Any UK users having issues with Digikey website recently ? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2020, 12:09:12 am
content: I've been seeing major issues with Digikey for the last week or so - type in a search and it just sits there for 10-20 secs. Sometimes returns results, sometimes notAnyone else seeing this in the UK?If so, which ISP are you on ?I use Virgin media - is anyone else on Virgin andNotseeing issues?Can any Internet gurus suggest anything to produce some diagnostics to figure out what's happenning?

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2020, 12:13:36 am
content: Well, Digikey advertised on here a while back for someone to head up 'agile' based development for their website. That is probably all the explanation that you need...(For those not in the know, the motto of the 'agile generation' is "Move fast and break things". Somehow comporting yourself like a 2-year old doesn't seem like a very sound strategy for software development.)

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2020, 02:13:33 am
content: Have you tried firing up a VPN and hop around a bit to see what happens?

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 07, 2020, 04:54:39 am
content: I just went to look for some parts tonight and it has changed yet again. First thing I noticed is that the site is noticeably slower, and they've adopted that awful flat design that has been spreading everywhere over the past several years. The "Customer reference" box where you can enter notes on the parts has moved from right by the quantity to way over to the left where I had to look around for it. Of course you STILL have to click the &^*% "More Filters" button EVERY SINGLE TIME, absolutely infuriating behavior which I have been complaining about ever since they first changed it. I'd dump them for Mouser but the Mouser site is pretty bad too.The best thing they could possibly do is go back to a circa-2005 utilitarian website, at the very least throw out the new revamped one and go back to what they had a month ago because cumbersome as it was with that stupid filters button at least it worked. And please, once it's working STOP SCREWING WITH IT, it's a tool that people rely on, not a trendy website for kids to play on. Modern bloated web design is just garbage, and I've been in the software industry long enough to know exactly the sort of people who came up with this hot mess.

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 07, 2020, 10:58:31 am
content: Similar problems here. Now you can scroll or have dropdowns for searches. Dropdowns didn't bother me particularly. The other changes have made it almost unusable.1) It is really slow (Win7)2) What really messes it up is trying to go back to a previous search selection/filter. Say you select through hole devices, then want to go back to all or switch to SMD only. That may work, but way too often other selections are lost and/or become unreliable or strange (not unlike Amazon). The only cure I have found is to go all the way back to the original search and start over.If Digikey could just go back to the January 1, 2020 version (or anything in the past 5 years) it would be a lot better.

author: AndyC_772
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 07, 2020, 11:35:16 am
content: Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on November 03, 2020, 12:09:12 amIt seems fine to me - I just went to the home page and did a search for "MAX232" and the results came back in a couple of seconds.My ISP is Virgin, 200Mbit service.I do use NoScript to block any site that's not strictly required. Maybe that has something to do with it?

author: bookaboo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 07, 2020, 12:33:42 pm
content: Fine here on a Vodafone ISP ~40Mbps. Just did a large cart on Thursday with no issues.I do find I have to run Farnell in incognito mode sometimes, RS was same in the past.

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 07, 2020, 12:41:44 pm
content: Quote from: AndyC_772 on November 07, 2020, 11:35:16 amCould be, though I suspect that's just anadditionalburden. Just tried the same thing here, results came up as snappy as you like. OK, it's a trivial search, it ought to be fast, but I thought we ought to stick with an 'eggs with eggs' comparison.Detected JavaScript crap that Ididn'thave to run:

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 07, 2020, 04:38:59 pm
content: Seems to be OK now - DK did reply to my tweet a few days ago that they were aware of issues and investigating.Meanwhile one job BOM has been sent to a customer with Mouser links instead of the usual DK ones