No useful information available in new homepage

Of course

I think what has been said before is good and I want to add more stuff to improve the UX

I play the same game every day (Bee Swarm Simulator), but because of how the homepage is sorted, I have to scroll and skim through the tiles to find it.


As for solutions… Take YouTube’s homepage as an example. Their homepage is all about discovery;
subscriptions’ latest videos at the top, followed by 10 recommended video tiles, followed by a bunch of different random but relevant categories of videos.
Translating that into Roblox…
Recently played games mixed with recently updated favourited/followed games at the top, followed by games your friends are playing mixed in with games they were playing (basically a “social” recommendation sort), followed by everything else.
I would also add context to differentiate these sorts, because my belief is that some players might be more likely to play a game knowing that one of their friends have already played it (do a test to confirm this assumption).

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As a developer, I find the new home page sort to be somewhat irrelevant to my interests.

I use the homepage as a quick jumping point to get to the games I am working on. The “most recent” games was the first tiles widget on my homepage and I liked it that way, as I could quickly access games I am working on.

This new sort is all sorts of random noise to me and makes me frustrated.

I cannot easily customize the game tiles to my liking using ublock to block unwanted categories. I can tell the most recently played games category is the 3rd row down, but there’s no way for me to right click on the frames of the rows above so I can make it stay at the top.

The studio baseplate template shows up on the top row. Now, I know some friends who would publish cool content and not make a game icon, but I am frustrated that I am forced to click through to see that it’s actually nothing of value.

Also, there are too many games on the homepage now. The feed and blog posts have become non-entities to me because of how much time I have to spend scrolling to get to them. I don’t really feel any need to re-visit my 50th last-visited place.

I miss seeing the favorites. I kept tabs of games I have a vested interest in, but did not necessarily play, using that.

The old categories gave me an at-a-glance way to get to the games I am working on and see what my friends are up to without having to spend much effort hunting for things and I could see what my friends and groups are saying.

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FYI - We are planning to start another short test on the homepage. This will go out to a smaller % of users than before, and incorporates many of your feedback points.

  • The long games list will be much shorter
  • Recent games will be higher up in the list
  • Friends’ studio games should no longer appear
  • Existing home page sorts are not going away, they are below the long game list.

Thanks for your feedback as we continue iterating on the home page.

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Gosh darn I was in the smaller %. Now I need to search for my own game on the home page, who would have known. Recent and favorites should not be below a random slew of games I don’t want to play.

This belongs on the games page, not my home page. Get these random games off my home page rreeeeee

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I think it would be much more cleaner if there was a row called “Recommended” that lists games based on the criteria of your favorites, games you have liked, and games you follow. The row should have the scrollers like the rows on games page have so that you can scroll through more games without having to take up so much room height wise.

I love the idea of showing which friends are playing which game by putting them on the cards, but I think it would work better if your friends were put at the bottom right of the game icon so that information such as the current player count and like percentage isn’t blocked.

Why is this? Can they be placed above as they’re the most useful part of the homepage?

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Displacing useful, relevant information and cluttering up the home page for a machine prediction system that’s redundant to the actual games page and less effective is really not what the home page needs.

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I’m not seeing this, and I’m frankly glad that I don’t see this, or at least don’t see this on my tablet at the moment. I can see this being very annoying and cluttered.

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Machine learning algorithms are not a replacement for useful information. The cluttered jumble of games, if made to stay, should absolutely be placed below the categories, not prioritized.

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Having the games my friends are currently playing is fine IMO, but I agree with others in that the rest don’t belong on the home page. Games my friends have played (i.e. not currently playing) belong on Games page – not the Home page. The Home page shouldn’t be a mini Games page. If the goal is to get players into games more quickly, then add a “Play Games” CTA on the Home page.

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I don’t care if you add recommended games to the home page (in fact I love it) but does it really have to be so long?

One row is more than enough.

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