Final stages of the new design are being tweaked and polished. We have taken some major steps here to make functionality and ease of use paramount. Other sites like us, as you know, look very boring and monotonous. Not us! Well, not us anymore soon!! We want you to really enjoy your time here and make great use of the site. We are here for the long haul and want to be your number one choice for dating.

In early 2007 we will be adding a new site: College Date List. As soon as the redisgn of The Date List and Gay Date List are complete College Date List will go live. Instead of pages for each city, each college/university will have a page. For instance Auburn would be auburn.collegedatelist.com and Notre Dame will be notredame.collegedatelist.com instead of having the pages broken down by city.

Please feel free to contact us to suggest a college or university.

We have spent months and months on getting the script that runs The Date List and Gay Date List fine tuned and with that done we will be redesigning the whole site to give it a better visual appearance. If you have any input on what you would like to see or anything that you think would make the site better please leave a comment.

We have also had a few people request that we set up responses to ads like Craigslist where the email is just passed through to you and not stored on our site. While there advantages to that we also feels it opens the site up to fake ads and spammers just wanting to fill your inbox with junk so we have opted not to do that for now.

Santa Cruz, CA has been added also.

We have added the following cities to the date list:

Oakland, CA
San Jose, CA
Santa Rosa, CA
Corpus Christi, TX
Newark, NJ
Jersey City, NJ
Lincoln, NE
Fort Wayne, IN
Chesapeake, VA
Williamsburg, VA

If you want a city added contact us and we will let you know.

We have added RSS feeds to the home page and every city page. These are dynamic RSS feeds that are constantly updated as new ads are posted so we can keep you up to date with the latest ads via RSS. The home page RSS feed gives you the latest 15 ads for the entire site whereas a city page RSS would give you the last 15 ads for that city. Along with the industry standard RSS feed button we have included buttons to add the feed to; My Yahoo!, Google and My AOL.

If you have any questions about RSS feeds please feel free to contact us.

If you visited the site you saw we were down briefly last night. No worries. We were doing a server update and installing a few things so we can move forward and give you a better experience at The Date List and the Gay Date List. This new update coming out should increase the amount of posts giving you more ads to read and more ads to answer. BUT….make sure you post your ad too and remember ads with a pic get 10 times the responses and ad without a pic does.

Now, with the server update instead of having some wacky looking link we can make them user friendly. For instance if you live in Albany, NY and want to get just the Albany page you can type in and/or bookmark:

albany-ny.thedatelist.com.
albany-ny.gaydatelist.com

We added the two letter state abreviation in there seperated with a hyphen as in some instances we have more than two cities with the same name such as Portland, Maine & Oregon. Also, note on multiple word cities to remove the spaces. Thus New York City would be newyorkcity-nythedatelist.com.

If you make a mistake in typing it out and hit enter do not worry as by default (as long as you spell the domain name correctly; thedatelist.com or gaydatelist.com) the link will take you to the home page for the site.

The next implementation we will be making soon will render women seeking men, etc. as follows:

albany-ny.thedatelist.com/w4m/
When this is ready I will let you know but it should not be too far off.

If you have any questions or suggestions please contact us. Thanks!

Four new categories added to the date list: MW4M, MW4W, M4MW and F4MW.
Plus a lot of other updates that are directed at search engine compatibility to increase the number of ads on the site.

We are in the works of adding new and helpful features to The Date List and will also implement them on the Gay Date List. Dates have been added to the titles of all posts. We have also added a linking structure that basically shows you where you have been on the site so on the page you are on their is a link to the pages you came from. Here is an example:

The Date List ~ Albany, NY ~ Women Seeking Men ~ (the add you are looking at)

This will be listed right above the categories.

We also are working on adding RSS feeds to every city page so you can pull in the latest ads automatically without even having to visit the site as well as redesigning the home page and a bunch of other minor changes to enhance and ease your use of the site.

If there is anything you would like to see that is not there please let me know.

We have added a few more new cities per your request. Here they are:

Altoona, PA

Boone, NC

Gulf Shores, AL

Merced, CA

Keep the suggestions coming as we love to hear them!