Comments / Feedback / Suggestions Thread 2020

scotty on 02/01/2020 - 19:27
Last edited 03/01/2020 - 13:26 by 1 other user

New year, new suggestion thread. Yes I know there are still many pending "unresolved" from last year's suggestion thread, but please use this thread in 2020 to post your suggestions for new features, bug report, feedbacks etc. Please refrain from creating new posts for feature requests / bug reports — they will be merged back here. Also, please check this wiki page as your suggestion may already have been mentioned.

The majority of things you see, as well as policies on OzBargain were implemented based on user feedback. Please see the Site & Guideline Updates Announcement Thread to keep up to date with the changes/features that we implement as they are added.

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    • spackbace on 09/09/2020 - 18:23
      +5

      Dammit, bright yellow banners :P

      • [Deactivated] on 10/09/2020 - 10:23

        Ahhhh that's the reason. Hurts my eyes!

  • 87percent on 10/09/2020 - 15:14

    is there an issue with getting logged out of the site continuously? happening seems to be daily on my phone/laptop

  • jonathonsunshine on 14/09/2020 - 11:31
    +2

    Suggestion: One Deal Per Headline and Allow Voting only based only on the Main Deal.

    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/565476

    Using above as an example, 50 votes, not bad, popular, but I would have thought that the GPU wasn't actually that great a deal, maybe the votes are just for the SSD, who knows.

    Its like showing someone a lawn mower and a 5 pack of underwear, and asking peoples opinion.

    • Clear on 14/09/2020 - 20:31

      If that's the case then increase the default store rep posting limits. It will seriously cause a disadvantage for associated users who already have posting restrictions.

    • sween64 on 18/09/2020 - 14:01

      Nah. People just need to create discussion in the comments on what they see as their particular reason for upvoting.

  • sween64 on 18/09/2020 - 14:04
    +1

    With PS5, Xbox Series X/S and new gen GPUs we’re gonna see a lot of deals that are stock announcements at RRP. Can we encourage/enforce an RRP tag? These posts (which in the past have included Switch, NES mini etc) appear to be polarising and on the whole the community/mods appear to have accepted them as legitimate posts. There are still those, myself included, that don’t want to see these deals, if there’s an RRP tag I can easily hide them. Similar to why the SUBS tag was created.

    TLDR: enforce an RRP tag so I can hide those deals

  • wisdomtooth on 21/09/2020 - 09:24
    +2

    Could we please search by price? (using Google's syntax $100..$200, for instance)

    Also, could we personalise the home page by price range? Perhaps, that'd be easiest to implement by simply adding price range tags (and that would work for ranges too): $0-$10, $10-$100, $100-$1000, $1000-$10000…

  • pandaman on 25/09/2020 - 11:36

    i cant seem to hide "deals from store". i've ticked the box, i go back to the front page of deals and it still shows up.

    am i doing this wrong?

    • payton on 26/09/2020 - 23:28

      do you already have 50 blocked stores/entries? The site doesn't allow you to add more if thats the case
      go to settings, then blocked

      • pandaman on 29/09/2020 - 11:51

        Yeah it seems like I do. What's the reason for the limit?

        • payton on 29/09/2020 - 12:51
          +1

          scotty explained it in linked below
          https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/8951996/redir

          wish its larger as well, i hit 50 and have to shuffle out disabledusers or slightly-less-spammy stores/users from my list

          • pandaman on 29/09/2020 - 13:37

            @payton: thanks for the link, time to shuffle these around i guess.

            • payton on 29/09/2020 - 14:32

              @pandaman: Can either block the store, or the user who is the store rep

              Doubles the limit, in a way

  • kiriakoz on 25/09/2020 - 18:09

    Don't hammer me too hard for this, but I have an iPhone so am new to widgets.

    How about an OzBargain widget? It'll make it easier to check bargains on the go. With many bargains, the benefit is to find out about them early.

  • payton on 26/09/2020 - 23:31
    +1

    In a hot discussion topic with heaps of detailed arguments, sometimes it can be hard to keep track of which comments responded to which parent comment
    Can we have a little up-arrow on a comment if it is a sub-comment (ie its responding to a parent comment), and clicking the arrow will take you to the parent comment

  • mapax on 29/09/2020 - 06:53
    +9

    The new location of the top of page arrow and comment menu is bad.

    The menu covers too much of the page on a mobile device when trying to navigate to each new comment.

    • PissLUR on 29/09/2020 - 09:32
      +7

      YES I am hating this new feature..

      can we rollback on this change pleaseeee..

      I use the new comments's arrows and now have navigate one extra click for each page.

  • PissLUR on 29/09/2020 - 09:33
    +4

    Dont hide the Comments section. its one of the most used buttons

    • HardQuiz on 29/09/2020 - 15:10
      +1

      Agree, especially when moving between new comments.

  • payton on 29/09/2020 - 09:53
    +3

    On desktop, please return the old page & comment navigation menu, the new one doesn't add benefits IMO and adds extra clicks

  • Moderatorscotty on 29/09/2020 - 10:30

    Today's change is part of adding a floating "Go to Top" button on all pages & consolidating fix positioned elements on the page — it has been planned for a while and I am not reverting back. It's one extra click to bring up the menu, however for majority of users and instances where you don't use the old comment bar, the new floating buttons take less space (especially on mobile when not bringing out the menu). Moreover the scrolling detection code is much simpler now & I am not bring back the old code.

    • Clear on 29/09/2020 - 11:25
      +4

      More of a drag and click but shouldn't we be trying to make less clicks instead of more? Anyway since you're not changing, would it be possible to have the option of transparency on the button?

      Also to me the floating box certainly takes up more room than the old bar along the bottom. Covering a good chunk of the page.

    • tzar on 29/09/2020 - 12:57
      +9

      Not a fan of this change - it's significantly more than one click when you're trying to jump between all the new comments in a thread on a mobile device because you need to keep closing the menu to read the comments. Having the button to launch the menu floating over other stuff coupled with its relatively small size also makes it rather easy to accidentally click the wrong button and jump to the top of the page or click something underneath it.

      Out of interest, why was a button to scroll to the top of the page needed? Were people getting lost at the bottom of the page?

      • PissLUR on 29/09/2020 - 13:15
        +2

        could be due to this 'Infinite scrolling'

        Use infinite scrolling in the place of pagination on some listing pages

    • HardQuiz on 29/09/2020 - 15:09
      +5

      Try it on a mobile device, very hard and counterintuitive when moving to new comments.

    • ssquid on 29/09/2020 - 17:56
      +1

      I wish it were possible to vote on your posts so you could see what people think of this change and your steadfast refusal to consider reverting it.

    • kulprit on 01/10/2020 - 06:45
      +4

      Yeah this update really isn't a great one. Has reduced usability significantly.

      When just wanting to read new comments, it's now re expand the bar every time to click to the next one.

    • FrugalDealHunter on 01/10/2020 - 19:52
      +2

      iOS already had this function built in when you tap the top of the page. Sigh.

    • Mechz on 01/10/2020 - 21:36

      Can you make the buttons optional? I find them annoying and they sit right over the Post Comment button. Would disable it if I knew how.

  • HardQuiz on 29/09/2020 - 15:13
    +6

    At least can we have the arrows (< >) and "Mark as Read" back to it's original place.

  • fivespice on 02/10/2020 - 10:29
    +1

    Could we have a running thread of feedback for members from classifieds sales? An old site (Mactalk) used to have this and I would search the thread for a username to see if there's any positive or negative feedback for the user. Usually someone would just drop a line in the thread and say "Purchased x from xyz1234, smooth transaction".

    I also want to say that I love this website. The design, features, pages, thoughtfulness… I could go on. Awesome job by the creators and moderators and also the community for making this site a great place.

  • virtual81 on 03/10/2020 - 15:43
    -1

    Comment downvoting has always been a hate of mine.

    After having about 6 or 8 different Sandisk products fail and even more perform poorly i downvoted this (https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/567195#comment-9326451) deal based on the following rule.

    • Voting guidelines - Issue with product

    It's not until today i realise that the number of downvotes i got actually cancelled out my neg.

    It's far too easy to downvote comments without any regard for the rules or any repercussions.
    This has to stop.

    At this point due to the unruly comment voting activity i use Oz Bargain almost exclusively for my own benefit, and find myself never posting a deal and now avoiding discussion.

    If Oz Bargain ever feel like changing then i might consider posting the occasional deal, but at this point why should i bother when i'm treated like crap for posting a fair comment or vote and useful information?

    • wisdomtooth on 07/10/2020 - 10:50

      Those downvoting your suggestion just proved your point, I think 😄

      This has been suggested/requested at least 3 times before just this year, but mods find it "too complex and unnecessary" to address this ongoing issue: [1], [2], [3]

  • PissLUR on 09/10/2020 - 05:44

    Yay thanks for the arrows now. But the first click on them doesn't seem to work, you have to first click the …

    • Moderatorscotty on 09/10/2020 - 05:53

      Hmm. Try again. I've updated the caching of the scripts.

      • PissLUR on 09/10/2020 - 05:59

        Works now. Ta.

      • Clear on 09/10/2020 - 21:26

        Thanks so much. A big improvement!

    • mapax on 09/10/2020 - 19:26

      X2
      Thanks for adding the arrows.

  • Elijha on 09/10/2020 - 19:10
    +1

    I only just discovered the 'hide' option has a setting for hiding from certain poster. This I think is great .. though sometimes the posters that bug me do post something good, and due to obvious dupe rules it won't be posted by someone else .. can there be a tolerance / threshold added ie don't show posts from this user unless it hits X up-votes of the front page or something?

  • No Child Support on 12/10/2020 - 02:19
    +1

    I noticed the last couple of days, the site will glitch and every time I click on a link, it will open a new browser directing me to audi RS q8 webpage. Happened twice now and I need to close the tab and reopen it again. This is on iOS chrome

    • Wombatstew on 15/10/2020 - 16:22

      Same for me. Also getting it with the Dominos ad. Seems to be those ads which have the scrolling format and even though you scroll past it still sits as the top layer so any link you click takes you to the ad. I gave up using app on my phone over last couple of days

    • Moderatorscotty on 16/10/2020 - 16:26

      The upstream has identified the issue and disabled the said ads network.

  • Mr BoMBAStiG on 13/10/2020 - 22:43
    +1

    Instead of having the ($0 with Prime/$39 spend) in each deal title, why not make a tag that would sit beside the category tag and the bottom of the deal on the front/deals page? Clicking it would either explain Amazon shipping details or show deals with that tag, ie Amazon deals.
    You could then have tags for eBay plus, free shipping, etc. Simplifies the titles and moves repetitive content to tags where it belongs.

  • pinkybrain on 14/10/2020 - 18:26

    Hi Scotty,

    Can you add an Original Poster icon (e.g. orange color microphone icon or whatever color you want) next to their name in the comments?

    This would make it more standout in comments chain and quicker to identify they are the original poster in the comments when doing fast scrolling of the page than current slightly darker shading method.

    • Moderatorscotty on 14/10/2020 - 19:51

      Having a small icon next to the user name quicker to identify than having the entire comment in a different shade? Not sure about you but definitely not me.

      • pinkybrain on 14/10/2020 - 20:22

        I think the current very light grey to white gradient shading is not that good in contrast when there is a white background as well..

        Try it yourself by scrolling quickly up and down the page…
        You will see what I mean..

        When you do a quick scroll down on the page, the grey to white gradient shading blends/blurs with the white background too well…
        If the shading was a light orange or some other more contrasting color than grey to white gradient against a white background then sure that would be much better in contrast.
        Like my own comments is in the orange shading then that clearly stands out more against a white background than the grey gradient for original poster.

        Basically grey to white gradient against a white background is not a good contrasting color

        Or If you had a simple orange microphone next to the name (e.g. like reddit) I think that would be more effective in seeing that this the original poster comments
        than needing to shade their entire comments with a not very good contrast light grey to white gradient shading..

        If you look at reddit design there is no need to do shading if you got some icon next to the username to indicate
        -original poster
        -my own comment etc..

        If you don't want to add icons like I suggest then at least change the current grey to white gradient shading, cos that is poor contrast against a white background.

        Ideally it would be good to add both the icon next to the username and change the grey white gradient to some other more contrasting color.

      • CVonC on 17/10/2020 - 04:04

        On a related note, I think it would be a good idea to have a different shade for your own comments vs the OP's as currently there's no way to differentiate between the two unless you read the username.

      • pinkybrain on 14/10/2020 - 20:37
        +1

        when viewing in normal white mode ie not dark mode..
        the light grey to white gradient is not a very good contrasting color.

        Try it and do a quick scroll with you mouse wheel up and down the page..

        you will see how it just blends in with the white background too easily..
        since light grey to white gradient shading is not a very good contrasting color with a white background.

        This color should be change to something more contrasting with white background.

        And there is nothing bad with adding a color microphone icon next to the username in conjunction with the shading..
        This would just help in quickly identifying the original poster more quickly.

  • kiitos on 18/10/2020 - 20:29
    +1

    When browsing on my desktop, would like to have the titles in the right hand panel (New Deals, New Forum Topics, etc) also be links to the relevant section of the website. Often I'll glance through the New Deals pane, then want to go to the New Deals page to see more, and expect to be able to click on the New Deals title.

    I realise moving to the menu bar, hovering over Deals and selecting New Deals is not onerous, but being able to click on the titles in the right hand panel when my attention is already there seems natural to me.

  • Doovik on 20/10/2020 - 09:49

    Can we get a feature to subscribe to products and we get an email every time new deal on that product? Like we can subscribe to stores and stuff

    • kulprit on 20/10/2020 - 19:01

      You can already subscribe to a search term which sort of covers the same idea.

      • Doovik on 20/10/2020 - 21:49

        I see but still would be nice for just products so other forums/deals dont pop up…

  • WreckTangle on 20/10/2020 - 19:02

    IOS app

  • flickr on 21/10/2020 - 11:44
    -2

    Setup an option for the OP to put their donation link or like YouTube, to reward the uploader with monetary benefits.

    It will encourage more good deals and hopefully a more active community if the OP can be rewarded by something other than + and a badge.

    • Moderatorneil on 21/10/2020 - 15:57

      I understand this is common on Twitch and Youtube but we had a similar system with referral links where users could put their referral link in their post. For the majority of the time, it worked as described as a way to benefit the user and an encouragement to post deals. It also however contributed to some people posting low quality deals just to flog their referral link or code. This caused poor deals and commotion within the community

      So then we added guidelines that it could only be at the bottom of the post. Again poor deals and commotion in the community. We further added things like no bolding etc. Same result. We added referral posting limitations similar to reps. This did help a little bit. At the end, not allowing referral links anywhere other than the automated referral system seems to be the way it's applied fairly and without community issues. If a deal is popular, the OPs referral link will show in the referral system box.

      See Help: Referrals

      So I think with the history of referrals, a donation link may have similar issues. We do give monthly prizes to contributors which we hope does encourage community contributions.

  • wisdomtooth on 22/10/2020 - 13:44

    How about an OzBargain leaderboard? It would rank members who've accomplished the best deals (via stacking or simply by being at the right place at the right time and pulling the trigger). The board would simply be populated by comments on deals that people would nominate for ranking, like this one, and everyone else can vote up the most impressive thrift feats. What for? I, for one, learn a lot from these masters of thriftery.

    • Moderatorneil on 22/10/2020 - 13:53

      Feel free to start a wiki page and forum post.

      • wisdomtooth on 22/10/2020 - 14:29

        How can I do that? Searched all over, to no avail.

        What I suggested would require more functionality than the wiki pages here seem to have, though. It would require buttons next to comments in deals to nominate thrift feats, and voting on the board page. Anyhow, it's just a whimsical suggestion, not really a request.

        • Moderatorneil on 22/10/2020 - 16:51

          How can I do that? Searched all over, to no avail.

          Just type in https://www.ozbargain.com.au/wiki/randompage or whatever you want the page to be called.
          Hit Create Page.

          Anyhow, it's just a whimsical suggestion, not really a request.

          Fair enough.

  • sss333 on 23/10/2020 - 10:59

    Good to see OzRRP deals are now being encouraged with forum posts being taken down.

  • HeelTaker on 28/10/2020 - 17:37

    Could we please have a “Daily click” tag for competitions with points for daily click options?

    This would be so handy to decide whether I need to get on with entering it right away to get today’s click or can safely put the competition in my “To Do” folder.

    Should be an incredibly easy thing to add too.

    • Moderatorhamza23 on 28/10/2020 - 17:42

      Those comps should be marked as daily entry and can be found here (Daily entry from the Comps menu).

  • Clear on 28/10/2020 - 21:28

    For posts from months ago that were posted and now closed, would it be possible (as OP) to view the revisions? The reason being is that I have a post where copying the previous markdown table would be significantly quicker to copy from revisions than having to create new.

    • Moderatorscotty on 28/10/2020 - 21:53

      Basically OP just wants to access the raw Markdown of an old post? I'll have a look…

      • Clear on 28/10/2020 - 21:55

        Yep that's right. I just spent 10 minutes recreating a table when I could have just copy and paste.

        I'll save the table for next time though ;)

        • Moderatormoocher on 10/12/2020 - 14:07

          Hi Clear, this was rolled out this morning so OPs can still view the source of old deals/forum topics.

          • Clear on 10/12/2020 - 14:07

            @moocher: Thanks so much you're the best

  • PVA on 29/10/2020 - 14:19
    +3

    Today I have started getting full page ads covering the site, that I need to scroll a page to then get to the actual site. The ad goes away after I click on it or it goes after 30 seconds or so.
    The ads always been Optus and has happened each time I visited.
    The ad still has the small pictures of each deal over the top on the advert on the right as well as the Votes on the left side . Strange, weird formatting gone wrong.

    This is on an iPad iOS 14, chrome browser.

    I don’t have any issues with other sites and it’s only started today.
    I have had to turn the ads off in settings, don’t like to do so seeing that your income and I sometimes click ads relevant for me.

    • Moderatorscotty on 29/10/2020 - 14:36

      Hi. If anyone encountered the Optus iPhone 12 Pro Say Hello to 5G ads, please send me the URL where the ads redirects to.

  • ozbargainer666 on 03/11/2020 - 10:05

    Show how many people subscribed to a search term

  • sss333 on 06/11/2020 - 09:50

    When there's multiple stores for a deal, for example , it's always confuses for a sec when I get a notification that in this example says for a store you have subscribed to: AmEx Statement Offers and I haven't subscribed to that store but another one of the stores listed in the deal, be nice if it would say for the store you've actually subscribed to.

  • CVonC on 14/11/2020 - 12:44
    +1

    Is it possible to show the amount of votes on a deal in the search results page on mobile view? Currently it only works on desktop site.

  • redgymhero on 19/11/2020 - 08:10

    Just curious if the 'tags' / 'stickies' at the top of Ozbargain have been removed? I used to filter "gaming" by "PS4" content, and "Entertainment" by "Blu-ray". I don't know if it's just my Chrome being silly, or if there was an update, but I'm hoping that feature hasn't been removed!

    • Moderatorscotty on 19/11/2020 - 09:22

      There was a bug that got deployed this morning. It has been fixed now.

      • redgymhero on 20/11/2020 - 17:28

        Thank you!! Happy to know it wasn't just my Chrome messing up. Thanks for letting me know :)

  • [Deactivated] on 22/11/2020 - 15:57

    Jobs Section

    Seeing that OzBargain is one of the most visited websites in Australia. I suggest a jobs sections for employers to post jobs and people to apply.

  • Duoka on 22/11/2020 - 16:36

    Recently got a full page parallax ads from Domino's https://i.imgur.com/TEyQ13s.png. Link to here https://www.dominos.com.au/offers/app/50-off-delivery

    Not the same as PVA this one placed in the usual banner ads after second post.

  • wisdomtooth on 24/11/2020 - 20:14

    Could we please see post votes on the Notifications page?

  • tightarse on 25/11/2020 - 13:08

    Would be great to have a username change log in member profiles (to keep abreast of name changers). Thanks.

    • Moderatorneil on 25/11/2020 - 17:17

      A lot of name changes are done for privacy reasons such as signing up with their real name, using usernames from other sites, stalking issues etc. For that reason, I think it isn't a good idea to have old usernames publicly available.

  • Clear on 27/11/2020 - 09:35

    Is it normal for a removed post e.g. duplicate to count towards your 24hr post limit?

    • Moderatorscotty on 27/11/2020 - 09:53

      Unpublished posts generally do not count towards the posting limits.

      • Clear on 27/11/2020 - 09:55

        I've hit the 24hr 10 post limit but there's 9 posts with 1 unpublished. Unless I'm counting wrong.

  • Ughhh on 29/11/2020 - 14:57

    Can we have a feature where you can leave private notes for yourself for each deal post? I think it would be handy to know what and when was bought, especially for cashback deals.

  • dammit on 29/11/2020 - 22:41

    Does anyone know how to get notified when I write a comment, and

    a) someone replies to my comment
    b) they add a reply to the same thread after me, (eg to 'subscribe' to the thread)?

  • thedriver on 01/12/2020 - 13:54

    Would like to see a "Gmaes" sub category under computing.
    This would be great so l33t gamerz could subscribe.

  • wisdomtooth on 03/12/2020 - 07:24

    This is really minor, but should be easy to correct: the highlighted search results' text and background colours in dark mode don't mix; white on yellow is illegible.

  • capslock janitor on 04/12/2020 - 12:03

    Hi team,

    1- Remove Max rating/day Limit for user star ratings

    2- Add "re/set to default" option for Personalized front page/new deals

    Any update with above?

    3- Option to hide/unhide our selected deals or posts.

  • wisdomtooth on 04/12/2020 - 17:04

    Could we please have stores included as tags in tag search? For instance, I'm now after a chest freezer. I wonder: how often does Aldi has theirs on sale? If I tag search Aldi + chest freezer, I get zero results.

    • Moderatorneil on 04/12/2020 - 17:14

      See Search


      domain:<domain>

Search nodes that are linked with specific domain / store. Note that <domain> has to be a proper domain name rather than a hostname. So to search Harvey Norman uses domain:harveynorman.com.au rather than domain:www.harveynorman.com.au.

professionals domain:harveynorman.com.au type:forum searches the term professionals in forum posts that are linked to Harvey Norman.

      So ALDI

      is

      https://www.ozbargain.com.au/search/node/chest freezer domain:aldi.com.au

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