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I hope you find these monthly updates interesting. They won't always be as long, sometimes there's just not much to say that hasn't been said in actual articles :)
Here's some things done since the previous November update:
Crowdfunding Page:
GOTY Awards
It's coming back! We haven't run a community-voted GOTY award since 2017 but it's going to return! The page has started to get fixed up and sometime soon feedback will be requested from the community on what categories we should go for. It was in a bit of rough shape since it hadn't been touched for so long, but now most of it is working again!
The way it ran before: Every registered GOL user got one vote per category. This year though, we're going to let people have two votes per category, so you can pick a favourite and runner-up.
The main thing is, it's still going to be for Native and supported Linux games. It just doesn't feel right to stick up AAA games for Steam Play where the developer doesn't give a hoot about Linux, on a Linux GOTY award.
We had a little chat about it in the GOL Discord, which reminded us just how important it is. Users get to see what's good, developers get a little extra thank you for the Linux support and some extra visibility for them and it's a bit of fun for all of us.
Security
Something I take very seriously, is the security of all GamingOnLinux users. So I did a bit of an overhaul to our Login security/authentication. It should now be far more robust against timing information leaks on the string comparison operation used in the database lookup.
Login cookies are also now given the "httponly" option, which can help to prevent any possible XSS theft. Login cookies were also overhauled.
Misc
Just be aware, I will be away from GOL on December 24/25 and again on December 31/January 1 for spending time with family. This month is always a bit quieter anyway. But in 2020 I shall be back and raring to go!
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 7 December 2019 at 7:31 pm UTC
That is somewhat hilarious. :D