Mobygames gets a new look

Post by **rusty_shackleford** » February 26th, 2023, 03:31

I hate change
https://www.mobygames.com/#n3741

Welcome to the new MobyGames! It's the same database we've been curating over the past 24 years, but with an entirely rebuilt infrastructure, backend and frontend. We know it'll take some time to get used to, and we are still refining things. It's forever a work in progress, but now our rate of progress will be dramatically accelerated.

All data has been migrated, including:

323,918 games across 311 platforms
5,506,997 credits
1,015,236 industry professionals
45,642 companies
746,299 images of cover art, media, packaging
989,793 in-game screenshots taken by players
894,894 images of promotional art

What's new?

An infrastructure with vertical and horizontal scaling, automated testing, hot reload, atomic deploys
Perl backend replaced with Python
Built from scratch user interface for desktop and mobile
New search functionality, including search as you type
All new game browser that updates in place
Dark mode
Related games
More data! Including game rankings per platform and frequent collaborator data
Trending games, companies and industry professionals
Easier to rate, review, and collect games
Hotkeys
Estimated approval times for contributions
Updated contribution and approval tools, with more improvements on the way
Countless tweaks, revisions, and optimizations throughout the database and site

And there's much more to come as we continue working to make MobyGames an indispensable tool for gamers, historians, researchers, and the game industry writ large.

This project has been a long time in the works and we're excited to finally put it into production! Tracy and I have been chipping away at this for years on a mostly part-time basis, along with feedback and testing with Moby admins, approvers and contributors all along the way. And with thanks to Atari for supporting the project, enabling full time development to get the new platform to feature parity and beyond.

Thanks to the MobyGames community for your support and feedback so far. We hope you enjoy the new site and we'll be focused on fine-tuning and resolving any issues that arise. Then onward to improving contribution/approval tools and new features. We look forward to building on this new foundation! Stay tuned.

Post by **rusty_shackleford** » February 26th, 2023, 03:34

"works just as well as the old site!"
took me about 10 seconds to hit an error page
https://www.mobygames.com/game/genre:sci-fi-futuristic/

The search service is currently unavailable.

agentorange · Post by **agentorange** » February 26th, 2023, 03:59

Didn't they already redesign it a few years ago? I remember before then it was really easy to search for a specific game based on a bunch of criteria and then they made it way harder to do that. And now it looks like they've made it even harder.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/genre:1st-person/

but hey at least the error screen has a le hecking epic retro crt filter gif

Post by **rusty_shackleford** » February 26th, 2023, 04:01

agentorange wrote: ↑ February 26th, 2023, 03:59
Didn't they already redesign it a few years ago? I remember before then it was really easy to search for a specific game based on a bunch of criteria and then they made it way harder to do that. And now it looks like they've made it even harder.

I know at one point they changed the search and made it harder to combine search 'categories' together, if that's what you're referring to. You could still do it manually but the UI for it was missing.

MadPreacher · Post by **MadPreacher** » February 26th, 2023, 11:02

Wow the sides are atrocious. It must for where ads go and with an ad blocker you don't see them, but the wasted space.

Post by **Segata** » February 26th, 2023, 11:24

Everything must be BIG and SPACY or else we will lose the boomer audience browsing in tablets.

The codex will look like that in some years.

Post by **rusty_shackleford** » February 26th, 2023, 11:26

Segata Sanshiro wrote: ↑ February 26th, 2023, 11:24
Everything must be BIG and SPACY or else we will lose the boomer audience browsing in tablets.

I'll have you know the HQ works fine on my tablet.
...I was gifted it for Christmas and I'd feel bad if I didn't use it. But damn am I having a hard time using it, clunky as hell to type on, only good for consooming media which I don't do much of.

Post by **Segata** » February 26th, 2023, 11:29

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ February 26th, 2023, 11:26
...I was gifted it for Christmas and I'd feel bad if I didn't use it. But damn am I having a hard time using it, clunky as hell to type on, only good for consooming media which I don't do much of.

Tablets are only good for porn, and porn is bad for you so tablets are bad overall.

Post by **rusty_shackleford** » March 2nd, 2023, 06:31

The search is working now and lets you search by multiple terms so it's actually an improvement over when they fucked it up, putting it back to what it was a few years ago. Future!
There is, however, no way to exclude terms.