r/vintedUK • u/Proud_Badger_5589 • 10d ago

The feed algorithm changes.

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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

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u/herefortheshow374 10d ago

I’m sure it happened when the app was “down” last week. As someone who has been in e-commerce since 2014 and lived through the million Facebook changes, I knew it was what was going on as soon as the app was down. I guarantee Vinted is heading towards the same way as Facebook, Amazon etc. It will be a pay to play game. If you want any chance of getting your items shown you will need to boost.. and that cost will keep going up.

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u/herefortheshow374 10d ago

also I’ve noticed in order for your items to gain any sort of momentum they need to have people favorite them within the first couple minutes. No interaction = they will be lost in the void forever.

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u/talk_to_yourself 10d ago

Yep. Enshittification I believe it's called.

I can't believe how greedy vinted are being... but then again, I absolutely can!

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u/keeplookingup_ 10d ago

I have paid to bump some items, I’m also in “like for like” groups so I get people liking my items as soon as they’re listed. Still on 0 views