That said, I've been lucky a few times, getting some good jobs, even without ever using the RSS feed. I think this would make it feel more transparent to me. By that I mean a place to click and see exactly how many jobs have appeared in your pair over the last X time period (day? week? maybe just the most recent 10 or 20 jobs) and what level (Standard, Pro) and how many words they were and the time they appeared and the time they were claimed. I wish there was a way to examine recent job history. It seems silly that each translator has to add an extra process (RSS stuff) just to level the playing field. While I love Gengo in most respects, I wish the job-getting or job-allocating process was a little more transparent. (It happened once, and support eventually solved the problem, but looks like it's back again, or else there really are few jobs, and they are all being grabbed in less than 5 minutes.) I'm perplexed as to why my job e-mail notification seems to have stopped again. I've gotten two whole jobs so far this year, and saw two e-mails about jobs I didn't get a week or so ago. I guess I won't know for sure if it's working until a job actually pops up, and that may be a while. Note-I've been translating for Gengo for almost a year, and haven't used an RSS reader, but lately it seems either jobs are going so fast that they're snapped up before an e-mail goes out, or else I'm not getting job notification e-mails again (I stopped getting e-mail notifications last year for a while, and had to have support fix that, but it took several tries before they understood what the problem was, and a while longer to fix it, and I don't want to go through that struggle again). (I would use it only for the available job feed.) ![]() ![]() Trouble is, jobs come up so rarely, it's hard to tell if the reader is working-I have no idea what to expect!Īny information about the Simple RSS Reader would be great, or even suggestions on what reader works best with (the latest) Firefox. I'm worried that I might be doing something (too frequently accessing the available jobs) contrary to Gengo's policies. But looking at the little info bar the add-on installed near the top of my page, it looks like it's refreshing every five seconds! Under preferences / general, I set it to "change message" every 60 seconds (that's the only place I can find that has any time/frequency setting at all). I use Firefox and just installed Simple RSS Reader. I know there are already a few threads on this topic, but some are pretty old, and tech stuff changes quickly, so I thought I'd bring up this subject again because I have some questions.
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