[Test] New Content Curation Banner on Home

Interesting, it makes some experiences stand out and more clickable, I might like this. I hope this is under the “continue” section under home or it just becomes more pixels to scroll by to access my most recent played games.

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Looks like we’re gonna have to scroll for 2 minutes to get to our continue list :sweat_smile:.

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Nope, the recommended section is after the banner, and the continue section before

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Can they confirm that? Since today’s pick is normally at the top.
It looks like it will go
TODAYS Picks
Banner
Recommended
Continue

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Then that will be a bummer. Nobody want’s giant ads before their continue list

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We recently launched a new “Recently Visited” section on the Search landing page. Experiences you want to continue playing are just a click away in the Search button! See more here: Building the Future of Roblox Home and Search: Introducing Personalized Discovery

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Personally, I’m not a fan of it, I would much rather have it a toggle-able option, I don’t really want to have to scroll down to games I usually play. Most of the times I need games I work on/play often in my home page for easy access, so this would take up a lot of space.

It’s a good idea to discover games, but I could see this having bias towards bigger games, and also take up alot of space that some users might use somehow else.

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Well you need to search something to access it though

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People, do not forget, the last time they did this, with Today’s Picks, this happened. This will 100% be used to promote already large games. Don’t get your hopes up.

Hmm… perhaps this will prevent users from seeing their recently played games first and instead seeing the “curated” content :face_with_monocle:

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So to see our recently played games, I have to either scroll down through 5 other tabs or go to another page on the site, load the search bar and see 5 of my 30 recently played?
Also the feature of recently played isn’t available on the Chrome website browser.

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Can you run through how this works please? Understandably some wording is vague to allow wiggle room for tuning, but due to that this can be easily interpreted as distasteful to up-and-coming devs having less opportunities for discovery since most of the screen can now be arbitrarily taken up. Allaying any of the following concerns would be much appreciated.

  1. Is the behaviour of the banner completely passive; instead of having an ‘X’ to close it, are certain metrics used to determine that the player no longer needs to be made aware of said banner? (They either looked it at, moused over the play button, visited the banner’s landing page)

  2. Will this banner be used for large-scale advertisements when there is currently no platform-wide event like ‘The Games’ going on? [Can’t imagine not as the concept and metrics is easier to pitch]

  3. Will you give users certain tags for them to express interest in so that the banner can become more personalised, opening the door for future opportunities for extra panels?
    [Question 4 follows up on this.]

  4. Since large-scale studios have become a mainstay in Roblox, would you be willing to enable this banner for indie-game discovery? This to me is a big one as I’m worried about smaller creators having less of an opportunity to have their experiences discovered.

EDIT: No questions have been answered. Cynicism increased.

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I loved this new design, it certainly reminds me of advertisements from Google Play/App Store/ because the picture gets a bit of the background, giving this cool 3D effect. Unique and special!

One thing I noticed is that it seems like there will be a banner for platform events. However, I was wondering how it would work for upcoming platform events. Would there be any countdown in the middle or would it be in a corner?

(Rushed concept that I made based on the announcement’s picture)

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Could we please just have a content curation banner toggle added as soon as it goes live? (Alongside toggles for all the other homepage Features)

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Please do, I don’t wanna see ts

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The Home Page is becoming so cluttered I’m just going to use my Profile page and favorite games I play often and go from there.

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Now that I think about it. Can we have a tab just for game discovery? The now named charts used to fill this role by offering a tab just for finding games, even if it sorts games by numbers. I want my continue and favorited games section to be at the top.

I am a developer and need to access continue and favorited games section quickly to play test game.

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Please Roblox, a single button is all we ask for. “Disable Curated Content”

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Along with all the trending content.
I don’t want random stuff on my Home Page.
I want my favorites, I want my friends, I want my recently played and that’s it.
It’s treating a user base they are trying to “age up” as toddlers who must be spoonfed content to play.
If I’m looking for new games, I’d go to charts.

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  1. Only thing this should be used for is advertising roblox events. NOT games.
  2. Home page becomes really clutterred, to the point that we need to be able to change ordering of all tabs. I use Home section only for: Getting to my games, which I favorited to not lose

    Continue playing some my favorite games.

Favorites already at the bottom, Continue is in the middle now.

Do something about ordering preferences please, cuz advertising has taken over usability.

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Is this a thing that we apply for to be featured on, or is it 100% chosen by Roblox?

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