Introducing New Forum Design for All Users
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Hey guys,
We are completely re-vamping the Forum design on Desktop and M-site after around 5 to 6 years… Its one of the major change which will get rolled out to you in next couple of hours…
Why such a big change suddenly?
To be very frank, its not a sudden change and we have ourselves used the new layout/design for past 1.5 months before rolling out to all… And yes we have been contemplating such a change from a long time…
The forum page in its current form was very unhelpful for New Dimers or new visitors to the website… With around 8-9 sticky, the sub-forums etc.. all the real deals were very much down and was lot of inconvenience for New Dimers to figure out the deals.
Also many never figured out how to see Latest deals in forums etc.. So we are hoping the new design will solve some of the pressing UX problems.
Why no votes? Why only hotness?
Over the last one year, we have worked a lot on Hotness algorithm and we will continue to evolve it to push better and better deals up the chain irrespective of simply “votes”
In current Forum page, 5 green smileys would show up even for deal having 40 votes vs one having 6 votes… It was never intuitive enough to understand the hotness of the deal..
With hotness, we are trying our best to automatically show the best deals on very top and Hotness currently is not depndent on what your “best friend” in the community thinks.. it considers clicks, views and much more…
While moving away from smileys may feel a bit odd, you will strongly feel the difference after few days or a week.
(Don’t forget to Try out HOT, NEW tabs in the latest design)
Easier switching of Forums
We understand many users would like to switch between forums and we have tried it to make it as much easier as we can.
Improved Search
If you are searching for deals, you wont find discussion clutter when looking for deals.
Choose your layout and it applies site-wide
If you prefer to see deals in a Grid format, simply select that layout and same layout will apply in Home page, Forum page, Search page etc..
If you prefer a less image heavy Text layout, We have got you covered too.
Hope you guys enjoy the change… While it may become slightly difficult initially (specially for hard core users out there), We can assure you that you will appreciate the change as time passes by
As always feel free to share your comments and we are keeping a close eye at your feedback as well as Data which we gather.
Cheers!
Lets leave that Hotness to Admins and Deal Posters 
We will always chill out here 
Arey in this particular post, how to see, who all liked it? Where is the option?
I am eagerly waiting for the new design 
Now Desktop layout is also changed, seriously I think they want everyone to quit this forum. 
Well, if they don’t revert back soon I will be the first to quit from here. Enough with this crap layout.
What’s wrong with desidime team …u r changed app from best to worst
Really it is complicated …
Yeah…I stopped using app after update…
Now in Mobile site version also things are difficult..need to scroll a lots see all deals…
I Don’t like the change personally…
Before in mobisite in 1 page 7 deals can be seen at a instance now 2-3 deals time loss n crap…
New design is worst . It is damn hard to know and find good loots in few seconds . Old one was good
Hotness takes few minute to get updated, while Vote ups and downs were instant. Earlier it was too easy to understand whether deal is worth or not bcoz of votes but now its confusing, they changed this layout for new users but I think its more confusing for newbies. I was unhappy with new app so reverted back to old and now this new layout changed in web as well 
Hopeless layout… Don’t like it et all… Very confusing… 
One problem with new design in Mobile App … we can not refresh in thread .. by just dragging finger down.. which we were able to do in earlier design..
Am really confused now where i have to check latest deals as i can see 30 mins and hours deals…please help me to check deals of 1 mins
One thing that bothers me – Earlier i was able to see many topics at one go, now less number of topics are seen in 1 go which is a concern . Maybe i will get used to it in sometime
Thank God!! You have removed vote Down option from here otherwise you would have been received record red tomatoes for the worst design….. Just comeback with your previous design otherwise many of dimers would not late to quit desidime….
@admin
+1
100% right…
Anyway does any1 have previous versions of DD app apk??
Previous layout was good…bring back forum section…
Nothing can better the design and ease of using in dd’s initial stage template. Wish that old skin could be brought back to life. This is worst than the last one. Sad. 
Today my boss confused me in office.
Then the trainer confused me in training.
I came back to relax on DD, but alas, the site confused me too !!
Don’t fix when it isn’t broken
good it is better. please follow this way @admin . no vu and vd good concept
worst design ever.. we want old layout back 
new layout is quite puzzling,
seems it will take much time to get addicted to it,
earlier was way easy to handle,
after new forum update i thought there somethig wrong with by browser setting thats it showing forum as app page,
the suddenly i discoverd this hot topic about new forum look
Hi Guys, thank you for the initial feedback – the new design with hotness and elimination of vu/vd was done as quite a lot of users were trying to manipulate through voting up deals of their friends and all. I would still request you all to try out the new design for 1 week and let us know how you find it we will be constantly working on providing the best solution possible to you – in case you are stuck somewhere do let us know…
Please remove vu or vd.. it does not matter but the new design/layout is worst…..
Difficult to find new deal.
Previous was best
you can check them here : https://www.desidime.c...ew
pls give users an option to revert back to the old layout at least i’m scared i’m gonna lose out on future loots because of all the clutter 
Add dark theme for Android app version.
Too much white light not good for eyes.
Yes, We will be introducing dark theme on app very soon. Its high up on our to-do list..
text view needs to be way more compact too much white space tired of scrolling
I don’t know what hotness of post is all about??
VU/VD was very important features every one had lot of joy full moment’s..
Could have kept this one SAME becoz old is GOLD!!!