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Re: mobygames new interface

in Milliways
This applies: https://i.imgur.com/PuUBaVU.jpg In that graphic they all just put up with it, dominus' suggestion of "accept it," I never have, I've been circumventing moby's shortcomings long before this change, it's just the new change has made it untenable to using the moby interface as a step in …

Re: mobygames new interface

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Dominus wrote on 2023-02-22, 23:50: You do you, show‘em! In the meantime I‘ll enjoy mobygames as I enjoyed it before the switch. Works for me and I like the new look. Cute but it's not mere opinion, it's objectively worse in its current state.

Re: mobygames new interface

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My information comes from using the interface as described in this thread of how it's bad that anyone can see and experience themselves. The old interface was usable enough to get by using it rather than going through the trouble of scraping moby and injecting into launchbox/other, the new interface …

Re: mobygames new interface

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>making the site less usable was necessary No. >Time to accept it No. I was already working around the old interface let alone this new one. It's just pushing me to spend the time to learn scraping website data and then workout injecting it into launchbox.

Re: mobygames new interface

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Yes, you can, the cut down mobile-esk prev next only listing. What's "funny" is I have been slowly going through mobygames using launchbox to build a faster more functional editable local games database, since I found the old mobygames interface trying, and then they did this. Good thing I started …

Re: mobygames new interface

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>metadata non descriptive useless extra layer. just, no. checked out sound cards, the game listing for x sound card is their new horrible cut down mobile esk dumbed down listing with only next and prev, search "gravis ultrasound" still gives no results/bad cut down mobile next prev listing search …

mobygames new interface

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Well, what do people think? More consolidated for some info, pop up info windows, but overall worse as it stands, harder to search, more obtuse, missing info. I had been slowly trawling through windows games by year sorted alphabetically, with the old listing numbering the game listing that allowed …

Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby

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There is no problem to solve, people have been like that with everything for all time, the solution is indeed grow a thicker skin, reject, ignore. Also, retro gaming as an identity? Get a grip. The outrage video is good for clicks though.

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