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CloseThe site needs a good clean out, there are so many defunct games and many that have no download links anymore due to old age,also lots of others still on hiatus for years!
Given the site's architecture that has it that only game developers can manage their downloads, and gamepages, how, exactly, would you propose that the dead/defunct links be removed?
*Edit: As for games being on hiatus for years, there is literally nothing that can be done about that. A developer has the time/inclination to work on things when/if they have time/inclination.
*Edit: As for games being on hiatus for years, there is literally nothing that can be done about that. A developer has the time/inclination to work on things when/if they have time/inclination.
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It's a valid concern though.
Searching for games yields lots of dead/inactive projects. The best sifting mechanism we have is in knowing that the second half of a search result is probably all dead, but newcomers don't have that foreknowledge. They're the ones most likely to be frustrated by finding an exciting looking game, only to click a dead download link or find it hasn't been touched since 2012.
What if a new feature was implemented where game pages could be "hidden"? The idea being that if the gamedev or an admin checks a box, the game won't show up in searches anymore. It'll be slightly different from setting your page to private in that an "Include hidden/inactive games" checkbox could be added to the filter options for searching. Basically, it's the "Show Hidden Files/Folders" mechanic in a Windows OS.
Then start hiding pages that are obviously toast. eg. No download links and over 3 years since the last update. If the gamedev returns and wants to reactivate it, they can simply uncheck the box, or better yet, any activity by anybody automatically unchecks it.
Searching for games yields lots of dead/inactive projects. The best sifting mechanism we have is in knowing that the second half of a search result is probably all dead, but newcomers don't have that foreknowledge. They're the ones most likely to be frustrated by finding an exciting looking game, only to click a dead download link or find it hasn't been touched since 2012.
What if a new feature was implemented where game pages could be "hidden"? The idea being that if the gamedev or an admin checks a box, the game won't show up in searches anymore. It'll be slightly different from setting your page to private in that an "Include hidden/inactive games" checkbox could be added to the filter options for searching. Basically, it's the "Show Hidden Files/Folders" mechanic in a Windows OS.
Then start hiding pages that are obviously toast. eg. No download links and over 3 years since the last update. If the gamedev returns and wants to reactivate it, they can simply uncheck the box, or better yet, any activity by anybody automatically unchecks it.
Games with dead links should not be included in searches, but filtering those out sounds like a pain...
Hidden pages already exist, at the developers' descretion.
We'd have to manually weed out each game with a broken download, so it's not at all viable being that there are over 10,000 game pages.
Also, no thanks to anyone but a dev touching the pages. Some people take years to come back and touch their stuff. We should not be cutting their game pages out just because they haven't been around for a while.
We'd have to manually weed out each game with a broken download, so it's not at all viable being that there are over 10,000 game pages.
Also, no thanks to anyone but a dev touching the pages. Some people take years to come back and touch their stuff. We should not be cutting their game pages out just because they haven't been around for a while.
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