TweetWhat I always find amazing is that you work and work for 6 weeks straight doing thousands of little tasks and at the end you look back and ask yourself where all the time went. As always 80% of our programming time goes into background stuff which is difficult to show and which makes it [...]
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Changelog: Roundup, Filters, Imports and Discovery features
Posted by Sebastian on August 3, 2011
http://www.deals4downloads.com/blog/2011/08/03/changelog-roundup-filters-imports-and-discovery-features/
New: See right now which download games are on sale
TweetWe just put a new feature online that I’m sure you’ll like: in product lists, games that are on sale have an orange “Compare” button instead of the regular green one. When you hover your mouse over the button, the link title shows the number of deals and the maximum saving available. This affects all [...]
Posted by Michael Krenz on June 22, 2011
http://www.deals4downloads.com/blog/2011/06/22/new-see-right-now-which-download-games-are-on-sale/
Goodbye Twitter spam, hello “my custom feed”
TweetOnce again, here’s a feature we’ve been meaning to add for months. You can finally build your own RSS feed based on filter options that you choose. In case you don’t know, feeds are a simple way to follow a blog or site without actually having to visit that site (see here for a nice [...]
Posted by Michael Krenz on June 8, 2011
http://www.deals4downloads.com/blog/2011/06/08/goodbye-twitter-spam-hello-my-custom-feed/
Faster, faster, filter
TweetA quick update on our latest developments. After last week’s release of our new filters we spent some time fixing bugs and improving many smaller things. Definitely, we are proud that Michael managed to speed up the filters quite a bit. With improved SQL queries and better caching the response times are cut in half. This should [...]
Posted by Sebastian on May 31, 2011
http://www.deals4downloads.com/blog/2011/05/31/faster-faster-filter/
Filtermania
Tweet You remember the survey that we had a couple of weeks back? The most wished for feature was improved filters that let you combine different criteria. Well, here they are. Congratulations, you won. Yes, it took us a while longer than we initially expected for a seemingly simple feature. But, if you look at [...]
Posted by Sebastian on May 18, 2011
http://www.deals4downloads.com/blog/2011/05/18/filtermania/
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