New Features on IFDB

This is a summary of recent additions and changes to the site. The list isn't comprehensive - we report only the more visible and significant changes, so you might notice some minor changes from time to time that aren't reported here.

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6 April 2021

Updated navigation bar: We've changed the "Your Page" link to "My Activity" and changed "Edit Profile" to "Settings."

Clickable genres: The genre on each game (e.g. "Science Fiction") is now a clickable link to search results for that genre.

29 March 2021

New this week: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB.

Open graph cards: When you paste links to IFDB games on Facebook, Twitter, or the intfiction.org forum, the links will include a little card with the game’s title, description, and cover art.

HiDPI cover art: On high-resolution screens, we now show the cover art at a higher resolution, so it looks sharp and crisp.

Mobile improvements: We fixed a number of bugs on mobile, including adding back the Play Online button, and adding back the missing links in the navigation bar at the top of every page.

Search by playlist and wishlist: You can now use new search operators to search games that you've added to your "I've played it" playlist, your wish list, and your "not interested"/"won't play" list. Use played:yes|no willplay:yes|no and wontplay:yes|no for these searches. (The operators have no effect when you're logged out.)

20 March 2021

Lots of changes: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB.

Improved sort by rating: When sorting games by Highest Rating, we now use Evan Miller's formula.

We used to sort by average rating, but this would tend to rank games with just one perfect 5-star rating above games with dozens of 5-star ratings and a few 4-star ratings. Evan Miller’s formula sorts by our confidence in the game, by adding five “fake” ratings to the average (one 1-star, one 2-star, one 3-star, one 4-star, and one 5-star rating) and subtracting the standard deviation from the result.

Dark mode: If your browser prefers dark mode, IFDB will honor that, and adopt the "Midnight" styles from our stylesheet gallery. (IFDB still allows users to choose your own custom stylesheet.)

Updated default list of IF systems: Say hello to Adventuron, Dialog, Ink, Texture, and Unity. (You can, as always, just type in the name of any development system; you don't have to pick one off the list.)

You can now unvote on reviews: Previously, once you'd voted (helpful/unhelpful), you were forced to pick a side.

Fixed Baf's Guide links: IFDB has a number of links to Baf's Guide, the predecessor to IFDB. Baf's Guide has been offline for some time; these links have been updated to point to the Wayback Machine at archive.org.

Farewell, IFDB browser plugin: Did you know that IFDB had a Windows-based browser plugin that would automatically install interpreters for you? Unfortunately, it hasn't worked in years. We've deleted it from the site.

Narrow design: Paragraphs are now limited to 12 words wide (60ch), and the main body of the page is limited to 100ch. This makes the text more readable, in agreement with WCAG recommendations.

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