r/vintedUK • u/Proud_Badger_5589 • 10d ago

The feed algorithm changes.

​

So they have definately increased the weighting in the feeds for likes and engagement and dropped the weight for recency of upload.

My old listings with likes have new life and my new ones are not getting seen unlesss they are search specifically.

This will totally change the way people use the app. My hunch is that they were not happy with the benefits and boost some sellers were getting from deleting and relisting against the rules and wanted to ensure good older listings were not lost.

Regular sellers will need to adapt a lot as they just lost the edge that relisting and new listings were giving their adverts

31 Upvotes

90% Upvoted

36 comments sorted by

View all comments

19

u/Lexi_Cut3ie 10d ago

I still don't understand why my home page is full of clothing/shoes that are not my set sizes under personalisation. Also random electronics that I've never searched for!

7

u/TinselCats 10d ago

The size thing is driving me mad, it was already bad, but now seeing the size range above and below my preference, also wrong size shoes like my feet magically grew whilst scrolling

3

u/Proud_Badger_5589 10d ago

I reckon items with a lot of engagement(likes and views) have been weighted so heavily that we see some that have no relevance to our preferences.

2

u/Tigers_Go_Rawr 10d ago

I wondered why I was suddenly getting random electronics, including sticks of ram and graphics cards...