As per Discord feedback, the social icons in the footer are now aligned properly and the same size in the boxes and the boxes are all the same size too. Small thing, but looks a lot nicer.

I would like to see an option to enable wide mode or compact mode or however it will be called. something like the new reddit style where you can pick compact view and have the screen filled horizontally more.

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Reader for ~5 years, wow I can't come up with anything substantial.
On header when expanding sections or contact us, a few items overflow to the row below while the most occupy only one row. Making these consistent by perhaps making the overflow menu wider could be nice.
GoL lists only 210 games while AreWeAnticheatYet lists over a thousand. Though some of the games in the latter are either not out or online only & end of life. Also i'd argue listing games that need workarounds as "broken" is not the right choice, they should be either "works" or in their own category. ie. Battlefield 4 "Playable if you manually update PunkBuster." We have plenty of broken games with no fix, no need to throw the fixable games in the same bucket. Also last time I checked (almost a year since I last played haha) genshin impact refused to work unless you disconnected from network before launching game *or* added the game as non steam game (no, simply using proton doesn't work because the game checked for the existence of steam or something like that) that is not mentioned either

Quoting: XpanderI would like to see an option to enable wide mode or compact mode or however it will be called. something like the new reddit style where you can pick compact view and have the screen filled horizontally more.

A first W.I.P pass on this is live. In the user settings, see the viewing mode option. Is this what you were thinking? Needs plenty of tweaking but want to ensure it's going the right way.

Quoting: Liam DaweA first W.I.P pass on this is live. In the user settings, see the viewing mode option. Is this what you were thinking? Needs plenty of tweaking but want to ensure it's going the right way.

yeah something like this is pretty good. Thank you.

could maybe tweak the article images to be a bit smaller so theres more news on the screen without scrolling down and the sidepanel on the right could be maybe tiny bit less wide, but i like it :)

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forum is pretty much perfect size for me with that :)

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Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: Liam DaweA first W.I.P pass on this is live. In the user settings, see the viewing mode option. Is this what you were thinking? Needs plenty of tweaking but want to ensure it's going the right way.

yeah something like this is pretty good. Thank you.

could maybe tweak the article images to be a bit smaller so theres more news on the screen without scrolling down and the sidepanel on the right could be maybe tiny bit less wide, but i like it :)

edit:
forum is pretty much perfect size for me with that :)

Did a few more quick tweaks: smaller sizing on the article list to fit more in, the article image is set to fit rather than stretch so it looks better. The content also has a max-width of 2400px otherwise it would stretch forever (bit silly).

Need to sort the featured articles at the top next, they're too stretched.

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Quoting: mr-victoryReader for ~5 years, wow I can't come up with anything substantial.
On header when expanding sections or contact us, a few items overflow to the row below while the most occupy only one row. Making these consistent by perhaps making the overflow menu wider could be nice.

This is fixed now! Been bugging me too.

Quoting: mr-victoryGoL lists only 210 games while AreWeAnticheatYet lists over a thousand. Though some of the games in the latter are either not out or online only & end of life. Also i'd argue listing games that need workarounds as "broken" is not the right choice, they should be either "works" or in their own category. ie. Battlefield 4 "Playable if you manually update PunkBuster." We have plenty of broken games with no fix, no need to throw the fixable games in the same bucket. Also last time I checked (almost a year since I last played haha) genshin impact refused to work unless you disconnected from network before launching game *or* added the game as non steam game (no, simply using proton doesn't work because the game checked for the existence of steam or something like that) that is not mentioned either

The main point of our list really is to try and keep things simple for people, other places tend to complicate things a lot so I don't really want to build up lots of notes of workarounds and such atm. But, I'll keep it in mind.

This is one of my fav sites on the entire intertrons ... so ... as for suggestions: hmmmmmm 🤔 I can't even come up with anything major off the top of my head which is AWESOME. I think you're doing a great job with the site. I think the only thing I'd like to see more of is more community features. I'm not even really sure what those could be, but more community interactions I feel like would make the place more sticky, make people stick around more, interact more, etc etc etc. That's about it... Keep up the awesome work Liam!

What sort of community stuff did you have in mind?

Quoting: Liam Squires-HandWhat sort of community stuff did you have in mind?

I like @Jarmer's idea. Maybe something like organising some online games (perhaps giving visibility is enough and people can try to form groups by themselves?), perhaps a little scoring chart haha, or even meetups for those of us in London?

Maybe the above are not great ideas, but something around those lines .

As for the improvement, the @Name to mention someone in a forum/post would be pretty nice I think, with the ability to disable notifications for those not interested, and blocking people if they abuse it. By this I mean us users having the ability to block certain people, not only GoL's team in the backend.

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Quoting: Liam Squires-HandWhat sort of community stuff did you have in mind?

I can come up with a list of some ideas today! I'll let you know here :)

Maybe a site map, which you could link in the footer, with links to all the sections and contact pages and such; it may help a11y, though I'll be the first to admit I'm far from an expert on those matters.

Quoting: ArehandoroAs for the improvement, the @Name to mention someone in a forum/post would be pretty nice I think, [...]

I agree. However I hate that it everywhere includes the `@` sign, because I read it as "at" like: "If @Peter does it right" becomes to "If at Peter does it right" in my head. I would want to write @Peter and read plain Peter. I also often miss a function on other forums etc to silently mention an user. In example if I don't want to spam a person with mentioning, I just don't add that @. But if that person changes the name, my text does not change the name, because the mentioning is missing.

I don't know how the world can miss such basics. But if GamingOnLinux implements this, here is the chance to implement it the right way. ^.^

I wish GamingOnLinux would make it more obvious if articles speak about anti-cheat in general or KLAC in specific. Here the different kinds of anti-cheat that exist under the banner of "anti-cheat":
- server side anti-cheat (gold standard)
- client side user-space anti-cheat
- KLAC (client side kernel level anti-cheat)

It is not just important, because KLAC is the worst out of these three (not only for Linux gaming, but also system stability and integrity), but we may face new forms of anti-cheat in future, especially as Linux becomes more popular. I am expecting more escalations from companies at some point.

Anti-cheat is not bad. Methods as KLAC are.

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Right now it doesn't really matter if it's kernel-level or not, since that does not exist on Linux.

Quoting: tmtvlMaybe a site map, which you could link in the footer, with links to all the sections and contact pages and such; it may help a11y, though I'll be the first to admit I'm far from an expert on those matters.

Made a basic start on that now https://www.gamingonlinux.com/sitemap.php

Quoting: Liam Squires-HandRight now it doesn't really matter if it's kernel-level or not, since that does not exist on Linux.

It matters to me as reader, because it is an anti-consumer thing that will be escalated sooner or later. I don't want to verify myself via AI webcam scanning player emotions to find the "cheater-face", because KLAC does not work on Linux. I will delete all accounts (already did with Riot and Rockstargames even before joining Linux, not buying their new games), but I also want to honor companies that are actually working on server side anti-cheat beyond the bare minimum (because I am still against cheating).

The thing is, when I started reading posts on GOL, I was confused about what kind of anti-cheat you were writing about. The active community may knows this. Random visitors may not. I was looking on text, tags and also on anti-cheat compatibility-page to understand if it is just the general way here to talk about. I don't want to turn your page in something political, it can be written fully neutral. It just could be helpful to understand the articles easier or help new Linux users to understand that not anti-cheat in general blocks the games from running, but KLAC does.

Anyway, just wanted to explain the reasons, because it seems you are looking from another perspective that is also valid.

I see what you're saying, in cases where it's clear I will note it, but that depends on developers accurately noting it on their Steam pages. Feel free to send in a correction using the correction button to request edits on articles to note it when they don't. We take all suggestions on board.

Quoting: Liam Squires-HandWhat sort of community stuff did you have in mind?

sorry I meant to get these to you the other day! Here's some ideas?

• Similar to other sites with articles and comments: make the comments on every article a forum thread, instead of just attached to the article itself. That way it promotes more activity and use of the forums themselves. I bet there are quite a few of the regular readers who never even come here.


• I would LOVE this: add a general live chat somewhere on the site like an irc room or similar. But integrated into the site and not on irc or discord or whatever. Here on the site so all of us logged in users can chat! I hate discord so I never use it, and I just always forget to check in on irc lol ...


• *avail to paying subscribers only* - add a "currently playing" bit of small flavor text under our avatars. Like I might put something like "desktop: Swordhaven | deck: Replaced" ... and then remind all logged in users like once a month or whatever "are you still playing this? Want to update/change it?" ... I think that'd be cool to see what everyone else is currently playing


• *avail to paying subscribers only* add LOTS more stuff to the user profiles. Make them a LOT more social. Make it so we can add friends / create friends lists like "deck player pals" or "my crpg buddies" or whatever. Allow us to add a LOT more stuff to our profiles to make them like mini little user homepages. Stuff like "distro history" that lists every distro you've ever used and the timeline for all of them. Add location options / timezone info to the profiles so we can know where and when people are. Totally optional for the person to fill in or not of course for privacy reasons. Allow location to be rough so I could put like "Kentucky USA" and that's it, not my precise location. Add a little "about me" blurb box. Add a selector of what genres of games you like playing. Add a selector for what devices you play games on (which would also include other stuff that's not linux). You see where I'm going with this. Just expand the user profile a TON and make it a lot more social.

Off the top of my head this is what I've got. I can think on more stuff as well ...............

Quoting: Jarmer

Quoting: Liam Squires-HandWhat sort of community stuff did you have in mind?

sorry I meant to get these to you the other day! Here's some ideas?

• Similar to other sites with articles and comments: make the comments on every article a forum thread, instead of just attached to the article itself. That way it promotes more activity and use of the forums themselves. I bet there are quite a few of the regular readers who never even come here.


• I would LOVE this: add a general live chat somewhere on the site like an irc room or similar. But integrated into the site and not on irc or discord or whatever. Here on the site so all of us logged in users can chat! I hate discord so I never use it, and I just always forget to check in on irc lol ...


• *avail to paying subscribers only* - add a "currently playing" bit of small flavor text under our avatars. Like I might put something like "desktop: Swordhaven | deck: Replaced" ... and then remind all logged in users like once a month or whatever "are you still playing this? Want to update/change it?" ... I think that'd be cool to see what everyone else is currently playing


• *avail to paying subscribers only* add LOTS more stuff to the user profiles. Make them a LOT more social. Make it so we can add friends / create friends lists like "deck player pals" or "my crpg buddies" or whatever. Allow us to add a LOT more stuff to our profiles to make them like mini little user homepages. Stuff like "distro history" that lists every distro you've ever used and the timeline for all of them. Add location options / timezone info to the profiles so we can know where and when people are. Totally optional for the person to fill in or not of course for privacy reasons. Allow location to be rough so I could put like "Kentucky USA" and that's it, not my precise location. Add a little "about me" blurb box. Add a selector of what genres of games you like playing. Add a selector for what devices you play games on (which would also include other stuff that's not linux). You see where I'm going with this. Just expand the user profile a TON and make it a lot more social.

Off the top of my head this is what I've got. I can think on more stuff as well ...............

While I would love to expand on the social features, most of it's not really feasible. Especially so with all the "child safety" laws that are expanding - it's truly a legal nightmare, especially so when the site is 99% just me. I'll see what small things I can add back though.

As for attaching comments to the forum, that doesn't really make sense. I know Phoronix does it, but that's because they rely on their forum software - we don't.

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