Topic: Ideas for the site

@RupeeClock ah okay no problem, that explains what is happening though! We're actually going to be launching our ad-free supporter option very soon, so if you were interested that would be another way to do it

@antdickens
That's great, I've actually wanted that sort of option for Nintendo Life for a long time now and would totally be on board.

It's not the content of the adverts that bother me necessarily, so much as performance impact, privacy concerns, and how they can make the elements of the page jump around erratically during viewport construction.

@antdickens OK, that's a relief. Thanks for addressing it.

Would it be possible to implement a way to block articles with certain tags from appearing on your personal home page, as a method to avoid spoilers for an upcoming game/new game until you’ve finished it?

@Munchlax not currently, but it's something that has cropped up from time to time. Out of interest which game are you trying to avoid? and any examples of spoilers as editorially we will try to avoid major spoilers in our headlines/lead-images anyway.

@antdickens I’m now trying to go into Scarlet and Violet without knowing the new Pokémon, to make it more surprising, but the articles reporting on them normally include the images in the thumbnail. I’ve seen a few other people share a similar sentiment.
I imagine in a few months time I’ll be doing a similar thing for Tears Of The Kingdom, but I’m guessing those spoilers will be easier to avoid.
Thank you for taking the time to reply 🙂

@Munchlax
Really, the problem there is TPCi's marketing strategy.
They love to do weekly reveals up until the game's release, teasing some of the new stuff to find.
They have a real bad habit of revealing too many surprises.

I don't know if the news tabs for each game are auto-created or manually, but is there any way for those tabs to include more articles which mention/discuss the games?

For example if you go one of the games in the Best Switch Games...That Don't Fit In Other Lists list you won't see that article in the news tab so you won't know it's a 'best of' game, something very relevant while browsing games. This is true for most of the 'best Switch games' lists.

Similarly the 24 games we missed article from today doesn't end up in the game news tabs but it would be nice if it did since this article is the closest those games currently have to a review.

Ideally any article really talking about a game for at least a paragraph would end up in news for that game, though if the process is automatic I realize it can be a subtle distinction and if it is manual that is probably too much nuisance.

Did a new update go across the site that added related articles at the bottom of an article?

I'm just curious because I think it looks really nice

@Eagly If you're looking to upload photos, my advice would be to go to https://postimages.org and put your image file in there. That's what I've been doing to upload my images to the site and it's worked pretty well (you can even adjust sizes!).

@Fizza you can change sizes???

You guys need to stop post such polarizing articles. This is getting ridiculous as of late that when I go to comment on an article the comment section is locked. This latest one is about the gaming store that was robbed. I went to comment in it and it was locked by a mod and the reason, it's the end of the days for us so it's being locked?? What kind of reason is that?? It's not even Noon where I am at. Maybe you should get some new staff where Noon isn't the end of the day for them. Either that or maybe you guys shouldn't post polarizing articles if you can't handle the comment section. So it order to post a comment, I need to go by your guys schedule but if I don't I a can't.

Just seems a bit unfair that you let some people post their comments but others after a certain time you don't. That fine I guess those who don't go by your schedule aren't welcomed here.

@Tasuki I think some new mod blood could do the site some good.

@Tasuki
I completely agree. While this recent article was much better in the comments than most articles of this type, it has no place on a gaming website. The reasoning I was given was since it was a retro gaming store it counted as gaming news. If a site is going to allow comments on their stuff, they need to either not post such controversial topics, or realize that those threads might get political. But locking down the comments is never a good option.

How long have the current mods been active?

@blindsquarel I don't mind locking down comments but to do so after so many other people commented just makes me feel like my comments are no important to the site. Either have them locked from the beginning or not at all. Especially because "It's the end of the day". As I said it's not even Noon where I am at. What type of excuses is that?

On one hand I'm having trouble seeing why people are so outraged (beyond it's the inter netting webs) at an article about a popular gaming shop being robbed and on the other hand I'm setting my alarm clock for 9am UK time for when the article comments section opens up again so I can join in the fun.

@Rambler Either not have comments on articles or have them?

@Rambler This site needs some Canadians!

@Rambler They do at least I thought they did. I thought @Eel is from North America as well as a few others.

This decision of new mods is all up to the site creators, it's out of our hands now.