January News Letter

Posted by Matt

January 19, 2009

Greetings! I’ve thought it’s about time that I let you guys in on a little secrete….A secrete that rivals all other secretes. Yes. I have found a way to dominate the world with nothing but the use of peanut butter and a turkey baster and enslave you all! MUAHAHA. Yeah right, if only I were that cool…

Anyways, I’ve been working really diligently to add some really cool features to the site. So in doing so, I’ve been brain storming ideas focusing on a ‘community’ rather than just fly by visitors. If I were to ever achieve anything from this I would want it to be great praise and new friendship and that’s where my attention is of now.

So, what I hope to be a short while, I plan to release a forum where users are free to roam. I’m still having some thoughts of what to add there, but I think a start will be a Deal Request thread where users are able to request deals. Not only does this allow you a place to find what you’re looking for more easily, but better helps me understand shopping trends and demographics.

Secondly. I plan to initiate a bi-weekly/monthly “I’m cleaning out my house and giving you my garbage” give away. I won’t go in too much detail about that at this time, but be sure to check up on announcements.

Thirdly, I want elaborate on the name of this website. Deal + IRC. Deal is pretty self explanatory so I’ll move along to the IRC part. IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. It’s a client/server setup allowing users to to chat to each other by connecting their favorite client(mIRC for example) to an IRC server. I’ve been on various IRC networks now for almost 10 years. (shocking realization that I’m getting freaking old…). I’ve met a lot of talented and genuine people there and I think it’d be cool to have a community there as well. The thing I’m planning on doing is rigging up a bot to post deals to a specific channel on said network, making it even more convenient for you humans.

Again, be sure to keep an eye out for announcements and requests. If all goes as I hope it will, I’ll be looking for forum moderators and perhaps IRC operators. If you’re interested, please use the Contact Us form and drop me a message or comment, with previous experience, knowledge, or what you think you can provide to be helpful. Also, if you have a dedicated server/VPS and are willing to share some hardware love, please drop me a line.

Until another time,

-Matt

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