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The redesign sucks. Turn it back

390 158 April 11, 2025 at 06:09 AM in Other
I find myself less engaged on the app which is bad for Slickdeals. Turn it back.
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MattyLite | Staff
04-22-2025 at 05:38 PM.
04-22-2025 at 05:38 PM.
Quote from ironman69 :
I did not even know this forum existed. I went looking to find any forum where I could post how bad the new app is. Never complained about anything SD tech related in 20 years that I can recall. Please switch it back or design something better. This is NOT an improvement.
I'm glad you found the forum despite the circumstances. Anything specific you don't like?
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04-22-2025 at 05:39 PM.
04-22-2025 at 05:39 PM.
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Here's a perfect example. How do I respond to you? I can't click reply if I'm looking at the main thread. Others:I have to click to view all comments. That wasn't necessary before. It loads slowI get errors loading oftenIt is very hard to distinguish between new and old deals
We did fix the reply on main thread - thank you. Working on the other stuff. Thanks again for the feedback.
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04-22-2025 at 05:41 PM.
04-22-2025 at 05:41 PM.
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We did fix the reply on main thread - thank you. Working on the other stuff. Thanks again for the feedback.
I appreciate that, but could you just release the old app? Or tell us what's in it for us? Because I'm not seeing anything valuable for me, and if people are using the app less, then there isn't anything in it for Slickdeals, either.
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04-22-2025 at 05:56 PM.
04-22-2025 at 05:56 PM.
Quote from vnayan :
I appreciate that, but could you just release the old app? Or tell us what's in it for us? Because I'm not seeing anything valuable for me, and if people are using the app less, then there isn't anything in it for Slickdeals, either.
We can't go back for a variety of reasons, so going forward is the only way. Again, appreciate your feedback in shaping the new app - no doubt we had some misses. I hope what is in it for you is the deals and community - that is the part of Slickdeals that no UI can create. I understand that we have made participating in it harder for you now, but we are committed to improving it.
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04-23-2025 at 03:31 AM.
04-23-2025 at 03:31 AM.
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We can't go back for a variety of reasons, so going forward is the only way. Again, appreciate your feedback in shaping the new app - no doubt we had some misses. I hope what is in it for you is the deals and community - that is the part of Slickdeals that no UI can create. I understand that we have made participating in it harder for you now, but we are committed to improving it.
I appreciate the sentiment. I'm going to be very direct. The person or people who made the "go" call for this app should not be employed at Slickdeals any longer. The sooner you make that move the faster you all can move on from this mess and start fixing it. You can look at the Sonos app debacle as a case study for what you should and shouldn't do. I realize you all aren't a public company, so the scrutiny is different, but if I were an investors in your company I would expect accountability immediately because this will affect your long term growth in its current state. I've stopped using the app and will only use the webpage, which means I'll be less likely to go through affiliate links. Based on your App Store reviews, I'm not the only one. I am hoping you recover from this quickly.
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ironman69
04-23-2025 at 06:00 AM.
04-23-2025 at 06:00 AM.
Quote from vnayan :
I appreciate the sentiment. I'm going to be very direct. The person or people who made the "go" call for this app should not be employed at Slickdeals any longer. The sooner you make that move the faster you all can move on from this mess and start fixing it. You can look at the Sonos app debacle as a case study for what you should and shouldn't do. I realize you all aren't a public company, so the scrutiny is different, but if I were an investors in your company I would expect accountability immediately because this will affect your long term growth in its current state. I've stopped using the app and will only use the webpage, which means I'll be less likely to go through affiliate links. Based on your App Store reviews, I'm not the only one. I am hoping you recover from this quickly.
I have to agree. Part of my job is overseeing a team of developers and graphic designers, and I would NEVER have allowed this to go live. Visually, it is a complete cluttered mess. On a mobile device, the thumbnails of the products just add visual clutter. Light mode literally shorts out your brain to look at and generates an, honest to god, queasy feeling (not even sure how you pulled that off), dark mode isn't much better. The font and design is impossible to read. Normal thumb scrolling causes the ads to pop up, when scanning the page, I have no idea what I am looking it. Clicking into the deal is visually so distracting that I close it out. Lags, crashes, I don't say this lightly, but the old design was vastly superior. I know your team put a lot of work into this, and I respect that but sometimes we miss the mark and only make it worse by pretending that we didn't. Pay attention to the feedback and your App Store reviews. We are not grousing just to grouse. We love this site and use it a lot and want it to be successful. Pull this back until it is ready for primetime. I will only use the web interface until this is cleaned up.
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04-23-2025 at 08:59 AM.
04-23-2025 at 08:59 AM.
Quote from ironman69 :
I have to agree. Part of my job is overseeing a team of developers and graphic designers, and I would NEVER have allowed this to go live. Visually, it is a complete cluttered mess. On a mobile device, the thumbnails of the products just add visual clutter. Light mode literally shorts out your brain to look at and generates an, honest to god, queasy feeling (not even sure how you pulled that off), dark mode isn't much better. The font and design is impossible to read. Normal thumb scrolling causes the ads to pop up, when scanning the page, I have no idea what I am looking it. Clicking into the deal is visually so distracting that I close it out. Lags, crashes, I don't say this lightly, but the old design was vastly superior. I know your team put a lot of work into this, and I respect that but sometimes we miss the mark and only make it worse by pretending that we didn't. Pay attention to the feedback and your App Store reviews. We are not grousing just to grouse. We love this site and use it a lot and want it to be successful. Pull this back until it is ready for primetime. I will only use the web interface until this is cleaned up.
Appreciate the detailed feedback. Hopefully my earlier comments indicate that we are not looking to bury our head in the sand or pretend there are not improvements to make. We are actively making improvements based on the feedback in these threads. Looking forward to getting them out to you soon. Thanks again.
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04-24-2025 at 08:01 AM.
04-24-2025 at 08:01 AM.
Quote from SlyderDeals :
I'm curious. What exactly do you dislike about the redesign and how does it cause you to be less engaged? It'll help our designers know what's good or bad about the new design. Thanks!
I mean just everything is bad about the new design. I think it can't be fixed because design philosophy itself is wrong. Just reverting back to old design will solve all the problems.
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04-24-2025 at 08:03 AM.
04-24-2025 at 08:03 AM.
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Appreciate the detailed feedback. Hopefully my earlier comments indicate that we are not looking to bury our head in the sand or pretend there are not improvements to make. We are actively making improvements based on the feedback in these threads. Looking forward to getting them out to you soon. Thanks again.
I don't think this app design can be improved at all because it's wrong from the root. Switching to the old design is the only way or invest redesigning it fully with new design engineers.
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04-24-2025 at 03:38 PM.
04-24-2025 at 03:38 PM.
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Appreciate the detailed feedback. Hopefully my earlier comments indicate that we are not looking to bury our head in the sand or pretend there are not improvements to make. We are actively making improvements based on the feedback in these threads. Looking forward to getting them out to you soon. Thanks again.
How long did y'all actually test this? And at what point did we get to " yeah this is it " . I'm just curious how many people said yeah I like this better than the old app ?
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KNlCKS
04-26-2025 at 01:36 AM.
04-26-2025 at 01:36 AM.
not gonna lie this new UI cured my almost 20 year addiction to sd, haven't bought a thing since the update and have actual no interest in browsing. one of the most successful cold turkey cut off i've experienced it's actually impressive
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04-26-2025 at 06:18 AM.
04-26-2025 at 06:18 AM.
Quote from KNlCKS :
not gonna lie this new UI cured my almost 20 year addiction to sd, haven't bought a thing since the update and have actual no interest in browsing. one of the most successful cold turkey cut off i've experienced it's actually impressive
Same for me. The ads were annoying enough and then they added the suggested deals that you're stuck seeing day after day after day…. This new layout just proved they couldn't care less what their users want.Finding out though the best way to save money is to not spend it at all 🙂
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04-26-2025 at 06:37 AM.
04-26-2025 at 06:37 AM.
I agree. I prefer classic
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04-27-2025 at 05:24 PM.
04-27-2025 at 05:24 PM.
Quote from ScottoDono :
I agree. I prefer classic
They don't care apparently the app store reviews all 1 star reviews don't mean anything lol. I hope it hits the revenue enough that they actually listen to what everyone says. ( revert back ) this isn't it at all .
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DylanD2492
04-30-2025 at 11:37 AM.
04-30-2025 at 11:37 AM.
I'm a little confused why comments with dozens of downvotes are being bubbled up as some kind of featured comment. Do thumbs down votes count as engagement for a comment now?
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