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I just noticed that the pagination buttons look...weird when there's exactly 7 pages:

Took me a moment to realize that it wasn't a bug, just the way it's designed.

What happened to PlayStation Now as a platform? Now if I edit a PS Now game the game is going to have no platform?

This was accidentally removed and will return in a future site update. It will still categorize as PS3 or 4 on the game page but show as PS Now on your profile.

This was accidentally removed and will return in a future site update. It will still categorize as PS3 or 4 on the game page but show as PS Now on your profile.

Huh, I stand corrected.

Huh, I stand corrected.

It's part of the backwards compatibility system I created a while ago.

This is a list of platforms available for your user playthroughs that aren't consider official platforms:
"Android","Emulated","iOS","PC VR","PlayStation Now","PlayStation VR"

They get categorized as their respective platform PC VR goes to PC, Android/iOS go to Mobile, etc.

I just accidentally forgot PS VR when I moved some code.

It's part of the backwards compatibility system I created a while ago.

This is a list of platforms available for your user playthroughs that aren't consider official platforms:
"Android","Emulated","iOS","PC VR","PlayStation Now","PlayStation VR"

They get categorized as their respective platform PC VR goes to PC, Android/iOS go to Mobile, etc.

I just accidentally forgot PS VR when I moved some code.

I'm curious how you do handle it for PS Now? It has 3 platforms on it. Do you check to see if any of the platforms (PS2, PS3, PS4) are on the supported list and match it that way?

Either way, it's a cool system, thanks for the sharing!

I was wondering if it would be possible to get a feature that limits the number of entries loaded while viewing a list. It's a bit of a fringe case I admit but some of us with anomalously large backlogs (or other lists), it becomes rather unwieldy to the point where any time the site wants to direct me towards my backlog list I dread it. it effectively locks out interaction with the site for like 30 seconds or so while it attempts to load, populate and assign all the little graphics (in list mode not even box mode) to every entry, especially if I never intend to scroll through them all and will likely just explore it using the search bar at the very top.

Typically not a huge problem if I don't interact with the backlog often but if I ever want to start editing multiple entries, if they ever end up on backlog, after submitting the edit it will default to that list and from there it's a 30 second lock out for everything I want to edit. So a lot of wasted time waiting on getting control back.

Either the ability to divide a list into discrete pages of definable length (10, 20, 50, 100, however many) entries per page. or just a progressive continuous / "infinite" scrolling list that only loads additional entries when I scroll down to them could work.

Not a priority issue of course but if a solution for it could be found I'd appreciate it greatly.

This will be coming in a near future update too.

This will be coming in a near future update too.

Awesome. Thank you :D

I'm curious how you do handle it for PS Now? It has 3 platforms on it. Do you check to see if any of the platforms (PS2, PS3, PS4) are on the supported list and match it that way?

Either way, it's a cool system, thanks for the sharing!

Its two platforms, the PS2 games are actually PS4 games.

Its two platforms, the PS2 games are actually PS4 games.

I haven't played any of the PS2 games. Are they actually PS4 ports, or are they running in an emulator ala Virtual Console?

I haven't played any of the PS2 games. Are they actually PS4 ports, or are they running in an emulator ala Virtual Console?

I'm not sure but functionally they are presented as PS4 games with trophies, but with nods to their original platform in the "notes". Whether that's through emulation or a wrapper is hard to say. They are also listed as PS4 games on a PS5, whereas PS3 games from Now are listed as PS3.

I would say they are more PS4 games than say, the Hamster arcade games (Arcade Archives/ACA Neo Geo) or even the non-ACA versions of Neo Geo games.

It's part of the backwards compatibility system I created a while ago.

This is a list of platforms available for your user playthroughs that aren't consider official platforms:
"Android","Emulated","iOS","PC VR","PlayStation Now","PlayStation VR"

They get categorized as their respective platform PC VR goes to PC, Android/iOS go to Mobile, etc.

I just accidentally forgot PS VR when I moved some code.

Have to say I find it super helpful as a weirdo with both iOS and Android game backlogs!!

I'm not sure but functionally they are presented as PS4 games with trophies, but with nods to their original platform in the "notes". Whether that's through emulation or a wrapper is hard to say. They are also listed as PS4 games on a PS5, whereas PS3 games from Now are listed as PS3.

I would say they are more PS4 games than say, the Hamster arcade games (Arcade Archives/ACA Neo Geo) or even the non-ACA versions of Neo Geo games.

with trophies

I'd say that alone qualifies them as PS4 games, then. Compare that to Xbox games on Xbox One, which don't have achievements (among other differences).

So, fair point, count 'em as PS4 :P

Site Update:

User Page
- Added pagination on user profiles to reduce large requests on profiles.
- Box view now shows platform breakdown and overall stats.

Platforms
- Added back platform "PlayStation Now" to user drop-downs.

General
- New ad implementation
I really did my best here. There are certain guidelines I must follow and I've built out the ads as clean as possible.

Sorry for the short outage. We are still working out the kinks of deploying updates.

If you have any issues on your playthroughs page, try a hard refresh of the page to refresh your javascript files.

Site Update:

User Page
- Added pagination on user profiles to reduce large requests on profiles.
- Box view now shows platform breakdown and overall stats.

Platforms
- Added back platform "PlayStation Now" to user drop-downs.

General
- New ad implementation
I really did my best here. There are certain guidelines I must follow and I've built out the ads as clean as possible.

Did you add back Playstation VR or Playstation Now? I thought it was PS Now that got removed, just want to be sure.

Did you add back Playstation VR or Playstation Now? I thought it was PS Now that got removed, just want to be sure.

Thanks 😊

This is weird.... all of my lists say “Sorry, no games!” Nearly panicked until I saw my numbers at the top, but I still can’t see anything. Actually, my wishlist still shows 13 sentinels, but that’s it. Even though “Playing” is empty, when I click on my avatar to show my quick list I still see the one title that should be there.

Looking at this on mobile so I don’t know if desktop looks different.

Happens on both Chrome and Safari.

Edit: Found the update I missed on the previous page, cleared out the browser cache and it’s fine now.

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What the what now? I haven’t really been paying attention the past month and I seem to have missed something in my post-viral stupor.

© 2021 Ziff Davis, LLC

What the what now? I haven’t really been paying attention the past month and I seem to have missed something in my post-viral stupor.

Cover story starts here: https://howlongtobeat.com/forum?thread=3&page=134&jump=to#post77081

Cover story starts here: https://howlongtobeat.com/forum?thread=3&page=134&jump=to#post77081

Thank you. I’m flabbergasted.

Fyi, the cookie consent overlay is hard to read on dark theme (I assume at least that the dark theme is the issue here).

Edit: It's perfectly readable now on Desktop/Firefox (before was Android/Firefox).

Whenever I open any of my lists (playing, completed, etc) the site puts a '1' in the list search bar which makes the page bring up an empty list. When I manually erase the '1', the list shows as normal again. This has only started happening as of yesterday (Thursday 25th) so probably just a little gremlin that's found its way into the code or something.

Whenever I open any of my lists (playing, completed, etc) the site puts a '1' in the list search bar which makes the page bring up an empty list. When I manually erase the '1', the list shows as normal again. This has only started happening as of yesterday (Thursday 25th) so probably just a little gremlin that's found its way into the code or something.

Same here. I reset my browser cache as was suggested earlier for a similar issue and it fixed it for a bit but now it's happening again.

User Page
- Added pagination on user profiles to reduce large requests on profiles.

Hello! Unfortunately this update somewhat hurts my way to use this great site :(

I understand that you have to reduce the unnecessary traffic, but now it became very difficult to navigate for those with 500+ games on the backlog.

Maybe consider to add buttons to go straight to a specific page (similar to forum) ?
Or add the page size setting for those who needs it, and leave the default at 250 ?

Thanks!

Whenever I open any of my lists (playing, completed, etc) the site puts a '1' in the list search bar which makes the page bring up an empty list. When I manually erase the '1', the list shows as normal again. This has only started happening as of yesterday (Thursday 25th) so probably just a little gremlin that's found its way into the code or something.

Try ctrl + f5 if you're on Chrome