The NEW search function in the community is an absolute disaster! | Suggestions and Feedback for the Community Platform

lidor3073 · 2026-06-28T19:53:36.477492Z

Hello everyone,after already having to get annoyed about blocked messages, here comes the next technical highlight of the “new” community platform: the search function is completely unusable and badly implemented.If you search here for terms like “blocked messages,” you don’t get a proper text search result, but an unfinished, American form shoved in your face. The system seriously demands a US ZIP code, suggests “San Jose” as the city, filters by the country “United States of America,” and wants to know a search radius in “mi” (miles)!On top of that, half of the filter mask isn’t even translated (fragments like “Enter a zip code to adjust radius”, “Main posts only” or “Posts vs Replies”).Dear eBay IT: you’ve simply slapped a US standard design for local events onto the German help forum without adapting it to the German market or the logic of forum text search. It’s absolutely impossible to search the community properly for existing/already described problems!Note: This also applies here: smart remarks from “pro mentors” saying you can just use Google are unnecessary. If eBay offers its own search function, then it damn well has to work flawlessly and in German.Please, dear moderators, urgently pass this unfinished work-in-progress state on to tech support!

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