Upwork is Changing Again and What We Can Do About It

Re:Upwork is Changing Again and What We Can Do About It by mooreds on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @10:23AM (#11814537)

If you don't have your hands in the transaction, then you'll be cut out if the transaction as soon as both parties are comfortable with each other.

That may be ok, but is definitely far less sustainable, as you have to keep creating new matches (as opposed to being paid for an existing match continuing).

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Re:Upwork is Changing Again and What We Can Do About It by ccozan on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @10:46AM (#11814716)

You are right, but the same can be done over current Upwork; once I trust a freelancer, I can deal outside the Upwork range, using a normal contract.

However, the most freelancers get short jobs and many clients, as in the original article is specified, so this just simply works.

EDIT: it seems that as currently implemented, even Upwork is bumping in a search the ones with many hours/money earned. So cheating would be a bad decision, since it may drastically affect your visibility on the site

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Re:Upwork is Changing Again and What We Can Do About It by mooreds on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:13AM (#11814971)

> So cheating would be a bad decision, since it may drastically affect your visibility on the site.

And may be one of the primary reasons for this "feature". I don't blame them, they are a marketplace and should encourage transactions on their platform.

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Re:Upwork is Changing Again and What We Can Do About It by skeeper on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:38AM (#11815247)

Encouraging transactions on their platform benefits the people too, since the platform offers some degree of protection to them.

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