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Moren on 24 September 2012
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ioi said:
morenoingrato said:

I don't mean disrespect to the administrators in any way. This is more of a question.

I understand Gamewise is a huge project that will probably be more profitable than Vgchartz, therefore, a lot of resources are on that site. However, and update of what's going on on the site would be nice.

Will the bugs be ironed? Will the tools be back? When will the database stop being a huge clustered mess? Will there be change? Do they even give a c*** about this site anymore?

Which bugs, which tools, which clustered mess?

As far as I'm concerned, it is business as normal on VGChartz. We have weekly data, we have regular sales articles, we have forums. I have posted numerous threads in the last few months asking for lists of issues / improvements and most have come back with nothing so I'm keen to learn what the "bugs" are that you mention?

In terms of tools, a couple of months ago we added a bunch of the analysis tools back to the site (under the tools menu):

Are there any other specific tools you feel are missing?

Finally, how is the database a clustered mess? As has been mentioned previously, the ability to follow and rate particular games has now been removed (since this has now been superceded by Gamewise) but your old collections still remain. Basic game entries and data now feed through from Gamewise - when a date is added there it will update on VGChartz - makes far more sense than trying to manage two databases at once. Other than that, I don't see an issue here?

So yes, in terms of development / admin support then things are no different to how they have ever been. As has been explained in the past, we have been gradually streamlining and simplifying VGChartz back to a sales-focused site as it was back in 2006-2008 before we began expanding and "bloating" the site as many felt with new features - so a lot of non-sales functionality has now gone elsewhere as was the plan.

But to answer your original question no, nobody has been abandoned.

I'm not much of a fan of sales tools, but many people here are, they will answer for you.

Okay, I understand you want to keep the text clean, however, making the font bigger is really useful for titles. Also, many times, alignement is a mess. 

Many people have already said other issues like the lack of spellchecker of "This user's post has been removed."

The heart of this site is the forums and profiles, there is no excuse for keeping the DB in such a horrible mess. At least allow change or something. You talk about keeping the site clean, but leaving the DB incomplete doesn't help. At all.