Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

Re:Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and R... by Aldipower on Thursday September 18, 2025 @10:18AM (#45290032)

Great to see they support and still use Perl. Geizhals is a very usable and functional product and price comparison page. Looks a little bit old, but that is exactly what I like. Geizhals is associated with the Heise Verlag, that is what I do not like so much, because there was a steady decline in quality in the recent years.

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Re:Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and R... by whiteboardr on Thursday September 18, 2025 @10:32AM (#45290204)

Username checks out : )

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Re:Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and R... by kiviuq on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:36AM (#45290966)

> Geizhals is associated with the Heise Verlag

Afaik, Heise Verlag is the owner of Geizhals

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Re:Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and R... by Asmod4n on Thursday September 18, 2025 @10:30AM (#45290178)

They had some very recent UI overhauls, it looks more friendly now.

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Re:Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and R... by nik736 on Thursday September 18, 2025 @10:49AM (#45290411)

More friendly, less usable

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Re:Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and R... by pixelpoet on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:05AM (#45290596)

Yeah I'm hugely frustrated by their recent updates that hide / obfuscate the filters, which is basically the main way you want to use the site. I'm pretty sure it's yet another casualty of optimising for phone normies :(

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Re:Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and R... by sjn on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:23AM (#45290788)

I agree! The filters made be go to the site, and I don't even live in any of the markets they serve! (Though I do visit, and sometimes buy tings based on what I've found through the site).

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Re:Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and R... by stefs on Thursday September 18, 2025 @12:27PM (#45291630)

i just went back to check (i've already been there today) and there's an option "always show filters" in the upper right corner.

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Re:Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and R... by pixelpoet on Thursday September 18, 2025 @12:49PM (#45291924)

Good to know, thanks. I was looking for something like that but couldn't find it last time, maybe it's new?

Still makes about as much sense to me as Google adding a "always show search box" option that defaults to off :D

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Re:Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and R... by Asmod4n on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:23AM (#45290792)

Hm, I only miss one thing, sorting by price with shipping cost. Can’t see anything else that was removed, just changed.

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Re:Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and R... by the_mitsuhiko on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:26AM (#45290838)

> Hm, I only miss one thing, sorting by price with shipping cost.

Not sure if that's missing on the international site, but if you select "inkl. Versand" in the filter box then the sort includes shipping.

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Re:Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and R... by jagermo on Thursday September 18, 2025 @12:33PM (#45291713)

still the best filters, i think. You can filter stuff so deeply, its crazy.

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Re:Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and R... by l5870uoo9y on Thursday September 18, 2025 @12:25PM (#45291615)

UI-wise it reminds me of Craigslist.

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Re:Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and R... by Aldipower on Thursday September 18, 2025 @12:26PM (#45291626)

Yes, I think this is a good thing. :-)

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Re:Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and R... by lazyjones on Thursday September 18, 2025 @01:14PM (#45292297)

Haters will say a major factor in still using Perl is the difficulty to replace up to 25+ years old Perl code written at startup pace AND the difficulty to teach old Perl devs a new language.

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