Ok, 1000 posts, and we need to go back!

Please We need to go back to (Woot) Island!

I don't like it. I have to scroll to see the right hand side of the screen now. It is also an ugly green. I like green, but not ugly green.

Thank you Snapster for explaining what the strategy was for comments on this thread.

I still don't like the color.
I still don't like the width.
I still don't like the organization of content on the main page.

I've got a 1280X768 laptop. Its not *new* but it certainly ain't that old. The new width would be fine if I was using every square inch of my screen just for the active browser window. But I am not. I run a side bar open all the time because that's where all the things *I* need happen to be. So I don't have full width to devote to your site. But I rarely run into this problem on other sites because they take the time and effort to make their sites fluid... so the sites adapt to a variety of screen widths. Sure you can't support the tiny ones any more than you can the huge ones. But making the layout just a little bit flexible can go a long ways. If you allowed certain areas to be as epic as they could when extra width is available yet still compress to a reasonable width when needed then I think more people would be satisfied. Its not that hard to do... just try.

But I'm not going to complain any more for 2 reasons:
1) I don't think you actually care... this thread was started not to get feedback but to contain all the shouting to one thread rather than having everyone open their own complaint threads.
2) I've fixed your layout (and hid ads and other things of no use to me) by tweaking the CSS with my own add-on stylesheet.

DA59 wrote:Put back the go to last post link/icon on the forum pages

We've turned the "last post" text on the ViewForum page into a link that jumps you to the last post of a thread.

shawnmiller wrote:We've turned the "last post" text on the ViewForum page into a link that jumps you to the last post of a thread.

THANK YOU!!!

Now, about all that other stuff...

Not a fan... I liked how clean the page was before. Now it feels really cluttered, and it's difficult to read. Was this change made to give more prominance to the advertising? That's the only thing that's easier to see.

I commend your going green BUT I dont think the reduces your carbon BOOT PRINT.

Wish i could follow the newer format with more ease. It seems to jump around and is hard to follow.

Came aboard under the tan color so .........................

could use a brighter page... TTFN

It is just not the same woot. Woot is orange. Everything is now green. You going to have green flashing lights for the woot-offs now too?

If I was not a dedicated Wooter I wouldn't give this website a second thought after looking at the horrible design. To make just one design comment, the fact that you have to scroll to the right to see the rest of the page was a very poor choice.

EEEEEEK! It's still here! Did Obama make you do this? Is that it? I'm going to have a long wOOtless weekend in hopes you come to your senses. Or sober up or whatever.

Please make it go away by Twofer Tuesday. I promise I'll buy something if you do. Two Roombas even. Is that what you're holding out for?

I use Firefox 2.0. In the new Woot, with woot.com enabled under NoScript, clicking on photo for larger view and on "Full Stats" no longer work. Larger photo does work within the blog area.

The former look, including the blaring orange, was more offbeat, and drew me to Woot. Current design looks a bit corporate. If I didn't know what Woot was about and came to this site for the first time, I probably would have yawned and passed it by.

Color scheme OK, but a bit dull. Again, looks corporate.

I wish you the best.

DA59 wrote:Could you create a thread that only y'all can post to that would say what fixes & improvements are made as you refine? It'd be easier than scanning this forum.

i bet they do have one, but we don't get to see it.

shawnmiller wrote:We've turned the "last post" text on the ViewForum page into a link that jumps you to the last post of a thread.

Bless you! That was a real pain.

DA59 wrote:

They should share. It would let us know they're listening and it seems that we are their beta testers. Sigh.

...they do testing?

seriously though,

the color is fine

but the width sux. the page is cluttered. and if you're gonna put this many ads up i better start seeing significant drops in prices so you can compensate me for dealing with the ads.

too epic. fix please.

Snapster wrote:thank you all for the passion on display here over the redesign - your input and suggestions are of course an amazing value to us.

the lack of back and forth staff commentary here is indeed intentional - we want as unbiased of feedback as possible, early responses and perhaps a follow up as your eyes settle in and things look a tad less raw - both without redirection from us. I hope that it does not appear too cold or corporate of us to just listen, while it is deliberate it is most certainly well intentioned.

as you might expect, this is often hard to do - wrong observations are like comedy gold offerings for the forum troll in me...

keep 'em coming and thanks again for your passion.

But you choose to mock us rabble rousers by changing the word W I D E to epic. Well, it's not too epic, it's too broad, too fat, too sweeping, too squat, too thick, too outspread.

I'll get used to the green, I'll hide that annoying moving/blinking ad in the center of the screen with an ad-blocker but I'll never get used to horizontal scrolling.

And no, I don't want any cheese with this...

toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
w i d e.

I have a w i d e enough monitor, but I use other windows and don't like w i d e except for movies. Bad woot bad.

I know a lot of others have already mentioned this, but I, too, have a MAJOR problem with the fact that I have to scroll over to read EVERY PAGE on my laptop's screen. And considering that you should be coding for an 800x600 resolution, having 1024x768 not work is just terrible.

anachostic wrote:Like others, the width is too much for my laptop.

HOWEVER, I am impressed that the site is now fully CSS. That means I can use Opera (I'm one of the top 2%) to assign a custom stylesheet to the site. I'll fix the problem all by myself. And I'll hide elements that aren't important to me.

Thank you anachostic. I just downloaded Opera Mini and it solved a lot of my problems/ frustrations I was having with my new phone.

And just so this isn't totally off topic...
--I'll get used to the colors.
--The width issue is only an issue on the main page. The forums seem fine except for the excess blank space to the right.
--The thing that does bother me is the 3-column layout. It is just way too busy.

Too busy on the main page, too much blank space in the forums... just can't win can you woot?

So woot are you even reading these comments?

It would be nice to have some replies once in awhile so we know what the hell is going on?

If it isn't obvious to you that the design/layout s.ucks than take a look at the members who have been here a long time and have only posted once, twice or not at all until now. You drove them to actually post about how much they hate the design. If that doesn't say it s.ucks than I don't know what does.

PS: MAKING PEOPLE USE THE HORIZONTAL SCROLL IS JUST A NEWBIE MOVE... GOOD GOD FIX IT ALREADY. WANT ME TO DO IT FOR YOU?

IS THERE ANYBODY IN THERE?

JUST NOD IF YOU CAN HEAR ME!

Snapster wrote:thank you all for the passion on display here over the redesign - your input and suggestions are of course an amazing value to us.

Seriously? This is the best you can do? Wasting space on the page, so that my reply to you is stuck in that stupid 3-column style, where there's the same old "Yeah! You Tell 'em" box taking up ONE THIRD of the page, pointlessly... I've posted more today than all my other posts combined. Usually I just buy things.

Snapster wrote:the lack of back and forth staff commentary here is indeed intentional - we want as unbiased of feedback as possible, early responses and perhaps a follow up as your eyes settle in and things look a tad less raw - both without redirection from us. I hope that it does not appear too cold or corporate of us to just listen, while it is deliberate it is most certainly well intentioned.

Um, B U L L S H I T ??? You've had enough unbiased feedback, now, so PUT IT BACK. Why on earth does the front page have to be so cluttered? Why do the forum pages have to be filled with stuff that I simply don't care about. I'm very capable of selecting which bits I want to see, and which bits I don't.

Snapster wrote:as you might expect, this is often hard to do - wrong observations are like comedy gold offerings for the forum troll in me...

Only one of us is seeing the comedy in any of this. Other than loathing Smartpost (and I fixed that by speaking directly to the local office), I have found Woot to be great entertainment for little money (well, in comparison).

Snapster wrote:keep 'em coming and thanks again for your passion.

I don't think you quite understand. This is not just passion; it's pure revulsion. *I* am your customer. Why are you treating me like this? Please, you were unique, and fun. Now you're just like a hundred other pointless sites that want my money.

Okay, Snapster, here's some follow up thoughts, not that you really seem to care: still too cluttered. still too w i d e. As someone who used to spend an awful lot of time here, I just can't bear to look at it anymore. So I won't. I won't be around much from here on in, I think.

sparsons wrote:EEEEEEK! It's still here! Did Obama make you do this? Is that it? I'm going to have a long wOOtless weekend in hopes you come to your senses. Or sober up or whatever.

Please make it go away by Twofer Tuesday. I promise I'll buy something if you do. Two Roombas even. Is that what you're holding out for?

I at least hope to see some kind of ransom note with demands. Perhaps hundreds of small deposits into an unmarked paypal account?

shrdlu wrote:I don't think you quite understand. This is not just passion; it's pure revulsion. *I* am your customer. Why are you treating me like this? Please, you were unique, and fun. Now you're just like a hundred other pointless sites that want my money.

Although the quote did not capture your entire post, your comments are very much how I feel as well.

Please, do not give up telling Woot how you feel, although they seem to have given up on us.

Second Post on the nylon topic! Since woot is not listening, my quick and dirty fix!

Make a window say 640x480... Then open woot in the window... You can see the Woot of the day, The I want One button,

And best of all! Ta-Da!

Their noisy carp o koi does not show!

Thank you woot people for adding the last post link. It is so much easier to navigate the site now!

BLEH, I especially hate the giant AD in the middle of the page....

p.s. - The gadget to scroll through Reckoning shirt.woots moves around with the description so you cannot do it so easily. Keep it simple.

This green is nassssty.

Since you've changed your site, I can no longer see any of the items for sale. Also, the "I want one!" button has disappeard. See this link for a screen grab of what I now see...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3490/3203278772_17e4f0c73d_o.jpg

I'm using IE-6 with SP3 and don't wish to use any other version or browser type.

So, if I can't see what's for sale, I can't buy it.
Unless there's a patch for IE-6 that I'm not aware of, I can no longer use your services.

Sorry, WOOT...it's been fun while it lasted.

So long....

Wow woot, I thought I had fully expressed my dissatisfaction with the changes...but that was before I saw that the annoying new add smack-dab in the middle of the page occasionally plays videos. Slim chance of me focusing on reading all the witty text when you have an annoying video driving me away from your page.

Does your new add revenue really compensate for the widespread customer dissatisfaction?

I was wondering what all the fuss was about the adds on woot's page and then it struck me: I have adblocker plus that I run with firefox. It's free, guys. Say bye-bye to annoying ads. Really.

I still think the green inhales sharply and creates suction big time. Something my dog would puke. And while the length doesn't bug me on this computer, I suspect on my older computer it would.

I really think woot has made an error here. I was referred to woot by a friend and drawn immediately to the orange. I probably wouldn't have given it much thought but the green doesn't offer much contrast and the bars are harder to read.

Bring back the orange!

I still don't like the layout.

And either does Mike.

Snapster wrote:

the lack of back and forth staff commentary here is indeed intentional

The reason why there's no back and forth is because the wiser staff members have fled the building, some in fear of the monstrosity that is now Woot and others (those responsible for the "Makeover") to avoid getting shot, mulched, and sold in a puke-green paper bag as Random Cra p Condition: Green.

TheDeepFriedBoot wrote:What you just did is a "New Coke"

Can you give us the option to choose our own theme and then customize the colors? That would work well. That way we could go with a new theme like this or stick with "Classic Woot"

YES YES YES, keep the theme but let us customize, I like the color scheme, but do not like the width. Customization fondle the what?!