MAP or LISTING VIEW - booking frustration !

[Branka-and-Silvia0]

Until recently Airbnb had split view on desktop - you could see the list of listings on the left and the map on the right side of your window. So you could mouse-over the listing on the left and you would instantly see where it is located on the map - the small price bubble would change the color.

It was great, user friendly, easy... ! 🙂

Now, Airbnb has changed it. WHY OH WHY ????????????     😞 😞

This is what you see now when you choose your destination (default setting is SHOW LISTINGS and you can change it to SHOW MAP )

.... so what can you do with this endless list of listings if you can't see where they are located ? 😞

Ok, you switch to SHOW MAP.... and this is what you will see :

... now you see the map but you can't see listings photo.... you have to click (not mouse-over!) at each price bubble to see it.

BUT !!! ....

when you click on it , your map will move down from it's previous position and will stay there even when you close the listing's preview !  So if you want to preview another listing in the same street you will have to move the map up, on it's previous position !

How stupid is that ????? 

To be able to see let's say 10 listing's previews you will have to adjust/move up the map  10x !!!!! 

Airbnb.... I think I speak in the name of all Airbnb hosts - IF SOMETHING IS GOOD AND WORKING - DO NOT CHANGE IT !!!!!!

Concentrate and change to all those bugs and things which are not good, not user friendly or not working properly.

Hosts can  give you a long list of things to improve if IT sector needs fresh ideas.

For example:

1)  Split listing / map view

2) Add a pet fee

3)  enable  non-instant book option for certain dates only (like New year eve for example..) while all other dates still remain instant bookable.

4) enable the possibility to change the number of guests included in the base price for certain period . ( for example off season price is for 2 guests and during the season is for 3 guests) . This way large homes wouldn't be booked by small groups during the high season.

... continue the list...

p.s.

At least instant book is not a default setting any more . Good job ABB!

[Emiel1]

My layout is still the same as before, nothing has changed !

[Branka-and-Silvia0]

@Emiel1lucky you!

could you post your print screen? Just to show Airbnb how it should look like.. in case they forgot  😛

[Emiel1]

@Branka-and-Silvia0

[Branka-and-Silvia0]

@Emiel1

Great!  Isn't it milion times better ? 🙂

The map was even biger on my wider monitor

[Emiel1]

@Branka-and-Silvia0,

I don't understand principle why people have other layout. I have same layout on airbnb.nl and on Airbnb.com, even Airbnb.co.uk . So must be related to IP- address, location that other screens are presented to user ?

[Branka-and-Silvia0]

@Emiel1

It's called A/B testing, it is comparing two versions of a web page to see which one performs better. You compare two web pages by showing the two variants (let's call them A and B) to similar visitors at the same time. The one that gives a better rate, wins!

Airbnb is testing non stop and driving all of us crazy. it would be better, faster and cheaper if they just ask us.

[Pete28]

I wonder about that - I have even used a VPN to change ip to eu and made sure to use anon browsing and I still get the base price. 

[Ute42]

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Hi @Branka-and-Silvia0 ,

I still have the old list / mapview next to each other here in Germany. Screenshot taken 5 minutes ago.

Why do they come up with useless changes all the time?

What's the name of the person that comes up with stuff like this?

[Branka-and-Silvia0]

Yes @Ute42

that is what I had before , ...... then it has changed to new layout...., then back to this old one...., then again to new layout just few days ago..... 😞

[Ute42]

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@Branka-and-Silvia0,

my husband has been working in management positions and he says it's very difficult to fire an employee if said employee is a relative of the owner of a company. If the guy who always comes up with such useless changes is the brother in law of Brian Chesky, we all have a problem.

[Branka-and-Silvia0]

😄 LOL @Ute42 we have a problem whoever he is 😄

This EPIC VIDEO explains it all :))))))

https://youtu.be/Wac3aGn5twc

[Ute42]

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@Branka-and-Silvia0,

thank's for the video - we've watcht it.

My husband says he has meetings like this twice a week.

[Branka-and-Silvia0]

My simphatiies to your husband @Ute42 ... I had it too while I worked as web designer haha

My favourite literature was clientsfromhell.net  😄

[Ute42 · Accepted solution]

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Hi @Branka-and-Silvia0 ,

everyone who starts out with airbnb is going through a learning curve and so did I. When I started out I came up with real thoughtful threads on serious subjects including well layed out statistics and the like, I think You've seen them.

Meanwhile my main activity on the german CC is „Bilderrätsel“. There's an endless 300 page thread in the german CC where a CC-member loads up a picture to the platform and the others have to guess what it is. I'm pretty good at it.

Take a look:

https://community.withairbnb.com/t5/Freizeit/Was-ist-das-f%C3%BCr-ein-Objekt/td-p/538363/page/293

[Jo13]

@Ute0,

This is a fun thread! Thanks for sharing.