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'Contact me' link doesn't work | Connect message center

Tanja K — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 07:28:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Tanja K
Post title: Connect message center

[quote]Naiara Solano wrote:

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for reporting. Site staff are aware of this issue and we are working with the systems team to have it solved shortly.

I have already checked your tickets, you will receive an update as soon as it is fixed. I will also post it here for the rest of you to be notified.

Thanks for your patience!

Kind regards,

Naiara Solano
Support Staff [/quote]

Dear Naiara,

I'm aware that the Proz staff is working hard on developing a new site, however, it would be great if you could give an update whether (and if so, approximately when) all the messages that disappeared from the ProZ.com Connect message center in late July / early August will be restored?

Also, as an FIY: I was sent an inquiry this week through the Connect message center, which I only found today, as I've not received a notification.

Thank you.

Tanja

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Connect notifications

Naiara Solano — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 12:24:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Naiara Solano
Post title: Connect notifications

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for reporting. Site staff are aware of this issue and we are working with the systems team to have it solved shortly.

I have already checked your tickets, you will receive an update as soon as it is fixed. I will also post it here for the rest of you to be notified.

Thanks for your patience!

Kind regards,

Naiara Solano
Support Staff

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Same here

Zea_Mays — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:06:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Zea_Mays
Post title: Same here

[quote]Tanja K wrote:

I’ve also received a new message the beginning of August of which I’ve not been notified.

Also last week, all messages I’ve received via the Connect message center over the past few years (14 pages with 135 mails) have disappeared. The site now reads “You have not received any messages via the Project Connect system.”

Have anyone else’s client emails in the Connect system gone missing?[/quote]

All older messages cleared, and one new message from 5.8. which I have not been notified of.
I thought the forwarding issue had been solved?

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Member

Thomas T. Frost — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 09:24:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Thomas T. Frost
Post title: Member

[quote]Tanja K wrote:

Yes, I opened a support ticket a week ago - no reply. That's why I asked here. [/quote]

Maybe a Connect user who is a Proz member could open a ticket. They prioritise member tickets. I've never used Connect and have always copied any Connect messages from outsourcers that I wanted to keep to Outlook, as I didn't want contractual emails scattered all over the place in other people's systems.

'Contact me' link doesn't work | support ticket

Tanja K — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 09:02:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Tanja K
Post title: support ticket

[quote]Thomas T. Frost wrote:

Nothing here either. But we don't know if the messages have actually been cleared or if it's just the interface that isn't working. Has anyone opened a support ticket?

[/quote]

Yes, I opened a support ticket a week ago - no reply. That's why I asked here.

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Connect wiped

Thomas T. Frost — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 08:58:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Thomas T. Frost
Post title: Connect wiped

Nothing here either. But we don't know if the messages have actually been cleared or if it's just the interface that isn't working. Has anyone opened a support ticket?

'Contact me' link doesn't work | thanks

Tanja K — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 08:52:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Tanja K
Post title: thanks

[quote]ibz wrote:

I just checked and all is cleaned up (where there were messages before!). [/quote]

Would have been nice to have received a heads-up to be able to save them, though. thx :)

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Yes, all cleaned up...

ibz — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 08:43:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: ibz
Post title: Yes, all cleaned up...

[quote]Tanja K wrote:

[quote]ibz wrote:
I just saw that I was not notified of two messages sent to me via the connect message center. [/quote]

I’ve also received a new message the beginning of August of which I’ve not been notified.

Also last week, all messages I’ve received via the Connect message center over the past few years (14 pages with 135 mails) have disappeared. The site now reads “You have not received any messages via the Project Connect system.”

Have anyone else’s client emails in the Connect system gone missing?

[Edited at 2024-08-14 08:39 GMT] [/quote]

Yes, same here. I just checked and all is cleaned up (where there were messages before!).

[Edited at 2024-08-14 09:13 GMT]

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Same here

Tanja K — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 08:36:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Tanja K
Post title: Same here

[quote]ibz wrote:
I just saw that I was not notified of two messages sent to me via the connect message center. [/quote]

I’ve also received a new message the beginning of August of which I’ve not been notified.

Also last week, all messages I’ve received via the Connect message center over the past few years (14 pages with 135 mails) have disappeared. The site now reads “You have not received any messages via the Project Connect system.”

Have anyone else’s client emails in the Connect system gone missing?

[Edited at 2024-08-14 08:39 GMT]

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Connect message center still not working

ibz — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 08:37:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: ibz
Post title: Connect message center still not working

I just saw that I was not notified of two messages sent to me via the connect message center. So this feature is still not working. Any plans to change this or (even better) to shut it down?

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Makes sense

Jared Tabor — Wed, 29 May 2024 19:52:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Jared Tabor
Post title: Makes sense

[quote]Thomas T. Frost wrote:
About Connect and other message centres, what I really want is to get rid of them and simply receive messages as emails. [/quote]

Makes sense. And ideally those emails should also reach you. Got it.

'Contact me' link doesn't work | emails here too

Zea_Mays — Wed, 29 May 2024 19:49:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Zea_Mays
Post title: emails here too

[quote]Thomas T. Frost wrote:

About Connect and other message centres, what I really want is to get rid of them and simply receive messages as emails. What do others think? You also have a chat service, but does anyone use it? [/quote]
I also prefer emails, possibly with different prefixes (e.g. in the subject or 'From' field), so that you can immediately see of what category the messages are.

'Contact me' link doesn't work | ...

Zea_Mays — Wed, 29 May 2024 19:45:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Zea_Mays
Post title: ...

[quote]Thomas T. Frost wrote:

[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:

Those disclaimers don't protect from European consumer protection laws.
If you offer a service in the European Union, you have to comply with EU law. And if you are aware of a disfunction or a broken service and the like for which people are paying, you need to fix the problem within reasonable time (more years is for sure not a "reasonable time").
[/quote]

Yes, but we are not consumers in relation to Proz, so consumer law does not apply in this case. [/quote]
We can take out the "consumer" (I'll check with some guys who know the matter) - there are still laws you have to comply with regarding the services you provide.

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Thanks

Thomas T. Frost — Wed, 29 May 2024 19:44:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Thomas T. Frost
Post title: Thanks

Thanks, Jared. As I said in the ticket, I keep copies of all business emails, so I already have a copy of what I sent to that potential client, and I have already told them what happened. The trouble was that it should have been delivered in September last year but ended up on a Proz server or in a black hole, so the client has probably found another solution by now.

A colleague said she sent a reply to a profile mail of mine in December last year, but I never received it.

But if you can recover the mails that ended up in the transactions mailbox without being delivered and return them with a message to the senders, at least they will know what was never delivered.

About Connect and other message centres, what I really want is to get rid of them and simply receive messages as emails. What do others think? You also have a chat service, but does anyone use it?

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Let me see what we can do

Jared Tabor — Wed, 29 May 2024 19:28:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Jared Tabor
Post title: Let me see what we can do

[quote]Thomas T. Frost wrote:
Already in September last year, a colleague told me: 'In both cases, the Reply-To address supplied by the ProZ mailer was [email removed] .' The trouble was that replies were not sent to the sender's email address but to [email removed] . It has been fixed, but any emails sent to that address are thus lost.
[/quote]
I was unaware of this. I can't make any promises, but I believe it should be possible to retrieve those messages. I've just made note in your support request on the matter to that effect. If we can retrieve them, we'll get them to you.

On the Connect messaging side of things, I have requested that Connect messages be listed also from the ProZ.com messaging center, [url removed] , and that new Connect messages also cause that "New" icon to show up indicating new messages. It is not a solution, of course, but a quick and easy first step to starting to bring all of that together in one place.

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Not consumers

Thomas T. Frost — Wed, 29 May 2024 19:16:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Thomas T. Frost
Post title: Not consumers

[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:

Those disclaimers don't protect from European consumer protection laws.
If you offer a service in the European Union, you have to comply with EU law. And if you are aware of a disfunction or a broken service and the like for which people are paying, you need to fix the problem within reasonable time (more years is for sure not a "reasonable time").
[/quote]

Yes, but we are not consumers in relation to Proz, so consumer law does not apply in this case.

'Contact me' link doesn't work | consumer protection laws

Zea_Mays — Wed, 29 May 2024 19:08:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Zea_Mays
Post title: consumer protection laws

[quote]Thomas T. Frost wrote:

...

Proz's disclaimers exclude any liability, so the only thing users can do to recover some of the loss is to end their subscriptions, but this will in turn reduce their visibility, so they might simply be shooting themselves in the foot.[/quote]
Those disclaimers don't protect from European consumer protection laws.
If you offer a service in the European Union, you have to comply with EU law. And if you are aware of a disfunction or a broken service and the like for which people are paying, you need to fix the problem within reasonable time (more years is for sure not a "reasonable time").

[Bearbeitet am 2024-05-29 19:12 GMT]

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Transactions@proz.com

Thomas T. Frost — Wed, 29 May 2024 18:46:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Thomas T. Frost
Post title: Transactions@proz.com

In support's reply to my ticket, they also falsely claimed that [email removed] had only been used recently.

Having searched my Outlook archive, I found a reply to a potential client sent on 6 September 2023 to [email removed] . I had not noticed that using the Reply function in Outlook resulted in replying to that dummy address.

Looking at the original email headers, I can see that both the From and Reply-to address is [email removed] . I have the hard evidence that Proz's claim that this address was only used recently is false. There is no other email address in the email I can reply to, so I would have to look up their profile and send them a profile mail.

Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 09:37:06 +0000 (UTC)
From: "XXXXXXXX via ProZ.com" [email removed]
Subject: [ProZ.com mail] Request to collaborate with XXXXXXXX
Reply-To: XXXXXXXX [email removed]
To: [email removed]

Needless to say, I never heard from that client again, but I will contact them now and explain what happened. Who knows if any revenue was lost on that account and how much?

It has been fixed now, but any money lost for users will never be recovered. Proz has admitted that this should have been done better, so we can only hope that the lesson as learnt that some functions are absolutely critical and can result in financial loss for users if broken.

Proz's disclaimers exclude any liability, so the only thing users can do to recover some of the loss is to end their subscriptions, but this will in turn reduce their visibility, so they might simply be shooting themselves in the foot.

[Edited at 2024-05-29 19:04 GMT]

[Edited at 2024-05-29 19:46 GMT]

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Thanks

Thomas T. Frost — Wed, 29 May 2024 17:07:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Thomas T. Frost
Post title: Thanks

[quote]Jared Tabor wrote:

[quote]Thomas T. Frost wrote:
1. Missing notifications for Proz.com messages (not so critical as profile mail and Connect, though).
[/quote]
The on-site messaging system is sending notifications. Please let me know if that's not the case for you or if you are referring to something else (I just sent you one to test).
[/quote]

Received it, thanks. A notification was not sent the last time we tested it, so this now works again.

[quote]Jared Tabor wrote:
[quote]
2. What happened to profile mail replies sent to [email removed] ? It was the reply-to address in profile mails over an unknown period. They don't seem to have been delivered, so were they simply deleted from the server?
[/quote]

For a brief period while developers were troubleshooting, the [email removed] email was used instead of the usual [email removed] . During that time (a few hours, I believe), it would have behaved in a similar fashion; a profile message would be sent using that address, and the recipient, upon hitting Reply, would have been replying directly to the sender's email address, since bounce-handler is a "no-reply" address used for notification and email delivery. If someone, in response to a profile message email, sent a direct email to [email removed] or [email removed] , that email did not get to the sender of the profile message.

[/quote]

Already in September last year, a colleague told me: 'In both cases, the Reply-To address supplied by the ProZ mailer was [email removed] .' The trouble was that replies were not sent to the sender's email address but to [email removed] . It has been fixed, but any emails sent to that address are thus lost.

[quote]Jared Tabor wrote:
[quote]
As for the Connect system, perhaps navigation to it could be added to the general navigation. Also, there may be reasons why people use it, but does it need to have a separate email system? Couldn't messages simply be sent through the normal profile mail system? Then you wouldn't need to maintain a separate message platform. Same for the Proz.com messages. I don't see who gains from duplicating mailing functions. This is not the only example of duplicated functions on Proz, by the way, but you must all be aware of that. [/quote]

It's a bit more complicated than that, but I agree! It shouldn't be that difficult to figure out if and when someone has sent you a message through the site. [/quote]

Apart from the missing notifications and the absence of a navigation path, my gripe with Connect is that I want my business communication organised in one single mail system (in my case Outlook) so I can easily search for and find it again if needed, for example to clarify contractual terms (who promised what?). So the first thing I do when receiving something in Connect is to copy it out into Outlook and reply from there as soon as possible. This just gives me more administrative work and makes it slower to reply without providing any benefit. But strangely enough, the last few Connect messages seem to have been emailed to me in full, which is absolutely fine. I just don't see the use of having several messaging systems, but of course if you change anything, you need to be sure it doesn't break something else.

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Let's see if we can tie them up

Jared Tabor — Wed, 29 May 2024 16:49:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Jared Tabor
Post title: Let's see if we can tie them up

[quote]Thomas T. Frost wrote:
1. Missing notifications for Proz.com messages (not so critical as profile mail and Connect, though).
[/quote]
The on-site messaging system is sending notifications. Please let me know if that's not the case for you or if you are referring to something else (I just sent you one to test).

[quote]
2. What happened to profile mail replies sent to [email removed] ? It was the reply-to address in profile mails over an unknown period. They don't seem to have been delivered, so were they simply deleted from the server?
[/quote]

For a brief period while developers were troubleshooting, the [email removed] email was used instead of the usual [email removed] . During that time (a few hours, I believe), it would have behaved in a similar fashion; a profile message would be sent using that address, and the recipient, upon hitting Reply, would have been replying directly to the sender's email address, since bounce-handler is a "no-reply" address used for notification and email delivery. If someone, in response to a profile message email, sent a direct email to [email removed] or [email removed] , that email did not get to the sender of the profile message.

[quote]
As for the Connect system, perhaps navigation to it could be added to the general navigation. Also, there may be reasons why people use it, but does it need to have a separate email system? Couldn't messages simply be sent through the normal profile mail system? Then you wouldn't need to maintain a separate message platform. Same for the Proz.com messages. I don't see who gains from duplicating mailing functions. This is not the only example of duplicated functions on Proz, by the way, but you must all be aware of that. [/quote]

It's a bit more complicated than that, but I agree! It shouldn't be that difficult to figure out if and when someone has sent you a message through the site.

'Contact me' link doesn't work | A couple of loose ends

Thomas T. Frost — Wed, 29 May 2024 16:10:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Thomas T. Frost
Post title: A couple of loose ends

Thanks for your update, Jared. Much appreciated.

There are still a couple of pending issues:

1. Missing notifications for Proz.com messages (not so critical as profile mail and Connect, though).

2. What happened to profile mail replies sent to [email removed] ? It was the reply-to address in profile mails over an unknown period. They don't seem to have been delivered, so were they simply deleted from the server?

As for the Connect system, perhaps navigation to it could be added to the general navigation. Also, there may be reasons why people use it, but does it need to have a separate email system? Couldn't messages simply be sent through the normal profile mail system? Then you wouldn't need to maintain a separate message platform. Same for the Proz.com messages. I don't see who gains from duplicating mailing functions. This is not the only example of duplicated functions on Proz, by the way, but you must all be aware of that.

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Connect messaging should be working correctly as well

Jared Tabor — Wed, 29 May 2024 15:54:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Jared Tabor
Post title: Connect messaging should be working correctly as well

Hi all,

The Connect messaging system should be working correctly now as well. As for the plans with Connect moving forward, I wish it were a simple answer, pointing towards making things simpler as Thomas mentioned earlier (why have two or three directories when you can have just one?), but from what I see there are a certain number of members using Connect to source work, so the team needs to learn more about why they are opting for Connect over the newer directory to begin with.

With regards to the frustration expressed here over the whole notifications issue, or rather series of issues, I also wish I had a better answer than the following: They should not have happened to begin with. They should have been resolved in a more timely manner when they did happen. And there's no good excuse for any of that happening again. It is clear that the team as a whole can (and should) do better.

Thanks to those who have reported, tested, and put up with these issues until now.

Jared

'Contact me' link doesn't work | @ProZ team:

Zea_Mays — Fri, 24 May 2024 16:45:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Zea_Mays
Post title: @ProZ team:

Do notifications now work also for Connect? What are your plans regarding this program?
(I ask because many of us pay for a membership for features that we assume actually work).

'Contact me' link doesn't work | @ProZ moderators

ibz — Thu, 23 May 2024 13:21:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: ibz
Post title: @ProZ moderators

At the risk of making myself unpopular (again): ProZ moderators, where are you? Wouldn't it be about time to show a reaction in view of these embarrassing statements? Can it really be that nobody on the ProZ side has realised all these years that Connect (and other notifications) doesn't work?

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Reply not possible

Anne Maclennan — Thu, 23 May 2024 12:58:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Anne Maclennan
Post title: Reply not possible

Just to add to the saga. I last got a message into my inbox from the "contact" source in February this year. I replied and received a "not possible to deliver" message from the e-mail system postmaster.

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Presentation of Connect

Thomas T. Frost — Thu, 23 May 2024 11:31:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Thomas T. Frost
Post title: Presentation of Connect

The above is the Proz presentation of Connect. We notice the following:

Adobe Flash Player is no longer supported. Nobody has noticed that.

We are supposed to reply faster via the Connect platform, which is clearly a questionable claim when some users are never notified, and to read the messages, we first have to leave our usual email interface and go to this odd platform. Furthermore, the first thing I do when receiving messages in Connect is to copy them out into my normal email interface to have a trace and so I can search for them later in my email archive. This can only slow down replies. Proz gives no reason why it should be possible to reply faster than through standard email channels.

A line fails to wrap and spills out into browser eternity to the right of the screen. Nobody has noticed that.

If you click on the 'best of the web' link, you end up with a http error screen (copied in here for convenience). Nobody has noticed that.

All in all, this gives me an impression of an abandoned platform. How is this rickety page going to attract any serious outsourcers?

I think one of the problems is that Proz has kept adding one unwieldy extension after another, a bit like a toddler with a bag of Legos, and they have finally lost the overview, finding themselves unable to maintain their jungle.

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Replies to transactions@proz.com

Thomas T. Frost — Thu, 23 May 2024 10:49:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Thomas T. Frost
Post title: Replies to transactions@proz.com

It may not only be outsourcer emails to Connect that have been lost but also some of our replies to outsourcers that contacted us via the email link in our profiles.

As I mentioned over here: Why is the reply-to address for profile email [email removed] ?, I tested an email received via the profile email function after they fixed it but noticed that when I tried to reply, the reply-to address was [email removed] rather than the sender. A colleague tried to send a reply to that address, and the reply was not received. No notification was received either, so I think Proz must be sitting on a pile of emails that have never been delivered.

The implication is that while we may think we have replied to an offer from a client, our reply may have ended up in Proz’s black hole, and nobody told us.

This isn't new behaviour just introduced after the recent fix, as another colleague had first told me on 9 September 2023:

Hi Thomas. This is me again, trying via your website.

I've not had any indication you received the reply I sent to you yesterday, and the same applies to my reply to another ProZ colleague who contacted me about the same issue.

In both cases, the Reply-To address supplied by the ProZ mailer was [email removed] .

If this mail goes through, and you did not receive my message yesterday, let me know and I will resend it.

I also received a job offer through ProZ yesterday, which had the same Reply-To address. I'm waiting to see if my response gets through or not.

The problem seems to have been fixed now, but I wonder how many replies have been lost in the past because of this.

'Contact me' link doesn't work | Embarrassing for Proz

Thomas T. Frost — Thu, 23 May 2024 10:12:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Thomas T. Frost
Post title: Embarrassing for Proz

[quote]Christel Zipfel wrote:

to discover you did not even reply to interesting job offers... And then to have to explain why.

And most embarrassing the prolonged silence of ProZ regarding this definitely severe failure. [/quote]

Why would the translator be embarrassed in relation to a problem caused by Proz? It's embarrassing for Proz. Paying Connect outsourcers should be angry with Proz for making them pay for a broken feature. For us, it's very easy to explain to the outsourcer that Proz never told us about the messages. The odd thing is that some of us have apparently received them while others haven't.

'Contact me' link doesn't work | It must be embarrassing

Christel Zipfel — Thu, 23 May 2024 10:05:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Christel Zipfel
Post title: It must be embarrassing

[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:

I'm still going through the 10 pages of Connect messages that I had no idea were there. So far, I've found at least 3-4 interesting LOST opportunities.
I've just replied to another interesting proposal (paying 0.14 usd/word) from 2023, and this time the copy hasn't been sent to my inbox.
(In my answers I am explaining why I reply that late...)

[/quote]

to discover you did not even reply to interesting job offers... And then to have to explain why.

And most embarrassing the prolonged silence of ProZ regarding this definitely severe failure.

'Contact me' link doesn't work | what to be actually shattered about

Zea_Mays — Thu, 23 May 2024 09:44:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: 'Contact me' link doesn't work
Poster: Zea_Mays
Post title: what to be actually shattered about

[quote]Maciek Drobka wrote:

[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:

(...)
So far, I've found at least 3-4 interesting LOST opportunities.
I've just replied to another interesting proposal (paying 0.14 usd/word) from 2023 (...) [/quote]

I'd be shattered to discover this in my Connect inbox. I am glad I've been spared anything like it, and I sympathise with you, Zea_Mays. [/quote]

Hi Maciek, I am shattered by the way things are generally handled here at ProZ. They waste a lot of time on useless things like the - fortunately abandoned - AI KudoZ answerer, but really important things like Connect, but also the web design, are not handled with the proper care.
As said, I am not depending on the collaboration proposals I found there, but expanding the customer base is always a good thing. If there was a drought like others here report to experience, I would be more than angry about this malfunction!
Some of the Connect messages are similar to what you see on the Jobs page, others are invitations to vote for contest entries (another thing that does not work) and the like, but some are serious and interesting offers that have been sent to selected people. So your chances of finding new good clients are really good.