I don't know what it's for, I don't know what it's benefit is, and I don't know how to use it.
It's for tracking games. I really like using it as a wishlist since it makes it easy to keep track of all the older games I haven't purchased yet. I also like it for tracking my backlog. Sure both of these things could be done with a piece of paper or memory, but it's nice having everything in one place and easy to see.
Also it can be fun to see what games other users are interested in or search the database to find new games you're interested in.
Your profile is
here and all the games are
here. I've mostly just built it for my own use atm but I think most of it is easy to figure out.
I just don't tend to use databases.
I know it makes me a bad programmer, but I don't really care.
I wonder if it's because of building this forum, but I love databases haha. Every time I have any sort of thing I'm always shoehorning it into a database.
I used to use it to keep track of my games and rating but I just use an excel sheet instead now. So much more functionality.
What features do you use from Excel?
I doubt I could implement them or make our database as user friendly but it'd still be nice to know.