topic Re: UK Community Update in Community Platform Discussion

topic Re: UK Community Update in Community Platform Discussion https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Community-Platform-Discussion/UK-Community-Update/m-p/6887476#M192 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4638093">@robmar0se</a> wrote: Well thought out and well argued. The only thing I would add going back to Ebay's  supposed objectives, the one with any credibility is to make the forum smartphone friendly. By all means do so, but for a minute just think who are youir major customers, regular buyers sellers, who through the volume of activity will probably use a PC, or the random occasional user who may use a smartphone.  Ask yourself who contributes most to ebay profits? I woud put it to you that its profits that should drive all you do,  by all means change things but please revisit your key objectives, and who yr key users are.  Important to LISTEN! Lastly functionality is 100 times more important tahn how pretty it is.<HR /></BLOCKQUOTE>Either I'm getting random update emails or duplicates but a thought on your post. Over tha last year mobile buyers have increased dramatically for me to over 50% at the last count.By far the most profit eBay make will be from the big boys, those who post on here give virtually none in comparison. As for the forum needing to be smartphone friendly, it's all part of the corporate look and nothing but nothing will reverse it. So no matter how much we despise it and how hard it is to read or post,, ebay do not give a monkey's as corporate look is the objective and the most important thing as it is for most companies of any size. Making it easily functional is a secondary objective especially when it comes to a forum few use and many are either unaware of or not interested in. Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:16:37 GMT Anonymous 2021-02-24T15:16:37Z