gogtrial34987: I've seen the following pattern too much: A (presumably) new visitor searches for "cyberpunk" (e.a.), doesn't know nor notice the collapsed grouped products, searches for "cyberpunk ultimate", (presumably) still doesn't consciously see that section, and leaves.

Breaking expectations is hard, even if the result is ultimately more useful.

To hopefully mitigate this pattern, I'm now auto-expanding the grouped products for the first search result if it's scoring significantly higher than the next result (so that's only when searching and sorting by relevance). And I'm doing this with a visible transition. (Ick!?)

Give it a couple of weeks to get used to. If any of you are still bothered by it after that time, let me know about it here and I'll figure out an opt-out or a way to limit the behaviour even further.

gogtrial34987: In happier news, I'm finally starting to make visible progress on the wishlist / owned products import. Still a looooong way from done, but a lot of necessary infrastructure has finally taken shape in such a way that as of today I'm seeing actual functionality doing something when interacting with GOG. @mrkgnao: I'd currently expect something like 2-3 weeks before it'd be useful (for me, not for you) to have you as a test subject for an initial import. Will PM you when that time actually comes.

gogtrial34987: To hopefully mitigate this pattern, I'm now auto-expanding the grouped products for the first search result if it's scoring significantly higher than the next result (so that's only when searching and sorting by relevance). And I'm doing this with a visible transition. (Ick!?)

Give it a couple of weeks to get used to. If any of you are still bothered by it after that time, let me know about it here and I'll figure out an opt-out or a way to limit the behaviour even further.

Cavalary: While grouping is a good thing, I'd say that having groups expanded by default should be the rule, not the exception. Shows what's available at a glance, whether it contains what you actually searched for or not.

gogtrial34987: Hmm, interesting perspective. I'm collapsing them because I figure that if people aren't interested in a game, they're also not interested in the grouped products, plus I want to show as many games as possible per screen and games with 20+ expansions would then cause far too much scrolling.

...but yeah, maybe a full collapse is the wrong pattern, and I should always show at least ~5 lines for grouped products, with a "more..." button only if there are more (for the Paradoxes of this world).

Thanks! I'll mull this over a bit, but it feels like something worth experimenting with the next time I touch the front-end, and quite probably the right direction.