I think plenty have noticed already, but the party finder is currently being misused far too often by people selling items, selling crafting services and raid runs. Not to mention people are using it to look for static parties, statics looking for people and FCs looking for people. It been to the point for a while now that these kinds of activities dominate the party finder screen more than actual party recruitment activities.

I'm not here to suggest these activities be regulated. I get it, I understand the convenience of using the party finder for these kinds of things and it clearly fulfills a demand of the community.

Rather, I'd like to suggest that a Social or General Finder be created that shares similar functionality to the Party Finder. It would function just like the current Party Finder: players can write short messages with short expiration times. Categories could be changed to something more relevant to the use of this new Finder(Selling Item, Crafting Item, Looking for Static/FC, Etc) and they could even retain being able to join the party of the advertiser as I understand that function is useful for a lot of the advertising activities; just restrict it to All/All and drop the item level requirement.

Separating everything out to two separate Finders would make it more convenient for both types of activities, as people looking for parties would only see relevant results and people looking for other services would only see those services.