New Rushes Available for Sign Up
Hi everyone – a quick FYI here.
We have some new Rush categories available for sign-up from the ‘Join a Rush’ page. The categories are more refined than some of our previous ones in an effort to reduce the number of items and make Rushes easier to shop.
The new categories are:
- - Dolls & Bears
- - Movie Memorabilia
- - CDs
- - Sports Memorabilia
- - Baby Gear, Bedding, & Toys
And, a quick note on Rushes in general. Per my recent blog post we are working on refining Rushes to make them better. A few highlights include...
- - We are testing different (later) Rush times and durations.
- - We improved the speed of Rush pages by reducing the size of the images by 30%. This change applies to the homepage and search too so the site should be snappier.
- - We replaced the space consuming image posts in chat with text links that launch a pop-up to conserve space.
Up next for Rushes? A smaller size for chat, more performance enhancements, and spam prevention tools.
11/18/10 at 09:10:14
Thanks Alex
I think the further breakdown should be helpful.
11/18/10 at 09:15:13
Sounds good!
11/18/10 at 09:16:43
Please include in your tweaking a tweak for Search and Filters. Geez, I was wandering around a recent rush on clothes and could not get the filters to properly filter. Every time I clicked on a filter like jeans, the size filter would magically go poof! It was frustrating and down right aggravating to narrow down a search in a rush. I left that rush instead of going through all those pages of things of no interest.
11/18/10 at 09:25:13
Thanks for adding Sports Memorabilia!
11/18/10 at 09:30:41
@ ScouterMuffin – I’ll message you privately for details.
11/18/10 at 09:30:51
I had the same problem as Muffin in all three rushes. Also had a hard time getting back to the main page to start a new search. Most of the time I had to click at the bottom of the site on Rush and then start at the beginning again.
Still think they are a great idea.
11/18/10 at 09:33:08
@ Abbysantiques – you can start a new search by clicking the (x) next to the search filters you have applied. Clicking the X removes the filter.
11/18/10 at 09:38:46
I think less items will definitely make browsing and shopping easier.
Will doll & Bear making patterns be included in the D & B rush?
If listed under D & B, they are not included in the sewing rush. If listed under Crafts, Sewing, they are swamped with a million other patterns.
11/18/10 at 10:33:05
@ BookbinEtc – doll and bear patterns are not in the Rush. Just Dolls, Bears, and Paper Dolls.
11/18/10 at 11:29:04
Thanks Alex
That makes sense for sellers of those items.
11/18/10 at 11:32:25
That is good news. Any plans to pare down the Collectibles category before it runs? There’s over 76000 items in it now.
11/18/10 at 11:56:33
@ Silkworm – we’re not going to remove items from Rushes that have already been scheduled. That doesn’t feel right for those who signed up.
11/18/10 at 12:11:09
Glad to see CD’s being included now. I’ll be sure to throw mine in the ring on the next one.
11/18/10 at 13:13:29
Hope it brings lots of business for everyone!
11/18/10 at 13:51:55
Ah, yes. That wouldn’t be fair since folks have already signed up. I’ll wait til next time then. Hope to see a few handcrafted categories pop up soon.
11/18/10 at 17:07:13
I look forward to more refining…someday “Rush” will be a household word!
11/28/10 at 12:31:10
Great idea for refining, I believe it will be one of the best on site.
12/01/10 at 05:20:24
Thanks for the updates, always a work in progress!