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Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #675, on November 12th, 2018, 10:22 AM »
Ooouf.
I hate the new steam developer pages anyway. Way to much marketing there, way too less overview over the released titles.

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Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #676, on November 13th, 2018, 10:04 PM »
At least they're nicely designed.
But yeah, one more opportunity for us to get lost in a page that gives us the information the studios want us to have, rather than all the details we're looking for.
Eh, it's my main reason for wanting to have this studio page on Lestrade's in the first place... (And I'm surprised BVG doesn't have one.)
Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #677, on November 16th, 2018, 11:39 AM »
NEW: Improved library pages when it comes to removed games. The mention 'Removed' was replaced with either:
- 'Not found' (less scary..?), for games that were probably revoked;
- 'Delisted' for games that were apparently removed from Steam but have an unclear status (the jury's out on whether it got revoked from your library or you're safe);
- 'Pending' for games pending Steam verification (meaning they really are in your library, just not disclosed for now officially);
- and 'Banned' if the game was removed from Steam for rule violation, thus implying it will no longer show up in your public library but you're safe playing it.

The same process is used in game pages, with a short explanation when you hover the word.

BTW, does anyone have Silent Service in their library, yet marked as revoked/delisted..? The game is still on Steam, and it doesn't seem to be under any kind of scrutiny, given its age. That's weird. Same for 'Star Swarm Stress Test', actually. That's the only two games in my 6000+ game library that are incorrectly marked as removed. Also, some of my free video series ("Let's Play", for instance) are also marked as delisted, I'm guessing Steam no longer shows them as owned..?
Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #678, on December 5th, 2018, 06:32 PM »
FIX: I had an issue with a custom SQL call I made, which in turn corrupted the library and wishlist databases.
As such I had to reinstall them from a backup dated from about 18 hours. I also restored the tradables database, though it was uncorrupted, to ensure the same consistency in your data. Assume ALL of the tradable/wishlist/library data you entered *manually *(or through a BVG sync) less than 18 hours ago has to be re-entered.
I apologize about that.


I'm actually working on purging the databases from all automatically imported items (Steam/BVG wishlist, BVG tradables and Steam/BVG library) from users who haven't been on the website in over 6 months, meaning they're unlikely to ever come back and this gives us incorrect item ratios.
So, expect severe ratio changes on some older bundled items, of course! You can always consult BVG to see the ratios over there, but they're usually wildly differenty already (especially on items added in the last year.)

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Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #679, on December 5th, 2018, 07:59 PM »
Auto purging is a much awaited feature for me. Similar to Barter. That'd be great :)
Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #680, on December 5th, 2018, 08:00 PM »
By the way... I have noticed that Barter implemented some of the Lestrades features, like separate filters for tags and stores, small ui changes, etc.

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Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #681, on December 5th, 2018, 08:34 PM »
Quote from Akylen on December 5th, 2018, 07:59 PM
Auto purging is a much awaited feature for me. Similar to Barter. That'd be great :)
Barter has it..? Lol. I thought it was something I was the first to come up with. I mean how does it handle users who manually added items on the site..? Does it remove those as well?
The purge is over, BTW. About 2/3 of all wishlisted items & library items have been slashed. A smaller share of tradables has been removed, because of a technical issue: I never added a 'barter sync' for first-timers who imported their tradables from BVG. Meaning I have no way to determine if a game was added manually on LT's (not removable) or added through barter (removable), so I'm only removing games that were added later with a manual BVG sync. That still accounts for, like, dozens of thousands of tradables removed...

Note: if you want to recover your lists, you need to: (1) log into the site, (2) go to your wishlist and click to sync (your library will be updated as well), then proceed to manually import from Barter on all of your tabs. Also consider using 'add DLCs and packages' in your library page.
Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #682, on December 6th, 2018, 11:40 AM »
FIX: The game list was no longer working; I didn't any reports otherwise I would have fixed it earlier.
FIX: Forgot to automate deletion of outdated (only auto-added) user items.
FIX: Made offer pages slightly more readable.
Posted: December 6th, 2018, 11:10 AM

Note: all items added before September 5, 2017 are now assumed to be auto-synced from BVG if the user hasn't logged in in over 6 months (this isn't a random date; it's when I started flagging BVG imports as such when creating your account). This is because if your tradables are over 14 months old *and* you haven't been here in over 6 months, it's likely you won't come back at all (i.e. you've retired from trading or whatever), so I'd rather not screw up 'recent ratios' with old tradables you're unlikely to be able to get anyway.
Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #683, on December 6th, 2018, 04:05 PM »
NEW: Added 'most tradables' and 'most involved in offers' (received + sent) user stat charts in the Stats page. Not particularly interesting, but I thought you might wanna look into those.

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Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #684, on December 7th, 2018, 04:36 PM »

Those are interesting stats. I should look that page more often. It is an underrated feature!
Quote from [Lestrades.com]Nao 尚 on December 6th, 2018, 04:05 PM
NEW: Added 'most tradables' and 'most involved in offers' (received + sent) user stat charts in the Stats page. Not particularly interesting, but I thought you might wanna look into those.

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Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #685, on December 10th, 2018, 01:10 AM »
Well there are more stats in the page but they're only shown to me... Too depressing at the time, eheh. (Low numbers of trades completed, compared to BVG... Even though LT's was so much better. I left it time to catch up, it's still not as practical and well designed, but since I'm pretty much done with the idea that LT's would be a dashing success, I'm fine with it now.)
I should probably show the stats to everyone, I suppose.
Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #686, on December 26th, 2018, 09:42 PM »
FIX; Filtered bundle list was not showing 100 items unlike the unfiltered one. This time, you'll get as many bundles as you can see, even if they're expired. As always, filtered by date. I'm still on the fence regarding whether to paginate results and thus show older bundles.
Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #687, on January 27th, 2019, 04:33 PM »
Note: even if I don't spend time documenting changes to the website, I still keep fixing whatever needs fixing (such as weird database entries, bad bundles, etc.), as well as add minor features (e.g. slightly better support for Epic Games store.)

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Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #688, on January 28th, 2019, 08:13 PM »
Got a design idea: The grey bar below the notifications could light up orange aswell if there is an active notification.
Furthermore: Notifications generated by an incoming trade offer could be auto-read if the trade is interacted with.

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Re: What's up at Lestrade's?
« Reply #689, on January 30th, 2019, 01:31 PM »
First: not likely... It's already made well visible.
Second: yeah that's bothers me too, ahah... I never took time to look into marking these notifications as read. I didn't write the notification system, only tweaked it, and there are too many objects for what it does (i.e. the programmer intended to add more features but never did.)