The content of the site is awesome, and there are no website features that I feel are missing.

As they come up, interviews and deep dives are great, but I understand that can't happen all the time.

Perhaps you could record some of your gameplay of games you're particularly enjoying playing and drop a link every now and then? That (hopefully) wouldn't be as time-consuming as in-depth game reviews, and you could also include any multiplayer stuff you might do with the GOL community. I do appreciate that you'll want time when you're off the clock, though.

Embedded YouTube in the comments and forums? I don't know if that's too much clutter or not though.

Working on it. Hooked it up to our external media permission request cookie thing. It's working, just need to add a button to the comments editor.

Example:
[youtube]IOseYDF9J3g[/youtube]

I'll try and do the button this evening, might be too tired after travelling this afternoon though. If not, tomorrow.

Although, I do have concerns about video spam, so i may look to limit this perhaps to 2 per comment / forum post. Thoughts anyone?

Last edited by Liam Dawe on 24 November 2024 at 10:58 am UTC

On the top of my wishlist is an option to toggle the partner links of stores that go through external marketing companies back to direct store links. And if this is tied to a certain support tier, I'd have no problem with it.

That sounds like something that would be easily done with a user script via Tampermonkey and the likes. Just look for links to the usual stores, run them through a regular expression to strip the tracking query parameter and update the hyperlink.

I'm too busy at the moment, but if Liam doesn't mind, I could make such a script for you in a couple weeks probably.

I know and I could figure it out if I took the time to look into it. I put it here to highlight the general issue. By now it's getting pretty simple though, only Steam links work.

Feature is now in progress.

Embedded YouTube in the comments and forums? I don't know if that's too much clutter or not though.

Working on it. Hooked it up to our external media permission request cookie thing. It's working, just need to add a button to the comments editor.

Example:
[youtube]IOseYDF9J3g[/youtube]

I'll try and do the button this evening, might be too tired after travelling this afternoon though. If not, tomorrow.

Although, I do have concerns about video spam, so i may look to limit this perhaps to 2 per comment / forum post. Thoughts anyone?

Yes please limit them! I also have seen other forums / comments sections be destroyed by video spam.

Yes please limit them! I also have seen other forums / comments sections be destroyed by video spam.

Yeah, I don't like the idea of that either. So now it's only doing the first, any other attempts get turned into a link. Example below:

[youtube]4KiTvbXJNwY[/youtube]

[youtube]kEOctaHwmbc[/youtube]

[youtube]R8OqqaBwcl8[/youtube]

Okay, the YouTube button on the comments / forum editor is live now.

Testing...

[youtube]SQNtGoM3FVU[/youtube]

On the top of my wishlist is an option to toggle the partner links of stores that go through external marketing companies back to direct store links. And if this is tied to a certain support tier, I'd have no problem with it.

A first-start on this has been done.

Here's what I've done:
- I've split off our affiliate replacing code into its own JavaScript file, which is inside a function
- Our main JavaScript file calls the function, if it finds it exists (if the file is loaded)

So right now, you can just entirely block https://www.gamingonlinux.com/includes/jscripts/GOL/golafreplacer.js (anyone can do this directly). Obviously I won't be advertising this side of it :P

During this week or next, i'll look to hook up a new option for Patreon supporters at Supporter Plus level to have an option to just not load it in.

Example that's using a plain link is the sci-fi shooter article.

Obviously, this won't affect previous stuff, but will happen going forward. It saves me time as well, as I can just now use plain humble links in the article editor, since it auto-JS changes it to the affiliate link for me.

What's not included in this is Steam links, as all our thing does is add on our Curator ID so you see any review I did on the store page.

Edit: changed the filename to something less obvious

Last edited by Liam Dawe on 24 November 2024 at 8:13 pm UTC

Yes please limit them! I also have seen other forums / comments sections be destroyed by video spam.

Yeah, I don't like the idea of that either. So now it's only doing the first, any other attempts get turned into a link. Example below:

[youtube]4KiTvbXJNwY[/youtube]

[youtube]kEOctaHwmbc[/youtube]

[youtube]R8OqqaBwcl8[/youtube]

I feel like the two limit is better, but I get it being limited to one. Regardless, thanks for adding it. 🍻

During this week or next, i'll look to hook up a new option for Patreon supporters at Supporter Plus level to have an option to just not load it in.

Very nice! I'll leave them so I can test the option when it arrives.

Curator id in steam links was fine. I'm curious what Valve does with it though. I assume it's input for their recommendation algorithm.

During this week or next, i'll look to hook up a new option for Patreon supporters at Supporter Plus level to have an option to just not load it in.

Very nice! I'll leave them so I can test the option when it arrives.

Curator id in steam links was fine. I'm curious what Valve does with it though. I assume it's input for their recommendation algorithm.

The option is now live to use.

I know that you said there were no plans for it last year. But how about a sound device section in the PC info for the user stats? Could just be on-board, Sound Blaster, or other as the choices at this point. I know most people don't have dedicated sound hardware anymore, but those of us who do still exist: !👀

Maybe YouTube links in quoted comments shouldn’t be parsed to avoid this scenario with the one-embed limit:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/a-game-about-digging-a-hole-has-you-dig-the-stupidest-biggest-hole-possible-to-find-potential-secrets/comment_id=274196