New Feature: Report Filters

December 7, 2019

There's a lot of reports on ProtonDB now, especially for popular games. But some of them may not be generally applicable to you. If you'd like a more personalized experience on the site, you're in luck today.

On game pages, you can now click a cog in the top right above report lists. Inside the popover menu that this opens:

  • You can set report type (SteamPlay/Tinker), CPU, GPU, or Distro.
  • When you select them, it groups reports that match your filters up above the rest
  • Reports that do not match your filters show up in a separate group below
  • Your filters persist across other game pages
  • You can clear them for a single page view by clicking Skip
  • You can reset them permanently by clicking Discard

I expect to add further filtering options over time, including by language and specific issues i.e. 'Controller Detection'. Please let us know if any in particular would be valuable to you.

There are other changes related to report lists:

  • Sometimes contributors fix issues they were having, or run into new ones that invalidate their previous reports. Now, reports of the same type (SteamPlay/Tinker/legacy) from the same author are faded and a message is shown informing you that there is a newer report from them.
  • Short reports are now initially collapsed, giving greater prominence to more elaborate reports. Click the caret at the top to expand them if they are collapsed.
  • Headline font size has been reduced, more in line with nearby font sizes
  • Some improved descriptions i.e. 'Slight Performance Problems' instead of 'Slight'
  • General performance tweaks related to report lists

Three other improvements have also arrived, unrelated to game pages:

  • Performance mode setting. Use this if you would like ProtonDB to run even smoother. At this point, its only effect will be to remove the background image on the site, but future optimizations will follow.
  • A new Improving Performance help page, courtesy of /u/mutdan14
  • You can now make ProtonDB searches directly from the address bar. You may need to remove any existing configuration from your browser's search engines for this to function properly.
  • We now have Swedish and French localization thanks to @Newbytee and @julroy67.
  • EDIT: and now Italian, thanks to @apontini and @protoroto
  • EDIT^2: and now Spanish, thanks to @xatech

--migelius (@buck)

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