Flashes of Panic

After spending a good chunk of yesterday (and, come to think of it, a lot of today,) away from a computer, I’m coming back by doing some work on the Wish List. (I notice I’m not the only one doing some extracurriculars over the break.)

With some escalating use, people are starting to come up with more feature requests, so I’m ignoring most of them and scratching my own itches. One of them was adding Markdown formatting to the text fields, so it’s easier to write extended text blocks in item descriptions, not that we’ve been particularly wordy so far. But the thornier one, which I puzzled about for a while before adding, was pretty easy to implement.

What I did was scan the URLs for items to check if it was an Amazon link. If it is, I’m now adding my affiliate tag.

There aren’t many Amazon links included at this point, and some of the people using them have actually used clipurl.com or tinyurl.com already, which renders this point moot. Even if there were, I doubt the total revenue will be anything significant—I’m estimating somewhere between $5 and $10, actually. But I still felt a little creepy doing it, and I guess the fact that I’m writing this indicates that I’m a little defensive.

Anyway, with that out of the way, I have some other ideas to play with.