Racketboy Collection DB?

[driph]

I've been lurking on a lot of the retro forums & collection sites lately, trying to see which I'd like to settle into and consider home. I love the community and overall design and layout of racketboy, and it's led me to wonder...

Has the idea of setting up a racketboy collection database ever been considered?

It could tie very well into the various racketboy guides and posts... say, being able to read a Defining Games of... article and then directly add those titles to your wishlist, or showing ownership totals in the Rare & Valuable articles, etc.

Something with user-driven content (ala rfgeneration) would minimize the requirements of building such a thing, and affiliate linking within game pages (ala CAG) could help bring in revenue and keep the site afloat. Perhaps a cross between the light progress-focused tracking of Backloggery and the complex minutia-focused tracking of rfgeneration?

Does racketboy currently have an active development team?

[AppleQueso]

I'm here for the community and the articles. I can go elsewhere (RF gen) for collection tracking.

[fastbilly1]

Database was designed and work began on it in 07ish. Shortly after we made good headway, Backloggery opened up, followed by RFgeneration. After those kinda took over, we decided it was not worth the time or server space to continue.

[BurningDoom]

I'd use the hell out of it if this happened. Articles, collection, and forum at one site would be great! Also a great way to share our collections here.

[Curlypaul]

I remember when it was being discussed. Its massive headache to try and collate a complete db of every game every released in every region. I think backloggery got it right with game entry being wide open.

[alienjesus]

I've got to say that as much as I adore this forum, I'm perfectly happy using the backloggery for tracking my collection.

[racketboy]

I would love it as well, but I would have to find a way to pay for the development.
Kickstarter, maybe?

[retrosportsgamer]

Agree with the others - while it would be cool, it is foolish to use resources that could be spent elsewhere when other sites have it optimally figured out already.

Unless there are suggestions that would differentiate it from the established ones out there, doesn't make much sense.

[noiseredux]

yeah it seems really unecessary to me.

[dsheinem]

Unless there are suggestions that would differentiate it from the established ones out there, doesn't make much sense.

I stopped updating on RFG after their crash because doing so for large amounts of stuff is tedious. What I really would like is an option to upload a CSV file or something similar so that I can keep a local copy updated and just upload it to a database. RG allows you to download these, but not upload them