I made a Magog joke a while back in reference to a thread here... using a biblical reference to highlight a point, just for shits and giggles, really. Then I turn around and see this thread. My mind swims with salty water lapping against my craniums. You make a joke no one gets, it gets ignored yet noticed, then kicked back into an ethos with the power of... fucking forum code or something. That's just weird. Something goes from invisible to parody, parody to accepted idea, accepted idea to obsolescence and then back to invisible again.

So yeah, magog. Very interesting stuff. I don't think GOG is in fact the devil, but I'm pretty sure that with a name like magog, someone will make that implication sooner or later. Perhaps a name like 'Fluffy' or 'Mr smarty pants' might make a better search engine name. Why not just call it 'satan smacks you in the face with his wrinkly red sweaty evil balls'... the search engine.

I think it's working as intended, it does disappear after being dismissed - the problem is I don't keep cookies or active logins so it appears almost every time I navigate to MaGog.

I see. Fair enough.
Expect a fix tomorrow.

Do note, however, that you are also deleting your "local storage" (some browsers do that when you ask them to delete cookies), which is where I keep the flag to make this message appear only once.
This means that as long as you do that you will not be able to use MaGog's "My Fields" feature, which allows you to keep your own information about each game, because that information is kept in the local storage too. It's explained in the tutorial for version 2.x.x.

P.S. Note that by deleting MaGog's local storage you are also losing some other minor features, such as having preferences (checkbox values, https mode, etc.) remembered from session to session.

Gog and Magog have a long and complex history, extending well beyond their original Biblical nations, all the way to British giants, and even further:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog

ANNOUNCEMENT:
Version 2.3.0 has been released with the following features:
* Added the ability to filter "My Tags" using checkboxes, as an alternative to the regular [Filters, My Tags, Is Any Of] menu
* Made this ability optional under the control of a selection menu located at the bottom right corner (disabled by default, under the assumption some of you do not plan to use "My Tags", as awesome as they are)
* Added "[tagless]" as one more value under the [My Tags, Is Any/None Of] filters, to allow another option of filtering tagless games
* Changed the behaviour of "Scope" slightly, so that if you select none, MaGog now assumes you mean all (rather than give you a useless error message)
* Fixed a bug in the "My Tags" filter logic which mishandled the case of one tag being the exact initial substring of another (e.g. "owned" and "owned_elsewhere")
* Fixed a major bug in the [My Tags, Is All Of] filter (not sure it ever functioned properly, which may well mean nobody has used it yet)

ANNOUNCEMENT:
Version 2.3.2 has been released with the following features:
* Added behind-the-scenes support for game ID change (Divinity: Original Sin is the first (and hopefully the last) game to have its ID change since MaGog launched)

ANNOUNCEMENT:

As part of the Linux support change, GOG has also modified their game card information (mostly behind-the-scenes HTML). Because of that, MaGog temporarily cannot update some fields of its database (genres, file size, stars, number of ratings, release date, operating systems, languages, companies, game modes). This is most noticeable for the new SPAZ (Space Pirates and Zombies) game.

I will endeavour to fix this over the weekend, as well as add Linux support information.

Keep up the good work! MaGog is great!

ANNOUNCEMENT:
Version 2.4.0 has been released with the following features:
* Added filtering by and display of Linux information under "Operating Sys" and "Sys Reqs (Linux)"
* Made the "Sys Reqs" display checkboxes default to unchecked, unlike all the others (you can always change the default and MaGog will remember your choices)

Note: Did you know that there are games that support Linux but not Mac?

ANNOUNCEMENT:
Version 2.4.1 has been released with the following features:
* Added a link to MaGog's database in text format (see the third bullet at the bottom of the engine page) [indirectly suggested by lugum]

Uh, I tried to use Magog from an Ipad away from home but.. I forgot that all my custom tags are stored on my local pc.
Do you think you'll ever be able to implement a proper user account system for this? :\

I doubt it. Accounts mean security and security means headaches, which I'd rather avoid.

But you can do what I do.

I don't have an iPad, but I have a Kindle Fire HDX.
I use a cloud application that automatically reflects one directory from my PC to a cloud server which is automatically reflected to my Kindle. This feature is built into the Kindle, where it is called Cloud Drive. All I need to do is once in a while "Export My Fields" to that directory and it "magically" appears on my Kindle.
I expect Apple has a similar feature (perhaps iCloud?). If not, there are free alternatives everywhere (e.g. DropBox).

If you don't like clouds (rain and such...), you can save the exported file on a USB disk drive and carry it with you (I also do that, just in case). Unless an iPad doesn't have a USB slot (which wouldn't surprise me...).

OK. Got it.
I will put it on my todo list. It's rather a tall order, but I will try to make it happen. No promises.
Don't expect it soon, though. We're probably talking months, if at all, as I have rather a lot on my plate now (and always), besides MaGog.

But...

Since you suggested this, I'd like you to do something.
There might be people who would not want their wishlist/shelf on the wiki to be easily searchable. I need to know about them, so I can exclude their pages when collecting data.
I recommend you create a "call for comments" thread, where you outline your suggestion and ask whether people have any objections (in general or specifically about themselves). You might want to ask also whether most people keep they wishlist/shelf updated on the wiki. If most don't, it might not be worth the trouble of writing such an extension (GIGO).
You might want to give the thread some catchy title such as "To All the Users of the GOG Wiki" or "Giveaway" or "The Real Truth about tinyE".

MaGoG is really useful! Keep up the good work! :)

Thank you for posting this.
Now that the initial ooh-aah has passed, it's hard for me to get a feeling as to how useful people actually find it on a regular basis.
Posts like this keep me going, thinking of new features to add.