Thoughts on removing the market section from forums

[Jaiden]

The market section was really important for everyone into the reselling business.

Moving it to Life Invader without any notice didn’t feel right, and I don’t think it’s going to become active just like that.

Instead of hoping it works out there, I think the market section should be brought back to the forums for now until there’s a clear plan for how to handle it properly on Life Invader.

This change needs better communication with community and a smoother transition to work.

Edited November 22, 2024 by Jaiden

[Quietthecutie]

I think the eventual idea is to try to transition most if not all IC sections of the forum to lifeinvader.

It makes sense rply. having IC sections on the forums always felt a bit wooden and forced to me. adding it to lifeinvader like facebook marketplace and business accounts makes more sense to me. It is awkward tho. one more website to keep up with.

[Prezeey]

I think we just need to give liveinvader a bit more space. It's almost there. I think if they were to add in notifications that would pop up on the phone so you didnt have to log in etc, lifeinvader would be great for those kinds of businesses. Just follow a page and get notified every time. This might be something they are already working on.

[Toxine]

please bring it back, life invader's marketplace is straight dogshit

[Diligo]

if they fix the marketplace and delete the old posts then in that case I prefer the lifeinvader's marketplace

[Pazz]

The forum will always reign supreme to me until LifeInvader is properly fixed. For starters, it doesn't even work on the in-game phone right now. If the idea is to move to a platform accessible via your phone to do sales straight out of the game, then the foundational principle has already failed.

Not to mention, I know that the term immersion is a bit of a laughing stock in the community, but the inconsistency in LifeInvader pricing isn't great from that perspective. Why is it, that half the listings are in US dollars, some are in euros, and there's even a listing in Czech Korunas? This shouldn't be a choice, if it's localization it should be disabled. We roleplay in the United States, our in-game currency is dollars, it should only offer you that option on LifeInvader.

 Then there's the lack of polish. What is this?

"1e17" is a value I expect to see in a clicker game with insanely large numbers, not an in-character LifeInvader sales post. 

Not to mention the lack of moderation. The reason the marketplace on the forums functioned well is because people would indicate that something was sold, and the post would disappear. LifeInvader may offer similar features, but when you consider the fact that there are listings from four years ago, I think it needs more moderation. Any reasonable marketplace platform has an expiration feature.

My local one, after X amount of weeks, asks you if your offer was sold yet, and if not, if you wish to extend the listing (which doesn't get any new sets of eyes on your listing and they tell you as much) or to remove it and repost it so that it shows back up in recent listings.

Maybe I'm nitpicking, but this is the second time that the IC marketplace on the forums has been shut down without ensuring that the platform it is moved to can feasibly take over the workload. I'll give it props that it wasn't a rushed move to a platform that took seven minutes to load a single page the way that it was before, but I still believe that a lot of quality of life is missing.

LifeInvader should have been prepared prior to this adjustment, not the other way around. When you move something, and it works, but not really, but it works enough, it's far too easy to let it be in favor of other projects, so it likely won't get any development attention and will not be adjusted for QoL.

[Daxu]

On 12/29/2024 at 4:38 AM, Pazz said:

The forum will always reign supreme to me until LifeInvader is properly fixed. For starters, it doesn't even work on the in-game phone right now. If the idea is to move to a platform accessible via your phone to do sales straight out of the game, then the foundational principle has already failed.

Not to mention, I know that the term immersion is a bit of a laughing stock in the community, but the inconsistency in LifeInvader pricing isn't great from that perspective. Why is it, that half the listings are in US dollars, some are in euros, and there's even a listing in Czech Korunas? This shouldn't be a choice, if it's localization it should be disabled. We roleplay in the United States, our in-game currency is dollars, it should only offer you that option on LifeInvader.

 Then there's the lack of polish. What is this?

"1e17" is a value I expect to see in a clicker game with insanely large numbers, not an in-character LifeInvader sales post. 

Not to mention the lack of moderation. The reason the marketplace on the forums functioned well is because people would indicate that something was sold, and the post would disappear. LifeInvader may offer similar features, but when you consider the fact that there are listings from four years ago, I think it needs more moderation. Any reasonable marketplace platform has an expiration feature.

My local one, after X amount of weeks, asks you if your offer was sold yet, and if not, if you wish to extend the listing (which doesn't get any new sets of eyes on your listing and they tell you as much) or to remove it and repost it so that it shows back up in recent listings.

Maybe I'm nitpicking, but this is the second time that the IC marketplace on the forums has been shut down without ensuring that the platform it is moved to can feasibly take over the workload. I'll give it props that it wasn't a rushed move to a platform that took seven minutes to load a single page the way that it was before, but I still believe that a lot of quality of life is missing.

LifeInvader should have been prepared prior to this adjustment, not the other way around. When you move something, and it works, but not really, but it works enough, it's far too easy to let it be in favor of other projects, so it likely won't get any development attention and will not be adjusted for QoL.

zero notes. nail on the head.

[Bala]

I'd rather fuck off LifeInvader if I'm honest and keep it to the forums.

[Diligo]

23 hours ago, Bala said:

I'd rather fuck off LifeInvader if I'm honest and keep it to the forums.

if people had incentive to post on lifeinvader other than RP reasons and advertisements, i think the popularity of the website (and hopefully soon fixed phone app) would skyrocket and so people could make it quite fun.

for example rewarding people for getting reposts/reactions as we have it in real life with internet influencers

[Ritchie Stones]

forums is much more straight foreward and actualy has some reach, 
I think it would take lifeinvader to be veeeery user friendly if it would every want to be used enough.

people arent on life invader, it has no reach,and I don't think anyone will ever use it the way we would al like it to be used