Marketplace topics closed after 60 mins

[Federico]

Hello,

Does anyone know why topics in the new Unofficial Fairphone Market are authomatically closed after 60 minutes? This does not help visitors engage with people offering or looking for something, I believe.

Thanks!
Federico

[TobiasF]

That was @Douwe. He doesn’t want any discussion in marketplace topics (because that would put that topic repeatedly in the “Latest” list), but wants potential interested people to contact the topic starter via PM.

(Well, I’m an opposer of that.)

[Douwe]

Hey @Federico,

Yes, the current state is indeed as @TobiasF says. But we are still trying to find out what works best and are open for input here:

Marketplace category

Questions should be public because they can be interesting to other people. It should be avoided that different users ask the same questions. Interest should be public so a potential buyer can see if he can expect a success or if there are many other interested persons and he probably won’t get the item. No. A third person should not link two sellers to each other. He should only answer if he is interested, but don’t want to pay the offered, but a lower price. A third person can answer in “…

Thank you!