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A new Slickdeals homepage launched today
January 13, 2022 at
09:52 AM
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Today marks a milestone on a multi month project to improve the ways Slickdeals benefits your shopping and saving. Starting last summer, many community members new and old came together to provide feedback on opportunities to improve the Slickdeals homepage.
This past November, community members tested various design options. Community members shared over 9,000 feedback submissions. Today, Slickdeals deployed the first in a series of updates that will result in an evolution of the Slickdeals homepage.
Starting today, the homepage consists of three collections of deals, Frontpage deals (the best of the best), Popular deals (the rising stars), and For You (a personalized set of deals that reflect the categories that you care about most).
In the coming months you will see many more features layered onto this foundation including view mode options like dark mode and list mode. You will see options to filter and sort the deals. When the full feature set deploys by this summer, the community should find more savings, more often, more easily.
No doubt change is frustrating. It is even more frustrating when the change hits every few weeks. Why not just depoy when all the aforementioned features are ready? Because then the team might fall too far afield of a better community experience. In the coming weeks the team will continue to make tweaks and adjustments to the plan and the priorities based on your vocal feedback. Thank you for the 9,000 pieces of feedback already submitted and the 9,000 to come.
In the short run, four groups of community members will not join the transition journey:
This past November, community members tested various design options. Community members shared over 9,000 feedback submissions. Today, Slickdeals deployed the first in a series of updates that will result in an evolution of the Slickdeals homepage.
Starting today, the homepage consists of three collections of deals, Frontpage deals (the best of the best), Popular deals (the rising stars), and For You (a personalized set of deals that reflect the categories that you care about most).
In the coming months you will see many more features layered onto this foundation including view mode options like dark mode and list mode. You will see options to filter and sort the deals. When the full feature set deploys by this summer, the community should find more savings, more often, more easily.
No doubt change is frustrating. It is even more frustrating when the change hits every few weeks. Why not just depoy when all the aforementioned features are ready? Because then the team might fall too far afield of a better community experience. In the coming weeks the team will continue to make tweaks and adjustments to the plan and the priorities based on your vocal feedback. Thank you for the 9,000 pieces of feedback already submitted and the 9,000 to come.
In the short run, four groups of community members will not join the transition journey:
- Community members using the Classic version of Slickdeals.
- Community members with the Slickdeals Extension installed.
- Community members using simple or list view before the test started.
- Community members with a "dislike" category preference set prior to November.
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For what it's worth, I had switched to the "Classic" view earlier today, and just switched back to "Redesign", and the frontpage looks like the older version without tabs, so I won't be able to test persistence of the tab selection for now.
For what it's worth, I had switched to the "Classic" view earlier today, and just switched back to "Redesign", and the frontpage looks like the older version without tabs, so I won't be able to test persistence of the tab selection for now.
Been a member since 2003 but I don't even look at SD now.
The Community Design Team is currently working on this feature. Expect an announcement in the next couple weeks!
Awful
Atrocious
Why would anyone approve of this is beyond me. You had a great site as is, but went ahead and had to ruin it.. So disappointing.
I really hope you give the option to go back to the much better version that this trash
The Community Design Team is currently working on this feature. Expect an announcement in the next couple weeks!
Also, if it hasn't been noted already, in simple view the NEW tags don't disappear after I've visited the page. That just makes it even more confusing.
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Guess I won't be on SD much any more. Good thing there's Reddit.
Coming back 4 hours later and it's back to normal. Hope this was just a blip.
Guess I won't be on SD much any more. Good thing there's Reddit.
if you are using a VPN or some script blockers turn them off try again
i had this problem a while back