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Any reason why the Genre filter field is a text input rather than a dropdown? I went to look at the Genres available to see which ones I might like but the only way I can see to do this is by scrolling through the pages to look at the available options.

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Yes, Apple games can belong in multiple genres and it was easier to do it this way, but I'm probably going to make it a dropdown since it's more usable.

Possibly make it a tag selector for easy multiple selection. You could then leave it a text input that sort of auto completes a tag name and adds it to the search filter

That's a good idea, but then I worry that it would narrow the results too much. Not that big a deal, since you can just remove a tag again, but I'll have to play around with it and see.

A multi-select box for this would be nice. Select2 should be easy enough to implement, as you're already using jquery.

Even HTML 4.01 had <select multiple>, no jQuery required:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/se...

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