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Posted October 18, 2024
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HunchBluntley: I noticed a little while back that GOG Db has started to only show multi-part offline installers as one single entity on some games (at least, I seem to remember it only being some back when I first noted this change). It now seems that this change affects every game, and I'm really wondering what the reason was. If it's something on GOG's end -- which I really hope to be the case -- then fair enough. But it does make GOG Db just that little bit less useful.
May be a sign of things to come :/
Post edited October 18, 2024 by Cavalary
Posted October 31, 2024
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Alexim: In the general catalog view of GOG you can only see up to 10k products at once due to limits imposed to improve performance. This is creating a series of false positives on GOGDB, which considers more and more games delisted, all those exceeding the ten-thousandth game after being sorted alphabetically.
This should be fixed now. I was aware of the issue, but didn't have the time to code a fix until now.
Posted October 31, 2024
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Alexim: In the general catalog view of GOG you can only see up to 10k products at once due to limits imposed to improve performance. This is creating a series of false positives on GOGDB, which considers more and more games delisted, all those exceeding the ten-thousandth game after being sorted alphabetically.
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Yepoleb: This should be fixed now. I was aware of the issue, but didn't have the time to code a fix until now.
Perfect, thank you very much once again Yepoleb.
Posted October 31, 2024
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HunchBluntley: I noticed a little while back that GOG Db has started to only show multi-part offline installers as one single entity on some games (at least, I seem to remember it only being some back when I first noted this change). It now seems that this change affects every game, and I'm really wondering what the reason was. If it's something on GOG's end -- which I really hope to be the case -- then fair enough. But it does make GOG Db just that little bit less useful.
I think you can check how many parts a game has(and size also) in Details - > the Galaxy API link
Posted October 31, 2024
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HunchBluntley:
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Hirako__: I think you can check how many parts a game has(and size also) in Details - > the Galaxy API link
You're right, thanks for mentioning that. But that just makes it extra curious that GOG Db was seemingly changed to no longer show that info. (Also, the API pages are both uglier [harder to read] and less convenient to use than GOG Db.)
Posted October 31, 2024
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HunchBluntley: You're right, thanks for mentioning that. But that just makes it extra curious that GOG Db was seemingly changed to no longer show that info. (Also, the API pages are both uglier [harder to read] and less convenient to use than GOG Db.)
With installers getting bigger then file list got really long, consider a 10 part installer for 8 different languages, that's 80 entries of mostly redundant information. Since the number of parts is relevant, I will consider adding that number again. Sorry for hiding it, I was not aware it would be useful to someone.
Posted October 31, 2024
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HunchBluntley: You're right, thanks for mentioning that. But that just makes it extra curious that GOG Db was seemingly changed to no longer show that info. (Also, the API pages are both uglier [harder to read] and less convenient to use than GOG Db.)
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Yepoleb: With installers getting bigger then file list got really long, consider a 10 part installer for 8 different languages, that's 80 entries of mostly redundant information. Since the number of parts is relevant, I will consider adding that number again. Sorry for hiding it, I was not aware it would be useful to someone.
Have you thought about making sections like that collapsible? Or would that be too much of a pain? (I haven't seen anything that...uh, "dynamic" on the site, so I'm guessing you avoid that kind of thing for the sake of simplicity/maintainability, which would be understandable. EDIT: Actually, I guess the different tabs on the product pages sort of count?) Failing that, just being able to click through to another (simple, readable) page with the same info would be fine.
(Semi-relatedly, on the master changelog list, the ability to combine and collapse certain categories of entries -- and/or to filter ones out -- would also help A LOT. But, again, I have no idea how feasible such things would be for you.)
Post edited October 31, 2024 by HunchBluntley
Posted November 01, 2024
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Yepoleb: With installers getting bigger then file list got really long, consider a 10 part installer for 8 different languages, that's 80 entries of mostly redundant information. Since the number of parts is relevant, I will consider adding that number again. Sorry for hiding it, I was not aware it would be useful to someone.
I guess people want to be able to confirm whether an installer is one file or split, just in case there are more hiccups like that one, or if GOG actually changes things.
What would be useful to list (again) per file would be the checksums... Since GOG obviously still won't.
Posted November 03, 2024
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HunchBluntley: Have you thought about making sections like that collapsible?
I thought about adding a simple "Parts" column, how's that? Screenshot attached. Maybe with a tooltip showing the sizes, if that's necessary.

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Cavalary: What would be useful to list (again) per file would be the checksums... Since GOG obviously still won't.
For the installers or the files inside builds? I think to get download checksums you need to own the game, am I wrong about that? For the game files I just couldn't find a way to display it well and there's also the issue of inconsistent MD5 and SHA256 usage for the same repository.
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Post edited November 03, 2024 by Yepoleb
Posted November 03, 2024
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Cavalary: What would be useful to list (again) per file would be the checksums... Since GOG obviously still won't.
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Yepoleb: For the installers or the files inside builds? I think to get download checksums you need to own the game, am I wrong about that? For the game files I just couldn't find a way to display it well and there's also the issue of inconsistent MD5 and SHA256 usage for the same repository.
For the installers, to verify integrity after downloading. And that sucks.
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Yepoleb: I thought about adding a simple "Parts" column, how's that? Screenshot attached. Maybe with a tooltip showing the sizes, if that's necessary.
Looks good to me.
Post edited November 03, 2024 by Cavalary
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