Faves are live!

Well that pre-announcement of our new Faves functionality didn't last too long now did it? 

For those of you who didn't read the prior post, you can now mark an item as a 'fave' (AKA a favorite) similar to how you have been able to mark different booths as your favorites and have them displayed on your profile pages. 

The purpose of our new 'Faves' functionality is to ‘bubble-up’ interesting merchandise for like-minded shoppers. A fave is a your way telling the world you think an item is awesome. Want to see for yourself? Check out a search result or a booth and let your cursor rest briefly over an item.

Not only can you fave an item right there, but you can also launch our new 'quick view' item browser. This larger item browser is now launched on-demand whereas the old item browser launched automatically. The new item browser also includes far more information, large format pictures, and the ability to browse from item to item.

You can also fave an item on the item detail page - right next to the other choices for wish lists, Facebook, and Twitter. While it's super easy to declare your faves, don't just go throwing your faves around. Faves are intended to be items that you really dig, like, or think are cool/hip/awesome/fabulous.  Your faves are stored on a page similar to our Collection design and can be found linked from your profile by your favorite booths. 

Below are some anticipated questions, but if you have more please fire away! 

Why can’t I fave my own items? We want faves to be as genuine as possible. And if too many people are simply faving their own merchandise the browsing experience will erode. And, there’s already a great way to track one’s own items – in their booth. ; )

Will faving items impact placement in search? No.  What about my fees? Nope.

Why are faves public? So they can be browsed. We want to make the site more shopper-friendly. And with 3.5 million items in inventory we need your help. This is similar to how favorite booths function now. 

What if I want to store something in private? There are a couple of options. You can still use the save for later feature (which we decided to keep). You can also create an HPL (hand picked list) and store the list as a 'draft' (which we fixed to work properly).

Fire away with other questions! 

 - Alex