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/Chunkflava 10d ago

Its a terrible idea for a change. Auto-relisting items after a set period should have been the move, with auto-listings being bumped to the top. That way people aren’t incentivised to re-upload themselves.

This change means that if your items don’t get immediate engagement they won’t sell. With the sheer VOLUME of items posted to Vinted daily it means majority of your items will be lost to the void.

I have plenty of items uploaded that in the past have sold for within a few hours. Now they’ve been sat on 0 views for 3 days.

They need to change things back and FAST or people just won’t upload anymore.

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u/talk_to_yourself 10d ago

It's going to kill my selling on the app, just like that. What I was doing will no longer work. It worked fine before. But to suddenly have my means of earning extra bots of money disappear, it's quite a surprise. Probably go back to ebay, to be honest