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I would like to provide you with a frustration I am having with my downloads page, in hopes that there is a better way to view the downloads.
I'm not sure why, and I really don't need to know, but it seems that every 6 months or so Paizo is changing the names of their product lines. This results in books that have a common line being separated when I search through my downloads. For instance, my Player Companion books are separated into three (3) categories; Pathfinder Companion 3.5, Pathfinder Companion PFRPG, and Pathfinder Player Companion PFRPG. It would be so much nicer if these were all just put together in the same category: Player Companion. Instead I have to search through three different categories to find what I'm looking for. And the fun doesn't stop there. I just recently received my copy of the new Pathfinder Tales Novel, however it is not listed with the previous two Pathfinder Tales, instead it has its own new category.
Frustration!
Please, can we slim down these categories? Why can't I have a Category list like the links are on the side of the web page?
Pathfinder:
I don't need to separate out which edition or which specific line it comes from. I just want general categories. The only one I can see breaking down further would be the Adventure Paths, but only into the individual paths. As it is now, every Adventure Path Players Guide is also its own group.
Sorry about the rant. Just something that frustrated me this morning when I went to download my new Pathfinder Tales and spent way too much time looking for it because it wasn't with the other two Tales.
I hear your pain, and it's only going to get worse as time marches on.
What I'd like to see is sections that can be collapsed, like the forum. I won't be dipping into my 3.5e Pathfinder Modules any time soon because I've downloaded them all. Aside from a hard drive failure (or two, actually) I won't need that any time soon.
Same goes for adventure paths. I've got 'em all but I won't need to download RotR any time soon. Collapse.
Less clutter, good.
Chief Technical Officer
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I really wish we had fine control over those categories, but we don't—the only reason we even have categories at all is that Gary implemented a quick automatic sort based on product titles and sections of the store (because some organization is better than no organization), but that sort just doesn't have access to the data it needs to do a perfect job. (For example, it has no idea whatsoever that Pathfinder Companion and Pathfinder Player Companion are really the same thing.) And educating it is a challenge. We do have plans for improving it, but there are other priorities ahead of it.
We should be able to fix the Pathfinder Tales issue, though—I'm not sure why that one's misbehaving.
While there have been some issues with the new Downloads page, I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation of the layout of the page. Having the dates of initial downloads available is a great help to me when I buy new PDF's. In the past I had to look at my purchases and then try to find where the publisher was on the downloads page. Now I just look for the word "never" and know it is a new item that I need to download. Thank you for your continued upgrade to your website.
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Chief Technical Officer
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While there have been some issues with the new Downloads page, I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation of the layout of the page. Having the dates of initial downloads available is a great help to me when I buy new PDF's. In the past I had to look at my purchases and then try to find where the publisher was on the downloads page. Now I just look for the word "never" and know it is a new item that I need to download. Thank you for your continued upgrade to your website.
You can also click the column headers to sort by that column, so clicking "Date Added
To My Downloads" will show you your latest purchases, and clicking "Date Last Downloaded" will group all of those "nevers" in one place.
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You can also click the column headers to sort by that column, so clicking "Date Added
To My Downloads" will show you your latest purchases, and clicking "Date Last Downloaded" will group all of those "nevers" in one place.
Can you look at making it so When I do that it remembers it so I don't have to click that every time? I want me Personal Default view to be the latest PDF added.
