Nick Kordich
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This may have been suggested before, but I would like to recommend that the Giveaways section fo the site be organized so that each game has one page, rather than one page per drawing. For example, I can ignore the one page dedicated to Savage Resurrection instead of loading page after page after page of beta keys the developer is giving away for free. The problem of junk giveaways should be addressed as an abuse of the experience system, of course, but at the least the end user would be spared from having the site spammed into unusability by them in the meantime if all the junk is confined to one easily-skipped listing.
Each page would contain all the giveaways for that title in a list ordered by expiry or participants. Each listing could show whether it's guaranteed, who's donated it, and their giveaway feedback. It would greatly improve the user experience and should reduce the load on the Indigala servers - both of which are needed for the Giveaways section to thrive.
Different editions of games (such as the base game vs. game of the year) would have separate pages, but the site should already have logic for assigning coin values for giveaways that takes that into consideration. While I can see resistance to this on the trades section (piling all the offers together under one page puts competing offers in one place), the reason traders might not like it do not apply to giveaways - the number of participants and competition from a rival giveaway don't matter under the current experience/level system. I don't see any drawback to organizing giveaways this way.
Each page would contain all the giveaways for that title in a list ordered by expiry or participants. Each listing could show whether it's guaranteed, who's donated it, and their giveaway feedback. It would greatly improve the user experience and should reduce the load on the Indigala servers - both of which are needed for the Giveaways section to thrive.
Different editions of games (such as the base game vs. game of the year) would have separate pages, but the site should already have logic for assigning coin values for giveaways that takes that into consideration. While I can see resistance to this on the trades section (piling all the offers together under one page puts competing offers in one place), the reason traders might not like it do not apply to giveaways - the number of participants and competition from a rival giveaway don't matter under the current experience/level system. I don't see any drawback to organizing giveaways this way.
