New achievement guide/tracker/checklist site

[shivars]

Hi,

I've been working on a site as a fun project that intends to provide an integrated online achievement guide and tracker.

I find it useful and think it provides features no other site does at the moment like;

- checklists for "eat every type of food" / "kill every type of monster" type achievements

- built in guide/roadmap both in terms of achievement metadata (missable?), and guide text

- useful metadata on each game (do steam achievements work offline, etc)

- anyone can add/edit content (subject to having Verified a linked Steam or Xbox account that has earned 'enough' achievements - i.e. abuse protection is in tying to peoples' real )

- Xbox and Steam in one place (many of us game on both platforms, achievements are usually - but not always - common across platforms; it handles this properly). PSN coming soon.


Point is it is intended to be an online account-synced achievement guide/roadmap site that makes it easier for hunters to keep track of where they are and where they're getting to with minimal hassle.

So the site is totally NOT FINISHED YET, but is approaching a state where I figure it could be useful to people and so its time to see if anyone is interested in using it and/or contributing guide content.

Things that are NOT done yet include; embedded images/video to make guides better, newsfeed of changes/updates to guides, auto-syncing to your gamertag/steam account (currently is manual), comments/discussion, voting on the speed/difficulty of achievements and games, stuff like that. But the biggest thing missing is more content at this point ;)

Here's a few screenshots that maybe illustrate the point:
https://imgur.com/a/9Xg8E

The site is here:
https://acheev.net/

So if you're interested, feel free to give it a whirl. Any feedback (positive or negative), feel free to reply on this thread, PM me, or use the feedback tab on the site. Whatever floats your boat.

thanks for reading,

shivars


PS; Mods - I can't see anything in the terms about linking to my own site as a TOS violation but if it is please feel free to remove the link and/or delete the post.

PPS; the site does not collect any personal data (beyond your name/gamertag from signin), so no email address. And it does not try to sell you anything (besides some ads).

PPPS; I am ofc aware of Astats and the others - they do a fantastic job but the focus is different; I don't find them as easy to use when I'm just sat with a game, playing it and enjoying it and just wanting to tick off achievements at the same time. Different focus, place for both, imo :)

PPPPS; ffs... ....yeah ok so syncing lots of peoples' Steam accounts concurrently is also something that doesn't work too hot right now. Please bear with it if its a little slow soon after syncing your Steam account for the first time - it doesn't do this in the background (yet!)

[Twistor]

I tried to sync in my Steam data, but I think I might have crashed it, trying to sync my account x) I can't access the site at all any longer.

Here's the error message:

Error 504 Ray ID: 3f32ff3d8d3f5b69 • 2018-02-26 12:45:40 UTC

EDIT: the site came back online and the Steam account was connected successfully, though not synced yet. Trying to sync gives the same error as before, but different code: 3f333ed6ec745b2d.

[Twistor]

The site came back online. I've been trying to verify my Steam account, without success. It gives an error again.

Oops! An Error Occurred
The server returned a "500 Internal Server Error".
Something is broken. Please let us know what you were doing when this error occurred. We will fix it as soon as possible. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

[shivars]

Hi twistor,

Thanks for trying it out :) Sorry you had trouble :/

Originally posted by Twistor:

The site came back online. I've been trying to verify my Steam account, without success. It gives an error again.

My bad - apologies - have fixed the problem and manually marked the connection as verified.

Originally posted by Twistor:

EDIT: the site came back online and the Steam account was connected successfully, though not synced yet. Trying to sync gives the same error as before, but different code: 3f333ed6ec745b2d.

Unfortunately the sync isn't a background job yet, and can be slow especially if you have lots of games and some/many of them aren't known to the site yet (as it has to populate the achievement data). You have 8,133 games, wow! (I guess I shouldn't be surprised in the 100pag group really...)

It'll take me a little longer to fix that up properly - meantime you might find it synced ok eventually, or that retrying a few times will eventually get there. Or just leave it a bit until i fix the site up.

(technically it didn't go down - but it would have locked your session while the sync was happening so it would have appeared down unless you cleared cookies or used a different browser)

Thanks for giving it a whirl though, appreciated - I've made a few tweaks based on this and other input already, and will continue to do so over next few days

(also thanks to Allalinor and others who welcomed me to the Discord server - will be back on in a day or two once I've made some more changes).