New Feature in Beta Testing - Deal Display

Greetings everybody!

Over the past few months we've been developing a new design for the way deals are displayed in the Hot Deals forums. We've publicly released it to http://beta.slickdeals.net/ for your feedback. If you start using this URL, you'll have access to all the new features we're trying as well as all the live data.

For example, you can see what this thread looks like on Beta at http://beta.slickdeals.net/f/5496...al-Display

Some improvements include:

• New Cleaner Design
• New Voting Style
• New "I Bought This" and "Report as Expired" Buttons
• New Attachments/Image Viewer
• New Community Details - Allows community to add pricing, category, coupon, tag details
• Related Deals - See related deals based on what other people have browsed!
• Permadeal is now deprecated (and now points to the new Deal Display).

This new design not only consolidates some pages, cleans up the design, and makes it easier to digest the content, but opens up room for other exciting features that will be coming soon such as Price History and Price Tracking tools!

We would greatly appreciate it if you could try it out and let us know what your thoughts are!

*Edit: We're currently rolling this out, so you may experience some bugs in the beginning as the features get added incrementally.

I really don't like the Community Details and I really hate the Related Deals.

I don't like the picture at the side, I prefer it right in the post.

Don't like the background color in the OP.

All in all, I really don't like it. It looks cluttered and crowded.

Quote from gt6mk31 : I really don't like the Community Details and I really hate the Related Deals. I don't like the picture at the side, I prefer it right in the post. Don't like the background color in the OP. All in all, I really don't like it. It looks cluttered and crowded.

Its funny that you don't like the background color in the OP since its pretty much the same as the background color in all the other replies?

We believe pictures on the side make more sense, especially when people attach lots of images which clutters up the page significantly.

The community deal details are important because if the community helps categorize things properly, it will improve search results, and if people use it correctly, will eventually allow us to include more specific searches, such as filtering or sorting by price, store, brand, etc.

What do you "really hate" about the related deals?

OMG.. Plz don't change the look of OP post or change the entire look of the thread like new OP post.

Quote from bijju : OMG.. Plz don't change the look of OP post or change the entire look of the thread like new OP post.

Put the Thread Author on top not below.

Quote from bijju : Put the Thread Author on top not below.

Do you think that when viewing a deal, people would rather see the thread author first, and then the deal content?

Our research shows the opposite!

Turns out this announcement may have been a little premature. The beta rollout isnt complete yet, so not all the features have been made public.

I moved this thread to Site Issues and Suggestions until the rollout is complete!

Nice changes. It'll take some getting used to, but I like the new format. I like having the deal first.

Likes

Deal first, Author on bottom.
Related deals

Dislikes

Report expired button close to 'I bought this' button
Images on the side (The images are often the crucial part, and should stay in the meat of the post)

Quote from bryantq : Its funny that you don't like the background color in the OP since its pretty much the same as the background color in all the other replies? We believe pictures on the side make more sense, especially when people attach lots of images which clutters up the page significantly. The community deal details are important because if the community helps categorize things properly, it will improve search results, and if people use it correctly, will eventually allow us to include more specific searches, such as filtering or sorting by price, store, brand, etc. What do you "really hate" about the related deals?

I don't know why, I don't like the color, I just don't. It's just kind of glaring. Part of it may be that there are just too many colors on the page. A two tone peach OP with blue buttons, black stripe on Related Deals, all black Community Deal Details, it's just too much.

Related Deals: Looking at one post -- the Snugabunny Cradle Swing at Target. It shows a related deal of snow boots for a toddler or youth. How are toddler snow boots related to a cradle for an infant?

I also don't like "See More _____ Deals" buttons in the OP. It's just not really relevant. I clicked "See More Children's Deals" in the same thread. It brought up an athletic cup, a tv, Lowes coupon, mens shoes and a bunch of other stuff that is definitely not baby.

I prefer the pictures right in the post but I can see the advantage when people quote a post and don't delete the picture before posting the reply. I get tired of the same pics over and over too.

Quote from gt6mk31 : I don't know why, I don't like the color, I just don't. It's just kind of glaring. Part of it may be that there are just too many colors on the page. A two tone peach OP with blue buttons, black stripe on Related Deals, all black Community Deal Details, it's just too much. Related Deals: Looking at one post -- the Snugabunny Cradle Swing at Target. It shows a related deal of snow boots for a toddler or youth. How are toddler snow boots related to a cradle for an infant? I also don't like "See More _____ Deals" buttons in the OP. It's just not really relevant. I clicked "See More Children's Deals" in the same thread. It brought up an athletic cup, a tv, Lowes coupon, mens shoes and a bunch of other stuff that is definitely not baby. I prefer the pictures right in the post but I can see the advantage when people quote a post and don't delete the picture before posting the reply. I get tired of the same pics over and over too.

The related deals section wont be completely "related" until it learns some new data - what it does is it grabs anonymous browsing data to see what other people looked at.

Similar to Amazon's "People who looked at this deal, also looked at..."

The "See More ___ deals" button isnt working yet either until we finish rolling out some more features. It'll be a bit more until its completely out. I jumped the gun on the announcement!

stop all the extra ads above the Wiki please

Quote from PezzyPeep : stop all the extra ads above the Wiki please

They're not ads.

Quote from bryantq : They're not ads.

it's showing me stuff others had bought or looked with prices. It's in the way. looks bad.