The new website sucks

[marsHm311oW]

First, I searched for the search button for over 30 minutes -.-
Second, dont know why, but I cannot find any game anymore.
Third, the website is extremely slow now.

[mondsemmel]

That was my experience as well. I understand the update was well-meant, but it's supposed to improve search / filters, and instead put the search functionality in an unfamiliar and very hard to notice spot, and more to the point, completely broke it for me. No matter what I search for, the search doesn't work, and instead just shows a rotating gear icon forever.
Maybe the new filter functionality is trying to search through way too many attributes in the ITAD database? If I search through my wishlist of <60 items, I don't understand why the search could possibly take forever.

EDIT: And yes, the site is unbearably slow for me, as well.

[Pantheon]

It certainly is a bit slow yes, but the search seems to be working fine for me.

And I agree that changing the location of the search was totally unnecessary, although it only took me a few seconds to find it.

[tomas3333]

Yes, I knew search would be problem, because of it's unfamiliar place, but are you really telling me that very top of the site where you have to scroll down to results is that much better?

Give it a couple of days and you'll get used to it, you have to scroll down to see deals anyway. And central search is coming back.

I know it's slow, I addressed it in the update, I will work on it and hope for improvements in few days.

Search results - it may be because the game is not on sale. Old version automatically included nondeals at the very end of the list, which is not happening now. Try turning on "Show whole catalog, including prices without discount".

[benj]

The old site did feel more intuitive to me. I just hopped on, checked the hide DLC filter and I was satisfied with the results. It took me a few minutes to work out how to do the equivalent with this new filter system, but I appreciate the added precision of it now that I know.

[Greymane]

I agree that the search bar placement is bad here. Also as this is a significant change of how the search function works in omitting games not on sale by default, you really ought to put a splash on screen about the change. A lot of people won't follow the Whats New link and wade through a wall of text.

[† Jack † Jesus Saves †]

yeah external searches are also broken, for example, Enhanced Steam provides this link showing 4 bundles that Blue Estate has been in:
https://isthereanydeal.com/specials/#/search:blueestategame
It doesn't actually give you that data anymore, there's just a huge list of current bundles that appears to be in no particular order.

[tomas3333]

I'll fix links in API, I missed that, thanks.

I do think that search placement is just about the habit, but I agree that omitting nondeals by default was a bad move. Give me few days to address all the issues that appeared.

@sleepybear - you can save it as a preset and it will be even faster than before, since it will be at the top of the list

[Rando]

Nguyên văn bởi tomas3333:

but I agree that omitting nondeals by default was a bad move.

to be fair, it is hard to say if there is a "right" move here. Logically you'd only want it shown if a nondeal is better than any active deal. That involves a fair amount of server stress and is open to gaming by vendors.

BTW I think the new site is better overall and much sleeker. There's going to be some growing pains and a lot of rough edges to sort out as with any large change.

Also I think there are some bugs and bottlenecks in the ajax, particularily in manual library syncing.

[Christopher]

It's not the location of the search bar that's problematic so much as that it isn't very noticeable. It's a highly used, key element of the interface yet it's just a small gray box on a page full of other gray boxes.

Go to Amazon, Reddit, Facebook, etc and they all have the search box very close to the top of the page. It's what people are used to so if you're going to have it somewhere different it should be more prominent.

[GKD]

filter for hide dlcs gone?

[Rando]

Nguyên văn bởi GKD:

filter for hide dlcs gone?

It's under the Game menu (Game->DLC). To hide them just mouse over DLC above the results and press the - next to it.

[GKD]

thx =)

[Lord Hamm]

I'm not liking the new site either

Everything is harder to get to and having all the colored tags on the left makes it harder to see whats going on

[Zordah]

Sorry but the new design is rubbish. It took me AGES to find the search bar and then whatever I searched for the results were coming up as empty - even just searching for things starting with "e" came up as empty.
The old site was a much cleaner and easier to work with design.

[SpiRec]

On my laptop the site doesn't work with Google Chrome, if you want to search something (searches forever). Many games aren't found by your engine any more. Searching is much more complicated and takes longer because you have to deactivate the filters if you want to search something new.