Favourites feature - feedback required

GP has the ability for you to bookmark someone else's character.



We're currently discussing extending this to allow you to bookmark games and your own characters.

1. You'd be able to bookmark public games to follow along.

2. If you bookmark characters or games then the drop-down menu would show those instead.

3. Favourite games would be grouped together on your home page and games page. You could favourite your active games so that they appear together.

4. Public games that you've favourited would also appear in your Latest Games feed (if I can work out how).

I never really used the feature and currently can't see the benefit

I don't use it either. That's why we're looking at changing it.

@RageRed - what don't you like?

Remember: If you don't like it, you don't have to use it.

I am not generally against curb appeal, but I see this as an unnecessary redundancy.

IMO, its like a beloved actor with BDD who constantly goes under the knife until no one recognizes them anymore...and they no longer get call backs due to this.

point 3 would be a really useful tool for me. (not dissimilar to the GM tag I was requesting elsewhere)

Okay. Question time.

I've added some public games to my favourites by clicking this:



Now they're showing up in my post feeds and are separated out in my "favourite games" group. But should I use a different icon or something for favourite games that I'm not playing?



...also the menu.



I mean... I kinda know which are mine - because I use emoji but it's not great, is it?

Should public favourites look different?

Sigh. Favorite not favourite. Lose the "u", right?

I don't usually like the visual clutter of different symbols (as you noticed when I grumbled about the changed Public Posting symbol), but it seems like a good idea in this case to distinguish games you're in visually from ones you're not in. Maybe carry that over for games your not in in general (meaning also in the "Latest in Public Games" feed, for example)

I don't mind the icons as long as they make sense.

Maybe we need a toggle, like with dark mode

Maybe the favourite indicator can also be the button to unfavour it? That will both show that it is a favourite, and provide utility.

This does not help with knowing which are games we are not in, and runs the risk of accidental clicking and unfavouring, but a confirmation could take care of that, right?

Maybe a 'star' symbol, or the star-in-a-banner that we have for favouring it?

What about modifying the tabs to have a "Favorites" section.

Favo(u)rite characters, favo(u)rite games...

Maybe that would keep clutter to each individual player? Just an idea

What's a tab?

Okay. The bookmark icon works.

That icon looks good, and does not take up any more space.

Unlike those emoji. Are we sure we want to allow those in titles?

That's user data.

I know. But it actively makes the experience worse for some users and I'm sure it'd be possible to disallow them in there. This is probably not the place for that discussion though. And I'm not even sure it's a discussion that needs to be had. I just really dislike them