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Let me know when you figure out how to do this without an account and without Discord.
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?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.
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 ๐
It is, and like most things that are popular, it's horrendous.
You can allow for manual entry.
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".
After that, I use id that the store gave me to connect you to what games you manually rated on Gamescovery and what games were recommended to you by Gamescovery.
Then I don't understand why you need the account?
Because it's easier for me to ask game stores for an account than to build an authentication and validation system by myself.
Most of the game stores has official way that allows me to use an account, registered on their platform, in the Gamescovery app, for authentication reasons.
Since I don't need to store any user data besides rated and recommended games, it's a win situation for me, because:
It's the same mechanism when you go to any new webpage/app and they propose to use your existing Google/Apple account instead of creating a new one.
So yeah, answering your question "why do you need to connect your game store account on Gamescovery?" - the answer is "to save money and development time".
Why is this necessary at all?
You also don't need to worry about this if there's no account to speak of.
Connecting my account to your site gives you access to large amounts of personal information, even if you're not using it. And I'm not okay with that.
I need the user to have an account so I know who rated what games and who requested what recommendations. To do that, I need to build a system on my webpage for users to be able create a new account, so I need to store their credentials, which I don't want to do. Or I can use an already existing account from the game store.
I don't think that's true. Or at least this is true if you allow that. When you try to log in with your itch.io account onthe Gamescovery page, they will tell you what data will be accessible to me. See the following screenshot as example: