Okay guys & gals, vacation's over, time to trade again!

I have yet to take any time off this year, continuing my trend of adding features on a mostly daily basis. Just me, my keyboard and my weekly dose of damn fine Twin Peaks.

As usual when I take some time to write these posts, if anything's in bold letters, then it's probably a community-pleasing feature.


- If a game was bundled as part of a package, the package's name will be shown alongside the bundle name. For better service, I've also made sure to show the package colored by its ratio (similar to what you can see on Match pages.) This is in case a game's package is more common than the game itself.

- The related items section now indicates ratios for each entry. This is very useful if you're looking at a rare game and it's included in a package that's been bundled a lot. (Yes, this happens more than you'd think. Just look at https://lestrades.com/game/1716/ for a random example.)

- $0 (massively given away) games are back to being updated on a daily basis.

- Trading card additions are now automated, a few times per hour. Card data is no longer retrieved from BVG, and should be a bit more accurate. Also fixed 684 previously added games that incorrectly showed 'no cards'.

- Fixed a problem with users following a link to LT's game pages and being redirected to the home page instead. (Only happened for a couple weeks and only when coming to the site for the first time or with cookies disabled.)

- The previously useless 'Completed trades' statistic on game pages will now list all of these completed offers, along with their completion date. This is more interesting, it allows you to determine a game's trading popularity over time, as well as what kind of value it's usually traded against.

- Game pages should now be more consistent in layout (list of bundles wasn't using the proper section background.)


- A popular request -- increased maximum custom note length for tradables to 50 chars (instead of 30) for regular users, and 255 (max length) for premium users. I'm not currently adapting it for proper viewing (i.e. adding a pop-up with full text when it's beyond 30 chars), but it'll come later.

- New trading tags for tradables (not wishlists): 'unbundled only'. It's, as expected, the exact opposite of a wishlist-only 'bundled only' tag, i.e. you're not going to trade this game for bundled games (well, maybe you'll take 20 rare bundled games but you see what I mean.) This is obviously for games that are so valuable that even the 'high tier' tag doesn't mean much. I'd recommend setting a custom value on games like these, but if you really want to trade them for other games, this tag should be helpful.

- New tag, wishlist-only 'filler', which is for wishlist fillers; this is something I do all the time, basically stuff I apply a 'low tier' tag on: games that I don't really intend to ever play, but they're 'in my radar' and I wouldn't mind the +1. So if I find a 1:1 trade where I feel like I'm giving away the better value, I can add a wishlist filler to build a more balanced 1:2.


- Lestrade's is now even smarter in warning you about potential conflicts with other ongoing trades in the offer list.

- You can now sort items by ratio rather than alphabetical order. Good if you get a 1:1 offer with lots of games in it.


- Main bundle page lists number of games per bundle (and adapts properly if no games are found, or even just one, because it doesn't have to show average ratios for those). Bundle list handling is also faster internally.

- Added infamous Steamground permanent bundle. I'm not going to update the game list daily or whatever... Just post to the bundle if you find out new games were added or deleted. That thing is just madness... But then again, a few cents per key-- this needs to be made prominent.

- Fixed (mostly greenlight-type) bundles that had 'no Steam key' games attached when those games actually got a Steam key after that. I had to do those manually, so I stopped at around 7 months in the past. It wasn't fun. Feel free to post on any game or bundle page to indicate any further fixes to do.

- Bundles that have expired within the last week are now shown on the main bundle list, grayed out, at the end of the page. This is mostly so you can quickly scan if you missed a bundle, or at least can easily access a bundle marked as expired that actually isn't expired yet for a reason or another (e.g. last-minute extension.)


- Fixed PM feature in mobile browsers, making messages at last readable.

- The requested/offered section now shows 5 requested and 5 offers, instead of 3 & 2 (I never made it clear it was 3 & 2, so here we go.)
Also, the games now take the number of *different* traders into account. It will no longer show games that are only requested by a single user to many others. Because this makes it harder to find games that stand out then, the stat will now be for the last month, rather than the last week.

- And as always, many minor fixes & features that I either documented on the 'What's new' topic, or didn't document at all.