Hi, can you please elaborate?
without an account - do you mean without itch.io account (Steam, Epic, GOG etc. in the future)? If yes - would you prefer to register a new account on the Gamescovery webpage that is specific to Gamescovery?
without Discord - do you mean that you don’t like Discord and would like to communicate with developers/users on another platform? If yes - what platform suits you best in your opinion?
artyom@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Yes.
No I would prefer not to have an account at all.
Lemmy/PieFed/Threadiverse. Or really anything open source, not corporate controlled, and not full of ads.
YUART@feddit.org 17 hours ago
Thanks for the clarification.
Yes, I agree that the project should have something more than just Discord. I just thought Discord is quite popular among gamers. I will think about Matrix or Lemmy in the future.
About the account - well, I need an account to be able to record what games you rated and what recommendations you currently have. Otherwise, I have no idea for now how I can show correct data to correct people. I decided to allow people to register with game store accounts because that’s easier for me to implement.
Theoretically, I can allow users to be in the “offline” mode, so all their data is stored locally. Data will be lost if you, well, remove it by yourself, or your computer drive dies. The only note is that the recommendation algorithm is not open-source, so you still need to send your data to the server to get new recommendations…
Anyway, thanks for the idea, I will think about it 👍
artyom@piefed.social 17 hours ago
It is, and like most things that are popular, it’s horrendous.
You can allow for manual entry.
YUART@feddit.org 17 hours ago
Well, currently, you must enter every game you played manually. I don’t read games from users’ account because I don’t want to deal with private data for now. I only ask the game store that the user chose to give me the user avatar and public name, and confirm that “yes, this user is registered on our platform and account valid”