This feedback is concerning the new Studio landing page. I am posting on a separate thread because this post would not be an appropriate reply due to its length.
New Template Page
(Solved) Tutorial icon is unclear
Some templates have a icon in the bottom right of their card. It’s not really clear what this means, but I’m guessing it’s for templates that act as tutorials. This should be made clearer.
My Games
Group dropdown placement painful
In the dropdown to select groups on the Group Games tab, the dropdown is all the way to the right. This means to access it, I have to move my mouse all the way from the left side of the screen to the right side of the screen, and then all the way from the right side of the screen to the left side of the screen. It would fit more appropriately at the left side of the screen like on the Games page. I shouldn’t have to be darting across the monitor constantly.
Group dropdown not scalable
If I have 100 groups, the dropdown is impossible to use. We should be able to get a tiled list similar to what we use for places / on profile pages.
Group dropdown shifts layout
The group dropdown shifts the list of games downwards, so they’re not aligned with the other two tabs. This means when I switch tabs I’ll probably be mousing over the wrong area because I expected the list to be somewhere else:
Games list is not scalable
If I have 1000 projects it’s going to be impossible to find an old one I want to open up with this layout. Even looking through my < 100 places to find a specific one for testing purposes, it was painful to locate. We need a search bar for the My Games, Group Games, and Shared With Me tabs. This could be placed on the same line as the group list dropdown to unify vertical offset of the games list on all tabs.
Misc
No longer able to see errors
Studio has errors. These errors are displayed in detail in the output. When I get an error like below, now I can no longer see the cause because the output is hidden. It’s possible to enable the output (RMB on toolbar and select widget), but this is extremely out of the way and I came across it by accident.
No View Tab
The View tab is a necessity for intuitively toggling widgets/etc. Easily 75% of the View tab is not related to games and is necessary behavior for the landing page. The View tab should be shown in the toolbar on the landing page. This would also make it clear how I could enable the Output.
No Plugins Tab
The assumption is that there are still the same number of steps to install plugins since they can be installed at runtime now, but this is untrue. Many times I search for plugins, I’m not doing it because I need functionality right now. It’s because someone posted a link on Discord/the developer forums, or was talking about a genre of plugins.
If I want to install a plugin for later use from one of these links, I first have to open up a dummy place to install them. There is plenty of room on the menu bar for tabs, and displaying tabs on the landing is negligible to new user experience, so the Plugin tab should be accessible in addition to the View tab on the landing.
Quick Access was removed
This is bad. I want to be able to use the buttons for opening/creating a new level file without having to open the File menu. There’s plenty of room for a QAM on the bar with the File button, so any buttons that work outside of a game should be shown here (File, Open, Close, Settings, etc)
Too wide
As shown in the above videos, on a 1080p monitor the place list is way too wide. The information overload certainly isn’t helpful to new users, and it’s a pain to navigate the game list because I’m having to move my mouse all over the screen. The game list should have a max horizontal size.
No way to access more places
Commonly I’ll be working on a game and then need assets from a past game. For instance, I already implemented a feature in a previous game so I open that one up in addition to the current one to grab a few things, copy them into the other game, and then close the second one.
This is not possible to due with the new layout because the landing disappears as soon as you open a game, preventing me from accessing it again without first closing the current game. This is bad. I should be able to quickly and easily access the landing while I’m editing a game.
Seizure switching
Switching between the landing and places is atrocious. My screen flashes violently and I see windows fighting to scale themselves. This should be much more elegant, potentially with (fast!) animations to hide the snapping.
Opening multiple places loses state
If I open a second place from a game, I now have two Studio windows open. If I close the first, original window, it goes away. When I close the second game, I’m now taken to a landing page with the default state. The state of the first window was lost when it closed, so if I was originally on the Group Game tab when I opened up the game, after I’m done I’m on the Templates page.
(Solved) Wrong default page
I create new places maybe 3% of the time I use Studio. The templates is the least useful page that could have possibly been picked to be default. It should default to Recent or My Games.
Not ready to use Games instead of Places
I know that Roblox has been pushing to consolidate the two, but sorry – they’re not ready to be consolidated. Games and Places are still an awful mess of duplicate/redundant functionality, and games are still the least valuable of the two. Game names are never reflective of the place name, and it makes it impossible to find specific places if we forget which game they’re in.
Stop trying to predict what place I want to open
Roblox always opens the start place of a game first. This means whenever I want to edit a sub-place I have to take the time to load the start place (which can be extremely painful if it’s a large place) just to get to the place I want to edit. I could have sworn it used to open to the last-edited place, but that doesn’t appear to happen anymore.
Automatically opening the last-edited place would be better, but still not ideal. It would be cute for 2 or 3 times, but then when I want to start with another place I have to repeat the process of opening a dummy place to get to the one I want. I should be able to choose which place I want to edit from the landing without having to load a dummy.
Unusable
The list of TC places was nice, but aside from that this update did not provide any functional features – the largest issue with the landing, that I needed to break workflow and go to the Develop page often, is still present. Not only was the largest issue not solved, but it was made even worse because the Develop page – which is necessary for my games – is no longer accessible from the landing.
I understand that we need to combine them, but this was executed poorly. It will only be appropriate to deprecate the Develop page when it is no longer needed. It is still majorly needed because the landing page is not capable of configuring game/place settings or uploading assets not tied to a game.