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Classic Merging over the next 12 months
August 21, 2023 at
02:31 PM
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Last Edited by JBrillSD August 21, 2023 at 02:39 PM
The Slickdeals community team has been working hard to make Slickdeals the best it can be for over 20 years, and new updates roll out to the community almost every week.
As a part of that effort, we'll be merging the Classic version of Slickdeals with the latest version of Slickdeals over the next 12 months.
You can anticipate the following as part of that platform merger:
If you primarily use Classic, there's no need for you to take any action. Your current Slickdeals account will remain active and will change to the current, unified experience automatically.
Millions of Slickdeals members are already using the current version of the website, which has dark mode support, improved shopping intelligence, and easier ways to engage with the community.
Change can be hard. Bringing all Slickdealers together into a single experience will enable you to continue to enjoy the latest community features and enhancements.
Thank you for being a member of the Slickdeals community!
As a part of that effort, we'll be merging the Classic version of Slickdeals with the latest version of Slickdeals over the next 12 months.
You can anticipate the following as part of that platform merger:
- Access to the Classic version of Slickdeals will reduce over time. This process starts on August 22, 2023.
- You can expect a variety of improvements to the latest version of Slickdeals, often referred to within the community as "Redesign," specifically intended to make it easier for Classic users to transition to Redesign.
- The team of engineers and product folks managing the merger will conduct continuous interviews to make sure a variety of community voices and points of view are included. You can sign up for a 1:1 with a team member here [calendly.com].
- If you primarily use Classic, you will migrate over to the newest version of Slickdeals throughout the next year.
If you primarily use Classic, there's no need for you to take any action. Your current Slickdeals account will remain active and will change to the current, unified experience automatically.
Millions of Slickdeals members are already using the current version of the website, which has dark mode support, improved shopping intelligence, and easier ways to engage with the community.
Change can be hard. Bringing all Slickdealers together into a single experience will enable you to continue to enjoy the latest community features and enhancements.
Thank you for being a member of the Slickdeals community!
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Last Edited by LowRoller
September 9, 2023
at
03:12 PM
I'd ask anyone who is truly opposed to this change to schedule a time to talk with someone from SD one on one. Maybe, if we get enough folks to talk to them directly, maybe, just maybe, we can get them to give us a ... hmm... a Classic Clone using redesign. (?)
Here's the link from the OP: https://calendly.com/d/2k8-kg6-hz...th=2023-08
Here's the link from the OP: https://calendly.com/d/2k8-kg6-hz...th=2023-08
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Not happy about this. I gave my feedback years ago about preferring classic. That has not changed.
FIRE THE DESIGN TEAM.
As I said before, I can't read the front page, or the "new style" forum threads. I'm mostly blind in my right eye, slightly color-blind, and this stupid "headlight brights" theme is offensive and seems MALICIOUS.
Bring back our classic mode. Nobody asked for this, and nobody wants this.
Also, how was instantly killing the feature for everybody a "12 month phase out"? LIES.
I reported OP. I encourage the rest of you to report them as well.
I agree with those that have posted over the last few years, not a fan.
I've been a longtime user of Slickdeals...fear that may be coming to an end.
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edit: this site is cutting off the text of this post.
Here is a link to a text-share site with the user script: https://pastebin.com/8P8WFZ5z
[CODE]// ==UserScript==
// @name SlickDeals Re-color and Re-layout and Re-size
// @version 1
// @grant none
// @namespace slickdeals.net
// @include https://slickdeals.net/*
// @include https://slickdeals.net/*
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
let changeIsHardButReadingSlickdealsModernDesignIsHarder = `
/*
* FRONTPAGE MAIN-LISTING IN "SIMPLE" layout
*/
/* FIX text overflowing deal list boundaries and overlapping with sidebar that makes the frontpage unreadable */
.frontpageGrid--simple {
display: block !important;
}
/* Increase constrast of item name text */
.dealCardList__title {
font-weight: bold !important;
}
/* Make "new" items more distinctive over already-seen items */
.dealCardBadge--new ~ .dealCardList__title {
color: #283568 !important;
}
/* Make the price less distracting, more inline with the item name; increase text contrast and readability */
.dealCardList__salePrice {
font-size: .85rem !important;
font-weight: normal !important;
color: #197850 !important;
padding-left: 1.5ch !important;
}
/*
* PAGE WIDTH
*/
/* FIX unneccesarily narrow content area. We are not living with 1024x768 screens anymore, and this site has a multi-column layout. */
#pageContent {
width: 100% !important;
max-width: 1200px !important;
padding-left: 1rem !important;
}
/*
* SIDEBARS: "POPULAR DEALS" AND "TRENDING DEALS" LISTS
*/
/* Get rid of meaningless, empty, gray-colored "thumb" graphics that take up valuable content space in the small sidebars */
.bp-p-ratingThumbs_icon--remainder {
display: none !important;
}
/* Allow "thumbs" graphics to wrap to multiple lines */
.bp-p-ratingThumbs {
flex-flow: row wrap !important;
}
/* Shrink uncessarily large "thumbs" graphics */
.bp-i-thumb::before {
font-size: 1em !important;
}
/* Unpin the width of the meaningless meta-info section of the sidebar, so the descriptive text can have more space */
.bp-p-sidebarDeals_info {
flex-basis: 10ch !important;
}
/* Increase text contrast on sidebar item titles; improve readability */
.bp-p-sidebarDeals_titleLink {
color: #111a86 !important;
line-height: 1.4 !important;
font-size: 0.7rem !important;
}
/* Distracting separator in sidebar items: make less distracting */
.bp-p-sidebarDeals_deal {
border-top: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,4%) !important;
}
/* Get rid of uncessary gray "dot" graphic between rating numeral and comment counter */
.bp-p-sidebarDeals_info::before {
display: none !important;
}
/*
* SITE HEADER
*/
@media (min-width: 1024px) {
/* Re-do HEADER LAYOUT entirely */
.slickdealsHeader__mainNav {
display: flex !important;
flex-flow: row nowrap !important;
align-items: center !important;
justify-content: space-evenly !important;
padding: .8em 1em 1.5em 1em !important;
}
.slickdealsHeaderLogo {
order: -1 !important;
}
.slickdealsHeaderSearch {
order: 3 !important;
flex-basis: 20% !important;
}
/* Reduce size of "quick links" menu */
.slickdealsHeader__iconSection {
order: 100 !important;
flex-basis: 10%;
display: flex !important;
flex-flow: row wrap !important;
gap: 0.4em 0 !important;
}
.slickdealsHeader__iconSection .slickdealsHeader__navItemWrapper {
display: flex !important;
flex-flow: row nowrap !important;
align-items: center !important;
justify-content: flex-start !important;
column-gap: 0.8ch !important;
width: auto !important;
}
.slickdealsHeader__iconSection .slickdealsHeader__navItem {
height: auto !important;
width: auto !important;
}
.slickdealsHeader__iconSection .slickdealsHeader__circleIcon {
width: 2.5ch !important;
height: 2.5ch !important;
flex-shrink: 0 !important;
flex-grow: 0 !important;
align-self: auto !important;
margin: 0 !important;
padding: 0 !important;
}
}
.slickdealsHeader__iconSection .slickdealsHeader__circleIcon svg {
height: 60% !important;
width: auto !important;
}
.slickdealsHeader__iconSection .slickdealsHeader__navItemText {
width: auto !important;
}
.slickdealsHeader__badge {
position: unset !important;
transform: unset !important;
}
.slickdealsHeader__dropdownIcon {
width: auto !important;
margin-left: 0 !important;
}
/* Get rid of distracting, yellow "go mobile" button that will never be used */
.slickdealsHeader__navItemWrapper--link[data-qa-header-icon-link*="go-mobile"] {
display: none !important;
}
}
`;
// Create and add a new
I hope mine doesn't change until the last day of the 12 months. Hopefully by then, some of the concerns being voiced here will be resolved and the interest of your long time members will have been considered and added into the upgrade.
I see OP is answering some questions one on one. I would also suggest that the answers to these questions be added to the wiki of this thread, so that as others of us get what must be a very bad version of the site, we will have access at that time.
One thing I will want to know is if, under the new design, we will be able to subscribe to threads and if so, where will we find that? It has been one of the challenges I found with the redesign when it tries to load on my phone's browser (which is how I am getting around using the app, which I don't like either).
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Hate how the site looks now, and does not play nicely on portrait monitors on desktop. Shame. this site sucks to use now.
Can we vote on bringing back the old version? Who's with me?
Can we vote on bringing back the old version? Who's with me?
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