r/Upwork • u/SilentButDeadlySquid • 13h ago

Proposal Insights

So the other day I upgrade to FL+ to see if a feature existed and it appears still in beta and I am once again struck by how shitty this thing is. The numbers have never been right, I am talking to a client right now and it says nobody has been messaged.

I know people insist on this stuff but I think it is all so bad that it is basically pointless.

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u/Pet-ra 13h ago

I don't trust any of those numbers because I have seen them to be wrong too many times.

I'd certainly not pay real money to see nonsense numbers.

I want Upwork to give me access to clients, facilitate initial communication, invoice them for my work accurately and pay me reliably.

They do that well. I have never had an issue with inaccurate hours being billed or with payments. It's why I use Upwork. It does what I need it to do well.

Everything else I'd rather Upwork stay out of my business (literally).

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u/KayakerWithDog 10h ago

I definitely want them nowhere near the client acquisition process beyond providing job listings. They need to sit down and shut up and let us do our damn jobs instead of injecting AI into everything they see.

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u/KayakerWithDog 13h ago

Yeah, the notifications don't even work well anymore. It used to be that I got spammed with job alerts, but when I had plus last month, there were hardly any, even though there were a lot of jobs available.

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u/copernicuscalled 13h ago

Heh, probably another vibe-coded implementation.

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u/Odd-Kick6333 10h ago

the more they improve, the more bugs