# New shelf page ideas **URL:** \ **Category:** Meta\ **Created:** [December 22, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.grouvee.com/t/new-shelf-page-ideas/6782 "2020-12-22T18:59:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![anarchistica](https://discuss.grouvee.com/user_avatar/discuss.grouvee.com/anarchistica/32/16504_2.png) [@anarchistica](https://discuss.grouvee.com/u/anarchistica)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 5:59pm UTC](https://discuss.grouvee.com/t/new-shelf-page-ideas/6782/111 "2026-03-05T17:59:09Z")
\*lies in wait\* Btw, what happened to make you so active? Almost nothing changed for 13 years (šŸ˜œ) and now you added and changed tons of things. ---
**Author:** ![peter](https://discuss.grouvee.com/user_avatar/discuss.grouvee.com/peter/32/16487_2.png) [@peter](https://discuss.grouvee.com/u/peter)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.grouvee.com/t/new-shelf-page-ideas/6782/112 "2026-03-05T20:55:48Z")
> [@anarchistica](#): > > Btw, what happened to make you so active? Almost nothing changed for 13 years (šŸ˜œ) and now you added and changed tons of things. Haha. The TLDR is that I either needed to get to work on it, or close the site down. I chose to work on it šŸ™‚ I had a lot of things go on in my life over the last 8 or so years that caused me to put Grouvee on the backburner. Had a kid, wife got cancer, had another kid that was born 14 weeks early, moved, etc. etc. Itā€™s life. The need to fix Grouvee had kind of been building ever since I thought Giant Bomb was going to go away (it hasnā€™t, but I donā€™t know if their API will ever come back the way it was), and I had to switch over to IGDB fairly rapidly. I got the data downloading properly, but I was overwhelmed by trying to figure out how to merge 80,000 games, and I stalled out. Then I got bombarded at some point last year with a bunch of bots. Some were AI, some were I donā€™t even know what. I didnā€™t know how to deal with them other than to use Cloudflare, and that was barely working. I was pretty close to just giving up because I couldnā€™t figure it out. I could also tell people were frustrated by all the duplicate game entries, and the inconsistency of the site. I could tell people were leaving. There are plenty of options out there, so I donā€™t blame anyone for going somewhere else. Iā€™m skipping over a lot of things, but about the time you and I had an exchange about Grouvee closing up (which I recall you saying was a nightmare of yours), was when I decided I needed to do something. I needed to just finish the transition from old pages to new pages. I needed to merge the GB games to IGDB. I needed to finish up all these half finished features Iā€™d built over the years and just stopped. Iā€™ve talked to a lot of people over the years about this site, and it really helps to hear from someone like you that you really like the site. So I just decided to do it. Hopefully it all pays off eventually. Hopefully that answers your question šŸ™‚ Thanks for being around since the beginning. ---
**Author:** ![mmuffins](https://discuss.grouvee.com/user_avatar/discuss.grouvee.com/mmuffins/32/5915_2.png) [@mmuffins](https://discuss.grouvee.com/u/mmuffins)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 9:06pm UTC](https://discuss.grouvee.com/t/new-shelf-page-ideas/6782/113 "2026-03-06T21:06:33Z")
Boy am I happy that you reconsidered. Grouveeā€™s shelf system is unparalleled in the space. If it ever goes away thatā€™s probably it for me with game trackers. Iā€™ll go fully self-hosted. Either some dedicated tool for games thatā€™s flexible enough for what I want, repurpose some other tracking software like calibre, or just go basic with tracking everything in excel or some sqlite db. ---
**Author:** ![hellobion](https://discuss.grouvee.com/user_avatar/discuss.grouvee.com/hellobion/32/12492_2.png) [@hellobion](https://discuss.grouvee.com/u/hellobion)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.grouvee.com/t/new-shelf-page-ideas/6782/114 "2026-03-16T18:55:13Z")
I think some really good shelf ideas would be to have the games like on a game collection shelf. ---
**Author:** ![peter](https://discuss.grouvee.com/user_avatar/discuss.grouvee.com/peter/32/16487_2.png) [@peter](https://discuss.grouvee.com/u/peter)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2026, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.grouvee.com/t/new-shelf-page-ideas/6782/115 "2026-03-18T13:16:43Z")
> [@peter](#): > > I think the last big thing Iā€™m going to work on here soon is cloning the old shelf pages into the ā€œnewā€ template. I have finished this work and pushed it live today. Please let me know what I screwed up. I did a ton of testing and it all seems good, but I know I missed things because thereā€™s a lot of moving parts on that page. ---
**Author:** ![BMO](https://discuss.grouvee.com/user_avatar/discuss.grouvee.com/bmo/32/16491_2.png) [@BMO](https://discuss.grouvee.com/u/BMO)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2026, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.grouvee.com/t/new-shelf-page-ideas/6782/116 "2026-03-18T13:28:08Z")
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