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 December 2021

Added "Play On-line" support for TADS and Hugo: As of two weeks ago, Parchment now supports TADS and Hugo, so we've updated our TADS 2, TADS 3, and Hugo games to include a "Play On-line" button.

13 October 2021

Home page loads faster: The home page loads a lot faster now. (We now compute the list of recommended games and the "Reviewer Trophy Room" in the background.)

4 July 2021

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

Collapsed author list for Cragne Manor: Cragne Manor has 84 authors, making it appear rather ungainly in search results and other lists of games. Now, in most places where authors are shown, if the game has a very large number of authors, we'll just show the first two authors as "First Author, Second Author, et al."

Fixed emoji handling: IFDB was displaying emojis incorrectly in various places, especially "joined" emojis that combine two emojis into one, such as "Woman Vampire: Dark Skin Tone." 🧛🏿‍♀️

Fixed author search results containing parentheses: A number of games have authors whose names contain parentheses, e.g. "author:Hanon Ondricek (as Keanhid Connor)" You can now click on those author names on a game page and get reasonable search results.

Fixed white background on transparent images in dark mode: In dark mode, non-square images had a blindingly bright white background. Now, the background is transparent.

Fixed tags section on games with many downloads: The tag section for Adventure used to have a huge blank space in it, but no longer.

12 April 2021

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

Updated site icon: Check out our new site icon, which appears on tabs to IFDB.

Show top five games on author's user profiles: For prolific authors, we now only show the top five games on their user profiles, sorted by highest rating, with a link to see the rest of their games.

Improved performance on game details page: Individual game pages load a bit faster than they used to when you're logged in.

6 April 2021

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

Search for game tags: You can now search for tags by name.

Sort by "Newest listing" submission date: You could always sort the Browse page by "Newest listing," but for some reason you could never sort search results that way. Well, now you can!

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