I can't see the far left side of the Leaderboard. From "LEA" down is cut off. Just my monitor? Everything else fits.

pooflady wrote:I can't see the far left side of the Leaderboard. From "LEA" down is cut off. Just my monitor? Everything else fits.

I noted this in a question over on deals.woot (look at the "fresh" tab in the "ask the wooters" section). Dang, but that site is complicated (and I miss having forums). You can vote questions up, and comment as well. Quickest way to getting things fixed, ackshully.

shrdlu wrote:I noted this in a question over on deals.woot (look at the "fresh" tab in the "ask the wooters" section). Dang, but that site is complicated (and I miss having forums). You can vote questions up, and comment as well. Quickest way to getting things fixed, ackshully.

I never did find your question. Honestly, if this weren't Woot, I'd have taken one look at the site and run.

pooflady wrote:I never did find your question. Honestly, if this weren't Woot, I'd have taken one look at the site and run.

The question was buried by the magic of deals.woot insisting on showing no more than ten things at a time. I wish there were a specific *BUG* section over there, and I wish even more that there was pagination, rather than an ever lengthening list of "more comments"...

I'm pretty close to giving up on it. I'll probably check it once a day to see if there's anything cool in the "sponsored deals" section, but I doubt I'll look at it any more often, really, than I look at sellout.woot (which is almost never).

It's just too painful and kludgey. The amount of browser memory it chews up is amazing (and there's some bad programming going on there, since the browser doesn't un-allocate it after leaving the site).

Nah, I'll just stick with my favorite three (in correct order):

wine, woot regular, and (at least during xmas season) kids.

shrdlu wrote:The question was buried by the magic of deals.woot insisting on showing no more than ten things at a time. I wish there were a specific *BUG* section over there, and I wish even more that there was pagination, rather than an ever lengthening list of "more comments"...

I'm pretty close to giving up on it. I'll probably check it once a day to see if there's anything cool in the "sponsored deals" section, but I doubt I'll look at it any more often, really, than I look at sellout.woot (which is almost never).

It's just too painful and kludgey. The amount of browser memory it chews up is amazing (and there's some bad programming going on there, since the browser doesn't un-allocate it after leaving the site).

Nah, I'll just stick with my favorite three (in correct order):

wine, woot regular, and (at least during xmas season) kids.

Yeah, the pagination would be better. I don't like trying to figure out where I was.

I'll probably check the five sponsored deals frequently, although there'd have to be a lot more comments made on them before I'd buy. The rest of the site is too complicated for someone like me.

shrdlu wrote:The amount of browser memory it chews up is amazing (and there's some bad programming going on there, since the browser doesn't un-allocate it after leaving the site).

How much memory does it chew up?

shawnmiller wrote:How much memory does it chew up?

I suppose that's a subjective statement, but here's what I've noticed. Using three different browsers, on four different operating systems:

The profile starts normally (for woot, which tends to have a high profile already), but moving from woot to deals tends to jump up from around 30k+ to 40k+, immediately. It increases rapidly from there, and doesn't drop back down until the browser is closed.

Selecting anything with the crazy popup windows (I know there's an ajaxy name for them, but I don't remember it) causes it to jump even more, and heaven forbid that I choose to comment on the leaderboard (which seems to be the biggest trigger). On my least tolerant system (freebsd+firefox), it can jump as high as 90k right off the bat (thank goodness I have a ton of memory).

As a good fingerprint, something moderately heavy like woot generally runs mozilla/firefox around 30k to 35k. As an alternative, xkcd.com barely shows up at 20k, and gmail cranks up to 90k until you select the "older version" at the bottom of the page, at which time it drops down to a measly 70k (yes, gmail is a H O G).

What's interesting is that, on those systems where I have more than one kind of browser (IE and Firefox, IE and Mozilla, Firefox and Safari), the memory footprint for either is about the same (for woot, in any case).

shrdlu wrote:I suppose that's a subjective statement, but here's what I've noticed. Using three different browsers, on four different operating systems:

The profile starts normally (for woot, which tends to have a high profile already), but moving from woot to deals tends to jump up from around 30k+ to 40k+, immediately. It increases rapidly from there, and doesn't drop back down until the browser is closed.

Selecting anything with the crazy popup windows (I know there's an ajaxy name for them, but I don't remember it) causes it to jump even more, and heaven forbid that I choose to comment on the leaderboard (which seems to be the biggest trigger). On my least tolerant system (freebsd+firefox), it can jump as high as 90k right off the bat (thank goodness I have a ton of memory).

As a good fingerprint, something moderately heavy like woot generally runs mozilla/firefox around 30k to 35k. As an alternative, xkcd.com barely shows up at 20k, and gmail cranks up to 90k until you select the "older version" at the bottom of the page, at which time it drops down to a measly 70k (yes, gmail is a H O G).

What's interesting is that, on those systems where I have more than one kind of browser (IE and Firefox, IE and Mozilla, Firefox and Safari), the memory footprint for either is about the same (for woot, in any case).

How do you check the memory for the sites?

sgoman5674 wrote:How do you check the memory for the sites?

Seriously? I use top on those systems that are unix based, and the task manager thing on microsoft windows (I have two of XP, and one Vista). I run multiple operating systems on various hardware, using everything from openbsd to multiple linux distributions (although strangely, no debian).

This provides a nice memory footprint which can be compared from one browser to the next, and from one operating system to the next.

Did that help?

I've been shopping at woot for a long time and I haven't got an invite to deals.woot.

me so sad.

I've been invited to participate in testing deals.woot.com. I had some feedback I wanted to post there, but I find I am unable to.

When I click the "add a comment" or "ask a question" links over there, all I get are javascript errors. This happens with both FireFox and IE.

So here's my new feedback; fix your javascript.

My math skills are fine, but my ability to communicate them, not so much. Substitute 30mb instead of 30k, and so on (as in, 30 megabytes, or 30,000 kilobytes).

shrdlu wrote:...but moving from woot to deals tends to jump up from around 30k+ to 40k+, immediately...

That's what I get for being flippant, I suppose.

ithoughti wrote:I've been shopping at woot for a long time and I haven't got an invite to deals.woot.

me so sad.

Buy more stuff

Is there a moderator for determining which deals can be posted on Deals? IE Victoria's Secret, cigars, alcohol etc.

I don't see any rules or FAQ on what is appropriate deal content.

Please PM

shrdlu wrote:Seriously? I use top on those systems that are unix based, and the task manager thing on microsoft windows (I have two of XP, and one Vista). I run multiple operating systems on various hardware, using everything from openbsd to multiple linux distributions (although strangely, no debian).

This provides a nice memory footprint which can be compared from one browser to the next, and from one operating system to the next.

Did that help?

My first thought was umma umma umma umma! But then I looked over at it again and saw what you meant.

Yes it does help. Thank you.

ithoughti wrote:I've been shopping at woot for a long time and I haven't got an invite to deals.woot.

me so sad.

we'll revisit next steps but an early thought was rollout to 2004/2005 joining wooters next... you know, so that we could recapture the glory days of the original woot.com launch or something.

sgoman5674 wrote:Is there a moderator for determining which deals can be posted on Deals? IE Victoria's Secret, cigars, alcohol etc.

I don't see any rules or FAQ on what is appropriate deal content.

Please PM

there was a deal for a certain category of 'toys' that was found too extreme a few weeks ago, but I wouldn't think that concern would exist on your examples (perhaps the first if it's done in jest) - I would imagine that mods are going to make some early inconsistent judgement calls and we're going to have to build from there into a more consistent (and published) rule-set.

Deals is not accepting my comment, probably for the reason below so,

I know I may be in the minority here but we are restricted to IE6.0 at work and the leaderboard especially, is virtually unreadable. The entire site has issues (such as the tabs etc.) in this rendition, but this one is a big issue.

While I'm thinking about it...

What picture is deals.woot.com going to display on the other sites? Will it continually cycle through the sponsored deals? Will it just show a picture of Snapster, gleefully running his hands through the piles of money that innocents like me send in?

I'm staying up nights worrying about this.

grumb wrote:Deals is not accepting my comment, probably for the reason below so,

I know I may be in the minority here but we are restricted to IE6.0 at work and the leaderboard especially, is virtually unreadable. The entire site has issues (such as the tabs etc.) in this rendition, but this one is a big issue.

Including above quote because I too am working with IE 6 (XP). My biggest problem (up until now) had been that when I first get to the deals site, everything is "grayed" out. Until this morning, a simple click on "refresh" would bring everything clear. However, this morning, I tried to leave a comment...everything went "gray" again - comment did NOT print (so far as I can determine) AND when I went back to deals.woot, everything THERE was "grayed" out..and this time I COULDN'T "clear" it out by just refreshing - had to leave the site entirely.

Don't know what would've happened, if I had tried to order something. Otherwise, I haven't had trouble reading anything (some sites, the text will get overlapped...but that happens very rarely, for me.)

Will say that I do find it interesting enough that I look at it 3-4 times a day...will probably use it more, when all the bugs get exterminated. ;-)

It's weird, I can do deals.woot.com fine on my iPhone, any by this I mean I can see the site but I have not tried to interact with the site. I can't even get on with my computer with Firefox i just get "The connection was reset" so idk

I don't know if anyone's still looking at this thread. Couldn't figure out where to post it on Deals, but I really, really like the pagination now. Makes it a lot easier.

pooflady wrote:I don't know if anyone's still looking at this thread. Couldn't figure out where to post it on Deals, but I really, really like the pagination now. Makes it a lot easier.

You've got to go back over and look in the Fresh deals. There's a cheeseburger in a can that needs voting up to popular. Yes. Cheeseburger. Yes. In A Can. I can't decide whether it's hysterically funny, or unbelievably disgusting.

shrdlu wrote:You've got to go back over and look in the Fresh deals. There's a cheeseburger in a can that needs voting up to popular. Yes. Cheeseburger. Yes. In A Can. I can't decide whether it's hysterically funny, or unbelievably disgusting.

And it looked to me like it had lettuce on it. How can you can lettuce?

Snapster wrote:we'll revisit next steps but an early thought was rollout to 2004/2005 joining wooters next... you know, so that we could recapture the glory days of the original woot.com launch or something.

I would like to go back in time... and 2004/2005 seems like a good plan if I can join woot! sooner than I did.

shrdlu wrote:You've got to go back over and look in the Fresh deals. There's a cheeseburger in a can that needs voting up to popular. Yes. Cheeseburger. Yes. In A Can. I can't decide whether it's hysterically funny, or unbelievably disgusting.

That is actually unbelievably funny... and may actually taste good.

The burger...

shrdlu wrote:You've got to go back over and look in the Fresh deals. There's a cheeseburger in a can that needs voting up to popular. Yes. Cheeseburger. Yes. In A Can. I can't decide whether it's hysterically funny, or unbelievably disgusting.

Both.

edthebedhead wrote:Both.

Yes. Also now popular (for those still looking). I almost want to buy one, just to have it.

So I just got an e-mail saying I am invited to the beta. But when I go to the site either by the link in the e-mail or by typing it in to the address bar, I get the 403 "Forbidden" page. Any ideas?

Billlbo wrote:So I just got an e-mail saying I am invited to the beta. But when I go to the site either by the link in the e-mail or by typing it in to the address bar, I get the 403 "Forbidden" page. Any ideas?

I thought that they were just up to green squares, so far. Let me check: You are just typing http://deals.woot.com/ right?

I should add that if I go there without being logged in, it just asks me to log in. No 403 error. What browser are you using? I tried several, all with the same results.

I am trying to ask a question and getting there has been a server error. got it last night and this morning. Using FF 3.5.5

I am one of your esteemed early members who received the invitation to your beta test. BUT, I have not been able to log on to deals.woot.com! My browser churns and churns and finally gives up. I've been trying ever since receiving your second (corrected) email.
HELP!

foringer wrote:I am one of your esteemed early members who received the invitation to your beta test. BUT, I have not been able to log on to deals.woot.com! My browser churns and churns and finally gives up. I've been trying ever since receiving your second (corrected) email.
HELP!

Just try typing in deals.woot.com in the address bar of your browser.

sgoman5674 wrote:Just try typing in deals.woot.com in the address bar of your browser.

Strange. Tried it on both my PC and wife's laptop with same results - nothing. We are both using XP and our ISP is Verizon.

foringer wrote:Strange. Tried it on both my PC and wife's laptop with same results - nothing. We are both using XP and our ISP is Verizon.

Go to the regular woot site. Log out. Log back in (with the account, of course, that received the invitation). You don't say which browser (the ISP is not significant--you can see regular woot, so we know woot's not blocked), but I'm assuming IE.

Which IE? Do you have other browser choices? Here's the link, all nice and clickified for you to try. Please report back, either way.

http://deals.woot.com/

shrdlu wrote:Go to the regular woot site. Log out. Log back in (with the account, of course, that received the invitation). You don't say which browser (the ISP is not significant--you can see regular woot, so we know woot's not blocked), but I'm assuming IE.

Which IE? Do you have other browser choices? Here's the link, all nice and clickified for you to try. Please report back, either way.

http://deals.woot.com/

I have IE 8 and no other browers that I know of and get the nessage that Internet Explorer can not connect to your site. Giving up for tonight but thanks for your assistance!

Oh, lord, lord, lord. It doesn't say Beta anymore. Everyone DUCK! Incoming!

foringer wrote:I have IE 8 and no other browers that I know of and get the nessage that Internet Explorer can not connect to your site. Giving up for tonight but thanks for your assistance!

Please download Firefox, and try it with that. My guess is it's a cookie issue.

ThunderThighs wrote:Have you cleared your temp files?

Yes, this morning but no change. At this point, let's just forget it. Thanks again!

shrdlu wrote:My math skills are fine, but my ability to communicate them, not so much. Substitute 30mb instead of 30k, and so on (as in, 30 megabytes, or 30,000 kilobytes).



That's what I get for being flippant, I suppose.

I understood what you meant.