New Feature in Beta Testing - Deal Display

Quote from wizard7926 : 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.

Hey thanks for the link! If SD made a post at the top of the forums (like they did this one) and said "hey peoples who made SD what it is and if it wasn't for you we wouldn't exist", we are thinking of changing things up. Here are our thoughts, what do you think?
Further if you were all to abandon us (like myspace) we wouldn't exist and we want you to be happy, so please share your thoughts and ideas with us, after all this is your community too. Then perhaps we would all know that changes were coming, instead of having to dig through the forums to guess that they might be making changes.
That's just my thoughts, but we aren't here for that. We are here to interject our most meaningful, carefully construed thoughts. Signed #34

Quote from bunnies46 : Hey thanks for the link! If SD made a post at the top of the forums (like they did this one) and said "hey peoples who made SD what it is and if it wasn't for you we wouldn't exist", we are thinking of changing things up. Here are our thoughts, what do you think? Further if you were all to abandon us (like myspace) we wouldn't exist and we want you to be happy, so please share your thoughts and ideas with us, after all this is your community too. Then perhaps we would all know that changes were coming, instead of having to dig through the forums to guess that they might be making changes. That's just my thoughts, but we aren't here for that. We are here to interject our most meaningful, carefully construed thoughts. Signed #34

I agree. It could occupy that space that sometimes occupies the top of the page announcing a contest, etc. Visible but not intrusive.

Also, good suggestion up there about the related deals being at the bottom of the page. It makes perfect sense.

Quote from wizard7926 : Post #34 and yours.

Okay, well I guess my post was misinterpreted, as I did not "claims they don't solicit any advice from users" (and I didn't interpret bunnies46's post that way, but I'll let her respond). To be clear, I just asked about the post vs. author on top issue...

Quote from wizard7926 : They certainly didn't explicitly solicit advice on the OP location that I can find,

Exaaactly.

Quote from wizard7926 : but I'd have to imagine they've done some sort of focus group or something to back that claim up.

Right, and I was asking what the "something" was, and how it was evaluated.

Quote from wizard7926 : Just reminding that they are open to suggestions at any time and are usually good at responding in that forum.

Thanks, I read that forum regularly and post fairly often there as well.

Quote from bunnies46 : Hey thanks for the link! If SD made a post at the top of the forums (like they did this one) and said "hey peoples who made SD what it is and if it wasn't for you we wouldn't exist", we are thinking of changing things up. Here are our thoughts, what do you think? Further if you were all to abandon us (like myspace) we wouldn't exist and we want you to be happy, so please share your thoughts and ideas with us, after all this is your community too. Then perhaps we would all know that changes were coming, instead of having to dig through the forums to guess that they might be making changes. That's just my thoughts, but we aren't here for that. We are here to interject our most meaningful, carefully construed thoughts. Signed #34

I think that's kinda what this beta test and announcement thread is supposed to be, although your version is much more enticing... They should've had you design the announcement.

Not a fan, but whatever. I'll still come here, no matter how much you clutter up the space with stuff I don't need to see :-)

Sorry but I just dont like it. I do like to see the user/member that posted the deal at the top.

I dont like the facebook like right in the middle, it just seems like a desperation attempt to spread the word about slickdeals.

"I like this" and "I dont like this" just seems like a facebook rip off, time to be unique. How about different variations of the thumbs up....

1 TU = Great deal
1/2 TU = Good deal
-1/2 TD = Not so good deal
-1 TD= Terrible deal

Also if someone clicked a TU then how about that get added to the OP's rep's? It's easier to click on the TU then actually type something in a box and give rep's.

Pic's on the side I can deal with and will be nice so when I'm at work I wont have to scroll down to see the pic since I can only have a little open so the boss wont get upset.

"I bought this" seem's to barely get used. Maybe change that to an Auto Rep feature?

Love the "Report Expired" but how about a "Report Repost" button?

My final comment is that to not forget SlickDeals.net is a member sponsored site just like the NFL/MLB the fans are the ones creating your profit. If people dont like it they wont contribute and they wont spread the word.

Feels Slow... Could you make the changes to be more responsive . Look wise the beta is very Good.. but Look makes it slow compare to the current one..

I have to agree with so many others that said OP location at the bottom is NOT good.

Just look at post like this
http://beta.slickdeals.net/f/5491...ay-be-YMMV

I usually look at who made the post to see if it is potential spammer (like posted by someone with new account or someone that we know post almost EVERYTHING and doesn't care if the deal is good) or posted by someone that usually post good quality hot deal.

When you have a LONG post like the link above, you have to page down a lot before you can get to the OP information.
The OP information should be right near the top (or top left) since it can indicate the quality of the deal based on who made the post.

I don't particularly like the new look. Everything looks cluttered.

I think it looks good. Nice work on the new look.

Quote from bryantq : We're going to make the related deals only show up for Hot Deals for now until we get it working properly in the other forums. It will rep them, but more importantly if a post gets enough positive reviews, it'll get added to a "Most Helpful Posts" summary under the Wiki. If a post gets enough negative reviews, it will automatically collapse the post and flag it for moderator attention.

FatWallet has this kind of individual posts thumb up/down thing and I don't like it over in FW and don't think it is needed here. People have their own opinion about the deal. Over in FW, for people that really like the deal, they just pretty much thumb down ALL the posts that don't like that deal even though those posts make sense. And thumb up all the posts that promote the deal even though there is really no good "helpful" information in the post. It is nothing to do with helpfulness but more like politic.
In addition, most people usually ONLY thumb up or down the deals since they can see how many thumb up/down the deal has easily from the forum level. Since all SDers (including Mod) will look at the forum, if any thread seems to be manipulate by some one with too much questionable thumb ups, someone else will go into the thread and balance it out. While inside the thread, there are a lot less people (or some threads probably NO Mod) go into each thread for stuff they are not interested in. So it is very easy to manipulate the individual post "helpfulness". People over in FW just start making multiple accounts to mark their own posts. It is much harder for the thread itself to be manipulated since how many thumbs up/down is show on the forum and if there are too many thumbs up on bad deal, people will go into the thread to "correct" that. But it is a lot easier to manipulate individual post inside the thread since people won't notice it.
The post should only be hidden by Mod and huge majority of people marking this not helpful. Again, the majority must be huge (may be over 30 more people mark one way over the others?). And if there is enough people find the post helpful, probably still shouldn't be hidden. We don't want this to be easily manipulated. Same the other way.

This is what I see on the Beta site using Chrome, i'm guessing this is all part of the kinks that need to be worked out?

Meh.

Cleaner = better. This isn't particularly and a lot of it seems like moving things around just to move them around.

Rather have the images in-line with the post.

Rather have all of the controls and operations at the top so that the remainder is content.

Some of the controls/buttons take up more space than necessary. You could make it look cleaner by making them smaller. For example, the did you find this post helpful control takes a full line of space. It could be a simple small icon somewhere else.

As others have said, the community/related deals stuff seems kind of disjointed and breaks the flow. If I'm in a thread, I'm there to read that thread not others. Fine if it adds some value in that context but I think that's usually probably not going to be the case. Most threads stand alone pretty well and where other info is useful it almost always gets pulled in. If it's done using a search, then it's going to be pulling in a bunch of stuff that may appear relevant but isn't really. If you have to have it, then maybe make it expanded/collapsed as a setting option.

I don't really like how the first post looks different than the rest. Just kind of odd. Don't see that moving the author, etc., has any particular benefit versus just leaving the top post to look like all of the rest.

IMO you should try to make this site feel more something like reddit, not Amazon or Facebook.
This is a social content sharing site, not a shopping network. And, more of "news" sharing than a personal feed.

The "Did you find this post helpful?" is a great idea. Letting the masses auto-moderate themselves is a great idea, but I think something like reddit's voting system would be more helpful.

I agree with the "Community/Related Deals" colors being obtrusive. The dark color is very eye catching, and was good to highlight what section/page you were in.
But having such an enormous section of black becomes way too obtrusive. Especially for something that is sort of a "maybe you will like to look at these". It should be a color that blends in to the page, so it's something that you might just skim over.

Also, I'm having a problem with posting using beta in Chrome. Tries to double post every time.