Hopefully they fix this in time for One D&D, but the homebrew UI really needs improvement. As it stands right now, newer homebrews almost never get any attention. This is mostly because there's no way to organize them based on the date they were released. You would think that as a default it would list the newer ones first, but apparently they went with alphabetical order which is... questionable.
Think about it like this. The earliest homebrews released were the first to get ratings, making them the highest by default. Subsequent searches for homebrew then thrust them into the limelight since they already have the highest rating, leading to more views, which leads to higher ratings. If a new user does a homebrew search based on ratings then those same old homebrews are the ones that come up first, and are most likely to thereafter receive additional ratings from new users who get tired of scrolling threw the homebrews after first page or two. The system is basically designed as if to say "Hey, check out these old homebrew! Weren't those early pioneers great?"
If you go to the different homebrew tabs and search based on ratings you'll see that the vast majority of creations are from 2018, some from 2019, and the occasional 2020 creation. The latest entry to make it to the first page is still only from 2021 (I feel like I'm missing an inside joke for Garlic Domain Cleric here...) I though 'Anime Swordsman' was a fun idea back in 2018, but that was years ago and it's still on top. So either people just stopped putting out original content or the system has been unintentionally designed to stifle fresh ideas.
Some thoughts on fixing the system: -Show newest homebrews by default instead of using alphabetical order. -Have categories for 'files of the week/month/year' so people can see what the 'new hotness' is.
I've actually stopped searching for new homebrews as I just keep getting the same ones, even though I'd live to get some new variety of races or subclasses to look through. With One D&D coming out in a year or so, I'm quite fervently hoping to see some upgrades made to the system so that new content creators can shine through instead of being smothered by earlier entries.
he latest entry to make it to the first page is still only from 2021 (I feel like I'm missing an inside joke for Garlic Domain Cleric here...)
One thing that helped that one is that XP to Level 3 made a video where he took a look at the lowest rated homebrews (of which Garlic Domain was one) and that gave it boost of popularity when people found out about it.
Plus it's a silly class that, for the most part, is reasonably balanced.
Hopefully they fix this in time for One D&D, but the homebrew UI really needs improvement. As it stands right now, newer homebrews almost never get any attention. This is mostly because there's no way to organize them based on the date they were released. You would think that as a default it would list the newer ones first, but apparently they went with alphabetical order which is... questionable.
Think about it like this. The earliest homebrews released were the first to get ratings, making them the highest by default. Subsequent searches for homebrew then thrust them into the limelight since they already have the highest rating, leading to more views, which leads to higher ratings. If a new user does a homebrew search based on ratings then those same old homebrews are the ones that come up first, and are most likely to thereafter receive additional ratings from new users who get tired of scrolling threw the homebrews after first page or two. The system is basically designed as if to say "Hey, check out these old homebrew! Weren't those early pioneers great?"
If you go to the different homebrew tabs and search based on ratings you'll see that the vast majority of creations are from 2018, some from 2019, and the occasional 2020 creation. The latest entry to make it to the first page is still only from 2021 (I feel like I'm missing an inside joke for Garlic Domain Cleric here...) I though 'Anime Swordsman' was a fun idea back in 2018, but that was years ago and it's still on top. So either people just stopped putting out original content or the system has been unintentionally designed to stifle fresh ideas.
Some thoughts on fixing the system:
-Show newest homebrews by default instead of using alphabetical order.
-Have categories for 'files of the week/month/year' so people can see what the 'new hotness' is.
I've actually stopped searching for new homebrews as I just keep getting the same ones, even though I'd live to get some new variety of races or subclasses to look through. With One D&D coming out in a year or so, I'm quite fervently hoping to see some upgrades made to the system so that new content creators can shine through instead of being smothered by earlier entries.
I've been asking for just this... since 2019.
One thing that helped that one is that XP to Level 3 made a video where he took a look at the lowest rated homebrews (of which Garlic Domain was one) and that gave it boost of popularity when people found out about it.
Plus it's a silly class that, for the most part, is reasonably balanced.
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