I apologize I’ve been kind of slow getting stuff built. I’ve been coaching CrossFit and weight lifting classes a lot of evenings for the past year or so, but I’m putting that all to an end soon. I decided to quit coaching because I want to have more time to pursue projects like this one!
I’ve kept my list organized, and I will be getting some cool stuff built sooner rather than later. I’ll have some release notes for @headrollsoff soon 
I was wondering if you had a place where you kept track of the requests. I was going to ask if there was a need for creating something to track all of that stuff and possibly make it visible for people to see. I know there are sites and software specifically for that kind of thing.
Anyway, if you do have structured releases where you have a list of what you implemented, I could type it up with some examples or instructions (depending on what it is) and post those release notes here or on the site somewhere.
My running list is here:
I don’t tend to do structured releases. I normally keep a development branch of the code, and when I build a feature that I’m happy with, I merge it with the release code, test it, then push it to the web. I’m not good about creating a good change log. That would be helpful though. The examples would be super awesome if I let you know ahead of time.
Let me know if you see that I’m missing something on the list that I’ve said I’ll do. I think I keep it up to date pretty well.
Cool. We use Trello at my work to track our projects and to document our nightly builds.
The only things off the top of my head that I don’t see on there (and I am not sure you actually said you would do them) are the half star ratings that people have requested and fixing the Facebook widget stuff.
There are many statuses and reviews on the main page but it is pretty difficult to get anything about the games you own.
I believe a “About my games” filter would be good and would greatly increase the amount of discussion on people’s statuses/reviews.
I don’t see the point of replying to games I have not played yet, or have no intention to play.
I used to have the “My Games” filter back in the day. I’ll look into adding it back in.
I’m stealing @headrollsoff’s job here for release notes
I pushed out the following changes over the last few days. You can also look at the list on Trello on the 7/6/2015 release card:
I wanted to make a few tweaks to the My Games page, so this release was focused on that. I still have the multi-shelf filter to finish, but it’s a little goofy how it works. Like I said before, the API is actually there, and you can kind of use it by appending ?shelf=<shelf_id>&shelf=<shelf_id>&… to your My Games URL, but I don’t have a UI done for it yet.
The next release is hopefully going to include the multi-shelf filter, and adding games to the database. I’d also like to change up a few things on Grouvee Gold, but that might be for a more future release. This is my last week of coaching CrossFit and weightlifting, so my free time is going to go up drastically.
Thanks for sticking with Grouvee!
I’ve become unnecessary before I even had a chance to shine!
I noticed the remembering the last shelf over the weekend. A small, but very cool feature. Thanks for putting the search in for our game shelves. That will be very useful to me.
Hey all!
I just found this site a couple of days ago while looking for something similar to letterboxd for my gaming history, and I’m loving it so far. I checked out the Trello board and it seems like you’re on top of pretty much every feature I could have on my wishlist, so I’m really looking forward to seeing the site continue to grow. I had a blast just going through page after page of games released by year for every console I’ve ever owned and remembering games I had long since forgotten. When I created my account I was curious as to whether or not I had played over 500 games in my life, and now I can say for sure that the answer is yes!
I’m looking forward to participating in the community here and doing my part to help the site grow. Thanks for building such a cool place.
PS, I know I saw it on the Trello board but I figured I would mention that my #1 wishlist item would be half-star ratings. I know there’s a good argument for the 5 point system (Adam Sessler almost sold me on it during the X-Play days) but I guess a 10 point scale is just how my brain has grown accustomed to ranking various media.
Hey Peter, I noticed the sizes for boxart on shelves are out of wack. It’s pretty random, but basically one page will be regular sized and then the next will be tiny- so on, so forth.
Yeah, I was messing with the column sizing when I added the arrows that show what direction things are sorted. When I first tested it, I didn’t notice too much change in size from page to page, but I’ve definitely seen some big differences the more I’ve used it. Especially when you’re on a page with a game that has a long title. I’ll tweak it some more tonight to see if I can get the box art column static.
All the box art stuff should be back to normal now. Let me know if you see anything else goofy.
I’m using and abusing this feature, thanks! (y)
just to know: I remember several months ago, I could see every user rating in a game’s page, but now I don’t know how to explore that. I mean, are now ratings private by default? always?
and another easy-to-implement-i-think features are stats-related: I’d like to know my ratings average and distribution as rateyourmusic does: a simple pyramid (or just text) grouped by ratings, eg: 5-star: 32 releases, 4-stars: 40, etc
in sql lagunage, something like “select rate,count(*) from… group by rate order by rate”.
I took them off of the page because I thought they were cluttering up the page, however I do think it would be valuable to see it. I could make another page where you click on the ratings break down and get a view of who rated the game what, and group them by rating. Sort of how Letterboxd does it.
I think a “My Stats” page would be awesome in general. Break down average rating by genre, number of games in genre, etc. What else do you think would be cool to put on there?
I agree with both ideas: ratings details by game and personal stats. Another cool feature from goodreads is the breakdown by year; I know there’s a date filter in “my games” but this works as a group by, eg:
1984: game_1, game_2,…,game_n
1985: game_1, game_2,…, game_m
this can be based on the game release year, but also on the last/first year played.
And a similar feature would by breakdown by company/publisher in the user catalog order by release date:
eg:
lucasarts games: game_1, game_2…
sierra on line: game1, game_2,…
each “game_i” in these views could be game’s name with the "(rating) "
eg: “indiana jones (4)”
or year eg: “indiana jones (1987)”
or a combination: indiana jones(1987) [4]
or a thumbnail of the cover art with year and rating below…
or maybe a 2 column table: year in first column, games in the second column
etc
Now that the platform stuff actually works a lot better, I’ve been going back and editing my collection and specifying the platforms for my games, and man I need to make that faster 
I know you guys have been clamoring for a better way to do that, I just didn’t realize how slow it was if you’ve got a big collection. I’ll get on that soon.
The wording on the game pages also still says “Edit Shelf Details” when accessing the platforms pop up. It should probably now say something like “Edit Platform Details”.
So… since the main feed on the site functions very much like a secondary forum and gets a lot more activity than here, I was wondering if there could some changes there to help make it easier to follow.
My main issue is with not easily knowing what games a review or update relates to. Instead of it stating “Commented on this review” or “Replied to this update” etc. could it say something more like “Commented on this review for [Game Name]”. The link could still be on the “this review” wording. It would just help follow the threads a lot easier.
Secondarily, it would be helpful to have a better way to group things on the same review or update to be more readable. I don’t know how you would do this. Recent activity was all on a Fire Emblem game. I could not follow what was being said without just clicking into the review and reading it from oldest first. Maybe I am just being lazy and need to click into things more. The feed just feels hard to follow.
Can you re-order the notifications on the main site to have the newest at the top? I feel like most people are used to site notifications having the newest first.
Done!
Also,
This should be pretty doable. The grouping thing might be a little harder and require some more thought. I should be able to get the extra details into the titles easily enough. At least I think so. Anytime I think something should be easy I end up shaking my head as I dig through my code…