Bring articles on same game together?

So, with this new refresh I have a feature suggestion as food for thought. I'm not even sure if it's possible so it's fine if it's not. Just putting it out there.

One thing I struggle with on the site is that there isn't any way to pull together reviews, discussions or, even forum threads about a particular game in a single view or set of links besides a forum search. Obviously, part of the situation is the golden content buried in the four mammoth digest threads, inaccessible. Push that aside though. Larger than that, there's no way to see that Barnes wrote a review on something, someone else gave a critical view on a mechanic in the game, and maybe there's a thread in the forums on it. But a lot of it exists independent of each other, ships passing in the night.

It doesn't have to be complicated, I'm not saying we need BGG organization or anything like that. Even something conceptually similar to a within the site hashtag to apply to games and threads that could organize them together if someone cared to?

This all dovetails nicely into the idea that the critical content in our forums and the proposed expanded article content with the revamp is more than enough to support a solid readership, it just doesn't connect anywhere to each other. And since I personally think our strength is our discussions about new *and* old games, and the way games continue to exist here critically with people playing rather than buying... compare that niche to other places where people don't talk much about playing games and old games wither immediately. So accessing the corpus of overall site dialog on a game easily is important.

Anyway, just spitballing.

Would a search box that uses Google site: search by default do this?

ubarose wrote: I've totally wanted to do this for a while, but it requires time and money. So I'm taking a wait an see approach before I start any major site overhauls.

Cool, I 100% understand.

That would be an awesome feature. I had a similar thought a while ago: entries could be tied by users to a (growing) list of games (=hashtags/keywords). This could even be done semi-automatically.