LaunchBox Games Database Update - April 24, 2024

[faeran]

Hi Everyone,

We've deployed another round of updates to the LaunchBox Games Database.

The complete changelog:

• Enhanced the upload process with PNG and transparency checks for specific image types.
• A user-friendly interface for advanced search options located next to the search bar has been added.
• The Changes Status and Moderation pages have been optimized for better readability.
• Refreshed the look of game lists by providing background images with the box art displayed on top.

[Jakatsu]

Some nice changes and additions, thank you!

Only small quirk seems to be that when moderating an overview update, the text is in a narrow area which in turn forces you to scroll a fair amount, especially if either of the overviews are somewhat lengthy. But this shouldn't happen too often, so it's a minor inconvenience. 

 

Edited April 24, 2024 by Jakatsu

[kurzih]

The point of an overview is that is should be short and not have too many details (it's not a full product description, or otherwise we would have a separate features field or something).
So personally I would reject a change like that and we have wikipedia links to anyone wanting to know more about the game...
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/overview
"a short description of something that provides general information about it, but no details"

EDIT: Maybe limiting the amount of text the overview can have with a hard code? Just a suggestion

Edited April 25, 2024 by kurzih

[faeran]

13 hours ago, Jakatsu said:

Some nice changes and additions, thank you!

Only small quirk seems to be that when moderating an overview update, the text is in a narrow area which in turn forces you to scroll a fair amount, especially if either of the overviews are somewhat lengthy. But this shouldn't happen too often, so it's a minor inconvenience. 

 

1 hour ago, kurzih said:

The point of an overview is that is should be short and not have too many details (it's not a full product description, or otherwise we would have a separate features field or something).
So personally I would reject a change like that and we have wikipedia links to anyone wanting to know more about the game...
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/overview
"a short description of something that provides general information about it, but no details"

EDIT: Maybe limiting the amount of text the overview can have with a hard code? Just a suggestion

 

Thanks guys, I do feel even for shorter overviews, we could do a better job of displaying that information to make it more readable when trying to moderate overviews. We'll see what we can come up with.