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Any UK users having issues with Digikey website recently ?

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mikeselectricstuff:
I've been seeing major issues with Digikey for the last week or so - type in a search and it just sits there for 10-20 secs. Sometimes returns results, sometimes not
Anyone else seeing this in the UK?
If so, which ISP are you on ?
I use Virgin media - is anyone else on Virgin and Not seeing issues? 

Can any Internet gurus suggest anything to produce some diagnostics to figure out what's happenning?

Cerebus:
Well, Digikey advertised on here a while back for someone to head up 'agile' based development for their website. That is probably all the explanation that you need...

(For those not in the know, the motto of the 'agile generation' is "Move fast and break things". Somehow comporting yourself like a 2-year old doesn't seem like a very sound strategy for software development.)

Ed.Kloonk:
Have you tried firing up a VPN and hop around a bit to see what happens?

james_s:
I just went to look for some parts tonight and it has changed yet again. First thing I noticed is that the site is noticeably slower, and they've adopted that awful flat design that has been spreading everywhere over the past several years. The "Customer reference" box where you can enter notes on the parts has moved from right by the quantity to way over to the left where I had to look around for it. Of course you STILL have to click the &^*% "More Filters" button EVERY SINGLE TIME, absolutely infuriating behavior which I have been complaining about ever since they first changed it. I'd dump them for Mouser but the Mouser site is pretty bad too.

The best thing they could possibly do is go back to a circa-2005 utilitarian website, at the very least throw out the new revamped one and go back to what they had a month ago because cumbersome as it was with that stupid filters button at least it worked. And please, once it's working STOP SCREWING WITH IT, it's a tool that people rely on, not a trendy website for kids to play on. Modern bloated web design is just garbage, and I've been in the software industry long enough to know exactly the sort of people who came up with this hot mess.

jpanhalt:
Similar problems here.  Now you can scroll or have dropdowns for searches.  Dropdowns didn't bother me particularly.  The other changes have made it almost unusable.

1) It is really slow (Win7)
2) What really messes it up is trying to go back to a previous search selection/filter.  Say you select through hole devices, then want to go back to all or switch to SMD only.   That may work, but way too often other selections are lost and/or become unreliable or strange (not unlike Amazon).  The only cure I have found is to go all the way back to the original search and start over.

If Digikey could just go back to the January 1, 2020 version (or anything in the past 5 years)  it would be a lot better.

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