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I have been spending a lot of time lately on the site, doing some under the hood fixes. I have been able to fix several bugs as well as make several improvments. There are a few other things that I can also change, but I want to get some feedback first before implementing them. Please comment to this post with your thoughts, numbered as below:

1. Hide Expired Deals – This would hide all of the expired deals from the site as well as from the RSS feed, making it easier to navigate through current deals. However, you would still be able to access expired deals through the expired category link, when viewing posts by tag, as well as through a site search. That way you can search for an app, and see if there has been a deal on it in the past. So respond to these 2 options:

A. -Hide expired deals from the site?
B. -Hide expired deals from the RSS feed and email subscription? (not 100% sure it will work, but it should)

2. Ads in RSS feed – I will now be able to remove 98% of all advertisements from the RSS feed. Depending on how you view the RSS, you may not have seen them anyway. I don’t think there will be any objections, but I still want feedback.

3. Feel free to make any other suggestions.

8 Comments on “Proposed Changes, Need Feedback”

BrettOct 5, 2009 at 2:07 pm
1. A. Hide expired deals from site. - This is a great idea!!!! 2. I cannot comment, I follow on twitter so RSS is not necessary. 3. Keep up the awesomeness!
achechtOct 5, 2009 at 4:32 pm
On more than a few occasions, I have remembered an app I saw on Macappdeals (but didn't buy). I fire up the site and do a search for part of the name or a keyword, etc. It'd be nice to still have this ability if you decide to hide expired deals. Is is possible to allow a search that includes expired deals (i.e. via a checkbox), but the standard search will exclude expired deals? I have to say that other than keeping up on the latest deals, I use the search as my second most often used feature of Macappdeals.
IsaacOct 5, 2009 at 5:04 pm
No, I can either have the search include the expired deals or not include them, only one or the other. And I would most definitely have the search include expired deals, so that you can see when the last time that app was on sale.
ChristophOct 5, 2009 at 9:27 pm
I think hiding the expired deals (at least from RSS) is a good idea, as they are no longer that interesting. As achecht said, a search should include the old deals as well :)
Tthe DuelistOct 5, 2009 at 11:51 pm
I would like to see an option select how may entries to display per page eg 10/20/50/100. At the moment, when I go looking for a deal that I've seen a few days ago, I sometimes have to page 5-6 times to find it again. I would be nice to have an option to scroll through fewer (longer) pages. Thanx for a useful site :-)
- IsaacOct 6, 2009 at 12:17 am
  That is something I can look into for the future, however hiding the expired posts will help to solve your problem. There are over 500 posts, and hiding expired posts will eliminate over 70% of those from displaying while browsing through the pages. It would only take you 2-3 pages instead of 5-6. 77 pages of total posts would turn into 22. Will that solve your problem? And I have now added one more post per page as well.
harringgOct 6, 2009 at 6:03 pm
It's nice to know I'm online with a bot. LOL * 2 Users Online Most ever online: 28 * Users: 1 Guest, 1 Bot p.s. Hide expired deals.
AdrianOct 8, 2009 at 5:39 pm
I agree with achecht's suggestions.

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