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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4 July 2021

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!

Search by submission date: You could always search by publication date with published: but now you can search by the date the listing was added with added:

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.

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