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Digi-Key has changed and it is not very good
rsjsouza:
Ditto in many points above.
The back functionality is also something that gets me everytime - I see myself doing a long click on the back arrow just to see the past recent history with all the entries with the same name - all belongong to the same frame.
That, tied to some browser changes in the action of the backspace key (which acts as a "Back" shortcut) is infuriating when typing on forms in certain pages.
JoeyG:
I wonder how the manufacturers feel if they have to support something already sold to some else, but resold through DK? Warranty is typically for the first purchaser and not after (unless expressly implied).
I assume DK have a market place vetting program right?
james_s:
--- Quote from: tooki on October 12, 2020, 08:07:36 am ---When I bought my 24" 1920x1200 display in 2008, it gave me massive amounts of screen real estate, so I could easily open two documents side by side, or several web windows, and see plenty of content. Thanks to the dumb "whitespace" layouts of today, on the 27" 2560x1440 display I have now, I can see less content. Absolutely maddening, and IMHO disrespectful of the user. If I want extra space around your content, I'll make the window the size I want and put a blank background behind that window.
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This is absolutely maddening. I remember working on a 17" 1280x1024 CRT and being able to tile 3 or 4 applications to work with multiple things at once, copy/paste between windows, etc. When I later got a bigger monitor that could do 1600x1200 I could pretty comfortably have two documents side by side and other things like chat program, music player, weather, etc above or below. In recent years there has been this sort of arms race where monitors get higher and higher resolutions so software wastes more and more pixels making everything bigger. It is so infuriating that even interfaces that have several density settings, "compact" is usually 2 or 3 times as bulky and spread out as I want it to be. I'm constantly finding myself setting everything as small as it will go and finding it's still gigantic, I have far more pixels than I had 15 years ago and I can't fit as much information as I could then. UI design has taken huge steps back. What is the point of a super high resolution display if not to fit more stuff on it?!
james_s:
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on October 12, 2020, 12:13:38 pm ---Ditto in many points above.
The back functionality is also something that gets me everytime - I see myself doing a long click on the back arrow just to see the past recent history with all the entries with the same name - all belongong to the same frame.
That, tied to some browser changes in the action of the backspace key (which acts as a "Back" shortcut) is infuriating when typing on forms in certain pages.
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This is something that has driven me crazy for as long as web browsers have been a thing. Whoever decided that the Backspace key should be overloaded to also trigger the Back navigation button should be hanged. Never once have I wanted to navigate back when I hit the backspace button, always I intended to backspace typing. SO many times I've tried to correct a typo in a form and had it navigate back and wipe out the entire form. It is bizarre that this infernal functionality is still a thing.
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: ConKbot on October 11, 2020, 06:36:48 am ---This marketplace stuff needs to fuck off and die. After seeing newegg marketplace being full of stuff with scam prices, and listings and direct import tat labeled as "equivalent" or "compatible" or other similar ways to weasel into search results, I want nothing to do with 3rd parties selling components. If I wanted trash components labeled falsely, I'd stick with Amazon ebay or aliexpress.
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The last order I placed with Newegg, I didn't realize it was a "marketplace seller", the goods never arrived and I couldn't be bothered to chase it down for a $10 item at the time, too much going on, I just bought from eBay instead.
Basically, if Newegg and Digikey want to become the "electronics world Amazon" they have to be better than amazon, starting with the search function - which is truly terrible on Amazon and not great on eBay either.
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