Board 8 > ATTN: Backloggery users: Site remake launching Wednesday

(+) Yeah! (+)

Barring any unforeseen issues, the current plan for launch is:
Launch the remake on Weds, May 22. During the conversion process, both sites will be down for roughly 4 hours.
Afterwards, the site remake will be live at the backloggery.com address.
The old site will remain live for one month's time at backloggery.club, but will be in a read-only mode. This is a last fallback in case of any undiscovered problems with the database conversion. Users can reference the old site if needed to verify or correct their data.
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Some reminders for those just tuning in, if you're caught up feel free to skip to the changelog down below.
I once again highly recommend updating your systems if needed, as noted in the data migration posts linked below. >>>Especially if you're using PSN as a main system for any games.<<< Updating games from PSN to PS3 (PSN), for example, will keep your PSN games from being potentially converted to the wrong PlayStation system.
If you would prefer your game comments to be converted into Reviews instead of becoming part of the expanded game notes field, change your backloggery.com footer text to "Reviewer" without the quotes.

I once again highly recommend updating your systems if needed, as noted in the data migration posts linked below. >>>Especially if you're using PSN as a main system for any games.<<< Updating games from PSN to PS3 (PSN), for example, will keep your PSN games from being potentially converted to the wrong PlayStation system.

Not off to a great start...

My host's domain management tool has crashed and I'm now being aided by an AI chat bot. It is not helping.
It's gonna be a long day, huh?

To the inevitable "they changed it and now it's bad" crowd, I hope you'll give the new site a chance. I heard the same thing about the last site remake waaaaay back in 2011, and now some people don't want to let it go. But more importantly, there's plenty of things I don't like about the new site currently. And I'm sure we'll find more issues as we move from "pretending to use the site remake" to "actually using it". But if we put our heads together, we can iron all the wrinkles out. Any and all (polite) feedback is appreciated.

I miss having friends' activities right on the same page as your own. Now I have to go out of my way if I want to see what others are up to.

the redesign is very clearly to make it look good on mobile, with very little thought put into how it looks on desktop - that little box is just on top of the rest on mobile

just give us a desktop version of the site

The community and I have spent months looking for bugs in the database conversion, but it's entirely possible we missed something. Even if we didn't, there was some "dumb" data on the old site that was never going to convert well and other parts had to be inferred. If nothing else, here's what I recommend you check out:
Game Formats (Physical/Digital)
This option wasn't on the old site, but it could be inferred to some extent by the platform the game was on. For some platforms, like Steam, obviously every game should be digital. Others, like pre-Internet consoles, could be presumed physical.
History / Game Milestones
The old site's Memory Card was "dumb" data, not properly connected to anything. While stitching things back together logically worked better than I hoped, definitely wasn't 100%. If you care about those dates, I recommend saving a copy of your Memory Card and double-checking things.
PSN Games
I've long regretted how PSN was handled on the old site and this is where we have to rip that band-aid off. If you used some combination of systems, like PS5 (PSN), you should be fine. But if you listed things as simply PSN...well, that could mean a lot of things. We've defaulted things to PS4 and marked digital. If that's not correct for you, you can check out the auto-generated PSN list under the Lists tab. There you should find all the PSN games with no obvious system to call home.
Compilations
These should largely have come out fine. Still, there were a few instances of weirdness (like a missing game note) here I was never able to get to the bottom of, so it's worth a look. The format for the parent game might also need to be corrected.