I've noticed that when writing GOG reviews all paragraphs are reduced to a single body of text. I always try include paragraphs in my reviews rather than a wall of text to improve readability.

This is probably something that GOG isn't too concerned about, however I think that allowing GOG users to make their reviews more readable would in turn improve the user experience and result in more game sales.

Just my 2 cents.

It was one of the changes introduced by the redesign back in October. Interestingly, the line breaks aren't actually removed, just not displayed, as user scripts exist to display reviews properly for those who have them installed. But GOG just doesn't want that to happen anymore.

So, they simply aren't converted to the <br/> HTML tag.

Any whitespace (space, tab, linebreak, etc.) in HTML source is displayed as a space - and multiple whitespace characters in a row are simply merged to one space for display - unless it's in a <pre> element (probably short for "preserve"), which GOG doesn't use.

br or p, yeah, depending.
pre stands for preformatted text :)

If the line breaks are still there, a simple JavaScript replace command would do it, right?
And not like it wasn't done before, till October.

Of all the problems with the October site redesign, this is the one that makes me genuinely angry. Someone made a script to fix this issue literally within days of the website update. It's a complete joke that it hasn't been properly fixed yet, and even more of a joke that the website 'upgrade' introduced a problem like this in the first place.

Oh, regarding reviews I'm much more pissed that the workaround allowing to bypass that crazy character limit no longer works, leaving no way to post anything in any way resembling a decent review. Of course, the main problem there is that a character limit exists, but that wasn't introduced by the redesign.

Shrug.

This is why I posted my Locomotion review as a thread.

It's really annoying, the way reviews are displayed is so unappealing that I barely read them. Let's hope it will be fixed someday...

hmmm Easy fix. GoG? You listening?

Make reviews start with a <pre> tag, which will solve all this problem. (Preformatted).

Though i'd also make it flag any reviews with a lower than a 20:1 character vs newline ratio... Beyond that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZxHAZChcYU

Better formatting would be cool! a big run on paragraph isn't the easiest thing to parse. Even so, content wise, I do very much like the relatively low amount of meme and troll reviews on GOG compared to other services. One thing I'd love however is the ability to edit reviews and adjust star ratings without writing to support. I get that that's kind of baked in to the store front though. My opinions often change over time, sometimes within minutes of writing a review, lol...

*looks at what it pulls* Yep, line breaks are all there as /n, so a simple .replace(/\n/g, '<br />'); before displaying would do it if you don't want it done server side, right? Hardly seems like a crushing task for the devs...