymous said...

to the person above me. how are you receiving messages from people ??????????

Belinda said...

A bit of a surprise when I opened the site today. Unfortunately can't find item I had saved. Understandable some things will disappear during the change over. However, searching through ads has taken a turn for the weird. I am looking for a king size bed, so searching for keywords king and bed, seems to bring up all ads with those combinations of letters anywhere in the description. Used to be able to search for words in title only. How do I do that now?

Anonymous said...

My main gripe was that many ads I posted or removed yesterday weren't caught up in the changeover so work had to be done again. Also some of my pix haven't transferred over - possibly because they were very cropped to cut out unwanted background? As to the site - ok - but will take a bit of getting used to. 2 poeple emailed me about 2 ads so I know its working! and everyone out there who isn't happy - it can still be free!!! amazing in this day and age.

Anonymous said...

how do you find your messages?? or am i being thick lol.....bit better in some ways but more busy in other ways...but i am for change

Anonymous said...

As upgrades go, the new site is a downgrade. Search doesn't seem to work, and the list of categories that I am offered in search misses half of the ones shown on the home page. I don't need lots of yellow boxes where no picture is available. How do I get a gallery display?
The advert display tells you how many other listings for this user, but it is one too many as "see sellers one other listing" refers to this listing. So two other listings should say "one other listing" etc.

The picture in the advert listing are now distorted.

Where are my messages?

And lastly - what is this auction facility that has appeared?

Anonymous said...

i dont know why you changed wightbay before i had no problems listing and finding and recieving emails from protenail customers but now i can not find messages at all. with out the messages i dont know weather i have sold anything or had any one email about any work. so please bring back the old wightbay, there was nothing wrong with it apart from being slow some times........

Anonymous said...

Looks good but works crap, where are my messages? i was in the middle of selling someone something & now i don't know what is going on.
I can't seem to see when my adds are expiring either, someone please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

OMG! what's happend to this Site - a complete b.... up. Well, I guess like this country, it's going down the pan - after Italy that's. Bring back the Weekly Ad - at least it had a use as toilet paper !!

Anonymous said...

like all before have said why change the look of the site, was easy to post and see ads and message sellers and buyers.. now you messed it up...ok it looks swish but trying to see ppls messages(LOL) where ever they be..???? and see when ad finishes it a joke.. please keep it nice and simple so everyone knows where everything is with ease

Anonymous said...

I have just got someone to message me so i can try to find where the messages come up & they come up on your add so you have to keep looking at your add to see if you have any messages, i assume this is so you keep hitting the different pages & this may be how they make some money, as regards finding when your add ends i don't have a clue, hope this helps

Anonymous said...

The search is broken. Searches the entire add and within words! So a search for "Table" results in 128 pages! - including "4 man tent" and "lounge carpet" - search was bad before but now it is unusable.
How on earth can you release something without testing such a basic functionality.

Anonymous said...

The old site was hideous, the new layout is just as bad. Unfortunately I am going to use it because WightBay is the only place you can advertise on Isle of Wight. At least make browsing for items convenient rather than complicated. I want to view items without clicking on precise categories. I want uploaded photos to be displayed in minimum of 800x600. I want to edit my text without the need of HTML tags. There is way too much space wasted showing nothing but the advert itself. Comments on adverts could also be very useful just like here we can comment on this article. Brake out of your old tradition and actually make some changes

Anonymous said...

I left a note earlier in the week agreeing with many others that the site didnt work on many levels. However I've just had another look and it's appearing more professional and organised already so well done. Would like to mention though that there are too many google ad spaces in the listings - it's offputting.

Anonymous said...

Full names replacing user names appears to be fixed now, had to make a few minor tweaks to my browser's ad blocker to be able to view listings fully, image quality in listings not great, very distorted and blurry at the mo.. but overall looking pretty good and a lot faster for sure.

Anonymous said...

It's a disaster!

The old site was slow but at least it worked, the new one is a total fail with Safari - if I click on any item for sale I find i am invited to ask a question and no item details are shown. Good move to alienate all the Mac users!

Anonymous said...

WOW!!! Well done Wightbay, just love this slick new format, so easy, fast... Hey, don't take too much notice of the negative comments, it's a well known fact Islanders are slow on the uptake and are opposed to to change - you've only to read the County Press to see that!!

Anonymous said...

FANTASTIC! Thank you Wightbay.

Anonymous said...

If you can't see the adverts on WightBay you need to disable AdBlockPlus for that domain. I kept thinking the site was still in progress when I realised it's ABP that classed the entire site as SPAM lol.
So why the images for all adverts are so small and can't be clicked on? It sucks we can't use HTML tags to make clickable links or force a bigger image inside the ad. Cars don't need it's own brands in category plus Alphabetic sort is better than number of cars for sale. Way too many categories to list a simple item, which most of the time won't match any of them. I give an example.....Blu-Ray Player

Anonymous said...

Just great Wightbay - sooo easy and simple to use - 'massive' improvement - love it! The Island's full of 'naysayers'- take no notice.

Anonymous said...

will not be using wightbay anymore, every thing I search for always comes up with property's, must be making money from the estate agents every time,bring back the old wightbay!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Haven't used Wightbay for a month or so, owing to it being useless - putting it mildy. Clicked on today - FANTASTIC !! Well done Wightbay - already sold two items - great. You shall certainly be on my Chritmas card list and a present as well, which will obviously be bought on this Site.

emma hardie said...

i must agree with most of these people i have lost half my adds and there is no "old add" button to relisted it witch would be so much easyer!! and cant just relist an add i think the idea of changeing it but i think the add's part messerging ect of your old website worked fine and i think it would benifit you to take that part back to normall or you will use a lot of people on wightbay as my boyfriend mum and dad have all said they are not going to use it agian thanks very much

Anonymous said...

Messages appear beneath listing for all to see. Might make the idiots who think it's funny to send abusive messages think twice.. and saves having to answer the same questions over and over to different users. Good job :-)

Anonymous said...

Excellent Site now, so easy to use - Islanders are renowned for their lack of desire to move with the times!! Now where did I leave my horse'n'cart?

Anonymous said...

Three ~~~~~ng days Ive been waiting for a seller to reply to me!!!!!
This is crap and anyone who says otherwise must have their heads up their backsides. I have plenty to do that does not involve endlessly waiting without the ability to directly contact the seller!! Its just Bollax!

Anonymous said...

Maybe you should pull your head out of your backside and try using the phone? Just saying....

Anonymous said...

Ha Ha Ha you are really funny!! put your brain back in your trousers and S.T.F.U ! If I had a F~~~ng phone number to use, dont you think i would use it you cheap muppet!
Now F.O !!!

Anonymous said...

not loving the fact our phone numbers have to go public we should be able to hand out our phone numbers to just the people who are interested in our item and not the whole public and yeah theres the choice of privacy number but no ones going to phone that as its so expensive

Anonymous said...

its only about 20p a minute for privacy numbers off peak and users dont have to phone it, they can email the advertiser?

Anonymous said...

Excellent Site !!! Well done Wightbay - don't take any notice of the above WANKER'S comments.

Rob said...

Hi everyone, thanks for your comments. You can find out more about how to get around the new site by looking in our FAQs section which will hopefully help you out quite a bit!

Terry Green said...

Using 'search' I can find some of my missing ads which are categorised as: 'Item Information' Where is this in 'cagegories' as they need to be accessed!!
Also, what has happened to Education? and why do I now have to log in every time; it was much more user friendly with the old Wightbay

Anonymous said...

Lack of information when opening ads could be fault of your browser. Just tried it with Google Chtome and it works a treat.! Great.

Anonymous said...

Think ill stick with Wightsale.com and ebay instead

Anonymous said...

Ha ha, you must be really 'thick' if you can't use this Site - even my nan who's just turned 90 has got the hang of it !!! - well done Wightbay. ebay's useless - all shops and Wightsale(Shitesale) is absolute rubbish.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Three ~~~~~ng days Ive been waiting for a seller to reply to me!!!!!
This is crap and anyone who says otherwise must have their heads up their backsides. I have plenty to do that does not involve endlessly waiting without the ability to directly contact the seller!! Its just Bollax

What an intelligent comment - 'tosser'.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Where I the emails, Im in the middle of buying an item and cant find my emails to reply...!!!???

6:45 AM

Should've gone to Specsavers !! ha ha.

Anonymous said...

1:48 AM
Anonymous said...
Ha Ha Ha you are really funny!! put your brain back in your trousers and S.T.F.U ! If I had a F~~~ng phone number to use, dont you think i would use it you cheap muppet!
Now F.O !!!
I really must apologise for saying that,only I'm a bit 'thick'and consequently use bad language to express my feelings - it's me that's the 'muppet'- great Site Wightbay.

Anonymous said...

Speaking as the person to whom the above comment was aimed at, I don't think an apology is owed (not to me anyway)... I said what I did knowing damn well it would probably provoke that kind of response, but I just couldn't resist ;-)

It's possibly the worst aspect of 'social websites' and a weakness in us all that we feel we are able to hide behind our screens and prod other people, safe in the knowledge we won't get our teeth knocked out for our trouble.

Oh yeah.. and +1 for great new site :-)

Anonymous said...

What I really meant was:

It's possibly the best aspect of 'social websites' knowing that I can hide behind my screen and prod other people, safe in the knowledge I won't get my teeth knocked out for my trouble.

Oh yeah.. and +10 for great new site :-)

 

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