I had a DVD turn Japanese once.

It was Pixar's DVD of short films. Went to play it one day and mysteriously, everything was in Japanese. Menus, icons, the language track, everything. There was no option to change it back. No secondary audio track. Nothing. This is a DVD we had watched many times, and one day... Japanese.

We then loaned it out to somebody else to look at, and they promptly broke the disc. And so the mystery died with it.

They're just getting into the Java Effect where the junk piles up so long that they stop caring about what's necessary and more about "how can we just shove it all into the next update without breaking anything?" We need a new GOG and building Galaxy over the old one is just not working for anybody. :/

i am no developer/coder so i know nothing about coding, i do know that when i played with some simple as2 script (years ago), building up over existing code only makes things more complicated then needed.

My spagetthi code was such a mess, i had to start fresh and re-used only the working parts , which was only 10% , but after i rewrote the rest, the new code worked a charm.
You will have to break down all the walls and start all over, cause adding new layers of brick, on top of the old/existing will get you into trouble sooner or later.

Update notifications, changelog. Always worked like a charm, much better than how it's done on gog website.

How is that then? When I use the web page it gives me a number next to the account telling me how many new updates, I can then goto library, filter for updates, and check what has changed. No problems at all. How does Galaxy manage to do this better, other than sending god only knows what back home to master server tracking software?

Web page doesn't know what you have installed and at what version. So, web page hides your update notification after you click on the game page once. If you want to check what is new from work and download it once you get home, you better write it down on piece of paper, or rely on memory.

Galaxy has this info, and it doesn't even need to send anything to master server (for this feature, I don't doubt it sends stuff like playtime or achievements). Just download what current version is and compare it locally. Works even if you downgrade to previous version, in that sense galaxy doesn't provide information about updates, just a blue dot if you don't run the latest, regardless of how you got into such state.

Never had that problem. Latest version I have is always the one I want offline. Don't need to check with the mothership to see if its the right one. as for sending anything back, I have zero trust in any of those types of things. The day I trust someone else to do anything for me is the day I post my bank details online.

I didn't promise feature you in particular would find useful. The original question was "find something that Galaxy does well" and that is what I was answering. I don't trust general internet with my banking info either, that's why my gaming computer doesn't have anything worth stealing on it. But it also has 100+ games installed - at that amount manual version management becomes somewhat chaotic.

I think some people don't understand the term beta... it's not will there be bugs...there are bugs. You will experience them and your job is to report them while beta testing so they can be fixed. This is how it works.

1.10 is actually one of the most polished builds of Galaxy so far... barring this issue.

*dodged a bullet*

I guess the NSA finally ran out of storage space.