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Corn Popper (69019) on 12/14/2012 12:55 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

Please enter your bugs here, we'll address feature requests later.

Please also list each bug as a separate response.

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Havoc Crow (29906) on 12/15/2012 11:51 PM · Permalink · Report

The "Games with X or less screenshots" option in the Most Wanted page still is buggy (it always shows only games that have 0 screenshots.)

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Corn Popper (69019) on 1/22/2013 12:13 AM · Permalink · Report

Enter as bug #1

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Havoc Crow (29906) on 12/15/2012 11:53 PM · Permalink · Report

The big stack of release dates on the "Most Wanted" page contains odd entries such as "C - Nov 01, 2008" or "@ - May 29, 2007".

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CalaisianMindthief (8172) on 12/16/2012 10:03 AM · Permalink · Report

Contributors of game entries are not displayed at the bottom of game pages.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 1/22/2013 12:13 AM · Permalink · Report

Enter as bug #2

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/9/2013 9:25 PM · Permalink · Report

fixed

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CalaisianMindthief (8172) on 12/16/2012 10:41 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

Is it possible that the system displays rejected items in the quick trivia. I couldn't find this one in the trivia section at all:

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Patrick Bregger (303298) on 12/16/2012 11:15 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

The design preview does not use the current state of the database. That's probably the reason. Of course it is still worth pointing out that the "did you know" section is useless with our current trivia concept.

Edit: I retract my statement. The trivia item is also not present in the QA version of the site, so it is a bug indeed.

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Kabushi (261449) on 12/16/2012 5:33 PM · Permalink · Report

HTML lists doesn't show properly

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Corn Popper (69019) on 1/22/2013 12:37 AM · Permalink · Report

Entered as bug #3

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Kabushi (261449) on 12/16/2012 5:36 PM · Permalink · Report

Vertical screenshots get cropped off on the summary page:

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Corn Popper (69019) on 1/22/2013 1:36 AM · Permalink · Report

Entered as bug #4

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CalaisianMindthief (8172) on 1/3/2013 3:59 PM · Permalink · Report

Main preview cover gets an unnatural glossy blur and looks worse than the current cover preview. I am talking about the one on the left. The preview covers in the center look better and crisper, despite them being smaller. Not a big problem, but visible.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 1/22/2013 1:41 AM · Permalink · Report

Entered as bug #5

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/9/2013 9:29 PM · Permalink · Report

fixed

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CalaisianMindthief (8172) on 1/3/2013 4:04 PM · Permalink · Report

The number of contribution points displayed at the top near the user name is design-wise broken. I have only three digits there, but I am wondering how numbers with six digits would look. Also "pts" is below the number and we've got parantheses stretching on two rows...

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Corn Popper (69019) on 1/22/2013 2:10 AM · Permalink · Report

Entered as bug #6

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/9/2013 10:38 PM · Permalink · Report

fixed

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CalaisianMindthief (8172) on 1/3/2013 4:12 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

There is a problem displaying small covers as preview on the frontpage, such as the one for Alt-Play.

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Servo (57069) on 2/8/2013 10:37 PM · Permalink · Report

The paging on lists such as forums lists vertically instead of horizontally. Overall the forum listing doesn't look as clearly delineated as the current version. When I'm not logged in, there is a large unused column to the right, when logged in there doesn't seem to be any way to post a new topic. The layout when you select a topic is extremely squished vertically and the links at the bottom aren't listed very well. I can't read individual posts, not sure if that's just a qa site limitation or a real bug.





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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/8/2013 11:11 PM · Permalink · Report

bug 79 and 80

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Servo (57069) on 2/8/2013 10:53 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

The approval pages need to be updated so they fit in the new layout and are difficult to read since they are very cramped. Also, the edit links have a broken layout; some are usable but just have a black background, the edit release info is particularly bad however.



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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/8/2013 11:11 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

bug 82 and 84

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Servo (57069) on 2/8/2013 11:00 PM · Permalink · Report

On the user profile page, long homepage urls extend past the container and overlap all time favorites list.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/8/2013 11:26 PM · Permalink · Report

bug 85

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Servo (57069) on 2/8/2013 11:05 PM · Permalink · Report

On the company pages, the text following the headers doesn't begin on a new line sometimes which makes the page less clear and looks cluttered (it doesn't show in this picture, but the same thing seems to happen with trivia on this page when there actually is a trivia item)

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/8/2013 11:29 PM · Permalink · Report

what browser and version are you using? not seeing this in IE 9

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chirinea (47516) on 2/9/2013 3:15 AM · Permalink · Report

[Q --start Corn Popper wrote--]what browser and version are you using? not seeing this in IE 9 [/Q --end Corn Popper wrote--]Neither in Opera.

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Servo (57069) on 2/9/2013 9:55 PM · Permalink · Report

I was using Chrome.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/9/2013 11:42 PM · Permalink · Report

bug 103

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vedder (71174) on 2/9/2013 12:23 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

10 star rating goes out of bounds

I was at a company profile page, then clicked "List games developed by" and got this: A visible hash tag

I see the game group browser is in now. That's good. Formatting is a bit weird, but I assume that's to be taken care of still.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/9/2013 12:33 AM · Permalink · Report

bug 98 for the 10 star

what browser are you using? not seeing the issue on the company browse

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vedder (71174) on 2/9/2013 10:12 AM · Permalink · Report

Opera 12

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/9/2013 5:17 PM · Permalink · Report

are you getting this consistently?

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vedder (71174) on 2/9/2013 5:35 PM · Permalink · Report

Yes I do.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/9/2013 5:49 PM · Permalink · Report

bug 101

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/9/2013 12:51 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

Here is a spreadsheet of the bugs, suggestions and feature requests that have been submitted to the GF bug tracker so you don't waste time reporting issues already noted.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5qwr7EZmcctTGRmajdQWVNZcGs/edit?usp=sharing

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chirinea (47516) on 2/9/2013 3:21 AM · Permalink · Report

[Q --start Corn Popper wrote--]Here is a spreadsheet of the bugs, suggestions and feature requests that have been submitted to the GF bug tracker so you don't waste time reporting issues already noted.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5qwr7EZmcctaVg3bTlkdnBqUlk/edit?usp=sharing [/Q --end Corn Popper wrote--]I'm getting this message when trying to access the spreadsheet: "Sorry, we are unable to generate a view of the document at this time. Please try again later."

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/9/2013 4:09 AM · Permalink · Report

ok changed the file format so you should be able to see it now

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chirinea (47516) on 2/9/2013 4:43 AM · Permalink · Report

Still can't see it with the link you provided. At the top of the screen I read "This item is in the owner's trash."

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/9/2013 5:38 AM · Permalink · Report

go to the original post with the updated link

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Patrick Bregger (303298) on 2/9/2013 8:13 AM · Permalink · Report

When I try to add a new game with a new company, I get the following error message: click.

If I stick to companies on file, click on next and later return to the first step, a company not on file is completely ignored if entered.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/11/2013 7:58 PM · Permalink · Report

please try again on this, may have been a server issue

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Patrick Bregger (303298) on 2/12/2013 9:31 PM · Permalink · Report

I just tried again. No difference.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/13/2013 12:41 AM · Permalink · Report

what browser?

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Patrick Bregger (303298) on 2/13/2013 4:55 AM · Permalink · Report

Firefox 18.0.2

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/13/2013 6:37 PM · Permalink · Report

page error - bug 119

ignore company - bug 120

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Patrick Bregger (303298) on 2/9/2013 8:19 AM · Permalink · Report

Items not sent to approval yet (Work in Progress) don't show up on the main page anymore. This means, there is no way to access them.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/11/2013 8:00 PM · Permalink · Report

bug 106

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Unicorn Lynx (181769) on 2/9/2013 9:03 AM · Permalink · Report

  • Descriptions are still half-hidden on the game rap sheet. This instantly deprives us of one of our most unique and helpful features
  • Generally, too many clicks are needed to unlock everything. Why can't we have longer pages with most content visible instantly, like now?
  • Alternate titles are shown as an incomprehensible mess. There are no designations for them.
  • Reviews on game sheet are selected randomly instead of according to score and user "helpful" rating. A very bad idea. People are not working on their good reviews so that they will be obfuscated by less good ones. I want to see my most helpful reviews where they are now - right on the game sheet, thank you very much.
  • Country flags are missing from user sheets and lists
  • "This day in gaming" is still disproportionally prominent.
  • All the lists have been inflated to show covers. This should be optional. I can't browse through anyone's game collection normally anymore. I don't want to go through 15 pages just to see a list of games somebody owns. There should be an option to display just a list, without the images that occupy so much space.
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Sciere (930964) on 2/9/2013 9:44 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

I'm going to back up Oleg's stance on descriptions here. They're the single most important item for every game entry. They can't be hidden half away to the size of a trivia sentence to the right. These really need to prominently displayed and in their entirety because it's the foundation of every game entry, not an afterthought. It could be displayed in full by default, and trimmed with the "show more" with a check box for user preferences.

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Patrick Bregger (303298) on 2/9/2013 9:50 AM · Permalink · Report

They are also the unique characteristic of MobyGames. Hiding them would be similar to Burger King hiding their burgers.

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Cantillon (79078) on 2/9/2013 3:25 PM · Permalink · Report

I agree too.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/9/2013 5:45 PM · Permalink · Report

bug 99

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/20/2013 2:25 AM · Permalink · Report

fixed

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chirinea (47516) on 2/20/2013 3:19 AM · Permalink · Report

Awesome!

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/12/2013 6:54 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

alt title - bug 33 fixed

sort user reviews - bug 112

missing users' country flags - bug 113

list view of have/want list - bug 114

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Patrick Bregger (303298) on 2/9/2013 9:10 AM · Permalink · Report

Even when choosing multiple platforms in the first step of the New Game Wizard, you can only enter one release information. This is bad because there are likely differences (different companies, different countries, other release dates...).

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/9/2013 6:56 PM · Permalink · Report

bug 102

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Patrick Bregger (303298) on 2/9/2013 9:13 AM · Permalink · Report

The platform is locked after leaving the first step of the New Game Wizard. This means there is no way to delete a wrongly selected platform anymore. The only way to get of it is to say the approver that he needs to reject it.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/10/2013 12:02 AM · Permalink · Report

bug 105

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Patrick Bregger (303298) on 2/9/2013 9:14 AM · Permalink · Report

New Game Wizard: There seems to be no way to add additional information before sending the game to approval (e.g. screenshots, covers, tech specs, credits...).

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/10/2013 4:32 PM · Permalink · Report

bug 110

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Patrick Bregger (303298) on 2/9/2013 9:56 AM · Permalink · Report

The "Did You Know?" section on the game's rap sheet is not future-proof because the trivia format was changed to this a few years ago.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/10/2013 6:23 PM · Permalink · Report

So now with the redesign though and how it presents these perhaps we should go back to the way it was... thoughts?

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Sciere (930964) on 2/10/2013 6:29 PM · Permalink · Report

Rather not, people have poured in a tremendous amount of time to format it properly and it's a huge improvement over how it was done before. If it cannot be displayed in full, just a portion with a link to read the rest on the trivia page?

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Patrick Bregger (303298) on 2/10/2013 6:30 PM · Permalink · Report

Definitely not.

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chirinea (47516) on 2/10/2013 10:52 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

Why not applying that "read more" link that is placed in descriptions right now (also, please, showing full descriptions is a must).

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/10/2013 11:06 PM · Permalink · Report

what about the first part?

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chirinea (47516) on 2/10/2013 11:10 PM · Permalink · Report

What first part, Rob?

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/10/2013 11:11 PM · Permalink · Report

applying the read more to what?

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chirinea (47516) on 2/10/2013 11:19 PM · Permalink · Report

To the "did you know" feature. It would only show a bit of it, and if you clicked on "read more", it would show the whole trivia text.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/10/2013 11:42 PM · Permalink · Report

oh, it already does that, you just need to find a trivia item that is revised like that which I haven't found again to post on here to see if it's acceptable... I've seen one once and it seemed alright but if all trivia is like that then I can foresee some reprogramming of that box may be needed

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Sciere (930964) on 2/11/2013 10:03 AM · Permalink · Report

There are a lot left, but at least half of the items has already been revised that way.

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CalaisianMindthief (8172) on 2/12/2013 5:41 AM · Permalink · Report

Screen previews on main game pages do not display entire screens, but are rather cropped (intentional?).

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/12/2013 5:47 AM · Permalink · Report

can you take a screenshot and on what browser?

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CalaisianMindthief (8172) on 2/12/2013 6:10 AM · Permalink · Report

Firefox 18.0.2

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chirinea (47516) on 2/12/2013 9:12 PM · Permalink · Report

It seems that there's a limited space for text over the description. Games with too many alternate titles break the formatting of the info below (as perspective, groups, etc.). Here's a screenshot (Opera 12.14):

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/13/2013 1:13 AM · Permalink · Report

bug 118

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/20/2013 2:25 AM · Permalink · Report

fixed

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ケヴィン (4137) on 2/13/2013 6:38 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

  1. I also have cropped screenshots in the main overview page but they also seem to be shifted downward, leaving a blank space on top of them. The blank space is also not clickable (screenshot) The popup image browser also has cropped images but no downward shift.

  2. When clicking a screenshot on the overview page, I get a popup image browser. Once I'm on the screenshot page itself, screenshots are displayed on top of the page above the small thumbs (no popup image browser).

I'm using chrome 24.0.1312.57 m

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Alaka (106672) on 2/14/2013 1:46 AM · Permalink · Report

Not a bug, but you may want to check out games included in a lot of game groups like Gran Turismo 5. It takes a while to get to the description due to the layout.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/14/2013 6:28 PM · Permalink · Report

not sure what you mean here exactly

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chirinea (47516) on 2/14/2013 6:40 PM · Permalink · Report

He means that when a game has too many groups, the description appears far too below in the game page, so there are lots of info displayed before the description. It seems that it is a consensus among the approvers that the description should be the most prominent feature in our pages.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/14/2013 7:03 PM · Permalink · Report

ah ok, I was thinking of some info like game groups, alt titles, and other future information to be put in a new separate page

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chirinea (47516) on 2/14/2013 7:47 PM · Permalink · Report

Why not using the right column, which is pretty empty right now, to add those info?

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/14/2013 7:52 PM · Permalink · Report

There's probably going to be some ads there but not sure on what scale yet. Once I know I'll make suggestions on moving items there.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/14/2013 6:25 PM · Permalink · Report

  1. bug 121

  2. bug 122

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chirinea (47516) on 2/20/2013 3:36 AM · Permalink · Report

There are no links to edit have/want lists. Also, it seems the system doesn't support more than one "have" list. If this is to be removed, I need to know because I keep a list of beaten games and I'll have to "port" it somewhere else.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/20/2013 6:04 AM · Permalink · Report

bug 128 for making more lists

you can edit the games from the have/want lists is that what you mean? or if you mean editing the list properties... bug 130

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chirinea (47516) on 2/20/2013 11:26 AM · Permalink · Report

I mean that the "Edit havelists/wantlists" is missing. Through that link we can edit list properties and edit game info inside the list, such as when you bought the game, how much you paid for it, etc.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/20/2013 3:09 PM · Permalink · Report

yeah that's the properties one

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Cantillon (79078) on 2/20/2013 9:28 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

There is no link to the description history on the main page of a game. The history page itself does not look reworked, as there is no spacing between the different table cells.

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/20/2013 3:10 PM · Permalink · Report

do you have an example?

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Cantillon (79078) on 2/20/2013 9:02 PM · Permalink · Report

Take a look at the main page of Diablo for example. No link to the history there. By putting /descriptions after the URL, I can go to the revision list: http://qa.mobygames.com/revisions/at,10/oid,423/

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/21/2013 1:17 AM · Permalink · Report

bug 131

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chirinea (47516) on 2/21/2013 1:51 PM · Permalink · Report

What does "not resolved" means? I saw it on that "no top games box" on companies pages, and I'm wondering if that means that it won't be resolved.

Rob, are we gonna stick with the design as it is now? I'm asking because there are some things that are not bugs bug I think that shouldn't stay the way they are. For instance, the MobyRankings and MobyScores are all grey, regardless of how low or high they are. Couldn't we have a color scheme for those?

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Corn Popper (69019) on 2/21/2013 6:29 PM · Permalink · Report

Not resolved is when someone updated the entry but it's not fixed yet

The current design of the site is set though we can make suggestions to make slight changes. Added colors as #132

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Cantillon (79078) on 2/22/2013 12:37 AM · Permalink · Report

+1 for the color.

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jaXen (261015) on 3/24/2013 12:01 PM · Permalink · Report

I don't know if it a bug are the design was changed in the last days, but know I have the following behaviour:

If a have contributions which are not completed or wipped by an approver I see these contributions on the homepage and on my contribution status summary page. Now I have a cover contribution which I do not see at the homepage, only at the contribution summary page.