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New & Improved GamingOnLinux Sales Page

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I'm happy to announce our games Sales Page has been revamped to be much more useful for you with new filters and sorting options! It may look mostly the same, but it's had a lot of changes behind the scenes.

I silently launched it earlier, but decided to add some more options before fully announcing it.

You can sort any column you like ascending or descending order, and this uses javascript! It's super fast with no page reloading needed, so you don't lose any sorting options. Just click the heading and it sorts it for you, magic.

Big props go to "tablesort.js": https://github.com/tristen/tablesort which handles the column sorting. It's actually the same script the excellent SteamDB uses to sort their table columns.

You can now filter games by price using the tiny dropdown box for things like under $5 or under £10.
In addition to this I have setup a converter to convert currencies for websites that don't supply the prices, so we should always have the three currencies now. This conversion will happen ever hour for missing currencies, so if one is missing it's probably a brand new sale that is waiting to be converted.
I have popped the code on github for anyone who wants to know how it's done.

You can now also sort by more than one store (Hold down control when you click a store, or shift to select lots), and select filters like DRM Free while browsing a store! Where as before you could only select 1 store, and selecting filter options like DRM Free wiped the store selection out.

If you have any more suggestions feel free to fire away and we will see if we can include them. It seems not many people know about the page, but you can access it any time from the "Sales" link in the topbar.

The future of the sales page
Also a question, do people feel that the expiry time field is needed? Does it affect your decision to click a sale?
They aren't always correct as some stores change their expiry times with things like Daylight Savings forcing us to adjust them every time it changes. Sales can expiry early, or carry on past their expiry time.

We have removed a few stores, and may possibly remove a few more as manually searching certain sites that don't provide a sales feed takes too much time, but anyone can submit a sale to the page any time. If you don't see the store listed just put it under "Other Stores".

We have reached out to a number of sites to ask for feeds otherwise we will drop them to save time and streamline the process some more. Most of them are really minor stores when it comes to Linux games anyway, we already have feeds for the main ones I'm concerned about (apart from the API breakage for Steam!).

We currently have feeds for GOG, ShinyLoot, Fireflower Games, Humble Store, GamesRepublic (Not finished), Steam (Steam broke their API, our server admin Levi is hopefully taking a look soon to fix it), Desura, IndieGameStand and Itch.io.

Big shout out to muntdefems who has been tirelessly keeping an eye on the sales page, but his time is limited, so we are trying to make it as automated as possible hence dropping stores that refuse to provide a feed/don't bother replying to us.

We hope you like the changes, I sure do! Check out the revamped Game Sales page now. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Mnoleg Nov 6, 2014
The sales page is evil, It forces me to buy cheap games compulsively. Please remove it before I go bankrupt.
Liam Dawe Nov 6, 2014
To be fair the firefox auto rss button would have always pointed to the main article RSS as the sales RSS has never been in our meta, it's only on the link on the page.

Clicking a single sale from the RSS should now take you to the page with just that sale :), so you can either visit that sale, or reset the filters to see all of them.
Liam Dawe Nov 6, 2014
I have also as per your small suggestion made it so selected stores are kept highlighted when you filter, hope it helps!
Mnoleg Nov 7, 2014
Quoting: GuestIt would be great to be able to filter by discount percentage (I don’t really care about 10 or 20% discounts…).

Good idea.
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