Topic: Ideas for the site

Minor possible bug: I just noticed Palia has a NL review score of -1/10. Which is kind of funny tbh. I can't find any other games like that though I didn't look too hard.

https://www.nintendolife.com/games/switch-eshop/palia

@FishyS Really? That's funny. (For those wondering, it's quite a good F2P)

@FishyS thanks, that's fixed

@antdickens Is it possible to select a color for a forum? The amiibo forum is a teal color, and I was wondering if that is a staff decision or user generated. That got me wondering: could User Settings allow for a "default" color, so we could permanently enjoy dark blue NLife articles?

@CaleBoi25 not directly; currently it works by matching up your topic tags with our theme/topics: https://www.nintendolife.com/topics if it matches a tag, it'll inherit the colour from that theme/topic.

@antdickens Ah, I see. In that case, I do think it would be neat to allow custom themes.

So viewing a review for Mario Tennis (N64) and also Mario Tennis (GBC), I noticed the inclusion of a user poll to rate the game (for those lovely user ranked articles).

It uses the conventional 1-column poll that many articles feature, but in doing so adds a lot of empty vertical space between Nintendo Life's review score, and the comments section.

This really seems like a good opportunity to develop a dedicated games collection rating bar, for displaying at the bottom of reviews or relevant articles.
I've a few ideas for it:

• Prompt the user to log in to add their rating
• Displays 10 stars like the main scoring display, with each star from 1 to 10 being a clickable input (should also be possible to retract a rating)
• Mouse-over behaviour before selecting a rating to show the applicable text labels per score (only show "outstanding", "excellent", "great", "good", so on when needed)
• Single-click action to set your rating, compared to the current implementation where you select radio button, then click Vote
• Display the user's profile icon next to the user rating bar to communicate this is your rating
• Option to display the game's icon for articles that may feature multiple user ratings bars
• Logic that ratings cannot be submit prior to the game's earliest release date
• After submitting a rating, an additional button to show counts, proportions and the average of user ratings as a collapsible narrow horizontal bar graph

Making it into a nice compact article widget would really increase the number of user ratings you could collect, further driving the quality of your articles.

@antdickens I'll continue to keep an eye on it but from what I can gather, the ads problem has disappeared now so thank you for that.

@RupeeClock Oh, glad to see that has been implemented! Your ideas sound great!

to the searchfunctionmobile!

@antdickens Could you perhaps add a "ratings" feature to Game Pages? Showing the Age Rating.

@CaleBoi25 Given that different countries/regions have different rating systems, how do you envision it working? I've wondered this before as well when I noticed the rating wasn't displayed.

a dark mode option for the site would be A MAY ZIIIINNNNNN (b ' ' )b

It has dark mode. Change preference to dark mode in your account settings/preferences.

https://www.nintendolife.com/user/settings

@FishyS well AWESOME ty for this! (b ' ' )b is there a way to donate to the site? much love from this dood =)

@Papasears1982 here you go:

https://www.nintendolife.com/supporter

@Papasears1982 thanks for supporting and glad you like the dark mode!

@CaleBoi25 yes, we intend to add ESRB/PEGI ratings in due course (at least on Switch titles)

@antdickens The Temu ads are back.

@antdickens Could we get a character counter in the signature/bio section? It's rather a pain to have to save your descriptions to check if they are under the limit.