New Slickdeals Feature: User Preferences and Personalization for the Frontpage

It’s hard to predict what’s going to be on the Slickdeals front page on any given day. From a Crucial solid state drive this time last month to women’s socks and magazine subscriptions six months ago, Slickdeals might as well be the Magic 8 ball of websites. While we do celebrate the diversity of our community, we also recognize that we can’t ignore your individual Slickdeals needs. This is why we’re introducing the Preferences tab.

If you’ve been with us from the good ol’ 20th Century or even the early 21st, then you’ll know that our community has changed a lot in the past couple of years. Our Front Page is no longer dominated by hardcore tech products because our techies of a decade ago are now spouses, parents, hot shot executives, etc. Your needs change and we want to make sure that Slickdeals matures with you without alienating our newest members.

The “Preferences” tab next to the viewing options now allows you to tailor your Front Page deals by simply liking, disliking or remaining neutral on 20+ major categories such as Apparel, Electronics, Pets and more. If you’d like to be more specific, you can even expand on the categories and tell us how you feel about Optical Drives or Messenger Bags. After selecting your preferences, just hit save and close the tab by clicking on it again. The tab will remain on that permanent spot so that you can update your choices at any time. In addition to the categories we provided, you can also enter particular stores that you like or dislike.

We are also glad to know that you’ve discovered the News & Articles area which features four different sections. This week’s News & Articles features this Personalization Site Update, The Best Credit Card Rewards Programs, Top 5 Mostly-False Slickdeals Myths, and a Giveaway Winners Infographic. In the future, we’d love to have community members write for us so please let us know if you have any suggestions.

Thank you for your continued support of Slickdeals! We’re glad that you’re part of our community and we will continue to improve our website to cater to your needs!

Check out http://beta.slickdeals.net for all the new features. We will roll it out as soon as all bugs are squashed.

Once you're at beta.slickdeals.net, click on the Help button on the left side of the page and go through the "User Preferences" tutorial to get a guided view of whats new.

Please provide your feedback for our new personalization and preferences tools on the frontpage here in this thread.

If you've found a bug or are experiencing issues, please be sure to include your

Operating System and Operating System Version,
Browser and Browser Version,
General Computer Specs (Processor, Ram),
A description of the bug or issue
Steps to produce the issue

Gigamaster89 ( 527

) Mar. 15, 2012 at 12:06pm

Interesting, I like it so far.

However, as a long time slickdealer, I have no "preferences". If it's cheap, I'm buying it Wink

dzap ( 10,025

) Mar. 15, 2012 at 12:08pm

So, what happened to the mobile apps thing? Never gonna happen? (I see you removed the links while in the process of adding this bar).

p3n1Le1mplant ( 160

) Mar. 15, 2012 at 12:10pm

Houston we have a problem! Seeing doubles of deals.

Maleficent ( 7,711

) Mar. 15, 2012 at 12:15pm

Nice!

ppt ( 143

) Mar. 15, 2012 at 12:17pm

I like the preference feature. Nice!!

DejaVu7 ( 18

) Mar. 15, 2012 at 12:21pm

One complaint I've always had... and it’s a minor thing... is the Quick View bar when you mouse over a deal. I wish the black bar would either be semi-transparent or be at the bottom of the deal box. It just seems like that it’s always in my way while I'm browsing the front page.

Just my $.02

redsolar ( 9,063

) Mar. 15, 2012 at 12:23pm

Quote from dzap

All in due time, bar is temporary. No threadjack Stick Out Tongue

idkMyBFFist ( 142

on the "Beta" section... much better than rolling it out and having it turn into a b!tch fest nod

Comments ...

Regarding the new "Preferences" I noticed the + isn't changing to a - after a section is expanded. Not sure if this is intentional or just how the .js library rolls.
Upon a refresh I have a "New Deals Since Your Last Visit", however there are no new deals above it. Maybe a factor of the preference filtering? Or maybe it's just confused...