New Feature in Beta Testing - Deal Display

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.

I agree, the photos should remain in the post. I didn't even see them over on the right until I saw this post. I had to reopen the page and look for them. Missed it completely on the new page.

I don't care for the gradient in the OP.
The facebook button is way too prominent. It should not be in the main post.
The same for the "See more Slickdeals News & Articles deals" button - it should not be in the main post.

The black box under the OP is really cluttered looking... maybe it's related to the color scheme? I'm not sure.

I like the new functionality, & how deals details will be more crowd-sourced (goodness knows the SD community is big enough to do it!}.

I agree w/ some posters, tho, that pics are an important part of a deal, & as such, should be front & center as part of the deal itself, not off to the side.

I like the OP on the top not the bottom. We peons are the ones who find the deals and bring them here. We have come to trust the authors not the content.

Please put the pictures back where they belong.

I do not like the 'was this post helpful?'

Is SD aspiring to be a mini walmart?

Once a year we have changes around here and we have a 'thread' asking us our opinions. Our opinions are always asked after the fact. How about asking us if we would like to see any changes before you actually make the changes?

Quote from bunnies46 : I like the OP on the top not the bottom. We peons are the ones who find the deals and bring them here. We have come to trust the authors not the content. Please put the pictures back where they belong. I do not like the 'was this post helpful?' Is SD expiring to be a mini walmart? Once a year we have changes around here and we have a 'thread' asking us our opinions. Our opinions are always asked after the fact. How about asking us if we would like to see any changes before you actually make the changes?

Pretty much everything she said..... ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

Dear Slickdeals -

Remember that time when MySpace wanted to add some, "Exciting new features for our user base" and then their, "User Base" bailed on them en mass?

I came across a site the other day that looked like Slickdeals and FW had a love-child and it was absolutely fantastic in it's execution and simplicity.

It had exactly zero of those features listed in the OP.

Quote from vip00 : New Cleaner Design I don't think anything was wrong with the old design, but I do like the deal before author.

I agree with this. The current design is pretty simple and clean. It makes it easy to find and read what we are here to see. The new style just has to much going on and most of it isn't helpful.

As far as Related Deals and Community Deals, we don't need it. The SD community is good at sharing deals within a deal post if the situation calls for it. Many times I seen a deal sell out and someone will post that they have found it elsewhere comparably priced or that they have found a similar item that's an equal or better alternative. If I'm looking for this info, I'm going to look to the member posts for first hand knowledge not this bar thing.

But, if you can make it an option as others have suggested, you can make everybody happy.

Quote from bryantq : 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!

I don't recall anyone asking us whether we'd rather see the post or the author first.

How did you research it? How did you come to that conclusion?

Double post glitch.


Adding something I just noticed... You need to add the reasons for thumbs down votes and the voting feedback to the new layout.

I don't like that bar at all, it just clutters up the page, feels extremely out of place, and the deals that pop up are often completely unrelated to the thread I am currently looking at

I understand if you want to advertise more products, but aren't all the different forums, homepage, new (?) deals page, and live page enough?

If you implement a functionality to have it turned off that would suffice for me since I don't like it personally, others might however.

Now, as far as the new thread design goes (besides from the bar) please please please make sure you update the background colors to fit the midnight theme you have on the site, I understand if it is not available in beta right now, but later on.

I don't have any problems with the redesign of the OP, however the facebook button should be put somewhere else, in line with other buttons (like it is now), or maybe beneath the ratings for the thread in the right column, in the new design it takes up too much space and pushes the page down even further, I am pretty sure most people don't even use it.

Aren't the Community Deal Details (currently: Tags) something that the OP, or mods, should fill out? Again, this is just more "junk" to scroll through, especially since you already made it to the thread and the info is irrelevant to you. It takes up 6 lines now compared to 1 before, + all the spacing in between.

Comparing the old vs. beta pages side by side I think you have an overall nice design if some minor adjustments are made, I personally would try to make the threads less cluttered and more user-centered in that it should be quicker to scroll down to the comments and see what people have to say. But maybe that's just something I like to do personally, I like to get info quickly without having to sift through repetitive information that is found repeated in every single thread.

I think the color issues people are reporting are due to the other skins (Ice and Midnight) being SO broken right now.

Midnight is supposed to be completely dark, yet the OP is still peach with white text (unreadable), the "Did you find this post useful?" is still light, the mini-profile for posters is still light, even the border around the body is light.. etc etc. Ice has the same inconsistencies. This is a big issue for me just in aesthetics; easy to fix, though.

Like others, I don't care for the OP info being below the deal. The point being already stated that we've come to trust deal authors, and not necessarily a new poster. In fact, the new setup makes it appear like a public service announcement rather than a "deal." I don't like it.

Leave the "Likes" to Facebook; we like our TU and TD deals just fine. I do appreciate the idea of Useful posts, a feature that has been lacking for a while. Just fix the colors.

Related deals? I don't care, personally. Community Deal Details? I think you're just asking for trouble from trolls there. Too easy to change up information there for stores that have done you wrong, products you don't like, etc etc. I think it's just not a good idea.

Otherwise, I don't mind the voting stuff and images being on the right, but you're wrecking the whole aesthetic of a deal post by setting it up the new way.

Two or three cents here from a fellow (but amateur) web developer.

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Also, to anyone who claims they don't solicit any advice from users -- try the not-so-obvious SlickDeals Site Questions, Issues, Suggestions forum. I would imagine many of the ideas implemented here came from those forums.

the new design is looking as *clear* as google plus (pun intended)

for now, I feel mixed about the design, but I'm going to use it a bit more to see what I like and don't like. One thing that I don't like anymore is that the OP is at the bottom of the post; IMO I think it looks better on top of the post. Plus the "finding this post helpful" should link to the reputation points would be great.

Quote from wizard7926 : *snip* ==== Also, to anyone who claims they don't solicit any advice from users -- try the not-so-obvious SlickDeals Site Questions, Issues, Suggestions forum. I would imagine many of the ideas implemented here came from those forums.

Which post are you responding to here? It's unclear.

Quote from calistyle : Which post are you responding to here? It's unclear.

Post #34 and yours.

They certainly didn't explicitly solicit advice on the OP location that I can find, but I'd have to imagine they've done some sort of focus group or something to back that claim up.

Just reminding that they are open to suggestions at any time and are usually good at responding in that forum.