In case anyone was feeling nastolgic :-)

Thanks Celton.:)

That screenshot at the start of this thread has made me remember how much I preferred the old website design.

Now we know where the Bloodstained team got inspiration!

Yes! I can't hardly navigate anymore and the search is useless. I had to find a game by searching on Bing to link to the page. And mobile use is terrible

Ahhh...the good old days.

Out of curiosity, which game?

I was about to type a reply to the original post thinking this is a new thread, and was gonna ask how he was able to revert to this old-school design. Then I checked the date... :(

This whole thread reminds me of what it was like back in the late 90s doing web development during the .COM bubble... and being in my super-early 20s and loving everything about my job without a care in the world.

Now I'm in my 40s... and while I like all the adult stuff (career, family, mortgage, etc...) there's something to be said for an office environment where people don't take themselves too seriously and have fun.

Where I work, it's like IBM during the 1950s. Yes... we have a giant Pikachu and there's a couple of weirdos with My Little Pony stuffed animals around the office... but we all dress in slacks, button down shirts, and everything is formal, people say sir, and it's just not like it was in the 90s during the .COM bubble... sigh, good times.

I just did some experimenting and everything was working very well. So I'm going to take back my "Search is useless" comment. However, I still find Bing better.

It was Heroes of Might and Magic 5. But I'm getting to it now. I probably spelled something wrong. (between my eyes and my bad phone-typing skills, it's quite likely)

But, let's say I typed "Heros" instead of "Heroes," I'll come up with nothing. If I bing "gog heros of might and magic," GOG's HoMM5 page is the top result.

Also, when I was just experimenting on the front page, I'm not 100% sure I knew the results scrolled. So I may have been missing things by not scrolling the results. I saw the top results and probably got frustrated. But I just typed "Might and Magic" and "Heroes" and M&M5 came up both times so long as I scrolled through the list. I have a hard time believing that I never tried scrolling the list, but I may have done just that.

I tried searching on the forums (I usually search from that search to avoid the long load on the front page) and I couldn't find HoM&M5. I found all of them but HoMM5. Then I figured out why. My thumb was scrolling onto the forum part of the page, which scrolled the whole page and not that section (it cut off exactly on HoMM4). But I figured that one out.

I also never noticed the tiny scroll bar on the side when you try to scroll. So that helped me identify if I was truly at the end of the list.

All that said, I have to know the exact name and spelling errors aren't kind. Whicher gives no results. Heros gives no results. "Mount and Blade" doesn't bring up "Mount & Blade," you have to type it exactly as "Mount & Blade." And I can't skip all of that trouble by using Bing.

Thankfully, Bing works really, really well when I know the name or close to it. Binging "gog mount and sword" brings up all of the Mount and Blade games. "gog wicher" brings us the Witcher.

All that said, my biggest complaint about the site is that it's very hard to scroll through without it thinking you clicked on something you didn't. When you do click on something, it often thinks you clicked on something else. And then when you go back, you have to wait the minute for it to all load back up again. I just timed it on my fast connection at home and it took 33s to load. When I'm scrolling at lunch break (that's when I usually do it), it's far longer. So I've mostly quit going to the home screen.