For new subscribers to this community, I plan to write a bot which will automatically find and post deals (likely using the fantastic resource that is https://isthereanydeal.com!)

So hopefully we’ll soon have awesome deals being posted here automatically :D

EDIT: The bot is live: /u/gamedealsbot!

At present, this is pulling data from yesthereisadeal.com
I plan to add support for more deal sources in the near future!
    • Cameron@compuverse.ukOPM
      2·
      1 year ago

      This is a great point! At present I’m using a UK dataset, but I could likely cross reference with the datasets from other regions and try to find the price in those too. Maybe give prices like [£5/$6/€5.50] or something!

      I’ll have a look and see what I can do :)

      • LedgeDrop@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        Wow, I noticed the prices in different currencies. Fantastic work!

        I’ve got one question: since the community is rather small, would it be possible to enable the downvote button? I’m not certain if this is a site-wide setting or not.

        This would allow us to weigh “good deals” vs “okay deals” vs “shovelware”… which means more relevant deals will rise to the top and would probably attract more people (creating a positive feedback loop)

        • Cameron@compuverse.ukOPM
          1·
          1 year ago

          Hi, many thanks for the compliments! The bot is having a couple of problems atm which I’m trying to solve, so it’s not live at present. The downvote button being enabled / disabled is set by the home instance you are using. For example, the downvote button is enabled on my own compuverse.uk instance, however it appears Beehaw does not enable the downvote option, and thus you don’t have the option there.

          • LedgeDrop@beehaw.org
            2·
            1 year ago

            Wow, is that how Lemmy really works? Beehaw disables the downvote, but since I federated through it - I cannot downvote anywhere in the fediverse.

            I wonder if this means that people from outside of Beehaw can downvote threads posted in Beehaw (anyone is welcome to downvote my Beehaw responses - in the name of science, mind you :)

            I’m really going to have to think about hosting my own Lemmy server. It sounds like whoever’s site you register through has quiet a bit of control (especially outside of their respective site).

            You mentioned that you’re hosting your own Lemmy server. Have you had any issues accessing or being accessed by others in the fediverse?