Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Away

Re:Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares... by pentae on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @01:04AM (#27525093)

I prefer Vrbo for this - unlike Airbnb it's for whole homes only (not rooms in someones house) so thats one less filter you need to select when searching.

They also tend to be peoples vacation homes and not created-for-Airbnb investments with spartan cheap furniture and crappy pillows and you can't even find a pair of scissors in the kitchen drawer. The quality of the listings, management, cleaning seems to be much higher

And to top it off, their Search function actually treats you like an adult - you can select SORT filters so you're not forced to wade through a bunch of crap listings because Airbnb's lead UX developer hates you and doesn't value your time.

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Re:Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares... by throwdbaaway on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @06:37AM (#27526929)

While we are piling on Airbnb, I just discovered like an hour ago that browsing image gallery of houses/apartments on Facebook Group/Marketplace is actually a lot pleasant and smoother than on Airbnb. This can't be possible.

Good thing bchesky has stopped taking photographs of the listings, otherwise his skill would just be wasted on his platform.

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