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Digi-Key has changed and it is not very good
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Ysjoelfir:
I was wondering what all this is about, as it seemed to work the last time I was browsing digikey extensively (=for more than 5 minutes to look up a part I know). Now... well... take a look.  :wtf:
There are several misaligned texts, the stupid marketplace thing changed from having to select "exclude" to having to unselect "include" (  :palm:  ), and in general the UI feels slow, compared to some days ago.

I realy wonder what incompetent person they hired, after searching that: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/jobs/digi-key-search-product-owner/
ataradov:
Oh yeah, I too set custom fonts and minimum font size and the "design" looks like crap with shit overlapping.

This is what you get for not using standard controls. But DK does not care, so there is no real point in complaining.

With web we lost the battle for common sense. Now we have to deal with tons of JS blat and slow load times. And people that program all that don't even realize how slow their stuff is, since they grew up looking at slow stuff.
james_s:

--- Quote from: Ysjoelfir on October 27, 2020, 06:56:09 pm ---I was wondering what all this is about, as it seemed to work the last time I was browsing digikey extensively (=for more than 5 minutes to look up a part I know). Now... well... take a look.  :wtf:
There are several misaligned texts, the stupid marketplace thing changed from having to select "exclude" to having to unselect "include" (  :palm:  ), and in general the UI feels slow, compared to some days ago.

I realy wonder what incompetent person they hired, after searching that: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/jobs/digi-key-search-product-owner/

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"This position will lead agile teams"

Ok well that explains the constant churn and breaking stuff that was working perfectly for years.

"We have recently upgraded to Elasticsearch, React, Node, and have quite a bit of .NET C# infrastructure"

That explains the sluggish performance and generally bloated feel. If they really wanted to make the site work well, they'd throw all that out and go back to whatever they had 10 years ago because it worked just fine back then.

I bet they hired people who call themselves "full stack developers" who were taught how to build social media sites and other bloated consumer junk. Any day now I expect to see a "share what you just bought on Facebook!" link hovering on the page following me around  :palm:
E-Design:

--- Quote from: jfiresto on October 23, 2020, 05:09:58 pm ---So why are Digikey's prices now higher compared to some other stocking distributors in traditionally less competitive markets? They did not used to be. Is it really because of their credit crazed customers? I am merely curious.

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To me, Digikey has ALWAYS been higher priced.  Border lining on highway robbery if you ask me. However, they fit a really important role - buying low quantities of almost anything with fast shipping (US anyways)

So its worth it sometimes - especially in a corporate setting where saving a few dollars (or hundreds) doesnt matter as much as having those few things in your hands TOMORROW.


I also agree the website changes are for the worst - and now much more buggy.
james_s:

--- Quote from: E-Design on October 27, 2020, 07:39:05 pm ---I also agree the website changes are for the worst - and now much more buggy.

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Get used to it. One of the mantras you hear floating around in most agile shops is something along the lines of "move fast and break stuff", they advocate frequent changes and pushing everything to the bleeding edge, don't worry about bugs, we'll fix that "later" when customers start to complain about it.
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