I like the new design
RFD's New Homepage and Nav Bar is Coming Soon!
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- TheRealVinsanity
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- Nov 16, 2011
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- gontori
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- Jun 17, 2012
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- In another world
Better design than the previous one.
Still can't get the site to jump to where I got an upvote from the notifications link.
In other words, when I check my notifications and I see an upvote, when I click on that link, it takes me to the very first post of that thread.
- Firefox on Win10.
Still can't get the site to jump to where I got an upvote from the notifications link.
In other words, when I check my notifications and I see an upvote, when I click on that link, it takes me to the very first post of that thread.
- Firefox on Win10.
- lip1978
- Deal Addict
- Dec 8, 2001
- 4233 posts
- 248 upvotes
- Calgary
Another vote to re-add Freebies to the Forums section please.
- TomRFD
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- Jun 17, 2013
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- Scarborough
The navigation bar moves up and down on the page when you use your mouse wheel?
It should only reappear as you start to scroll back up. If you're experiencing different behaviour please report it to us and include device/browser details.zentro wrote: ↑Top menu bar doesn't function properly across multiple browsers (firefox/chrome), scrolling causes it to disappear and reappear at different times, very inconsistent.
I think you should keep it static, it blocks content instead of being useful anyways and the same functionality doesn't even appear for resized view for phones, where that might be more useful but at the cost of screen real estate.
- Guest8456458484
- Deal Guru
- Mar 14, 2005
- 13811 posts
- 2516 upvotes
Shopping Discussion forum is missing and cumbersome to find.ace604 wrote: ↑ Who sorts columns alphabetically going across the rows instead of top to bottom? Seriously?
Is there a UX person at RFD??
Hover over discussion and copy/paste it's in alpha ... but it's flowed to not actually use columns but go in rows so it's horrible to 'navigate' with your eye/brain and find what you are looking for:
Copy/paste order:
DISCUSSION
Art & Photography
Automotive
Careers
Computers & Electronics
Cell Phones
Entertainment
PC & Video Games
Entrepreneurship & Small Business
Fashion & Apparel
Beauty & Wellness
Food & Drink
Green / Eco-Friendly
Home & Garden
Parenting
Personal Finance
Investing
Pets
Sports & Fitness
Students
Travel
Off Topic
How it looks like:... further adding to the confusion, there are non-alpha sorted insertions (based on subforums??) ... horrible. sorry. it's bad.Code: Select all
DISCUSSION Art & Photography Automotive Careers Computers & Electronics Cell Phones Entertainment PC & Video Games Entrepreneurship & Small Business Fashion & Apparel Beauty & Wellness Food & Drink Green / Eco-Friendly Home & Garden Parenting Personal Finance Investing Pets Sports & Fitness Students Travel Off Topic
- lubmar
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- May 17, 2005
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- ace604
- Deal Guru
- Aug 8, 2012
- 10198 posts
- 4028 upvotes
- BC
I've been complaining about this for months and months and months and suggested a fix that should take 30s to do.gontori wrote: ↑ Better design than the previous one.
Still can't get the site to jump to where I got an upvote from the notifications link.
In other words, when I check my notifications and I see an upvote, when I click on that link, it takes me to the very first post of that thread.
- Firefox on Win10.
Change the url from:
/thread-name/page/#pPostnumber
To:
/viewtopic.php?p=Postnumber
POLL: How frequent is your RRSP-matching?
Plastiq: Pay any bill with credit card for 0-2.5% fee (help meet min spending and keep old cards active!)
Rewards program transfer times (e.g. SPG->Aeroplan, Marriott->SPG, Amex MR->SPG...)
Plastiq: Pay any bill with credit card for 0-2.5% fee (help meet min spending and keep old cards active!)
Rewards program transfer times (e.g. SPG->Aeroplan, Marriott->SPG, Amex MR->SPG...)
- TomRFD
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- Scarborough
It's being added back in along with Freebies.
You can also set it to unstick and it'll only appear at the top of the page. how-unstick-stick-navigation-bar-1948715/
The thread name is included for SEO purposes. We are aware of the problem and can hopefully get it fixed soon.
- ace604
- Deal Guru
- Aug 8, 2012
- 10198 posts
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- BC
You don't need the thread name in the notification tab view that is per login and impossible for Google to scrape and affect SEO.TomRFD wrote: ↑ It's being added back in along with Freebies.
You can also set it to unstick and it'll only appear at the top of the page. how-unstick-stick-navigation-bar-1948715/
The thread name is included for SEO purposes. We are aware of the problem and can hopefully get it fixed soon.
When I click a /viewtopic.php?p=xxxx link it expands out to the full URL afterwards.
POLL: How frequent is your RRSP-matching?
Plastiq: Pay any bill with credit card for 0-2.5% fee (help meet min spending and keep old cards active!)
Rewards program transfer times (e.g. SPG->Aeroplan, Marriott->SPG, Amex MR->SPG...)
Plastiq: Pay any bill with credit card for 0-2.5% fee (help meet min spending and keep old cards active!)
Rewards program transfer times (e.g. SPG->Aeroplan, Marriott->SPG, Amex MR->SPG...)
- ace604
- Deal Guru
- Aug 8, 2012
- 10198 posts
- 4028 upvotes
- BC
e.g. Compare these links and where they take you:
1) "/rfds-new-homepage-nav-bar-coming-soon-2096157/2/#p27748971"
https://forums.redflagdeals.com/rfds-ne ... #p27748971
2) "/rfds-new-homepage-nav-bar-coming-soon-2096157/#p27748971"
https://forums.redflagdeals.com/rfds-ne ... #p27748971
3) "/viewtopic.php?p=2774897"
https://forums.redflagdeals.com/viewtop ... p=27748971
both (1) and (3) take me to the URL in (1). But for people with different posts per page settings, the URL in (1) may be broken. For people with default posts per page setting the URL in (2) is broken.
Just use (3) in the notifications tab. It should work for everyone.
POLL: How frequent is your RRSP-matching?
Plastiq: Pay any bill with credit card for 0-2.5% fee (help meet min spending and keep old cards active!)
Rewards program transfer times (e.g. SPG->Aeroplan, Marriott->SPG, Amex MR->SPG...)
Plastiq: Pay any bill with credit card for 0-2.5% fee (help meet min spending and keep old cards active!)
Rewards program transfer times (e.g. SPG->Aeroplan, Marriott->SPG, Amex MR->SPG...)
- zentro
- Deal Fanatic
- Dec 25, 2012
- 5437 posts
- 4855 upvotes
- Toronto
Excellent that solves all my complaints.TomRFD wrote: ↑ You can also set it to unstick and it'll only appear at the top of the page. how-unstick-stick-navigation-bar-1948715/
The issue for me is happening on both firefox 53.0 (32-bit)/chrome 58.0.3029.96 (64-bit)/chrome canary 60.0.3088.0 (64-bit) tested without any extensions on debian 8 (not logged in) and windows 7 (logged in).
The problem appears when you first load the page, the javascript doesn't seem to load consistently, if you stay on the same page for a bit and scroll around the behavior seems to default to showing up when scrolling up and disappearing when scrolling down, however when you refresh or load another part of the site the menu doesn't work properly. There is also some weird behavior when switching between mouse wheel and scroll bar, but it's harder to replicate, it seems to pop into view and disappear.
However with stick navigation preference, everything works perfect. Thanks.
- nermy
- Newbie
- Aug 1, 2008
- 4 posts
- Mississauga
I would also really love the option to switch to the old UI for PCs. It seems as though most people are browsing the site on mobile devices, but the new layout makes it so the site is not worth accessing using a PC browser. Just my two cents.
- Gee
- Deal Expert
- Aug 2, 2004
- 38384 posts
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- East Gwillimbury
Yes, that's all that moves. It's as if there are two frames and the focus is on the top frame. If I use my scroll wheel, it moves the navigation bar up and down.
I tried clicking on the forum post area and it will not focus on it. The scroll wheel only locks onto the navigation bar
- TomRFD
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- Jun 17, 2013
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- Scarborough
Ah I see what you mean. I was thinking of something else when I replied earlier. There is a ticket in to fix that. I too would like to be taken to the correct posts so I'll try to get an update on when that might be fixed.
Glad to hear that helped. We haven't seen the behaviour of the menu bar that you described so we'll wait to see if more reports come in and then look into it.
Yes there is a huge shift towards mobile browsing and that did influence our design decisions but we feel the desktop version of the site has improved over the previous design. With the customizable layout and increased exposure of forum threads, we feel it gives people more of what they want to see.
Is it possible for you to record a short clip of it exhibiting this behaviour?
- TomRFD
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- Scarborough
We released a small update late this afternoon which addressed the following:
The forums menu in the navigation bar now includes the missing Shopping Discussion and Freebies forums. The discussion forums are also now sorted vertically instead of from left to right (excluding Off Topic which remains at the end).
You'll see more than 3 flyers on our homepage under the Top Flyers section.
Updates to the customized Category widgets (showing up empty, showing old content, etc.).
The forums menu in the navigation bar now includes the missing Shopping Discussion and Freebies forums. The discussion forums are also now sorted vertically instead of from left to right (excluding Off Topic which remains at the end).
You'll see more than 3 flyers on our homepage under the Top Flyers section.
Updates to the customized Category widgets (showing up empty, showing old content, etc.).
- Gee
- Deal Expert
- Aug 2, 2004
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- East Gwillimbury
I'll try to do that as soon as I find some software. It appears to only happen when using Opera. I just switched to Internet Explorer and it works fine in Explorer
- TomRFD
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- Jun 17, 2013
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- Scarborough
If you can that might help. I'll try to download Opera and see if I can replicate it too.
- dollarsign
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- Guest13384726
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- Sep 9, 2010
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- Burnaby
The contents of the pull down menu list for "Forums" is not consistent in the new navigation menu bar. In some forums, it only lists some of the Hot Deals categories, in other forums it lists most of the main forums alphanumerically with almost their entire name (correctly, given the width of the browser window), and in other forums (most particularly when browsing a thread) it lists only some of the forums, all with their names truncated "Nam..." (even if the width of the browser window would allow displaying their full names) and with uneven line spacing (some are bunched together without a blank line in between their shortened names). Happening in Chrome. Bizarre.
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- Firebot
- Deal Addict
- Aug 12, 2004
- 4511 posts
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- Calgary
I have never frequented the actual homepage for the most part, but it does feel clean and intuitive, it was a mess in the past and never even touched it. Same for the dropdown, feels more responsive and makes sense now that it's alphabetical.
Usually most updates done by RFD are significantly worse than past versions, and there are multiple issues with many complaints where it feels like an non-wanted update is pushed against people's wishes. This is one of those times where it actually is better.
Usually most updates done by RFD are significantly worse than past versions, and there are multiple issues with many complaints where it feels like an non-wanted update is pushed against people's wishes. This is one of those times where it actually is better.
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