Release Candidate 5 & Launch Plans (Patreon)

I decided to implement a good suggestion involving the PSN conversion and so here's one more test release before the real deal.

• Any PSN games with an unclear platform to convert to will now be part of an auto-generated list under your profile's List tab. From there you can easily edit them as you see fit and delete the list once done.

• I've also made some slight adjustments to PSN and DLC/Compilation conversions, so if you'd like to double check my work there, it'd be appreciated.

• And there was an issue with reviews being converted to both the game note AND as review text in some cases, which should now be fixed.

There's also some more miscellaneous improvements in the changelog down below.

Data in this remake demo update was copied from backloggery.com at 9:45AM ET on May 16.

Barring any unforeseen issues, the current plan for launch is:

• Launch the remake on Weds, May 22. During the conversion process, both sites will be down for roughly 4 hours.

• Afterwards, the site remake will be live at the backloggery.com address.

• The old site will remain live for one month's time at backloggery.club, but will be in a read-only mode. This is a last fallback in case of any undiscovered problems with the database conversion. Users can reference the old site if needed to verify or correct their data.

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Some reminders for those just tuning in, if you're caught up feel free to skip to the changelog down below.

• I once again highly recommend updating your systems if needed, as noted in the data migration posts linked below. >>>Especially if you're using PSN as a main system for any games.<<< Updating games from PSN to PS3 (PSN), for example, will keep your PSN games from being potentially converted to the wrong PlayStation system.

• If you would prefer your game comments to be converted into Reviews instead of becoming part of the expanded game notes field, change your backloggery.com footer text to "Reviewer" without the quotes.

• It'll still be a week or two before the site remake officially launches so I can get all my ducks in a row. Feel free to test more and report anything you find in the meantime, especially potential database conversion issues.

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🚨 IMPORTANT NOTE: the test server (backloggery.club) is still just temporary. No data on it will be saved long-term. Any changes you make there should be purely for testing purposes.

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Need to catch-up on things? Wondering why ___ is different? Check out these posts. Not there? Ask below!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/data-migration-87145964

https://www.patreon.com/posts/more-data-info-96827428

https://www.patreon.com/posts/site-remake-1-99473158

https://www.patreon.com/posts/site-remake-2-100675550

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RC5 Patch Notes

Improvements

• More misc layout tweaks for small screens

• Improved UI for managing platforms (under Settings), especially on small screens.

• When filtering by platform and including sub-platforms, games with a main platform matching the filter are now sorted to the top.
  

Bug Fixes

• A format icon is no longer shown on games with a blank format entry.

• Fixed an issue where having multiple tabs of the site open at once could cause the wrong data to be loaded in a tab.

• Fixed a redirect issue when opening the site as a PWA.

• Fixed format icons not updating when adding new games.

• Fixed issue which prevented the "group by sub-platform" option to not work.

• Fixed platforms now appearing for re-ordering under settings.