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The software behind the Interactive Fiction Database (IFDB)
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Recommend games in relevant languages #710

Open jpcompton opened 3 years ago

jpcompton commented 3 years ago

IFDB knows which language(s) a game is tagged in, and it should also be able to glean which language(s) a visitor is interested in (Accept-Language or whatever).

To improve recommendation quality, recommend games that match, and only pull from the "generic highly-rated slush pile" if you have no suitable matches for a visitor's language(s).

Right now I've got

Accept Language en-US,en;q=0.9

but my top IFDB Recommends... is Die Kathedrale, a game described and tagged in German.

qdacsvx commented 3 years ago

What if my friend is using my device, but they don't speak German?

jpcompton commented 3 years ago

File under "what if I'm using a computer at a library while visiting a country where I don't speak the native language?"

It's 2021, handheld personal supercomputers cost $20, those are corner cases that should have little influence on the default experience.