Thank you for the response and the link. I'd have to dig for it but I thought the thread not posting issue was due to what was in it but I am be misremembering it again. This was why I;m sure we were asking about what was the title.

Yep,had the same problems but some might say it's due to my exceptionally high rep.I have reported bugs to no avail and it's just a guess but that could be due to my (as above).This place needs to be NUKED and replaced with a new setup/site and they would fix all the bugs at one time.Maybe they can setup a new site but keep it under cover until it's perfect then NUKE this site,maybe they are doing that now.The feedback is pretty scarce,a bit like the Secret Society aka F.B.I.....Yep,had to sneak that one in.Have a nice day.

I don't know much about web programming, but I wonder if the underlying code/structure of the site is still stuck in 2008 and all we're seeing is more and more layers of paint when the true issues run much deeper. Maybe the base needs to be restructured, but GOG has invested too much time into their current system/Galaxy to do that. Or it has to do with almost 30 positions still needing to be filled, but nobody wants to move to Warsaw and GOG won't set up shop in the US because it is too expensive and a big time difference. Or the web team is focusing all on Galaxy. Anyway, vote with your wallets.

The only thing I can think of with regards to the web team is that they're doing something major in the backend...


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... of the site. But to be honest I wouldn't know, as I know little about how to run a website and web programming. As for switching the forum software: maybe the issue is converting and transfering all the data they have in the current system to the next. With Gwent they wouldn't have to worry about old threads and posts and such.

GOG often set countdown clocks wrong, and mismatch to each other for promo page and homepage.
GOG often change OS support section in their gamecards, and change back and forth in very shory time.
GOG often forget to modify their gamecards after pre-order/promo ends.
GOG have a lot of typo, wrong filename, wrong version scheme, and wrong date/year info in their changelogs.
GOG's redeem codes often have strange expiration date. They could be have expired before they send you the brand new code.

I think GOG just have no dashboard for all these works. They just do it manually.

It's possible... I just don't see what else they could be spending all their time on. Sure they could be working hard on new features but you can't let that get in the way of basic maintenance. New features are nice but we can see the bugs, for example with the forum, every single day which impact usability.

We aren't going to see new features or know about them until there done so website features like the forum should take higher priority either being fixed or replaced (and as I said they could just pay for forum software and have it up and running within no time at all). There are other issues of course too.

Part of me thinks GOG really is stuck in the past and they are handling things in a convoluted way. Ideally with a site like GOG you would want some kind of admin dashboard where you could log in to the backend and do pretty much any task on GOG without having to do it via code. So for example, you would log in, click add game, add a title, pictures, a video link, upload a game build, and a description of the game, etc. and hit submit. Then it would automatically post to the site. Something that allows "normal" non technical people to handle these basic task.

We just don't know enough about GOG backend system to know these things... though we do know they have some kind of system for devs now with the Galaxy dev portal. Perhaps that is the reconstructed backend that will be used by developers (and by extenstion GOG) to handle everything GOG / Galaxy related.
It's possible for sure, and those errors do lend to that possibility... and that would be really really bad. It is a horrible way to manage content via injecting code (if that is what they are doing).

GOG's backend essentially needs to be a CMS...

I get the feeling GoG is falling into old habits...

Not the first time I've heard GoG say "they are looking into it but it's not a high priority". I was told the same thing about the daily downrepping bot.

Maybe "it's not a high priority" is the new "your game is too niche".

Unfortunately reading and posting to GOG forums is free... but what we could all do is to go on a forum strike! Everyone, let's not read or post anything to the forums for one day! If that doesn't get the message through, for a week! That'll show them, and soon they will be begging us to post something!

(Sorry I am not participating in the strike as the current forum bugs don't really affect me that much, I e.g. get this message posted just fine.)

That has as much of a chance happening as Hillary getting indicted or the W.P. actually telling the truth or the NYT doing the same or me becoming an instant millionaire or someone from Gog "crying,hey the forum's on strike''yuk yuk yuk.
And who said nothing is impossible? Well,I have news for them a strike in here is!

They had listed a Promotional Sales position open for a long while to cover such things.

Not sure if the position got filled but it disappeared from the listings.

https://www.gog.com/work

Usually when I start a new thread and the posting window remains on processing, I leave it open and refresh the forums to see if my thread was opened, if yes then I close the window. Not working as it should obviously, but I got used to it now.

I must've been the other reporter when i accidentally spammed the x-series board.
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