@suicidesn0wman: We're actually doing a lot of back-end work right now (aside from prepping for E3) that is focused on performance and reliability. These are two of my priorities for 2016. I'll try to give you guys a heads-up as we roll things out, but often they are relatively minor things that may not make improvements that are obvious when just looking at how the site loads (without a tool to measure precisely.) The "twig extension" work mentioned earlier fell in this category.

We're a bit short-handed right now, so I'm not ready to promise release notes (we release almost every day!), but again I will try to message you guys when larger things are coming or have just released. I would love to do some sort of a beta program for larger features, but I don't have the resources here to manage it unfortunately. We are, however, hiring, so after that we'll take a look at that again.

@duskmist: Well, it comes down to us having to pay our bills. Between Youtube's revenue share policy and how often they show ads, we would have a much harder time paying for the content we produce.

@Blabadon: twig extensions = better performance, so...haha... take it or leave it, dude. : )

@Blabadon: 'tis true. If you'd like more detail, we were cleaning up our twig extensions to make them more efficient. We have several performance-related priorities right now as we prep for E3.

@Starshine_M2A2: Oh, and there is a "workaround": the Follow button is still on the other subpages within the gamespace - if you go to the game page and click the subnav for "News & Features" for instance, you can follow the game from there.

@Starshine_M2A2: I hear you, and we'll put some more thought into this. The "useless" follows we see tend to be more obscure games like Barbie Dreamhouse Party (seriously) which actually gets a LOT of follows (thank you SEO traffic), so we'll look at new ways of tuning the criteria.

@Starshine_M2A2: We've been testing out ways to reduce "useless" follows. The purpose of "Following" a game here on GS is to get new news, videos, etc, but for old games like the ones you listed, we aren't really covering them anymore, so "Following" the game doesn't really do anything. We've been testing out hiding the Follow button on those old games that we don't cover, so people don't get an expectation of that button doing something (that it actually won't.) If you're using the Follow button for some other reason than getting the latest news, I'd be interested to hear about it.

@Bigboi500: Sigs have not been phased out. We did some global performance optimizations to the site recently to improve speed and code maintainability, and the bug with missing sigs was a side effect of that. We have patched it, and will be releasing the fix probably either today or tomorrow.

@ghost_navigator: Not your fault, the design is not ideal. : \

@Zassimick: We're looking into this now, guys - sorry!