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by jh3 5559 days ago
When you select the state you're in, a city is automatically "selected" in the final drop down box. I was kind of expecting the page to automatically reload with the deals around the city it chose. You need to actually reselect the city to have the page refresh, though.

Instead of having the city automatically selected, maybe have it say "Choose a city." Or have the the page refresh right away for the default city selection.

I am also not a fan of the fade-in/-out the "DealPage" text does when you hover over it. Mainly due to the fact that you can hover over the text a bunch of times very fast and then have to watch the logo fade from white to black over and over.

Other than those small gripes, the site is very nice visually. Good job!

2 comments

Bug:

Select United States

Select District of Columbia

There is no option in the final dropdown since the final location is in the second dropdown there can be no third selection option. Because of this the page never loads the deals for USA, DC.

Yep, that confused me too. Also, I would make the default USA.
But it would make sense to be Canada, seeing as it initially all started with dealpage.ca only based out of a few cities major cities in Canada. Just recently it was updated to handle a lot more cities within NA
I think I would look at the traffic and whichever is highest be the default. Since it was posted on HN, in general, traffic will be predominantly from the states.
I would make the default based on a GeoIP lookup of the visitor...