Ok so I dislike the ability not to have gaps or empty shelves to better sort my downloads etc but the main issue is that the general feel of it is sluggish . Why does it take so damn long to load my entire game collection?
I scroll to the bottom and it waits a while before pulling it's finger out of it's backside and going "Oh yeah, you have more games than that!" Prior to the site redesign it'd load almost straight away, now it takes ages to load up the last few shelves which funnily enough is where my newest stuff goes until I've downloaded and backed it up.

To load all shelf faster use Home and End keys. Yes, I am missing the empty places to sort collection but moving game from one place to another before change was taking ages to complete - now it works much faster. Also option to insert one box between two others is nice. To sum it up: just add possibility to insert empty space and I'll be good.

Hi, any change will take some time for you to familiarize with it. Eventually you'll feel ok.

For me, I don't like the new look of games catalogue. I prefer the old style when it load the whole catalogue in it's entirety, this new one you need to scroll down and wait for few seconds to load new line of games; which i think quite troublesome considering GOG catalog are getting bigger. I'm still trying to get used to it.

This is the thing... I didn't have that issue with the old shelf. I'd pick a game up to move it and just use my scroll wheel to get to the relevant shelf quickly. Thanks for the tip though.

The new shelf works a hell of a lot better for me. Yeah, the lack of spaces is unfortunate but if that's the price we have to pay for the act of sorting out the games manually to be a smooth process then it's a price worth paying.

But who says we have to pay it? It worked before. There is no inherent technical reason why the ability to push a game in between two others precludes the option of having empty spaces, or even entire empty shelves.

One thing that's apparent to me after following GOG since it launched originally, is that they are not very good or very fast frontend developers. I love them to bits, but they have serious shortcomings when it comes to bugfixing and development of the site itself.

Wait - I already noticed that the site update destroyed the way how I arranged the games on my shelf - are you saying that I won't even be able to reinstate the structure I had? My shelf started with strategy games; obviously a few spaces at the end remained free because the number of strategy games I own isn't divisible by 5, the I left one row free to separate the strategy section from the next section, which was RPG.

It's not possible anymore to order one's games in this way? But what's the point of a shelf if it _has_ to be one contiguous mess? Am I missing something?

It's not a big deal (as you can tell by the fact that I haven't tried to reinstate my former shelf order yet), but I don't understand why the shelf functionality would be deliberately reduced?

Not really for me. When I pressed mouse button I needed to wait 10+ seconds to be able to see "box sitting on my mouse" then I dragged it and then again I needed to wait another 10+ seconds to drop it.

That lag was probably caused by javascript + my "ancient PC" coalition.
Now I do not have any lag at all.

It doesn't make any sense but unfortunately that's how it works. You can't have any empty spaces of any kind anymore. So unless your sections are ALL multiples of 5, there will be substantial spillover. It's all one contiguous mess, the only thing you can do is rearrange the order of the mess.

I don't even bother with the shelf anymore, I just have them listed in the other view alphabetically.

Yeah, I had it this way too (well, mine started with FPSs) and it is not possible anymore because you can't leave empty spaces anymore. So after update I ordered it in the same way but without the spaces it is more chaotic than before.
I believe it has something to do with new loading of shelf, when sequential loading does not creat empty row which was needed to create empty spaces but I don't see why it should be tthis way and why can't be the empty row added at the end of shelf. :-(

Harrumph. Time to pay the wishlist a visit then. ;)

The slightly unnerving thing is that I had exactly the same thing happen last year with Opera's Speed Dial. People had used the previous Speed Dial to arrange quick links to webpages in extensive grids, neatly ordered with spaces as separators ... and then the supposedly "all better" Speed Dial 2.0 came along and (among other questionable decisions) removed spaces altogether. Instead it introduced the ability to insert a page between others, this functionality hadn't been there before. Never mind that inserting a page in the middle of a 2-dimensional grid automatically destroys any spatial order it might have had. Needless to say, the Opera forums went wild with complaints about the removal of useful functionality. The backlash hit Opera totally unprepared, the devs apparently simply hadn't thought that people were using the Speed Dial to arrange pages in an ordered grid. Some months later, Opera made it much easier to install and test their betas, I guess they are trying to avoid similar backlashes for the future.

Can I conclude that the GOG web developer doesn't use Opera, since he repeats their mistake exactly? ;)

I also prefer the new one... And there is a feature I love from the new shelf. It have all my games in the cronological order I´ve bought them, and of course it can be changed.

I also find it quite annoying that it doesn't just load the whole list at once (I hate shelf mode, but it also does an AJAX query to fill in the whole page later, only when you scroll to the end) in list mode. It should all be there at once. How else is "find in page" useful?

Meh, I liked the old style better but as long as none of my games disappear im ok

GoG will change it again soon :3

Not for me. I've had games disappear under others because of the old way of doing things. It was a lot slower and more cumbersome.

Yeah, I don't see why we can't have spaces. But I'd rather not have them than go back to the way it was. The trade off is worth it, even if it's not technically 100% necessary.

Hopefully GOG will sort it out so we can have the new shelf and spaces.