Yikes! Your frustration is understandable but this is the first I’ve heard or seen this.
Can you DM logs? Are you doing anything funky with local flag overrides or mods?
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- There’s an existing known issue with certain combination of Windows laptops with Nvidia DirectX drivers that will show “glitched” rendering. This does not affect functionality of the Start Page. One temporary fix may be a switch of Studio Graphics Mode to Vulkan
(Studio Settings > Rendering > General > Graphics Mode)
This will work for now but the old Start Page will get retired by EOY. The old code is so bad it’s causes hangs even though we aren’t actively using it. 
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That’s okay, I think the new page has gotten a lot better recently, I’ve been observing faster loading times. Just some improvements are needed.
I’m not sure if I’m spilling beans here (so keep it between us! 
) but we will be making progress on community/third party templates sooner than later.
It was one of many motivating factors for getting a more flexible and dynamic Start Page UI established.
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Something quick you guys could add would be a refresh button. So far if any place is removed/added within a category said place/places will not update unless you leave and enter the category back. A simple refresh button and/or key would help!
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Paul actually implied it was a goal of theirs to remove the refresh button, for some reason. Was a little confused when I saw this so definitely would be nice to get some insight here.
Also FYI they’re planning to remove the refreshing on tab click, the goal is to have it cache so there’ll essentially be no way to refresh the games list without restarting Studio soon. Can’t find the post for this right now but I believe Paul mentioned it somewhere in here, hopefully he can confirm.
On the contrary to all of this, I guess there’d be very little use cases for a “refresh” button now, considering the chances of a developer being in Studio and then creating a new place from the Creator Hub whilst they’re there are low. And also the other use case for the button–refreshing in the event of a failed load–will likely become redundant as I’m sure the new UI will handle this case more gracefully.
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I mean yeah, i was thinking that a refresh button is probably something not really that important since you can still refresh by switching tabs so its whatever. Just thought a refresh button would be a bit more convenient.
not one to ask for much but can we please have a list sort option on the home page, the games i work on have subplaces that act as the development area, so right now the current way to get to them is go to the experiences tab, go to the group, find game, then enter the subplace
Before the continue sort was allowed to be list, but now it cant
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We are really close to releasing the new Recents view that will show all of your most recently opened places (subplaces too) with a much longer history than the current quick recents. Our plan in the new year is to allow for pinning on that view too.
But we’ll keep looking at how we can add more convenient sorting and filtering too!
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We’ve not really embraced more modern pub-sub and push updating. It’s usually polling based which at our scale is kind of a nightmare. I think that’s probably why the Refresh button got there to begin with.
I’d love to see if you have multiple Studios open the Start Page just stays updated while you’re working. But that’s going to take some backend work to get there.
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