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[–] 257 points 2 years ago (25 children)

Finding a farm close where you want is made unnecessarily difficult by the site’s interface. The grouping of states in regions is a hindrance and once you get to your state, the farms can’t be sorted other than by their name, so you have to look through every single one of them to find the farms close to you.

Great idea, terrible execution.

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  • [–] 90 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    But probably not a difficult fix. Websites can be updated.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Which is why I’m providing feedback. I really want this to work.

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  • [+] -35 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    People who produce bad design like that, are often resistant to change.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    Or they might welcome assistance from someone who knows how to do it, since their expertise is in farming and they don't have a lot of money for web design. Such assistance could possibly qualify as a tax-deductible donation.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    As a software developer making enterprise software, that simply isn’t true.

    I have been responsible for making some pretty poor design choices and UX flows. I was never resistant to change and more just needed someone to say hey bro that’s dumb, I don’t why don’t we do it like this.

    Now I know how to do X and won’t make the same mistakes again.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I've worked in IT for over 30 years. I have come across a lot of people who design terrible UIs and get all pissy when you suggest any improvements. I didn't in any way want to imply that everybody is like that.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Thanks for coming back to reply. First I want to say that the downvotes you’ve received have been unnecessary imo and I think I should have added that my original comment was in my experience and purely anecdotal.

    I guess it all depends on the person and whether they see constructive criticism as… well constructive or whether they see it as a slight against them. Like in any industry really.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I second this - though I agree that it definitely isn't universal. Especially given that I'm exactly the opposite - I welcome critique and improvements to anything I write because I love learning and improving.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Cmd-F or Ctrl-F to search for cities. It's imperfect, but I found seven hits for my city instantly. I could search neighboring cities and towns the same way.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    To add to this comment, it's not hard to find any of this information. "States grouped into areas" scroll to find your state, or again ctrl+f. "Hard to find cities" thankfully living in my area and being somewhat familiar with said area I can scroll down the list and find farmers in my general area. Short of putting in my address and searching for 'closest to' which I hate anyway, this isn't as bad an interface as op suggests.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm still going to say it's just not great design; it presents you a large map that is not interactable in any way, then below that are bits of that map again with ordinary hyperlinks below for each state and/or region. Just let people click on the first map, or just ditch it entirely.

    Once you've clicked on a state, you get a list of paragraph format entries sorted in the most useless way: alphabetically by business name.

    Who is this website for?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    That assumes you know all the place names of the region where you’re at. Someone that moved recently and/or lives in a tristate area (all of which are in different state regions in my case according to that map) is just faced with a very hostile design.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    at least you have something my state doesn't even have anything lmao, it goes to a boilerplate page that gives little info

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    My state (big ag state) has a whopping 3 and 2 of those are hemp. The one that isn’t just hemp doesn’t have an area listed, just the state.

    I mean I’m glad there are any.. but yeah, not a super great resource for some areas lol

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