That's funny. I didn't know there was a new Flippa. Maybe I got in after they launched the new Flippa, and it had already started sucking?
The problem with Flippa, Sedo, GD Auctions, and many other market places is the lack of quality control. Any truly good domain gets buried in mountains of shit. As a buyer you'd have to devote hours to sifting through crappy domain names in hopes of finding a decent one.
On the other hand, the problem you'll find at marketplaces with quality control is the insane amount of time it takes for someone to say yay or nay.
Flippa does have its own unique set of functional problems that I've brought to their attention multiple times. Like for example when you reg a new domain and go to list it there and you can't because the previous owner had it listed there, and in the year 2015 "Flippa logic" isn't capable of querying a whois database and recognizing that not only has the email address of the registrant changed, but the new address happens to match mine, which would, not wanting to jump to factually-based conclusions, suggest that I'm the owner of this domain name now because my email address happens to be the same as the one in the whois database, which in itself might prove that I'm the owner of the domain name...and might be be cause for allowing me to list it there.
And then when I contact Flippa and ask them to remove the listing so I can list the domain name I now own and pay them $9 for an auction listing, I don't hear back from them. To date Flippa has lost $27 in revenue ($9 x 3) because I couldn't list domains I had purchased there, since they were already listed. They'll send me emails making me confirm that I'm the owner, and after I've confirmed that I'm the owner, and have met the criteria Flippa has set to prove my ownership, they'll deny me.
Some people like to refer to this as "the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing". I see it as "Flippa's left hand punching Flippa in the nose repeatedly", and no matter how often I mention it to Flippa, or how derogatory I make it, Flippa still fails to do anything about it. I almost wonder if Flippa isn't run by some branch of the US government.
Do you hear that Flippa? I've compared your website to that of one run by the US Government. Are you going to do anything about it?
Probably not. However, if you should decide to, here's a bit of code that may help you rectify the problem I referenced above.
if ($theemailaddressinthewhosisdatabaserecord==$greggbsemailaddress)
{
notethatgreggbistheownerofthedomain (1);
allowgreggbtolistthedomainatFlippa (1);
letgreggbpayFlippa9USD (9);
}
My rant about Flippa aside, I now have to question the OP. Where did you come up with the premises for this question?
1) When was the new Flippa launached?
2) When did people stop listing at Flippa?
3) What was the reduction in people who once used Flippa, but no longer do?
Also, when did "casting a vote" equate to answering an essay question? You do realize that you asked an essay question, don't you?
All the same, this my vote. I eagerly await to see who wins (the vote).
Happy domaining!
