Game Playlists

[Chew]

This has been briefly discussed and brought up a handful of times in the #site-feedback channel, but I wanted to try and formalize and collect what exactly this feature entails.

This feature allows users to create lists of games that they may want to show off, recommend, or however they feel like sorting. Playlists can be made public, or kept private, if desired.

Currently, there are two real "playlists", mostly the Want To Play, but also technically want to develop even though this is technically a separate system. In these cases, ideally these are migrated into special playlists, similar to how your Watch Later playlist on YouTube is technically a playlist, tinkered a bit to disallow it being made public.

Collecting suggestions I have seen regarding these, we get the following (note that this is not a comprehensive list of features this should have):

• Playlists can be made public if desired, or private if not (suggested many times)
• Allow it to be in a custom order, by default (still allow sorting if desired). This could have a simple "Rank" field (suggested here)
• Allow items to be automatically removed if a requirement is met (maybe for a "Want to Master" lists)
• Allow items to be automatically added, such as any new games in a hub should automatically add to the playlist (suggested here)
• Allow custom table columns and filters to be saved by playlist, so anyone viewing it will go to this view by default (this could be used in the migration as Want to Play and Want to Develop have their own default columns)
• A "stat" area showing average completion/mastery for the games in this list (suggested here)

Other things that might be considered:

• A column that shows the playlist author's mastery/beaten status and progress bar. A playlist showing off your masteries with a way to validate it could be neat.
• A "date added" column

Overall, this is a more powerful, and personal, version of a hub.

[Jamiras]

Some of this functionality can be achieved with the games-checklist endpoint that was added for event tracking.

https://retroachievements.org/user/RAEvents/game-checklist?list=Lograr%20Gym%201%20%28drisc%29%3A2588%2C3057%2C29920%2C11778%2C11384%2C9518%7CAntico%20Gym%201%20%28Hotscrock%29%3A2782%2C18%2C1661%2C11330%2C3398%2C1859

• Public. Can be shared (or kept to self - not actually stored in database).
• Custom order.
• A column that shows the player's mastery/beaten status and progress bar.

Additionally, it supports grouping. And can easily be changed to look at progress for any user.

It doesn't support custom columns, or showing average completion/mastery (which isn't supported on any list currently).

It also doesn't doesn't automatically update.