Everyday the inbox for info@alltop.com is bulging with site recommendations for existing categories, suggestions for new categories, suggestions to improve the site and very rarely a report of a problem with Alltop.
One of the overwhelming suggestions or requests are for an individual RSS feed for each category. While that would be convenient for someone who understands feed readers and building one, it may become an inconvenience when you realize that the feed will have the last five posts from 50 different sites updated every 10-minutes. Quick math calculations would estimate that over 1,000 posts would be fed into your reader – every hour! For my readers whom are wondering what I’m talking about, no worries – you’re the target audience for Alltop.
Another suggestion, almost as popular as the one above is to be able to customize an Alltop category page. Seems ideal to the ‘net savvy, even the ones on MySpace but still the majority of the users on MySpace use a page builder to customize their space because learning HTML requires a bit of thinking and – it takes a lot time. And, time, (I am still looking for more of it, leave me a comment if you know where it is!) – saving it that is, is one of the highlights of Alltop. Browsing the shelves of the online magazine rack, scanning the titles, reading a lead into the post saves you time.
But, one could argue that it takes time to scroll and scroll through a category that features a lot of sites, and it would be a great argument with respect to time saving, until now. About a week ago, the minds of Electric Pulp added a very subtle feature that even the sharpest eye could have missed. Did you miss it too?
In every category, next to the title of each site is a very demur “x” which allows you to “hide” a site, displaying only your very favorites. Don’t worry, there’s a “restore all feeds” button at the top.
