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Site Feedback / A way to show which games I have Duplicates of

« on: January 30, 2014, 04:04:09 am »

Hey Matt & Team,

I got to thinking... I want to be able to trade parts of my collection, but only if I have duplicates.

It would be awesome if there was a new feature, to only show duplicate items I have.  This way I know right off the bat which games I have for trade from my collection.

I know there's a sell/wish list, but i don't use them very often.

what do you think guys?   

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Site Feedback / Searching for games with colon's in the title

« on: January 27, 2014, 02:37:53 am »

Hey Matt & team,

I've noticed a common problem with games involving colon's in the title.  I find some folks don't know when a game should use it in the title, so when they go to search for the game, they can't find it.  This then leads to them submitting a duplicate game entry, now with the wrong punctuation, and usually without a picture... great example here. http://vgcollect.com/item/54258

I was hoping if one day you could make the search engine a little smarter?  For instance, using the game above as an example... (DBZ: Budokai Tenkaichi).. I would love for one day to just be able to type in "Tenkaichi", and have it bring up every game with that in the title.... if you'd like an example of this, head over to http://videogames.pricecharting.com/.   I'm sure it's easier said than done, but is there any chance this could happen in the future?

thanks guys!

-Retromangia

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Site Feedback / Delicious Library view enhancement & site backup schedule

« on: February 19, 2012, 06:05:26 pm »

Howdy folks,

Retromangia here.. I just jumped ship from RFgeneration.com... (anyone else do the same?). Their last downtime caused a serious crash, and they lost months of data... including all my hard work i put in updating my collection... I loved their site, but unfortunately I just can't tolerate that.

So, VGcollect is where I call home now... and a sweet place it is... so much nicer than RFgeneration. The layout is great, the export feature, and updating the database is a breeze... no more waiting around a week for my game to be in the system.

One question I have for the VGcollect team is... how often do you guys backup your user collection databases?  I couldn't fathom the idea of losing a part of my collection all over again.

lastly.. a suggestion/enhancement I'd love to see for the site... The only other choice for me besides VGcollect,com is a program called Delicious Library... It looks AWESOME.. but unfortunately it's only for MAC... Has anyone ever used it and knows what I'm talking about?  It displays your entire collection on a virtual bookshelf, and looks amazing.  VGcollect still gets the gold medal as far as ease of use, but would it be possible in the future to have a "display your games on a virtual book shelf" option? .  I imagine just clicking a button, and then some kind of Javascript plugin could be used to generate your collection on a bookshelf.

If you coding guru's here can guarantee me that your site won't get hacked... or if it does, at least have nightly backups of data... and you create an virtual bookshelf plugin.. I would gladly donate money to the site.

regards,
Retromangia