gogtrial34987: I've seen the following pattern too much: A (presumably) new visitor searches for "cyberpunk" (e.a.), doesn't know nor notice the collapsed grouped products, searches for "cyberpunk ultimate", (presumably) still doesn't consciously see that section, and leaves.

Breaking expectations is hard, even if the result is ultimately more useful.

To hopefully mitigate this pattern, I'm now auto-expanding the grouped products for the first search result if it's scoring significantly higher than the next result (so that's only when searching and sorting by relevance). And I'm doing this with a visible transition. (Ick!?)

Give it a couple of weeks to get used to. If any of you are still bothered by it after that time, let me know about it here and I'll figure out an opt-out or a way to limit the behaviour even further.

gogtrial34987: In happier news, I'm finally starting to make visible progress on the wishlist / owned products import. Still a looooong way from done, but a lot of necessary infrastructure has finally taken shape in such a way that as of today I'm seeing actual functionality doing something when interacting with GOG. @mrkgnao: I'd currently expect something like 2-3 weeks before it'd be useful (for me, not for you) to have you as a test subject for an initial import. Will PM you when that time actually comes.

gogtrial34987: To hopefully mitigate this pattern, I'm now auto-expanding the grouped products for the first search result if it's scoring significantly higher than the next result (so that's only when searching and sorting by relevance). And I'm doing this with a visible transition. (Ick!?)

Give it a couple of weeks to get used to. If any of you are still bothered by it after that time, let me know about it here and I'll figure out an opt-out or a way to limit the behaviour even further.

Cavalary: While grouping is a good thing, I'd say that having groups expanded by default should be the rule, not the exception. Shows what's available at a glance, whether it contains what you actually searched for or not.

gogtrial34987: Hmm, interesting perspective. I'm collapsing them because I figure that if people aren't interested in a game, they're also not interested in the grouped products, plus I want to show as many games as possible per screen and games with 20+ expansions would then cause far too much scrolling.

...but yeah, maybe a full collapse is the wrong pattern, and I should always show at least ~5 lines for grouped products, with a "more..." button only if there are more (for the Paradoxes of this world).

Thanks! I'll mull this over a bit, but it feels like something worth experimenting with the next time I touch the front-end, and quite probably the right direction.

gogtrial34987: GOG has cleaned up the unlisted bundles which were my original justification for doing so, so I'm down to 3 non-gwent-expansion products (Alder's Blood prologue, Roboquest: Artbook and Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales - 4k graphic assets pack). Still worth it for them, and not worth the effort to change my setup for this now anyway, but I must admit to more than a bit of annoyance at the lack of data quality here.

gogtrial34987: All kinds of weird Gwent expansions are showing up on the API today.

gogtrial34987: I'm probably overdoing it

Cavalary: Just shows how much you care, both for the project and for the users. That's awfully rare.

gogtrial34987: I'm currently bashing my head against yet another bug where a game which is on sale for the first time in more than a year isn't pulling up the all-time low price.

gogtrial34987: I'm thinking strongly about reducing scope for now to just wishlist import and hide lists, and postponing library import to later. GOG has so many conflicting visions of what you own due to repacks and completely removing products from the API, each with different tradeoffs, and none a good fit... (The well known issue of the store not indicating that you own a game due to a repack is but a small part of it.) I have some ideas about how to go about solving this (mostly involving lots of heuristics and manual mapping work), but I'm noticing how much effort is going into it all, and I'm thinking I shouldn't have wishlist import and hide lists wait on that.

If I indeed postpone library import, I'll probably still give the option to manually denote ownership. I was planning that anyway, so you can note you own a game "elsewhere" and filter based on that, and that's easily extended to manually denoting gog ownership as well. Not certain anyone would bother, but it at least allows me to offer something as a temporary workaround...