Suggestion Box

Ski

This new discussion has been open as a suggestion box for Thumbtack from Pros in the Beta Community. As a reminder, this is not a sounding board, complaint thread, or trolling platform. Simply a place to provide feedback, recommendations, and suggestions on how to continue to build a solid community of Thumbtack Pros and help each other succeed!

Meckell

Thanks @Ski! I'm excited to see what suggestions we get in here :)

Allan

So a plus is that this site is super seamless, functions well without error. What I am hard pressed on is the network function and the explore tab. It overlaps with the explore tab and really confuses navigation. From my understanding, I can use the explore tab to find all the categories and see threads in each of them. The network tab allows me to be part of different groups that will have similar posts and it would be allocated there.

I can see the concept here but it should be reworked. Network can easily be solved by creating categories in the explore tabs by trade, since this is meant for pros. If a photographer wants to be in the photographer network group, they would find a category filled with threads of photography related stuff. If a photographer wants to see the business side of things, they would go to a category labeled for business related threads/posts. Possibly a sublevel category if they only wanted to find photography related business stuff. I don't think adding another layer, using networks, is a good idea. But I can see how there are multiple levels/ways of solving this.

Understand it is beta, but just wanted to throw my thought out without stepping on any toes.

DustiO

@Allan this is great feedback, thank you for sharing. We are definitely exploring how to best use the group/category functionalities and this perspective really helps.