Yes yes, you hate them and want them to die. We already know that because you never shut up about it. :P

they never shut up so it is just fair i respond similarly

I've been coming to GOG more and more over the last year or so because of the offline installers (I haven't touched Galaxy and if I wanted to use a launcher I wouldn't get my games from GOG in the first place) and I'm fairly new here compared to most of the regulars on the forums.

I don't see the harm in forum games. They are a fun way to interact with other members from the community, especially games where you can get creative with your response like "Leave something for the user below you" for example. I mean it's funny how GOG is supposed to be a community for people who share their love for games and there are so many killjoys who would love to spoil the fun of others every chance they get. Not to mention so many users here shit on social media like Facebook or Twitter all the time but they treat this forum exactly like it's their personal Twitter or Facebook wall.

If you re-read his reply carefully you'll see that N1ght was being sarcastic. ;)

While it would be nice to think that, I don't see anything to suggest that's the case. n1ght is usually pretty bitter about these things.

I see orkhepaj has set their alts on me.

Note that everything he said is the opposite of how things really are....that alone is a dead giveaway, I would think.

...gee, thanks for that.
I'm pretty sure n1ght sincerely believes that "most of the client base from before galaxy have gone now, nobody interested in drm free offline installers or websites anymore. It’s all client and linked up social media.".

Sudden? I'd say it was gradual - can distinctly remember a time when they started it, but not everything was marked down and labeled. I guess it's useful for new forumites to find their way around.

Oh that bit....must've misread(thought it said the user base of galaxy had mostly gone).

Still, the first bit of their reply(the bit to Ork) seems more like sarcasm/joking than serious(as 12 threads is nowhere near the whole page).

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Good point...maybe we'll get some new blood in the public forum games(especially the slower ones). :)

12 is a lot, unless you have the max threads per page you won’t see much else.

No, I didn’t say it’s the new user playing them. What I said was I don’t see many interesting topics anymore, mostly I suspect, due to the new userbase using twitch and twatter, and such like probably.
Not from my side. Close down FF when I am not using it, cookies/history gets removed. Computer shut down and unplugged when not in use.
Why are you replying that to me? I didn’t say I didn’t like them, I simply said there are a lot of them. And that actually interesting threads are shrinking, probably due to new users using other medium. I mean do you people even read what I posted!
I would suggest that a fair bit of the old crowd have gone. This is also backed up by the push of galaxy, GOG themselves stated the majority now use galaxy. It’s safe to assume that yes, those who use offline installers and the forum are a dwindling number. As I originally stated, you can see this in the forum topics, apart from the usual set of topics requesting help, there isn’t much else happening. Quite noticeable over the last year or so.

The Thread of Random Questions isn't a game by even the loosest sense of the word. I don't think it was originally even supposed to be a "goofy" topic, though of course it has been used for silly posts a lot over the years.
Topics like the porn title one (and my own non-sequitur thread) are pretty debatable, too.

The Mafia admin/discussion topic is a weird edge case -- it's a thread about a forum game, but it's not a/the game itself. It wouldn't exactly be wrong to tag it as a forum game, but it doesn't really need to be tagged as such, IMO.

I really don't think marking any remotely goofy topic as a "forum game" will really help anything, unless you're trying to get more people to complain that "There are more forum games than ever, and it's got to stop!!!" (which will only appear to be true, on account of a bunch of threads having been miscategorized).

That's why it's good there are extensions to hide threads for those who want them then.

As for me: I just put all the threads I want in favorites, and check the first page beyond my favorites list for new threads to add every day or so(also remove old threads from favorites as needed).

Also some long timers and even newcomers are more or less now used to what I call the "fluff" topics(less serious discussion and misc topics) and possibly afraid of running afoul of the rules here if they make more serious thread topics....imo leading(along with less users here overall) in large part to the situation we have now.

You forgot a faraday cage ;)

Jokes aside, that(to me) seems like an awful lot of precaution...but eh, i'm guessing you have good reason or feel ya do.

I've been saying it for over a year now, on and off......my guess(beyond the above stuff I mentioned) is that it's due also to the stifling rule set & the possibility of being modded at the drop of a hat sometimes.

An option to hide them would be good. Or, as mentioned earlier, a dedicated subforum could make more sense.
It looks unprofessional as it is.

change to 50 posts per page and you wont have an issue.

I took that screenshot while I was not logged in. 15 topics displayed as far as I can tell, without the stickies.
I had to log in and changed from 30 (for some reason I had it set like this for years) to 50, thank you, it is a bit better.