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Digi-Key has changed and it is not very good
Red Squirrel:
--- Quote from: ataradov on October 10, 2020, 07:08:55 pm ---Yes, Digi-Key becomes worse day by day. You can clearly see that "effective mangers" took over the filtering in the search part. Now it is all flashy and JS-based, but totally unusable. Too bad. They had the best parametric search.
I had a custom blocking thing to have all the parameters always visible, but recent update broke that too, so I just don't care anymore. I'll probably just start using Mouser more.
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I absolutely hate this trend of the over-use of javascript. It seems every site has been doing it. It's like lot of devs decide to learn it and then they want to apply it everywhere even places that it's not needed. All it does is slow down the page. Not everyone had a dual Epyc 64 core machine for browsing the internet. You should see the latest change on Facebook, holy crap is it ever bloated. I actually had my computer hard lock up because I tried to open 3 FB tabs.
It sucks to see that this trend has hit DK too, and it also sucks to hear they are now doing the marketplace crap. Yeah, that's what I need, having to second guess if the part I'm ordering is actually real. I always saw the advantage of DK as being that I know I'm getting the real thing. I'm just a very casual hobbyist but even then, given the cost of parts is relatively cheap I rather buy the real thing and buy higher quality parts so that way if my circuit does not work I know it's probably me, and not the part. Don't need to second guess.
dr.diesel:
I agree with most of what has already been said and would like to add two specific items, each as a global option tied to the logged in user:
- Ability to completely disable the marketplace items.
- Option to have 'In Stock' checked by default.
KE5FX:
--- Quote from: dr.diesel on October 17, 2020, 03:51:37 pm ---I agree with most of what has already been said and would like to add two specific items, each as a global option tied to the logged in user:
- Ability to completely disable the marketplace items.
- Option to have 'In Stock' checked by default.
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Customers have begged for the latter option for years now, with no acknowledgement or response. I don't think it's going to happen, unfortunately.
The marketplace "option" is different. It doesn't seem to jibe with Digi-Key's reputation as a trustworthy source for customers who care more about quality and authenticity than pricing. My guess is that they will have to walk this change back to some extent. It amounts to an unforced error.
james_s:
These stupid marketplace things are everywhere now. Amazon, Newegg, even brick mortar stores, I mean for example want to find out if Walmart has something? Search for it on their website and you'll come up with a bunch of marketplace options, absolutely useless if you're going to be passing by a store and want to know what they carry IN THAT STORE. It seems like retailers just keep jumping on that bandwagon and what is the point? All of these stores acting as storefront for everyone else's products.
tooki:
--- Quote from: KE5FX on October 17, 2020, 09:36:25 pm ---
--- Quote from: dr.diesel on October 17, 2020, 03:51:37 pm ---I agree with most of what has already been said and would like to add two specific items, each as a global option tied to the logged in user:
- Ability to completely disable the marketplace items.
- Option to have 'In Stock' checked by default.
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Customers have begged for the latter option for years now, with no acknowledgement or response. I don't think it's going to happen, unfortunately.
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It’s possible that many people have wanted it, but never bothered to tell them. (I keep meaning to, for example.) It’s entirely possible that they don’t know it’s something people want.
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