GOG games used to have in the right side of a game's page different lists of games including that game made by fans.
In Baldur's Gate page, for example, there would be something like " Most memorable rpgs of the nineties" or " My favourite Infinite Engine games" on the right side.
Anyone knows what happened to those lists?

Gogmixes. They're gone. GOG decided to stop support them.

And before GOG removed GOG mix entirely, they have break many lists and functions already.

Any explanation why they did this? It's so strange for me, i'd expect it to not be a very hard thing to do and mantain, right?

Because the feature wasn't working properly anymore (mixes could no longer be edited for something like a month before the whole system got removed), and GOG developers either couldn't figure out how to fix the software enough to get it back to its former (barely usable) state, or they deemed the work that it would take to do so a waste of time, given the site revamp. Probably a mixture of both.

One of their spokespeople did mention that they were working on updating the GOGmix concept to work with the new site, but that likely means it could be months yet before they roll the feature out again...and given some of the changes to the site they made this month, I'd almost wager that the eventual replacement for GOGmixes will be more of a lateral move from the old system than a straight-up improvement.

Given how much is broken, buggy, and or poor performing with the new site... I'd be surprised if an equivalent function ever popped up.

They don't even have this javascript nightmare functioning properly in galaxy ffs.

If you think about it, it's not really a terrible difficult to implement feature. Not trivial either, but requiring only modest effort on a scale of things. In this light, I guess that it comes down to GOG weighing the benefits of having to support the features vs. the increased service values they get from it and they decided it's not worth it.

While it may not be a very hard thing to maintain, it still is work that needs to be done. They simply didn't want to do it.

To be fair, it's not really part of the core business of GOG which is just delivering games to those interested in having them and doing support for these games. Everything else (like the forum, the profiles, ...) is just optional although it may influence the number of sales indirectly.

Forum and profiles are kind of useless to sell (a significant number of) games. But GOGmixes? I think they're great to sell more games! In times where gaming sites rate every new release somewhere between "8/10 A pretty cool game" and "9.5/10 PURE AWESOMESAUCE", it's left to gamers to recommend great titles to other gamers. And that's what GOGmixes could've been.

Of course there's the other side, too. The second class citizens mix was one of the most popular mixes and I remember at least one dev/publisher complaining about finding his game on that mix. I guess there were more complaints behind the scenes we don't know about. Running the risk to have that mix appearing directly on your game page (on the top spot!), could've been a bit problematic for some publishers. I think that mix had the potential to be a dealbreaker for some publishers. That's good for us (I don't want to buy any games that don't get patches here), but bad for GOG's business (short term - long term it'd have helped to prevent GOG from getting a reputation to sell unpatched games).

Dead & buried.

GOG is avoiding all discussion and mention of them, and the last thread about this subject seems to have been turned non-visible by a mod.

The GOGmixes with most votes were the negativity fostering ones, bullshit mixes like "games that treat customers like second class citizens" got a lot of likes, which kind of defeated the entire purpose of the system, i. e. to foster positivity about games.

Even if we're really being whack with the benefit of the doubt, it's clear enough that people used GOGmixes less as a themed collection of recommendations (that was the very definition of "gogmix") and more as a system of destructive criticism, hyperbolic warnings, personal vendettas, centralized shorthand shit flinging, and choleric overreactions to market realities.

I liked the idea of GOGmixes a lot, I had my own mix (which ended up with six likes or so), but eventually, the system was abused the fuck out of to the point that the whole thing cost them sales instead of garnering them, so I guess nixing it was the only path left to go.

To GOG as a games sale platform, the usage reality of the feature sucked major balls. It's definitely not coming back.

Applied to only a small set of GOGmixes. And the negatives ones did have their uses too; there was a reason why they gathered upvotes.

I don't buy that line about it costing GOG sales. The vast majority of GOGmixes did a great job in highlighting games that otherwise many people would not even come across in the store.

To be honest, that could just be the rubbish search functionality of the forum.

I'd settle for just having the old sales pages back (rather than the ridiculous halloween sale one) and the daily deal visible on the homepage.

The 10 year retrospective reminded me how much I preferred the original homepage...

I guess it was not fun for an indie developer to finally publish their game, after struggling with their limited resources, only to find it immediately classified as "No Polish - No buy!!!".

Then we had the downright offensive ones, like "Beamdog is the parasite of the industry", which was actually deleted (no doubt after a complaint from the developer).

I miss the good GOGmixes a lot. I also had one that I spent quite a lot of time in, and I really wish I could continue building it. But from a business point of a view, I can see why they were problematic. Maybe they could come back with a bit more of the moderator's engagement (wishful thinking, I know).

Not any worse than Steam's curators though. Hell the abusive ones on Steam and the joke ones pretty much never get looked into.

Thank you all for the clarification, I find it a shame they aren't supporting it. I can only speak for myself, but I found them useful to check other games I might enjoy, much more useful then their limited "you might enjoy this" recommendation.