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   razze (razze@osna.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 07:23:06 JST razze

   I've added a new card to the landing page of flathub.org yesterday, focused on games.

   We have been trying to do this for quiet some time and I know that the results (as in what is in which category) are not perfect, but putting this out there hopefully helps us move things.

   #linux #flatpak #flathub

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 07:23:04 JST Børge

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     @razze That's cool! But almost all the things in the Games tab should be in either the tools or emulator tab, it seems to me?

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 08:06:08 JST Børge

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     • Brage Fuglseth

     @bragefuglseth @razze Oh no! So sorry, I'm a bit dazed and confused these days… :S

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     Brage Fuglseth (bragefuglseth@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 08:06:09 JST Brage Fuglseth

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     @forteller I think that’s why @razze wrote that second paragraph 🙂

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 20:31:39 JST Børge

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     • Brage Fuglseth

     @razze @bragefuglseth Really? Then they are wrong, I would say. Hehe. But an alternative is that it's a launcher for emulated games, I guess? Anyway: the important thing should be what does the regular person looking for a piece of software think, where do they look, not what does the devs think.

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     razze (razze@osna.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 20:31:40 JST razze

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     • Brage Fuglseth

     @forteller @bragefuglseth yeah, but it's also a hard line, e.g. Scumm doesn't think it should be in the emulation category

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 20:42:27 JST Børge

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     • Brage Fuglseth

     @razze Wow, that thread was real stupid. Just incredible that they don't understand that technical correct is less important in categories than to help people find it. That's what categories are for! Smh. Thanks for trying, at least! @bragefuglseth

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     razze (razze@osna.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 20:42:29 JST razze

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     • Brage Fuglseth

     @forteller @bragefuglseth yeah, but we would need to not rely on the metadata from app authors then. Which we can do, but I think is not the best option. https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/pull/6421

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 20:46:41 JST Børge

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     • Brage Fuglseth

     @razze But I would imagine that such stupidity, when it comes to this question of categorization would be quite rare? I hope. And so I would think that you mostly can rely on the metadata,and just switch over the very few ones who don't give logical metadata? @bragefuglseth

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     razze (razze@osna.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 20:53:23 JST razze

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     @forteller @bragefuglseth I don't really want to hardcode that, so that would mean designing a whole ui/ux for that, even if it's just internal

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 20:53:44 JST Børge

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     • Brage Fuglseth

     @razze @bragefuglseth Would it be easier to blacklist the ones who deliberately puts themselves in the wrong category? Obviously not from Flathub, just from that We love games, thing. Since that thing can't show every single game related app anyway, a selection has to be done in some way. Logical metadata could be one of the criteria?

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 10:43:28 JST Børge

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     • Brage Fuglseth

     @razze @bragefuglseth Hi again! Things looks a lot better now! Well done. Only two of these should be elsewhere: Cartridges -> Launcher, Chess clock -> Tools. Otherwise really cool to actually find some new games here! :)

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     razze (razze@osna.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 10:43:29 JST razze

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     • Brage Fuglseth

     @forteller @bragefuglseth that would mean that we also need to hide them from all categories, as we don't want you to be surprised, if you click the more button and the first items change

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 10:47:20 JST Børge

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     • Brage Fuglseth

     @razze @bragefuglseth But if I had a say I'd put ROTA on that front page, btw :)