Hi, I love a lot of things here. It’s a nice site. Just a few issues. I can’t embed a youtube link in my reviews, because it appears broken and embeds it. Is there a good way to do this?
Also wondering if there will be a way to rename the default shelves because having them all be sorted under “Played” feels weird cause I would like the default to be “Completed” and have the other shelves be for like, dropped, shelved, etc.
Last question, I am not able to post a review without assigning a rating. Some games are too subjective for me to want to give a rating rating, rather just let the review sort out the complex feelings. Okay last question part 2, is there going to be options for a ten point scale in the future? Five is particularly restricting.
Do you mean you just want to be able to put the link to the video rather than it be embedded?
Too much of the site depends on the default shelves being named the way they are. We’ve been having discussions about making a distinction of Finished vs Dropped vs Coming Back Someday (or whatever) somewhere (maybe the shelf). Haven’t really quite come up with the answer yet, but I’ve been working on the site a lot, and it’s on the list.
I’ve always liked simple ratings because I’m simple The 5 stars have a meaning here (although you can do whatever you want obviously)
Here’s what each star means on Grouvee:
1 star - Did not like it at all 2 stars - Mostly didn’t like it 3 stars - Liked it 4 stars - Really liked it 5 stars - Loved it
I don’t know if that helps answer either of those questions. I don’t know if distilling complex feelings down to a simple feeling is the right answer for you. Long ago, maybe 10 years, I debated putting in the 10 star system, but decided against it. I haven’t had anyone change my mind yet.
I would say if you have a review that you don’t want to put a rating on, you could use a status post for the game. That still files the post under the game so you can find it later, and other people can read/like/comment on it all the same.
As for the youtube thing, it would break the [text](link) format entirely and display it as [text]( and then just slam an embed in right after with broken syntax. So I guess yeah maybe having it work as a regular link and not embed.
Definitely fair about the game status system, but I hope you reconsider the ability to work with ten points, and let people be a bit more flexible in their rating systems. If you will look at sites like Letterboxd and I think Anilist too, they let you sort of switch between a front end of having single star ratings and half star ratings, I think backloggd does this too. I will try this on the interim with ratingless game reviews later but also hope you implement it at some point. I have met quite a lot of people who sort of just don’t necessarily want to assign a rating to things and still share thoughts on them and stuff, a lot of people just sort of approach game reviewing differently. Me, I broadly do use the 1 dislike and 5 loved system, though graded at a 10 point.
I’ll put that on the list to try and fix. I’ll just have to do a check for if a link coming through is Markdown, don’t autoembed. If you just paste the URL in without clicking the link button, it’ll do the auto embed without all the Markdown text around it.
I did it. It was actually really easy to do. So now if you do a YouTube URL in markdown, it just comes through like a normal link. If you paste the URL naked, then it will do an autoembed.
I also fixed the popup dialogs in dark mode. No one told me they were broken!
The link popup dialog. You’ve probably never used it because you know how to type out a markdown link. It’s just a box that pops up that you can paste a URL in and it’ll do the markdown for you.
“Paused First Run” is a game I stopped playing but intend to come back to…at some point, eventually. “Zz Abandoned zZ” is a game I stopped playing and do not intend to come back to, ever.
You can also have the same game on multiple shelves, so my three Replay-related shelves are all games that also appear on my Played shelf, but I’m either replaying it, planning to replay it soon (Replay Backlog is where I stick games that have a new content update or DLC so I don’t forget to check it out when I have a chance), or I started replaying and took a break from but still intend to finish…at some point, eventually.
The 5 stars have a meaning here (although you can do whatever you want obviously)