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An alternative not mutually exclusive: Mixing Shows, Tells, Asks, Offers together into one page

* I doubt offers will be as plentiful as Show, Tell, Ask.

* Offers also expire where Show, Tell and Ask are relevant for a longer periods of time. Mixing Asks, Tells, Shows, and Offers + others together allow irrelevant or aging submissions to slide, making a more useful "offers page". It makes offers compete in some sort of page ranking, instead of a usually unchanging page.

* If I want to see a recent, hot Offer, I'll see it on the top page. If I want to see medium-aged offers, by mixing them in with asks, I'll see other interesting content as well. It is a more useful offers page. Making a separate offers page will have me polling a page that doesn't change usually.

* If I want to see very old offers, I'll use searchyc, google, or check jacques' blog. Chances are I won't be doing this that often because very old offers will be expired.

edit: totally implemented, probably before I posted even a long time ago

In that case, with an offers list on the next invocation and a very functional asks link, I don't think an extra link on the bar is necessary

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