GameStoryLog v0.4.9.2: Report Playtime & Small Improvements (Patreon)

Hi everyone! 👋

🎮 New Feature: Report Playtime

You can now track and share your playtime for games! This helps other players estimate how long games actually take to complete.

How it works:

• Click "Report Playtime" on any game page to log your total hours

• See community averages based on real player data on game sidebars

• Update your playtime anytime as you continue playing

Smart Features:

• Shows median playtime (most reliable estimate) alongside averages

• Automatically filters out unrealistic entries (like 5 minutes or 200+ hours)

• Recent reports get more weight as games grow with updates

• Confidence indicators tell you how reliable the estimates are

I know you guys will find this super useful! No more guessing if a game takes 2 hours or 20+ hours - now you'll actually know before you start playing.

🔧 Small Improvements

I made these over the last few days but didn't make a post about them:

• Calendar Reports: Added Report button to report missing game updates

• Library Notes: Added Notes button for personal game notes in your library

• Request Criteria: Added eligibility criteria to Request Games (please read before submitting!)

• Rising Stars: Changed "Hidden Gems" to "Rising Stars" on homepage

• Achievements: Improved UI/UX for achievements page and toast notifications

• Filter Tweaks: Rising Stars now shows games with 4-30 reviews (down from 4-50)

• Performance: Various speed improvements throughout the site

• Request UX: Replaced URL input with drag-and-drop images in game request modal

Remember I mentioned email updates in the last post? Well, AWS rejected my production request, so I'm stuck at 200 emails per day right now. Still trying to convince them why I need more - AWS SES is the cheapest email service but their approval process sucks.

If they don't approve it soon, I'll have to postpone email updates for a while. Fingers crossed !

💜 Support GameStoryLog If you're enjoying the site and want to see more features like this, consider supporting on Patreon - every bit helps keep the servers running and lets me spend more time building cool stuff!

🤝 Join the Community:

• Reddit - Updates and discussions

• Discord - Chat and bug reports

• Patreon - Keep the lights on!

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