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Digi-Key has changed and it is not very good

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james_s:
I've given feedback that having to un-hide the parametric search terms every single time is obnoxious and nothing has changed yet. They need to realize that their customers are not consumers, they sell primarily to engineers and the direction they've taken their website over the past couple of years screams that they, or the company they hire to maintain their website are completely clueless.

T3sl4co1l:

--- Quote from: james_s on October 10, 2020, 11:49:15 pm ---I've given feedback that having to un-hide the parametric search terms every single time is obnoxious and nothing has changed yet. They need to realize that their customers are not consumers, they sell primarily to engineers and the direction they've taken their website over the past couple of years screams that they, or the company they hire to maintain their website are completely clueless.

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You mean the sliding/stacked selection?  That drops every so often (cookies expire), you have to change the setting then activate a query on the same page.  You can't just switch it and click back to the front page.  Not sure if that still applies to the new format...

Hmm, there are a lot of cookies, none with an obvious key like "ViewSelectionSliding = true", I'd have to play around a bit to tell which one remembers that setting.

Tim

ataradov:

--- Quote from: T3sl4co1l on October 11, 2020, 12:07:28 am ---You mean the sliding/stacked selection?

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No, the part where you have to click "More Filters" every single time. I just want to see all the available filters. Especially given that the ones that are shown first are almost never the first thing I want to filter.

For instance, I always select mount type first to eliminate significant chunk of available parts, since in many cases this is the only thing I'm sure about and have no flexibility on. So literally every single time I need to  click "More Filters".

Previously I figured out a Stylish script that would remove that button and always keep the things open. But a recent update broke it.

And all their fancy filters look horrible for me since I force a fixed fond and a minimum font size. I do care about my eyesight and don't care for fancy new age fonts.

Tony_G:

--- Quote from: KE5FX on October 10, 2020, 11:18:17 pm ---They certainly haven't improved things with the recent "Whitespace everywhere, moar whitespace, yo guys, crank up the whitespace" facelift, but I wouldn't say it's horribly broken.

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Hey John,

I believe the rules for modern web dev can be described as follows:

1. There can never be too much whitespace
2. There is no feature of HTML that can't be re-implemented by including a 73MB JS library
3. Under no circumstances should your site work correctly with the back arrow
4. Scolling must be implemented using JS that calls the slowest possible web process for data
5. Videos should always be autoplay and have their volume turn on
6. Your layout must work on the latest iPhone but doesn't need to support increasing font sizes on the desktop
7. See rule 1

It's probably controversial but I believe that if the answer is JavaScript then the question must have been bloody stupid.

TonyG

james_s:
Excessive white space is one of my biggest UI pet peeves. The trend for years has been a sprinkle of random UI elements floating aimlessly in a vast  sea of blinding white. A lot of basic functionality hidden in obscure little hamburger menus or sliding panes. I much prefer the airplane instrument panel design philosophy, all of the information laid out right in front of you, instruments and controls grouped by related functions, often cordoned off with lines, there is no digging needed, it's all right there where you can see anything you need at a glance. Then the latest crazy is "dark mode" which is just a band aid over piss poor UI design. If it wasn't barren and blinding white in the first place there would be no need for dark mode which is the opposite problem, everything dim and subdued floating in a sea of dark gray.

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