YES – thank you – we have heard you.
The feedback regarding FoodHub’s ‘My Products’ tab has been consistent across numerous types of FoodHub users. You want us to make it easier and faster to add products you buy or products you sell. Some of you want to be able to say I buy “potatoes” and leave it at that without having to detail the specific variety of potato you buy. Others want to be able to click through a whole sheet of products without having to detail information for each product they buy/sell one by one.
For what it’s worth, we debated and fretted and wrung our hands over this one for months pre launch.
One of the many things that sets FoodHub apart is its extensive taxonomy, built in partnership with you. Thus, we need to make sure that in making it easier and faster for you to indicate your desire for potatoes, we still allow the potato producer who is really proud of his/her Pontiac Red Potatoes to indicate they grow this specific variety.
We’re working now on a solution that let’s us have the best of both worlds. It will probably be March/April 2010 before the new system goes live. We have to build it, then test it, revise it based on user feedback and then incorporate it in such a way that those of you who have already added products don’t lose your data.
We’re on it.
If you’d like to help us test the new system or have thoughts or concerns on this one, please don’t hesitate to be in touch or to post a comment below.