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The Fatal Problem / Re: Issue(s)
« on June 1st, 2022, 06:43 AM »
That's all right. I mostly use it for that purpose too. I assumed Barter doesn't have an API and you were doing scrapping, which is prone to break at any time.
You can get very cheap VPS, but the problem is always maintaining the servers. Even with automation, upgrades need to be made.
You can get very cheap VPS, but the problem is always maintaining the servers. Even with automation, upgrades need to be made.
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The Fatal Problem / Re: Issue(s)
« on May 17th, 2022, 11:41 AM »
Seems like the Blacklist compare to Barter.vg function is broken :(
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The Noble Talk / Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« on December 22nd, 2021, 09:33 PM »Ad usual, I added a feature for myself, might as well mention it... ;)
In the game search engine (at the top right of the page), you can now specify " -intro" to prevent game descriptions from being searched. Useful when the game's name is very commonly used in game intros.
Also, " +all" is used to include all database entries in the search, so you'll get all of the junk, demos and other things the engine usually doesn't even bother to look through... (That one was implemented years ago, I just didn't remember I had that.)
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The Trader's Clerk / Re: Adding a game not listed on Lestrades
« on March 26th, 2021, 02:57 PM »Yeah I don't know how to advertise these search features.. there are so many... Like, do you know you can add "+epic" (or other store) to search only inside one store? Or "-steam" to narrow the results to anything not on Steam. Things like that...
For the search specifically, an additional icon with an advanced search should be enough.
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The Noble Talk / Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« on March 25th, 2021, 02:08 PM »Well, assuming you don't take ex-Uplay, Epic and GOG into account... ;)
Interestingly, GOG used to be really great, but the 2.0 version is horrible to me. I loved the idea, but somehow they thought it would be a good idea to trade off their nice design & speed for a client that's inferior to Steam itself, just so we could have all of our games in one interface. Well, okay. Maybe I should work for GOG, not Valve... (Heck, I'd be more interested in that; I mean, TW3 is still my favorite AAA game.)
On the other hand, the community stuff is a disaster. It sits on super old technology, missing all the modern features and capabilities. It is no match for steam. Which is exactly the reason why steam is king, because they invested a lot in the community.
CD Projekt Red might not the biggest of gaming companies, but they are not small either. By now, they have the budget to pay to develop their platforms to the modern age. As I said the community stuff is crucial to the growth of any gaming company imo.
I have not used the GOG client, so I can't comment on that.
In regards to the site, it could be easily used by anyone to help organise their libraries/etc, because that's what I do. The problem is folks might not be aware of its capabilities besides trading, due to the name.
The name's a play on Trading, yes, but since the very beginning I went for a generic name that implied being in a gentlemen's club (Lestrade's, with the mustache), rather than a trading website (Let's trade).
I try to live up to this idea of a comfy place where you can do whatever you like as long as it remains 'gentlemany'.
Well, I don't know:
1- Most serious players who need to sort through their game library already have a Steam library.
2- Steam login allows me to do other things that take advantage of your Steam profile data. Such as determining whether you're a seasoned player or not. It also allows me to avoid having to deal with spammers.
3- It's very, very easy to log in, due to (1).
For instance, I'm doing some prospective development work using an obscure language, and their documentation is using a comment system that's not based on Diskus or Facebook, but rather on Github issues. Why use that? I don't know, it's not worse than anything (also, you may take the comment system out and still keep the comments available, or write your own plugin, etc.) but more importantly, most of this language's users already have a Github account, so it makes sense to ask them to log in through that.
So, it's unlikely I'll go back to being able to open a new account. Seriously, spammers are the worst.
The github comments makes sense if the target audience are IT geeks, and in my case, I much prefer something like that to the other two, which are a privacy nightmare.
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The Noble Talk / Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« on March 14th, 2021, 03:15 AM »I would have to be a Valve employee to be able to do that.
Their web client interface sucks and has always sucked. They have limited interest in it indeed. Lestrade's is sort of my way of putting as much interesting steam data into a nice interface indeed. (I'm working privately on rebuilding the filter and sorting systems to be applicable to all pages and all areas of the site, but it's extremely complicated.)
Sadly, even with Chrome extensions, such as Enhanced Steam, it's still not quite easy to navigate their site with a browser. The client is even worse...
In regards to the site, it could be easily used by anyone to help organise their libraries/etc, because that's what I do. The problem is folks might not be aware of its capabilities besides trading, due to the name.
Not sure if Nao would like that, but perhaps let users register without a steam account. It could then be integrated to other platforms, so that it becomes more than a steam thingie!
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The Noble Talk / Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« on February 7th, 2021, 06:10 PM »
It is more to due to find duplicates and compare what games I have on each store. I mostly use GOG and Steam. But since Epic Games has been offering games, which I have been collecting :eheh: I might want to avoid purchasing them elsewhere. It would help to know that.
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The Noble Talk / Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« on February 5th, 2021, 06:41 PM »
I couldn't find options to filter by store. Like only show items for a particular store. Another idea is to find items that are duplicates from other stores and vice-versa.
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The Noble Talk / Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« on February 4th, 2021, 04:52 PM »
For me it is more about how to sort my games from different stores now. The rest is doing fine :)
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The Fatal Problem / Re: Issue(s)
« on June 17th, 2020, 12:59 PM »I'm all for a server update. Feel free.
Maybe it'll finally fix all the SSL problems. As I mentioned earlier, even cURL no longer works in the current setup when SSL is explicitly enabled. I've had to rely on file_get_contents instead, Which is less secure. (Although in my case, I'm only retrieving public data and not disclosing any sensitive information during the handshake, so it's not a problem per se, just something I'd rather not do as a proper web developer.)
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The Fatal Problem / Re: Issue(s)
« on June 16th, 2020, 05:53 PM »
Lets Encrypt made it so easy, I am not sure why the problem still persists. It is quite easy to setup ;)
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The Fatal Problem / Re: Issue(s)
« on June 7th, 2020, 06:45 PM »13
The Fatal Problem / Re: Issue(s)
« on June 7th, 2020, 01:11 PM »
I agree with most of what you said. Lestrades is generally better with a few nuances:
* Steam bundle pages sometimes contain games that are not linked to the steam version
* Search sometimes gets confused with certain characters and it is impossible to find them. I have to use barter and link to here. Sometimes it actually tikes a bit long and becomes frustrating (although rarely).
Don't worry, I understand you don't have time to make the changes.
Features here are certainly better here, than even the steam website. Incredible on how much money they have, and certain basic features are still poor compared to the rest.
Since Barter has the user base, they can copy features from here to grow even further. It is unfair, but that's how the world works. That is why having monopolies is really bad. Companies buying/destroying smaller companies, and becoming bigger and bigger. Of course I am exaggerating here, but without some kind of incentive users don't do shit to change their habits. This happens to every individual in any part of life. Change is hard :/
In terms of community, I don't see a problem having theirs on Steam, but would be nice to have a more broader approach to support other platforms.
If I were to choose which one I'd want, I'd choose Lestrades, because it makes my life so much easier. I'm sure the issues above could be resolved swiftly.
Besides the user base from Barter would move here, as there is no other option.
As for the last point, I stopped using google long time ago when I saw they hide links on purpose, and I'm not talking just about piracy, or porn, whatever, but things that are related to freedom of speech, specially if it is something bad about them. Thus I use duckduckgo.
But in order for people to find this website, unfortunately it will have to be found by google. It seems you are in need of some SEO.
This is a point for another discussion, but people should understand that Google and certain other companies have too much power over the internet and the user.
* Steam bundle pages sometimes contain games that are not linked to the steam version
* Search sometimes gets confused with certain characters and it is impossible to find them. I have to use barter and link to here. Sometimes it actually tikes a bit long and becomes frustrating (although rarely).
Don't worry, I understand you don't have time to make the changes.
Features here are certainly better here, than even the steam website. Incredible on how much money they have, and certain basic features are still poor compared to the rest.
Since Barter has the user base, they can copy features from here to grow even further. It is unfair, but that's how the world works. That is why having monopolies is really bad. Companies buying/destroying smaller companies, and becoming bigger and bigger. Of course I am exaggerating here, but without some kind of incentive users don't do shit to change their habits. This happens to every individual in any part of life. Change is hard :/
In terms of community, I don't see a problem having theirs on Steam, but would be nice to have a more broader approach to support other platforms.
If I were to choose which one I'd want, I'd choose Lestrades, because it makes my life so much easier. I'm sure the issues above could be resolved swiftly.
Besides the user base from Barter would move here, as there is no other option.
As for the last point, I stopped using google long time ago when I saw they hide links on purpose, and I'm not talking just about piracy, or porn, whatever, but things that are related to freedom of speech, specially if it is something bad about them. Thus I use duckduckgo.
But in order for people to find this website, unfortunately it will have to be found by google. It seems you are in need of some SEO.
This is a point for another discussion, but people should understand that Google and certain other companies have too much power over the internet and the user.
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The Fatal Problem / Re: Issue(s)
« on June 6th, 2020, 02:47 PM »
Just wanted to add in there that I think both platforms are useful for different purposes. As I said, I hope this is just some bug in the system
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The Fatal Problem / Re: Issue(s)
« on June 5th, 2020, 01:04 PM »
I've created a discussion here. Hope it gets his attention :)