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Digi-Key has changed and it is not very good
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ataradov:
LOL. They listened to feedback. Now the checkbox is called "Exclude" and is unchecked by default. So now you still need to click on it every single time if you don't want garbage parts, but it no longer sticks out as a sore thumb.

LOL, again.
tooki:

--- Quote from: ataradov on October 28, 2020, 07:55:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on October 28, 2020, 07:51:54 pm ---So having the box be “include” is more consistent.

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Having the only checkbox enabled by default is also inconsistent. Yet here we are.

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Former UX designer here. That's not inconsistent at all.

Checkbox logic is about function, not aesthetics. And it's been long established that "select to not do X" semantics are generally much harder to use. Obviously it depends on the situation, so there will be exceptions, but as a rule, you word checkboxes in the affirmative and then have any defaults selected by default.


--- Quote from: ataradov on December 29, 2020, 07:02:37 am ---LOL. They listened to feedback. Now the checkbox is called "Exclude" and is unchecked by default. So now you still need to click on it every single time if you don't want garbage parts, but it no longer sticks out as a sore thumb.

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Oh yay, they changed it for the worse…  :palm:
james_s:

--- Quote from: ataradov on December 29, 2020, 07:02:37 am ---LOL. They listened to feedback. Now the checkbox is called "Exclude" and is unchecked by default. So now you still need to click on it every single time if you don't want garbage parts, but it no longer sticks out as a sore thumb.

LOL, again.

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 :palm: |O
rfclown:
I just went to Digikey and I see that "scrolling" is now the default. I didn't like it when they added the "stacked" and made it the default. Good to see a positive change. I wonder if they'll log how many people choose "stacked", and if it's nobody, take it away.

The Marketplace stuff has bugged me also, but on the other side, obsolescence has become a HUGE issue in recent years. At work we replaced an obsolete TCXO in the last year, and we just got a notice from the manufacturer that the new part is going obsolete. To fix the issue before, we redesigned the circuit to work at a different voltage since the manufacturer was obsoleting the 3.3v part (we went to 1.8v). We were able to do that with only BOM changes. Now they say no 1.8v, and no one else makes the same thing in the same footprint. No fun doing a re-spin on a complicated 20 layer board. Sometimes the obsolete stuff can be found at a place like Rochester Electronics, so at least having this stuff there makes it easier to find.

I also bought a Sparkfun breakout board on Digikey recently because Sparkfun was out of stock. So having these things (Adafruit, etc.) at Digikey is ok by me.

I almost always select "cut tape", and then do a double take when I still see the packaging column, thinking "didn't I already select that one?"

I hope they listen to feedback and improve (just make it like it was). I still find Digikey search better than Mouser. I usually choose USPS first class and get stuff in 3 days for low shipping cost. I don't think Mouser has that option.
floobydust:
I tried their LED Indication - Discrete... it's mostly useless.
Why can't you just click buttons on the (root) colours you want - blue, green, red, ice blue etc. instead of this insane picklist from hell.
The picklists are just populated by whatever a manufacturer specifies, rows and rows of irrelevant numbers.
Nobody picks a forward voltage like this, pic related.

I noticed the dimmest LED in the world? and it's a weird Lumex LED with built-in comparator for low battery indication. Totally orphaned because it's not just an LED, you'd never find that in this in the Product Index.
It's never going to (it didn't) sell, you could never find it. NSL4944 forever.

Digi-Key should blow out these oddball parts in a surplus section.
Why don't they have a surplus section anyhow, there's lots of oddball parts that will never sell. I wonder where they go.
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