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Better collection management

A topic by Senari created Aug 08, 2024 Views: 215 Replies: 8

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Having a collection with about 250 games in it is quite tiring to look for specific things.

Take my only collection as an example, I have marked some games that are still in dev yet they are mixed up with others that are maked differently. In addition, I wish to put similar games together for better viewing and put featured games at the begining of the list. (and since it's "collections" it's normal for people to arrange their collections, right? :P) (Yeah, I know it's unwise to only have one collection. It piled up and when I realised it already got more than hundreds of games. :,V)

Edit: Thanks to fellow reply. I decided to make a small list of ideas that can make collection management better. And it's open for discussion.

Add funtion to move games from one collection to another. [From redonihunter]
Have button to toggle the collection between fifo ot lifo. [From redonihunter]
Have a filter to remove the games that are already in your collection when browsing. [From redonihunter] [Related post]

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redonihunter126 days ago(+1)

Is there a reason why you only have one collection?

It is like putting all your photos in one folder. Or better, have a single folder for all your bookmarks.

What is missing, is a feature to move an item from one collection to another. You can only move games left and right within the collection.

When adding a game to a collection that is already on your collection(s), you see what collections it is on. But have not button to remove it from one of those collections while adding it to another (which would be a move).

Also, if we add games to save for later, why are they added at first place. A viewlist is ordered fifo and not lifo. Or is there a button that I am missing, where you can configure a collection to be first in first out?

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Senari126 days ago

Ah yes, that'll do.

I held only one collection because it's all text-based interactive fictions that I like and some are still in dev. And it piled up throughout the time. Move games from collection to collection would be great in my case. You gave a great idea. I'll make a small list.

And I don't see any button for fifo or lifo, either. Another thing to add on the list, I suppose.

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redonihunter126 days ago

I do not know what list you talk about, but there is a feedback button on the left. That might or might not be visible, depending on your screen size. There is a feature request option.

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Senari126 days ago

I edited a small list on the topic post. I noted the feedback button and I wish to have more ideas before submitting one.

Also, I think this topic is less important than the exclude filter one so it's okay to take this one slow.

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redonihunter126 days ago(+1)

I do not know how Itch staff processes those feature requests, but I would assume it is easier to have a single request for a single feature instead of giving them "a list".

And I disagree. A reverse order option for collections would enhance the usage of Itch for everyone using collections. It would make them usable as an actual watchlist. Without need to scroll to the back everytime you want to play the oldest game on your watchlist.

An exclusion filter is often lamented about in comments, but as someone who has ability to use a lot of different exclusions, I can tell from experience, that it does not give quite that enhancement. I just do not need it, and my project exclusion is so efficient that it can spoil browsing experience. It is one of those features that only look good on paper. (My project page has 3 different helpers to exclude things. And the most powerful can ignore accounts and games at the press of a button. If you weed out the top pages, they stay weeded out. A tag exclusion is misleading, since it depends on the devs using those tags in the first place. Also, interested users can find this in community and use a bookmark for single tag exclusion.)

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Senari126 days ago

I see. Then I'll submit first when an idea is shared. Though I'll keep the list for further discussion.

Also, I see your point in the exclusion filter. I suppose it's less about having a tag exclusion now. Maybe better filter result is what people need. (I've seen lots of people saying that they always find horror type games at first few pages.) This is something worth discussing yet kinda out of topic at this moment so I'm gonna stop here. Good point, though.

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redonihunter126 days ago(+1)

Oh it fits the topic. It is about managing the games to play. This includes saving them in collections for later, managing your favorites and finding new games to play, of course.

Maybe have a look here https://itch.io/t/3477347/add-an-option-to-exclude-owned-games-when-searching I have no idea why that thread has 8k hits. Probably scam bots posting there. Or a few people going there often to copy the code examples.

Excluding games you already have on your collection(s) is a nice idea. I thought, this is a thing I could do client side, and so it was. Was a fun learning experience and after learning about browser extensions, I thought, hey, it should be simple to make a button for the existing exlude feature that does exist. And so it was. Later someone inspired me that filtering genres would be super trivial and so it was. And I tuned down my extension for game filtering till it fit in a tampermonkey script, so it reaches more browsers. It will do collection filtering if you add your collection to the filter list.

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Senari125 days ago(+1)

It seems like this function works well for you. It'll be a great addition if it's actually implemented. Though it might be made into a kind of exclude filter if one takes their time to make a collection of games they don't want to see, which I'm uncertain if it'll effect the browsing experience or not. However, I see this function has more pros than cons so I'll request it anyway.

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