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Hiya

Thanks for the suggestion. From a website perspective, it's all good for SEO. Agree that possibly older decks shouldn't get sent into the Top Decks.

The way the upcoming page works, is that if a deck has had activity (comment, like or w/e) in x amount of time, it can pop up into there. So what's happened is users have used the "Random Decks" page and found an old deck and left a comment, despite seeing that the last one was xxxx days ago. You'd have the same problem on this very forum if you replied to a really really old post :p

We don't remove clutter, as there's no telling where a deck could be linked from and we want to maintain those links, as it's all good for getting ranking on Google etc

Cheers

In my opinion, there is no need to purge older decks, decks from inactive users, or even disallow older decks from reaching the front page. Even if a deck takes a while to generate enough activity to make it to the front page, there is still (possibly) a wealth of knowledge contained in the comments, and to me that's what Top Decks are all about.. reading through the comments and learning from the advice & opinions of others.

What would be significant, and I think should be done, is adding some sort of symbology to a deck link (a color coded symbol or some such) that suggests how old the deck is -- new (< 1 month), recent (1 - 3 months), or old (>3 months), as well as the date of publication displayed next to the deck title on the deck page, as well as possible on the front page. The two suggestions working together would be redundant, but useful. The symbolism would provide immediate relevance at a glance, while the date of publication would provide detailed relevance with more consideration.

Anywho, just my two cents :)

That sounds like a good idea. I would also like to do a "Last Updated" style indicator, but we currently don't store that against the decks. I will have a look at implementing the above in the near future :)

Ian