Bavaria, GermanyI've been playing around with this a bit, although I've gotten the value to be a bit of a better fit, my main problem with it is that the value itself is kinda meaningless. It works fine for comparing/sorting games, but looking at a single value, there's no way to conceptualize if say 84.76 is a high or low activity.
Normalizing to a percentage with the highest value being 100% is the one idea I've had so far to deal with that, but I don't really like that either for various reasons.
For reference, here's the adapted formula:
By considering the length of the runs, full-game and level runs can be combined without issue. The scaling parameters ( /2 and +1 ) are included to strike a balance between considering length and number of runs (ten 1 hour runs represent more activity than a single 10 hour run). Time dependence is increased to a month old run counting for 0.25 instead of 0.5 and so on.
Here's the list of resulting highest activity games (the values will be a bit off as the snapshot of the database used is a week old):
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I'd expect that there probably is some way to determine the new /v/ link from an old /c/ link (through some part of the twitch API?) but unfortunately I don't actually know if there is. If someone does know please let me know so all the old dead links can be updated to be working again automatically, rather than having to be manually changed for every run.
It was 25 before as well; your selected size gets stored though, and is used afterwards. Previously it would only store a single size (shared between the games list, streams page, all series pages), now it stores your size preference for each page separately. As a consequence of the functionality change, the value stored before the change is no longer used, so you view the page as if you have no default set (i.e. size 25). As soon as you change the size however it should store that and use it when you next visit the page. Similarly, which view you use is saved per page as well.
We have a blacklist of emotes that use too common words, I've added "Cannon" to it. Twitch seems to like adding generic emote names. The limit is now 30 embedded youtube videos. It does still cause a CPU spike, but there's not that much difference between 20 and 30 (other than more requests). Guides and resources are now ordered alphabetically.
Text view is now implemented for the games page, streams page and series overviews.
This discussion is offtopic and going nowhere; get back on topic if you don't want your posts removed.
Sure (mind you, there's nothing stopping you from doing it yourself, though it is easier for me to mass-set the new subcategory value for existing runs). I'll need to know what subcategories you want exactly though. Do you actually want every platform to be a subcategory, or a more simple division such as PC, PS, XBOX?
The latest runs displaying only runs in the results is intended, however it should have been showing runs in all results, not just the current page. Which is changed now.
MK64 actually has a platforms subcategory in addition to the actual platforms. It's not an ideal situation to have it duplicated to some extent, but there's nothing preventing it from being done for any other game already.
Having the actual platforms displayed as a subcategory is something that would be nice. However there are some problems with it, which are already visible for MK64. Often, and in the case of MK64, the platforms don't exactly match the wanted subcategories. For example in MK64, Emu is its own subcategory, which it wouldn't if it was automatic. Also, Wii VC and Wii U VC are grouped together in a single subcategory, while they would have to be separate (even though that isn't necessary) if it was an automatic option.
There are potentially some things that could be implemented for platforms making it a bit more suitable, but it will always be limited in its customizability compared to a proper subcategory, so I'm not sure how worthwhile it would be to invest a bunch of development time on it.
Thanks for reporting this, there was a bug that caused the players not to be saved when editing runs. It has been fixed, but unfortunately runs that were already affected are not automatically fixed. They can however be edited and fixed manually now (the player that submitted the run was still stored though, so it shouldn't be too hard to fix in most cases).
[quote=MLSTRM] It seems like the rankings on profile pages has broken again for games that use subcategories? FF13 for example, the 4th place PC run is marked as 15th on Vulajin's profile [/quote] Fixed the rankings for subcategories again - there was a bug causing it to think the run wasn't in any subcategories. Nice catch.
[quote=MLSTRM] Would it be able to set a default sort mode either on each series or on your own personal settings?[/quote] Yeah something like this needs to be done. I'm inclined to go with having a setting for it per series.
[section=Overview] Hey everyone,
The game tags update just went live (finally) :) The most noticeable changes are the overhauled games page, streams page and series overviews (Example). Functionally, games can now be in multiple series, unofficial releases (previously called ROM Hacks) are handled more flexibly, and the 'moderation from above' option for games has been removed.
As usual, let me know if you have any questions/suggestions/problems regarding the update.
Please post any requests for existing games to be added to additional series and/or requests to set/change game types in this thread.
See below for a more detailed changelog:
[section=Changelog] [section=Game tags] Series: Games can now be part of multiple series at once. Series can still only be set by full mods to prevent abuse, so use this thread to request additional series for any games that needs them.
Game types: Replaces ROM Hacks. Games can have any game type set, used for different kinds of unofficial releases. Currently the following options are available: ROM Hack, modification, fangame, webgame. Let us now if there are options you're missing. Where relevant, these games types allow setting the base game of which the game is derived. They are however no longer as closely tied to the base game, and show up on the series page (if in a series) rather than a separate "ROM Hacks/Mods" page. Game types and the base game can only be set by full mods, so use this thread if you want to request changes.
Genre, Engine, Developer, Publisher: These are some tag types primarily to give users more options to filter by on the games list/series overviews. They can be added by all game mods on the edit game page. A bunch of default values have been included, but game mods can define their own (which are then added to the list of values to choose from).
[section=Games list] The games list uses a new, more powerful filter-based system. This new system can be filtered by platform, year, genre, game engine, developer, publisher, game type and name. For each filter, it is possible to choose to show every game that HAS the selected option for that filter, or to show every games that does NOT have the selected option. For filters where games can match multiple options, it's possible to choose whether to show games that have all of the selected options (AND), or games that have any of the selected options (OR). The games list can be sorted both ascending and descending by run count, player count, release date or name.
The games list can be toggled between a games list and a series list. The series list is a bit more simple and can be filtered by name and sorted by name.
[section=Series overviews] Series overviews use the same setup as the games list, and allow for the same filter and sort options. By default, all games that have a game type set will be filtered out on series overviews. Series mods can alter this behaviour by setting the 'Show unofficial games by default' option on the edit series page. The default sort and sort direction can be customized per series on the edit series page.
[section=Streams pages] The streams page makes use of the same underlying system as the new games list. By default, only streams by users with a PB in the streamed game are shown (but this is a filter that can be turned off). Other than that, the streams page can be filtered by game, by title, and by showing only followed games. The streams pages for each series and game work the same way.
The streams page no longer shows streams in games not on the site, for both technical reasons and to reduce the number of casual streams on the list. To avoid missing out on games for which the twitch name does not match the name here, games can now have a twitch name set for matching streams, separate from the name as it appears on the site.
[section=Moderation from above] The 'moderation from above' option has been removed, meaning only the users directly added to a game are mod for that game. All users who were mod through the moderation from above option have been automatically added explicitly to the list of moderators for the game. This means that being a series mod now only means taking care of the series pages itself. Series mods can still add games to the series (they'll be automatically added as a mod to the created game).
[section=API] The API has been updated to support the new features in this update. All API changes should be backwards compatible, let us know if there are any issues. For a more detailed API changelog, check the API documentation.
[section=Other changes]
- Games that have a game type set will not be shown on the front page by default. To change this behaviour, use the 'Show runs in unofficial games' option in the 'Front page settings' section of the user settings page.
- The search field in the navigation bar will now show results by closest match, improving find-ability especially for short names.
- If there are more results in the search field than can be shown there, it will link directly to the games list, filtered by the search input.
- The full forums list now uses the same logic as the smaller one when following games. It should load significantly faster.
- Forums are now always sorted alphabetically.
- Newly added games now default to the rules being shown by default rather than hidden by default.
- Due to old bugs, the thread and post counts for various forums was incorrect. These counts have been corrected and should remain correct going forward.
