eBay, now more broken
What is going on with eBay? In the last three days I have struggled through time-outs, redirects, and slow page refresh. It looks like eBay have started to append a session ID to each link and category. Well, this session ID has totally messed up the system - I wonder how many times a second their servers are calculating session ID's (it must be in the millions range due to the volume of traffic). Go to the category page (if you can get it to load), more than likley you will be redirected to the same page. The most disconcerting part of this, is that the page names (found in the title declaration in the page head) is non-descriptive of what the page actually does. More than likley it will say:
Buy everything on eBay - collectibles, digital cameras, computers, clothing, and sporting goods
Or some derivative; essentially the title is just useless marketing talk, not a location tool helping the user note the page location. eBay has grown more and more useless in the last month, to a point that I don't even want to use it anymore.
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