I’m not even sure how many chickens I can fit on my current hard drive, but it’s probably more than the number of persons I can fit.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
    13·
    7 days ago

    I absolutely despise how online retailers have always allowed sellers to use the most nonsensical classifications for certain item categories, to the point most categories’ filters are fucking useless

    “User experience? Lol fuck that, browse endlessly you fucking peon!”

    • Kogasa@programming.dev
      2·
      7 days ago

      Everyone has their own way of doing things. In order to integrate them, you have to create your own way of doing things. Later, other people have to integrate your new schema with their own. It’s just the nature of working with many different companies

        • Kogasa@programming.dev
          2·
          7 days ago

          Impossible to say how the screenshot came about. At some point, the semantics of someone’s data was misinterpreted. Something was called a hard drive when it isn’t, something was treated as a capacity when it isn’t

          • toynbee@lemmy.worldOP
            3·
            7 days ago

            Just as a matter of interest, at the time of the screenshot I opened one of the “chickens” results and combed the page but failed to find any instance of the word (singular or otherwise). Today and yesterday, several people have asked me for the “chickens” results, which are sadly fewer now; however, one still exists within the constraints of the filters I applied. I still can find no instance of the word on the product page.

            I’m sure the word “chicken” appears somewhere in the metadata, but it’s still a failure of the system and the UX.

            edit: s/and/any/

    • toynbee@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      7 days ago

      Strangely (to me), most of the comments I’ve seen have been focused on the chickens, which are pretty funny; however, I don’t think I’ve seen anyone comment on the “1 person,” which - to me - is more concerning. Though if “Dennis” is a person (rather than a menace), perhaps that mitigates my concerns.

    • toynbee@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      7 days ago

      Unfortunately, I took that screenshot a while ago; if I do the same search again, I get only one “1 chickens” result, which I’ve linked elsewhere in the thread. It’s just a normal external drive, as far as I can tell, so I have no idea how “chickens” got involved.

      The search was originally done on Walmart.com (I’m not proud but there aren’t a lot of retail options around my small town). All I did was search for “20tb external drive,” filter for “in store,” then open the “capacity” filter, which is what’s shown above. I’ve consistently gotten weird results so, unless it’s something specific to my local store, you probably will as well. If you do this, I’ll be curious of your findings.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        Fae be it from me to Walmart shame. I have bought and will buy hardware from worse. ;) thanks for the reply

        • toynbee@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          7 days ago

          My pleasure, and I can relate to the first part. Hope you have a great weekend!

          edit: Also, your username reminds me of this song, which comes highly recommended by my five-year-old.

            • toynbee@lemmy.worldOP
              2·
              7 days ago

              The first time I showed it to my kid, they said “Daddy, what is reality?”

              I still don’t know how to answer, especially in a way that makes sense of the video.

              • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
                1·
                7 days ago

                Kid, that is exactly what question that video was asking, and it doesn’t know the answer either.

    • toynbee@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      7 days ago

      Much appreciated! I ended up ordering from Newegg, which had much more sensible filters. I had originally purchased what I wanted from Amazon, but the first one I got, ordered refurbished, had clearly been shucked and replaced with a 160GB drive from (IIRC) 2008 and the second one, ordered new, started audibly clicking one day into use.

      For some reason (described by Amazon customer support as a “server glitch”) Amazon had a really tough time with the return of both of them. This drive is meant to back up a RAID attached to my file server, so I didn’t want to continue tempting fate by continuing to leave the server un-backed-up, which is why I was trying to find a place I could pick up one approximately the same day. I wasn’t able to find such a place, so I went with Newegg because it seemed like a bad idea to keep trying Amazon.

  • Metostopholes@midwest.socialEnglish
    81·
    9 days ago

    Yeah, you definitely don’t want to get one that only holds 1 chicken. The extra money is worth it to hold 1 chickens.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    491·
    8 days ago

    Automation has truly ruined online shopping. These days you can order from a respectable brandname on a big company website and find out later the seller is actually nanchangshishengyuedianzishangwuyouxiangongsi and they sent you a completely different product than advertised.

    • paultimate14@lemmy.world
      26·
      8 days ago

      I remember back in 2013 I built a PC for my wife, and in 2014 one for myself. At that point, buying something online still felt a bit odd. It was reserved for specialty items, shipping would often take at least 2 weeks, or even 6 weeks depending on where it was coming from. I was no stranger to purchasing online, but brick-and-mortar stores with real stock still existed and could get me what I purchased much more quickly.

      I remember being so impressed with Newegg’s website. It made it so easy to build a computer and make sure everything was compatible. It was really easy to compare different options. The filter system was intuitive and comprehensive. I remember thinking “wow this is a perfect shopping experience. The future has arrived”.

      I went to build my next PC in 2019, and dear Satan was it so much worse. I had heard about Newegg getting bought out by a larger company in 2016, and it showed. They opened it up to 3rd party sellers. The filters got clogged with garbage and don’t seem to work properly anymore. The sort function became a joke. The UI got rearranged to be less intuitive. I think they purposefylly wanted to make a worse shopping experience to make people frustrated, to get them to give up on looking for deals and pay a bit extra just to be done with it. I ended up having to go to a 3rd party website (PCPartPicker) to figure out what I needed and where to get it. And some of those parts I had to order on eBay (some even from Newegg’s eBay account which is just… Why are we doing this?), some on Amazon or Best Buy. And it’s only gotten worse since.

      This same experience has happened everywhere. Just this morning my wife was checking out Culture Hustle to see if they have any interesting new paints and commented on how much worse the website was now than when we last used it a few years ago.

      This may make me sound like an old curmudgeon yelling at clouds, but I think the Internet peaked a while ago. There are arguments over exactly when, but sometime between 2008-2016. I remember in 2012 in talking to my fellow students about how Google search results were getting worse.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        My wife ordered a bunch of clothes off Amazon for the kids, they came out of the package still in their vacuum packed Chinese shipping bag.

        The only saving grace is If they don’t fit they’re easily returnable. We probably could have ordered them from Alibaba for pennies on the dollar, But waited 6 weeks and assumed all the risk of a nearly impossible return.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        10·
        8 days ago

        It’s weird how Amazon kind of pushed every online store into becoming eBay (without the bidding… Do people still use eBay for auctions?)

        • taladar@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          8 days ago

          The bidding is actually the main reason I never once used eBay but do use regular online store like Amazon.

        • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          7 days ago

          Every electronic I own is basically from an eBay auction. It’s a great place to buy from, their buyer protection is borderline too good… not such a great place to sell on. Although, what are you going to do, go to their other big competitors?..

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            2·
            7 days ago

            So you use the actual auctions, and not just “buy it now”?

            I remember back in the day when all they had were auctions, it was novel and cool. Then they added “buy it now” and the site slowly turned into Amazon.

            • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
              3·
              7 days ago

              95% of the time I do the auctions. Only do buyitnow if no other options, which isn’t super common. I have got Ipads for 30-50 that still have a good battery even after using them for a couple years. A $50 laptop that does anything you would normally want a laptop to do. 8 kindles for $45 of which I sold 4 of them to my aunt for $45 to sell at a flea market and I kept and gave away the other four. 3 gallons of Legos for like $10… the list just keeps going.

      • kreskin@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        Yeah, I remember a long time ago thinking Linkedin was useful and had some good articles. Now its gross.

  • lunarul@lemmy.world
    38·
    8 days ago

    Just today I was trying to look for something at homedepot and not only were the filters exactly like that, but they were also additive. So if I selected both “1 chicken” and “1 chickens” to cover both spellings, it would say 0 results because no product matches both at the same time.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      4·
      8 days ago

      This shit infuriates me. It is trivial to add an option for “and/or” when you have multiple checkboxes.

      • taladar@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        8 days ago

        You don’t even really need an option for fields that are single value and compared by equality. Two distinct values for that only ever make sense as an OR filter.

    • toynbee@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      8 days ago

      I haven’t had this problem that I can recall with online shopping, but I have definitely encountered it when searching Jira tickets.

      Actually, some of my most successful online shopping (or at least filtering) has been at Home Depot. They indicate where items are in their store very specifically (and usually accurately) and most of them even have Google Maps of the inside of their store. Because I can precisely locate something before I go there, I know exactly where to go when I do and can be in and out very quickly. It’s wonderful.

      The screenshot is from Walmart. Their accuracy is much more questionable. I didn’t see a single chicken last time I visited. Joking aside, the website has indicated that an item was in stock in an aisle that didn’t even exist (I think it was looking at another store despite me confirming multiple times which one I had set).