Testing New Mobile Experience

Starting today, a new experience is rolling out for community members who enjoy Slickdeals in their mobile web browsers. While the iOS and Android apps offer the best mobile experience, it is understandable that you may prefer to browse Slickdeals in a web browser.

It might take a few days for the experience to arrive on your device. This thread will act as an FAQ and place for discussing the changes.

Let's get into the details:

What is new?

Personalized Feed: For the last 20 years, the community sorted the Frontpage by the newest, highest voted deals first. This is great for existing community members who understand how Slickdeals works, but newer members report confusion about how and why deals appear in the order they do. To help existing and new members alike, the design splits the homepage into three separate sections: For You, Frontpage, and Popular. Let's walk through each of these:
- For You: The default tab for all community members is the For You tab. For new community members, this tab contains a series of trending deals across Frontpage, Popular, and Hot deals. If you've used Slickdeals before, this tab contains a personalized set of deals based on your browsing and engagement history. The "Top Picks" section contains deals we think you will like the most. "Latest Deals" are recommended for you too, but sorted by how recently they were posted.
- Frontpage/Popular: These tabs contain Frontpage or Popular deals sorted by how recently they were posted based on Frontpage/Popular date first, just like how the Frontpage and Popular deals pages work today.

Can I change my default tab?

You can change the tab that appears by default when you load the page. In the mobile menu, click on your username and select Settings and Options > Homepage Settings > and set the "Default Tab'' setting to whichever tab you prefer. Now, whenever you go to the home page, your preferred tab will always be the first set of deals you will see. Also, if you have not set your default tab, the site will remember which tab you visited last. If you leave the site and come back, the last tab you visited will be the tab that you will see.

How do I see the new layout?

Don't worry if you can't see the new layout right away. The testing system randomly selected 50% of the community to see the new design. You can see the new design by going to this link from your mobile device and then navigating to slickdeals.net. This will let you access the test so that you can engage with the new layout.

How do I leave feedback?

There are two ways to leave feedback for this test:
- Reply to this thread! Share with your fellow community members what you like and don't like about the new experience.
- Click on the blue smiley face in the bottom right corner of the new layout. This will allow you to leave anonymous feedback about the page and should allow you to highlight individual elements so you can be specific with your feedback.

Thank you to all the community members who provided feedback that resulted in these changes and thanks to those who take the time to share feedback for the next wave of improvements.