Thread: Website refresh
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June 17th, 2024, 12:42 #41
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A link to a page showing all rulesets would answer my criticism just fine; seems perfectly sensible to list top sellers or top-by-games-played on the main page and the rest on a click through page.
Cheers, Hywel
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June 17th, 2024, 12:44 #42
Just went to the new store page. One thing that is annoying, not all products show the ruleset they are for, unless I click into the product itself. It would be nice to see the ruleset before I click.
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June 17th, 2024, 12:47 #43
Very nice!
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June 17th, 2024, 13:02 #44
That is I suppose fair.
The site did however have twice as many games listed on the front page previously as opposed to 16 now.
Right now it takes a minimum of 4 clicks to find the other officially supported games - and that is if you know what you are looking for and know that games are called rulesets. And there is no obvious link to Forge rulesets (some of which are official/licensed) from there either.
The current Browse all games button does not take you to more games but to the catalogue as presented by the algorithm (newest releases, best sellers and current sale items?).
A suggestion - with the new listing format you can probably fit more titles per page.
Please note - I do think the new pages do look great.
Oh and DNDB and Alchemy list all their games or at least publishers on the front page.
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June 17th, 2024, 14:25 #45
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Here is my suggestion. Where the 16 games are listed under "Your Favorite Games" have this be the image of a rotating cube like a giant 6 sided die, where after 20 or 30 seconds it will spin to another side with other games listed. Have buttons to where you can flip back and forth between sides. Possibly have the first side be a defined set, and after it spins some other random rulesets populate the side.
Now, I clicked on "Browse all games", then typed in Vaesen, and and I get 4 items, but at the bottom is "[Prev] Page 1 of 1 [Next]". It might be worth polishing this up to where the Prev and Next buttons aren't displayed on single page results.
I also think there could be a verbiage change. On the main page is "Your Favorite Games" which lists rulesets. At the top is a link to "Find a Game" which my brain for a second thought might be another listing of rulesets. There might need to be a distinction at some point between games and games. I mean rulesets and people playing/tables. Just some food for thought.
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June 17th, 2024, 14:36 #46
That should have definitely been 1) announced in the initial post that the refresh was a WIP (it was presented as a website refresh, not a WIP, so quite a few of us assumed that it was a "complete" refresh), and/or 2) the browse all rulesets button should have either acted like Dakadin suggested, or if it is eventually going to go to another page that lists all the rulesets, it should have gone to that page with an "Under Construction" sign on it....
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June 17th, 2024, 14:38 #47
this "confusion" could have easily been avoided had the website been "previewed" by those curious to gather feedback before making it "live"
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June 17th, 2024, 14:39 #48
otherwise, I like the direction
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June 17th, 2024, 14:51 #49
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June 17th, 2024, 14:57 #50aka Laendra
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