Topic: Ideas for the site

@Ryu_Niiyama honestly the Squirtle probably has a sunburn by now 😅

Haha thanks — I’d love to pass on credit to the staff but I’m the sole developer for Hookshot still, but one day we’ll hire a helper for me everyone else works on content more or less.

@antdickens Aww man, I do understand. I'm a MSP department of one so I do feel your pain. Keep your head up! It's Fri-yay at least!

@Eel I don't know why, but that made me giggle-snort.

@antdickens My Switch friend code appears whenever I post; would it be hard to have a 100% optional they/she/he line under that? I know it's been brought up before, but I think it would be cool to have a 'favorite game' or 'currently playing' line below your Switch Friend code also when you post as sort of a signature block.

@Ryu_Niiyama when people say 'they' on sites like this, it normally means nothing about preferred pronouns, it is usually just that the person doesn't know what gender the other person is. I think they is meant to be universally unoffensive but it's also just sort of the historical English word that makes sense. I know I personally rarely click on someone's profile to see if they have preferred pronouns (such as she or he) before replying to them.

On the other hand, there is rarely a reason to indirectly refer to someone in these comments rather than just using their usernames and using names makes the pronouns issue a moot point. I think that's the overall politest thing to do.

@FishyS So, again. I attempted to correct Eel because his initial wording was unclear (because he was responding to a person that had tagged me directly, so based on that context his comment made it seem like he was referring solely to me) and we have spoken for many years so I know he knows that I am female. Simply that. Eel and I came to an understanding already and I've since amended my posts. I'm not sure what you are attempting to educate me on but it isn’t required and you can take your condescending tone elsewhere. I've been on this site for nearly a decade. I'm good.

@Ryu_Niiyama Most of us have been on the internet for longer than a decade and this website is similar to other places, but many people still manage to offend/ get offended because of miscommunications. Both sides of this conversation case in point I suppose. In retrospect, I shouldn't have tagged you, you were just the person who started this little sub-topic conversation, even if unintentionally.

Anyways, apologies for disturbing. I think the overall conversation is an interesting question though since it is nice to be able to not accidentally offend people (or at least not as easily).

A mute/collapse feature sounds good. A lot of threads have become so cliquey they are now unreadable to folk casually dropping in which this could help counter.

As for pronouns, why not just drop it into your signature if it’s a concern for you.

Search function for your own comments page would be good.

I like to search other people's comments also. It may already be possible in a complicated way (?) , but a nice easy from: search option both in the main comments and the forums would be nice.

@antdickens can ignored users please see posts on this thread (like the This or That thread).

This is a thread for everyone, I feel we should be able to see everyone's ideas, ignored or not.

@antdickens
Um, can I still contacting your e-mail address whenever I spotted something suspicious / problematic from Nintendolife since I can include the screenshots for the evidences?

I'm afraid I will get ban again for contacting your e-mail after I got e-mail from the Community Manager. 😖

@Rambler lmao.

@Anti-Matter always best to use the contact form where possible as that will go to the team; we can then reply and request screenshots if required (URLs are usually fine) thanks!

@OwlHighway1Revisited makes total sense, done!

@antdickens thank you!

Sounds like a good idea! I’ll see what I can do on this and add to the roadmap. Thanks for the suggestion.

I hate to be a bother again, but I feel like it used to be possible to set games scores in your games collection back to No Score. I no longer seem to be able to do that, which of course makes sense if it was never possible, but if it was possible, than it just no longer works. It could be a glitch or something, or it could have never been there in the first place, but I feel like it probably was there. My apologies for this long-winded and somewhat strangely-written post, I just was incredibly unsure about the whole thing.

@Scooby-Doo that definitely seems like a new bug. I've removed scores before.

@antdickens There is still a 'no score' option under the stars (in the games part of our profile) and pressing it now does literally nothing but we can still change from e.g. 1 to 10 stars.

If you go to the actual game page rather than just your profile, no score is not even an option, just star options.

@Scooby-Doo @FishyS that should now be fixed, thanks for making me aware — there were some small changes to this recently that caused that bug.

@EaglyPurahfan thanks, that's a really interesting idea. I had considered a "friends/following" concept so that you might filter comment sections by your "preferred" users in the first instance, perhaps you could tab between "Friends" and "Everyone". Realistically there are a lot of other things we would need to prioritise before we look at community features such as that, but I think there is something in the idea for sure - so that will certainly be considered in the future.

@antdickens In the recent redesign, when you go on a game's page and click on "News" it goes down the same page to where the 10 most recent articles for that game. I found the old setup more useful where clicking on "News" would open a new page which allowed you to go through all the articles for that game.