We've got a variety of fixes and improvements, this week. We've made improvements to the API based on the feedback we've received. Please keep telling us what you'd like to see there.

The big news this week is a long-requested feature we're releasing in beta for MobyPlus users: a visual markdown editor. It's currently available for forum posts (so, try it out on this news post!), game trivia, and revisions. More features are coming soon, and it will be made available in more places over the next few weeks. Please let us know what you think!

API

• The /v2/groups endpoint now allows a limit of up to 500 (increased from 100).
• You can now use a fuzzy search for game titles on /v2/games. Set the parameter fuzzy=true.
  • This will also search alternate titles. If you add highlights to your requested include fields, it will return the matching alternate titles.

MobyPlus

• A new visual markdown editor has been added.
• The Analytics page is now much faster.

Others

• The Nintendo scraper has been repaired.
• Now adding a new collection directly from a game page works again.
• Approvers: Email addresses will be transferred when merging developers.
  • If more than one email is set on the group of merged developers, only one will be kept!

There have been some very impolite bots visiting us lately, which has sometimes made the site slow or even inaccessible. This week, we implemented several changes to help keep the site running smoothly during these incidents. Additionally:

• Now Person pages label NSFW games.
• A couple of updates to improve the layout of the site on mobile. More to come!
• Performance enhancements to a wide variety of pages.

The big news this week, as you can imagine, is the release of the new API service. It was years in the making--we launched the first version of the API way back in 2016, and it was a hit with students and researchers, gamers and collectors, and more. It's been gratifying to see that people continue to find it useful!

I also should have noted this last week, but we have recently added our 70,000th Windows game: Jungo! It was added by qwertyuiop, who has been with us for more than 24 years, and contributed nearly 700 games. Great work, qwertyuiop, and thanks to everyone else that helped get us here!

We do have a few other updates to note, this week:

• You can now select February 29 for This Day in Gaming, even if it's not currently a leap year.
• Approvers: Editing Game Relations for games with lots of relations should be (much) faster.
• Bugfix: Closing accounts works again.