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Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #270, on May 16th, 2017, 11:16 AM »
I know, the sky's the limit. ;)

Announcement about the site (making it 'official' that Barter feature porting is completed, as well as a call to help-- start using the site! Share with friends!
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/lestrades#announcements/detail/2470633236770235928

A quick changelog of the last 3 weeks (possibly easier to digest than reading the last 10 pages of this topic... Also, gives you a good idea of the amount of crazy work I put into this.)
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/lestrades#announcements/detail/2470633236770366428
Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #271, on May 16th, 2017, 10:27 PM »
FIX: When having multiple different copies of a game, you could only offer people the latest copy instead of the copy of your choice.
Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #272, on May 17th, 2017, 11:08 AM »
NEW: Search engine now adds library/wishlist/tradable icons if the game in question is found in your lists. Makes it easier to find/ignore them!
Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #273, on May 17th, 2017, 09:00 PM »
FIX: Couldn't sync wishlist with Steam if said wishlist contained a game not in Lestrade's database yet (e.g. a game added within the last few days to Steam.)

FIX: Match pages now show multiple 1-quantity copies, too. Performance is on par with before, of course.
Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #274, on May 18th, 2017, 03:17 PM »
NEW: Bundles should now be up to date (well, latest one is the Humble Indie Bundle 18...)
Later bundles will still need to be added semi-manually. I'm working on automating it. Currently I'm populating older bundles (already expired ones, so it doesn't really matter much.)

(I'm having a feeling of déjà vu, as if I already typed exactly the same sentence in my changelog....)

NEW: Bundle editor. Currently can only add single games to existing tiers. Of course, I will build on that... I tested by adding the Goat Simulator games to aforementioned bundle. Funny thing is, even if I'm the only one with access right now, I couldn't stop myself from making it Ajax with auto-refresh & all... lol.

Looking for volunteers to update & add bundles as soon as the features will be available!
Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #275, on May 18th, 2017, 11:28 PM »
Note: all bundles are now fully imported (I had to redo them all after I discovered that all games above ID 26000 in the database were ignored when importing bundles, because of a tiny change in the BVG HTML. And yes I'm gonna switch to a new scraping system for games because right now it's far from ideal...)

Still stopped at HB 18, so no Bundlestars today.
Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #276, on May 19th, 2017, 04:14 PM »
FIX: Redid bundle scraping locally; games not found on Lestrade's are now logged and shown in bundle pages with a link to their ITAD pages. For instance, in the latest Humble, Goat Sim isn't found here because it's the 'GOATY' edition. So at least you can see that, 'uhoh, there's a problem here', and point it out. Just in case some bundles need to be fixed manually :)

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Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #277, on May 19th, 2017, 04:41 PM »
Maybe add a more prominent link to the bundles page somewhere, and enable adding selected games from a bundle to lists. =)

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Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #278, on May 19th, 2017, 06:33 PM »
Yes, I'm actually working on that (I think you can already see the checkboxes in bundle pages... Or are they only for me right now?), but I've been busy trying to fix other things like the scraper.

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Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #280, on May 19th, 2017, 08:09 PM »
Yes, because it's not written yet ;)
And as always I like doing things right, so I'm not hurrying up.
This is basically the last feature I need to implement before I go into my long term plans (I'll finish bundle handling before that though, notably adding and removing them manually), so I'll do it right. ;)

Or just because I'm currently giving his soup to my kid. But it's too down to earth :-P
Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #281, on May 20th, 2017, 08:11 PM »
NEW: Bundle items are now clickable, and you can 'Add to tradables' and 'Add to wishlist'[1]. I'm not doing 'Add to blacklist' for now, unless someone really needs it.

In addition to adding the games to your lists, Lestrade's will also add the bundle's icon, as well as a tier (tier 1 => low tier, tier 2 => mid tier, tier 3 or above => high tier). Of course some bundles will have different 'values' (e.g. indiegala tier 2? With happy hour, who cares that it's a tier 2 when it's barely worth a tier 1 in the end? I'll need to add an exception for those), and finally, if there's a custom note next to the bundle item (happens often on ITAD bundles), it'll be imported as well, in case there's important information about the item's nature.
I'm also planning to allow bundles to get tagged, so when I do that, I'll also allow importing tags from bundle items.

Have fun! (Especially @devotee, who really, really wanted the feature. :P)

And now I only need to synchronize bundles hourly or whatever, and we'll really be at feature parity. (As in, 'features I felt were important to have in a modern trading site,' since there are already many features that are exclusive to LT's.)
 1. I thought 'Add to wishlist' was a LT exclusive but apparently Barter added it recently. However if you click 'switch to wishlist', it'll uncheck all currently checked games. He still knows best about usability. :P
Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #282, on May 21st, 2017, 12:49 AM »
NEW: Bundle items show a list of their most prominent Steam tags. This can save you time if you don't know the games involved and you're not interested in badly rated platformers but you collect hidden object games of any rating. ;)
Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #283, on May 21st, 2017, 01:00 AM »
NEW: Bundles are now automatically synced from ITAD every hour. YES! :)

Limitations:
- I'm no longer scraping Chrono.gg 'bundles'... Seriously, that's just a glorified daily promo sale. Nothing 'bundly' in those.
- There may be errors when matching games. For instance in a recent bundle, one of the games wasn't recognized because its identification on ITAD wasn't the same as what it gives me through its API (the API version was somehow missing a letter.) I'll keep an eye on that.
- Pending bundles are also imported. This means you may see duplicates or erroneous bundles from time to time. I'll add support for bundle comments later on, so you can point out any mistakes you find, and I'll fix them manually. I'll also improve my editor so that other volunteers can fix the bundles themselves.[1]

I think that's all for now... Have fun now ;)
 1. Yeah, "other volunteers"... I know right? ::)

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Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #284, on May 21st, 2017, 01:11 AM »
The bundle page functionality is really helpful, and the implementation seems to work great from a user standpoint.
Pretty much exactly what i imagined, and the tag are a great additional idea, too.

Time to present the bundle page more promintent.
Maybe right in the top bar, next to the matches page?
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