Backloggery Demo Update v0.10.0 - Lists (Patreon)

Hello again everyone! 

It's been a busy month since the last update. We celebrated the Backloggery's 15th anniversary last month over at our Twitch channel with Try4ce and Lyndis facing off in a custom video game themed game show! (I really should have posted about that here but apparently I'm very bad at self promotion.) If you're interested you can check out the VOD here.  

After that it was full steam ahead on the next demo update and it's probably the largest new feature since the demo started. This kind of complex new feature is the sort of thing I'd normally wait to do post-launch. It was necessary in this case because I needed somewhere to migrate the retiring Mastered status data to. When the site migration happens the plan is to generate an "Accomplishments" List automatically for any user who used the Mastered status and list all their Mastered games there.

I feel better about the temporary change in focus knowingly this was one of the more popular feature requests over the years. Functionally it's very similar to the list feature on the movie website Letterboxd, which many of those same feature requests pointed to.

There's still some rough edges I need to work out, and some more bits I'd liked to add, like being able to add games to lists directly from your library tab. But I'm pretty happy with this as a foundation.  I hope you enjoy it!

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New to the Patreon? All patrons can check out the demo at backloggery.club. Non-patrons can look around but won't be able to use an account if they register. The demo's data is not connected to the current site and will not carry over to the public release. You can see current plans and known issues on the Trello.

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v0.10.0 Patch Notes

New Features

Lists: Create custom lists to group, spotlight, or rank various games in your library.

• Plain or Ranked: create a simple list of games you played this year or rank them all. You can drag and drop to rearrange the list in either form.
  
• Public or Private: private lists are completely invisible to anyone but their owner. Perfect for keeping a working GOTY list under wraps until the new year.
  
• List-specific notes: each game in a list can have a note to help describe why it's on the list or how it ended the ranking you gave it.
  
• Edit games right in a list: I've stripped down the look on the games in the lists to reduce visual clutter but they still have all the information and functionality as the games in your library or now playing. Click to expand and view/edit its details.

Next up: Maintenance

After botching their communication with the last server update, my host seems to have learned their lesson and has properly alerted me of on upcoming PHP version upgrade in a few months. This should require little-to-no work on my part for the demo site. As for the current site, that's a far murkier question. I'll be investigating that next. Hopefully it won't be a too long of a detour, but time will tell. I'll keep you posted in the comments below and on Discord.