Remake Launch! (Patreon)

At long last, we're finally here! I'm writing most of this ahead of time but hopefully things have gone well and my panic attacks have been mild. 🤞

(Future Drumble: There were definitely some surprises, but I can't complain overall.)

A big "thank you!" to everyone that's stuck with me down this long road. I hope you enjoy the new site and the many improvements still to come.

The remake should now be live on backloggery.com!

Old Ways Die Hard

To the inevitable "they changed it and now it's bad" crowd, I hope you'll give the new site a chance. I heard the same thing about the last site remake waaaaay back in 2011, and now some people don't want to let it go. But more importantly, there's plenty of things I don't like about the new site currently. And I'm sure we'll find more issues as we move from "pretending to use the site remake" to "actually using it". But if we put our heads together, we can iron all the wrinkles out. Any and all (polite) feedback is appreciated.

For those wondering, no, the old site cannot remain as an option. Not only are the backends completely incompatible, but the old site was a teetering dinosaur that was long overdue for retirement. Speaking of which, once again an enormous thank you to DANoWAR for pitching in and almost single-handedly saving the old dinosaur from crash-and-burning a while back.

For Your Reference

While I've tried to give everyone plenty of chances to double-check, I know most people don't pay attention to these things. To that end, I'll be leaving the old site up at backloggery.club until June 22 in a mostly read-only state. This will give everybody one last chance to verify and correct any of their data on the new site, if needed.

After June 22, I'll be taking the old site down completely out of an abundance of caution for various privacy/data retention laws. If for some reason you would like your account hidden before then, the close account option should still work.

What To Look For

The community and I have spent months looking for bugs in the database conversion, but it's entirely possible we missed something. Even if we didn't, there was some "dumb" data on the old site that was never going to convert well and other parts had to be inferred. If nothing else, here's what I recommend you check out:

• Game Formats (Physical/Digital)
  This option wasn't on the old site, but it could be inferred to some extent by the platform the game was on. For some platforms, like Steam, obviously every game should be digital. Others, like pre-Internet consoles, could be presumed physical.
  

• History / Game Milestones
  The old site's Memory Card was "dumb" data, not properly connected to anything. While stitching things back together logically worked better than I hoped, definitely wasn't 100%. If you care about those dates, I recommend saving a copy of your Memory Card and double-checking things.
  

• PSN Games
  I've long regretted how PSN was handled on the old site and this is where we have to rip that band-aid off. If you used some combination of systems, like PS5 (PSN), you should be fine. But if you listed things as simply PSN...well, that could mean a lot of things. We've defaulted things to PS4 and marked digital. If that's not correct for you, you can check out the auto-generated PSN list under the Lists tab. There you should find all the PSN games with no obvious system to call home.
  

• Compilations
  These should largely have come out fine. Still, there were a few instances of weirdness (like a missing game note) here I was never able to get to the bottom of, so it's worth a look. The format for the parent game might also need to be corrected.

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Backloggery Remake v1.0.0 - Patch Notes

The Privacy Policy & Terms of Service have been updated. This is chiefly just updating the language to better match the terminology the site remake uses and removing references to Google and Amazon services which I haven't used in a few years.

Improvements

• Improved handling of avatars and banners that are not the recommended dimensions (might need to do another pass on this)
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where a game's history tab could be incorrectly hidden

• Fixed a conversion issue where some game notes were getting truncated

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I was gonna write a bit about the future here but my hands are aching, I'm pretty emotional right now, and I likely have a long night of new bugs and feedback ahead of me. So we'll talk about the future soon.

Thanks for everything, Backloggers. 🧡