I'm a student. My homepage opens to italki search every time and the algorithm is strange for the past week.

"Every time that I search for a teacher of Russian, I get this Italian man, Fabio Oliveri. He is not a native speaker, has zero Russian lessons, and is not less expensive. Maybe he is sleeping with someone at italki because there is no reason for him to be #1 every time."

I have nothing against this Fabio, he's probably a nice fellow, but show somebody different. Maybe the algorithm likes him because he is available 24 hours per day (all green dots).

I have different problems with the new design. When I hover on a teacher, the description becomes blurry (out of focus). It's an ignorant effect when a student wants to read more about a teacher. I like to open windows in a new tab to compare several teachers. Now I can't right-click. More than ¼ of the screen is empty (on a PC). That's a good place for information.

The biggest problem is the search algorithm. Every time that I search for a teacher of Russian, I get this Italian man, Fabio Oliveri. He is not a native speaker, has zero Russian lessons, and is not less expensive. Maybe he is sleeping with someone at italki because there is no reason for him to be #1 every time.