There are, at the time of writing, 330 users logged on to the Community boards. These days that figure only occasionally struggles into (very) low four figures The chances of someone experiencing the same issue as the one about which I posted, coming on to the Community Boards, finding my post and replying are, at best, slim. So No, I have not established whether other users are having the same problem - but then again why should I? It may be difficult to believe but eBay is not top of my list of conversation topics...
Frankly it should not be up to any single user to put out a call for contact from other users experiencing the same issue. The bottom line is that if the code was tested and formatting was given even a cursory glance the type of kindergarten-level programming which caused the issue I originally mentioned would not have been released. But this is eBay and the infinite monkey theorem applies.
I can assure you that I have enough experience (is 35 years enough?) to know that a) the problem is not on my end - I knew anyway but double-checked before I posted - and b) I will not be waiting for eBay to fix it. I'll be able to tell when it's fixed because they'll mess something else up in doing so.
The format of search results reverted to its previous (correct) version sometime late Friday/early Saturday. Whether this was the result of code being rolled back or overwritten I know not and, frankly, care even less. It's pretty evident eBay don't care, otherwise even the most basic of errors wouldn't make it through testing, so why should I?
The standard of programming on this site is an complete farce. I've seen some tosh over the years but the one- or two-character column wide was an absolute howler and the screenshot was worth sharing for a laugh.
That's just about all eBay is good for these days.
