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Many older games still have working http links.

HTTP is no longer actively supported, and most browsers reject it.  It really isn't wise to rely on it any longer.

Most of the games that are so old they have HTTP links have downloads in the archive.org repository.  Anyone can also upload to archive.org themselves if they're looking for stable HTTPS hosting in place of an old HTTP link.  I am aiming to integrate archive.org mirror links into the games page eventually.

I think I probably need to make the games page entry notifications a bit more active, as currently it relies on game authors keeping an eye on their games' threads.  Bear in mind of course that said threads will always move to the top of the board when a new report is made.  Only reports made since the new site went live will be noted, which means you don't have to scan back very far to see if your game's already been reported.  But I could make use of the forums alerts and personal messages systems to make it harder to miss.

That's not to say any game that doesn't have a forums report is perfect of course, just that it hasn't been reported since we went live!  Think of it as more future proofing than ensuring the existing archive is complete.  The games search page also has the "Other" -> "Marked as Broken or Missing" filters, which can be combined with "My Account Filters" -> "My Games" to check any reports that may exist.  If there's a report for a game you'll see a big call to action banner at the top of said game's page.

Okay, I've updated my games with hopefully useful tags.

One question, though: wouldn't it make sense to have the tags search work as AND instead of OR? I think tags would be very useful to narrow down search results instead of broadening them.

I'm working on this, but it's much harder to implement than you might think, given the current design of the search page code.  Bear with me!

Congratulations on the release. It's a mini mental achievement and it's great to see it live!

Couple of things I wanted to point out lol:

- the showcase says hundreds of games but we have thousands
- it's a bit difficult navigating to the community areas. I'd like to have a shortcut to the forums, discord, etc through the nav bar

I've updated the references to hundreds, thanks.

As for the second point, someone has already raised this.  However, I'll make the same point I did then, which is that people who visit the forums are actually a tiny percentage of the people who use the site (less than 1%).  I've added a few links to the 'Join' menu in the navbar though, directly to the forums, Discord and Facebook (the last two of which are actually in the footer of every page already...)

The AGS versions listed on the main site: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/#create
As well as the CREATE page: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/create/

Are out of date, pointing to a download (and forum page) of a version from June of last year.

Fixed, ish.  Seems I forgot to give Crimson Wizard the login details for the new server.  That's now done, so hopefully he can update the versions soon.

I'd say curating them in advance is probably a bit limiting.  And assigning them "automatically" would basically be curating by code, someone would have to maintain a list of rules.  We have 2,000+ games, I think creating a list that suits lots of them would be an impossible task!  We have a limited number of genres and game types after all, and I think those are very limiting.

I'd say let's just get people to embrace the concept of tagging first, and if things get too unruly we can make some effort to tidy things up.

Searching the database with tags doesn't work properly. It looks like it returns only games tagged "Fantasy", for instance, for the current year.

That's because tags are a brand new feature, and user generated.  So only games where someone's added a tag will have them...

PS.: I think it would be cool to have access to previous alerts, because once you click on it, it's gone.

There's an All Alerts button in the alerts popout that links to https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?action=profile;area=showalerts.

I was actually thinking something similar yesterday, that Canada might be a good compromise given the US is so... interesting... right now.  Not that Canada isn't a wonderful place to visit anyway, Mittens '07 was excellent!

Would any more people be interested were Canada an option?

Bear in mind your user settings are also in play here.  If you have alerts disabled there it won't show them, even if you do subscribe on a board or topic level.

Do you mean email alerts specifically?  It does seem those have been stopped for a while, but I'm not sure if the server move was the cause.  I'll look into it.

It's getting to a point where we should really get something booked in, before everyone's made alternate holiday plans...

If neither Japan nor the US has many supporters, is there anywhere else people would prefer?  I've done my best to get some interest going here, but it's like getting blood from a stone!

Yeah, all forums staff and panel members have edit rights.

Not that it's ever likely to be an issue, but there's a full audit log of changes made to all games entries, so I can always roll back to the before-editing point if something went wrong.

Okay, I think I've fixed the issue.  Please hard refresh and try again.  Fingers crossed it'll work!

I also had to do the hard refresh to edit a game as database admin (I removed a MAGS tag). If this is the permanent solution, perhaps we need an info box about it close to the save button?

I'm not sure what you mean here?  A hard refresh should only be required if there are JavaScript changes, which only happens when I fix a bug.  Day to day, it shouldn't ever be necessary.

I just posted some links to games in the AGS database as an answer to Kara Jo on discord. The thumbnail says "Game Not Found", although clicking on those very words brings me to the game page. I also discovered that the other window I had open, despite being on the game page in the database, when hovering, said "Game Not Found and 3 more pages". This seems to be the case no matter which game page I am on, so I guess the database send out the error message despite there being no error. (I am using Windows 11.)

This should now be fixed!  Witness (https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/game/785/) now shows the correct title, and only non-existent games (e.g. https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/game/99999999/) show the Game Not Found title.

One feedback I have with the site design in general (it's been this way since the old site) is that I think that there should be a direct "Forum" link that takes you to the main page without needing to navigate through multiple pages. The submenus aren't that big of a deal, but there's only links to certain subforums like competitions and activities.

There's a big Enter the Forums button right at the top of this page: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/join/, which is one of the three main strands of the site.  Two clicks from the home page: one on Join, one on that button.

Something to bear in mind is that the vast majority of visitors to the site aren't here for the forums.  Most people come to play games rather than making them or seeking support.  Believe me, I've been seeing the user stats for the last 15 years!  While as a regular visitor to the forums it may seem a long way to go to get to where you want, you aren't necessarily representative of the entire user base.

One thing I noticed today is that I no longer seem to be able to vote for more than one Best Character from the same game. It accepts the two of them, but when I save and revisit the page, only one of them is there.

This should work now.  The nominations were stored properly, it's just the second instances were just filtered out when filling the form with stored nominations.

When I click on "Select an option" for "Best Non-Adventure Game" or "Best Short Game", all the games are appearing...?

This is because the game categories historically haven't been very well curated.  So we made the decision to only filter a limited number of very obvious categories, like commercial / freeware.

Okay, I think I've fixed the issue.  Please hard refresh and try again.  Fingers crossed it'll work!

Those are both the same issue, just represented differently by your browsers.  I've uploaded something that will hopefully fix it.  If it continues to go wrong, you should get an obvious popup on your screen.

Please be sure to hard refresh the game's page screen with CTRL+SHIFT+R before retrying to ensure the JavaScript is reloaded.

I'm not sure what's happening here.  @EmmaGundersen following the steps you did in your video succeeds for me!  Could @Kara Jo Kalinowski and @EmmaGundersen please both try again, with the web developer console open?  Press F12 and click the Console tab.  Then click the delete icon immediately before trying to use the form.  This will give us feedback from JavaScript, which is the only remaining cause I can think of here.  Please paste any output from the console here.

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot use 'in' operator to search for 'title' in undefined
    at findFormDataDifferences (game-add-edit.min.js:1:15742)
    at validateSubmission (game-add-edit.min.js:1:15103)
    at HTMLFormElement.<anonymous> (game-add-edit.min.js:1:14956)

Thank you, that gives me something to work with!  I'll let you know when I've got a fix ready.