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Looks great! I appreciate the new ability to swap parts. A few comments: 1. Most of your swap pages have less than 100 parts, but display 50 by default. I w

Looks great! I appreciate the new ability to swap parts. A few comments: 1. Most of your swap pages have less than 100 parts, but display 50 by default. I wish this would default to "View All". Unless there's a huge number of components that will crash my browser, I'd rather view them all than paging through. Or, if you can't view all in case you crash a little phone on a bad connection, at least remember my selection across all of these pages so I don't have to reselect it for each component and visit to the site. 2. I wish there were more sort options on the select screen. At the very least, I want to see the performance metric you're using to recommend one over another. Further, I want to be able to sort and group by manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD), brand (MSI/Asus), VRAM, release date, power consumption, efficiency, form factor (ATX/uATX), etc. This is a lot of data, but it's the main reason why I use Newegg over Amazon, and Digikey over Allied. Parametric search tools are just the best way to select technical parts. 3. The Intel/AMD processor selection is a difficult UI problem. You want to simultaneously recommend the right brand for a target price point out of the gate, but also recommend only processors compatible with the selected motherboard. I'm not sure you nailed this one. 4. In the "Advanced" screen, the Intel/AMD/Additional check box hierarchy is confusing. The additional platforms should be under the Intel/AMD hierarchies, perhaps deselected as "Legacy" by default. Also, I know why they're additional, but a tooltip describing that LGA1150 is "for Intel 8x and 9x chipsets used with Core iX-4xxx and -5xxx series processors from 2013 and 2014" would tell me a lot more than I know without Googling. (Also, I can generate a server error by deselecting both Intel and AMD.) 5. I didn't see any M.2 or PCIe SSDs in the storage section.

onli 10y ago
That's great feedback. Thanks. I'll use this as a todo list. > 5. I didn't see any M.2 or PCIe SSDs in the storage section. They are indeed still missing. I postponed them for when I habe a good idea on how to handle both a SSD and a M.2/PCI-E SSD without adding another static Box. Guess it's time to add them to the SSD section for now. For 3: Are you still talking about the swap page there? My only idea in that direction so far is to have a second list that contains parts which would replace other parts, in that case AMD cpus that would replace the Intel mainboard. Maybe shown as combinations of what they do contain, like "AMD Ryzen 7 1700 + AM4 board"?
- LeifCarrotson 10y ago
  > They are indeed still missing. I postponed them for when I have a good idea on how to handle both a SSD and a M.2/PCI-E SSD without adding another static Box. Guess it's time to add them to the SSD section for now. Sure. Or maybe add them, SATA SSDs, and hard drives to a multiple-selection "Storage" box? I definitely think it's time to add them, they're similar in price and much faster than SATA SSDs! > For 3: Are you still talking about the swap page there? No, sorry, the "Advanced" tab, which is where AMD/Intel is selected.
  - onli 10y ago
    > Or maybe add them, SATA SSDs, and hard drives to a multiple-selection "Storage" box? I like that, it would be a good solution and could work well with the design. For the Advanced tab, I think I got the problem now. It's that the swap page filters, making it potentially hard to get from for example socket 1151 to AM4. The Advanced settings are not problematic by itself, the concept of starting with one mainboard is. Does that catch it? I'm not sure that is obvious, but when you browse via the side buttons, it will happily switch out the mainboard. That is just less discoverable right now because the 1151-processors are always higher rated than the FX-processors (which additionally are disabled by default because of the incoming Ryzen). But in the alternatives list, there it is problematic. That one needs a way to list alternatives that do not fit into the current build, but would replace additional parts. All I got in my mind for that is having a second list, or probably rather additional entries in the main list that are somehow marked distinctively and contain the additional item as well.

onli 10y ago

That's great feedback. Thanks. I'll use this as a todo list. > 5. I didn't see any M.2 or PCIe SSDs in the storage section. They are indeed still missing. I postponed them for when I habe a good idea on how to handle both a SSD and a M.2/PCI-E SSD without adding another static Box. Guess it's time to add them to the SSD section for now. For 3: Are you still talking about the swap page there? My only idea in that direction so far is to have a second list that contains parts which would replace other parts, in that case AMD cpus that would replace the Intel mainboard. Maybe shown as combinations of what they do contain, like "AMD Ryzen 7 1700 + AM4 board"?

LeifCarrotson 10y ago
> They are indeed still missing. I postponed them for when I have a good idea on how to handle both a SSD and a M.2/PCI-E SSD without adding another static Box. Guess it's time to add them to the SSD section for now. Sure. Or maybe add them, SATA SSDs, and hard drives to a multiple-selection "Storage" box? I definitely think it's time to add them, they're similar in price and much faster than SATA SSDs! > For 3: Are you still talking about the swap page there? No, sorry, the "Advanced" tab, which is where AMD/Intel is selected.
- onli 10y ago
  > Or maybe add them, SATA SSDs, and hard drives to a multiple-selection "Storage" box? I like that, it would be a good solution and could work well with the design. For the Advanced tab, I think I got the problem now. It's that the swap page filters, making it potentially hard to get from for example socket 1151 to AM4. The Advanced settings are not problematic by itself, the concept of starting with one mainboard is. Does that catch it? I'm not sure that is obvious, but when you browse via the side buttons, it will happily switch out the mainboard. That is just less discoverable right now because the 1151-processors are always higher rated than the FX-processors (which additionally are disabled by default because of the incoming Ryzen). But in the alternatives list, there it is problematic. That one needs a way to list alternatives that do not fit into the current build, but would replace additional parts. All I got in my mind for that is having a second list, or probably rather additional entries in the main list that are somehow marked distinctively and contain the additional item as well.