Publishing to places has unclear UX

Feature Requests Studio Features
#1

As a Roblox developer, I keep thinking that I cannot overwrite an existing place when calling File → Publish To Roblox As…
This is because the UI only initially shows you starting place of all your experiences by default.

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It’s only when clicking that thumbnail that it actually opens up a list of all sub places.

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The reason this simple thing took me so long to figure out, was that I had no idea clicking the experience would open up a list of subplaces, but rather, just publish to the starting place of that selected experience instead.

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#2

Maybe showing the number of subplaces would make it more obvious it’s acting like a folder instead of a file? For example:

Publish menu - Subplace indicator concept

(Have you like, never published to a game on your account before? I thought this was a rite of passage for new developers.)

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#3

I’ve never had to publish to places from a different place in the same universe until now. I suspected that because subplaces weren’t showing in gridview, that it was not possible to publish them without opening the subplace.