This is absolutely going to come off as being non-constructive criticism by my tone but truly I just want the most important website to my virtual life to be better. I am the biggest DnDBeyond fan as a player...as a relatively new DM, I am annoyed that so much time is spent on digital dice creation while what is arguably the most important part of DnDBeyond is left to Beshaba to determine what a search result will be. (Ironically, I had to search for "5e Gods of chance" on Google...because you can not do it with DnDBeyond...see the rest of my post.
If you think I am being harsh. Search: "Concentration." I am not sure why I have to then click the compendium button to find the "Concentration" description. Or when you search, similarly, for "conditions." Even after you select compendium, the first 4 hits are weather. Now the examples I gave are the easy ones. I recently wanted to remember what the rules were for jumping. To find out, for a new dm, you have to search: "jumping" then select compendium then scroll down to the 5th option after the 3 rings of jumping, and one other... then select the "movement and position" option, this brings you to said option where you then have to scroll to find the link to chapter 8 "special types of movement." I am not a programmer, but certainly, tweaking the search engine is easier than making dice with smoke coming out of it...otherwise, google it is. Where if I type: "5e jumping" guess what immediately pops up? Or "5e Conditions." Or "5e Gods of chance." Technically, I should just use Roll20's search engine since the first two immediately came up with jumping asking me: "Which did you mean? "Jumping or "Ring of jumping"? With the appropriate hyperlink. I really love DnDBeyond, as a paid Master tier subscriber, and someone who has invested several $100, please work on what is important for your users. Not digital dice. And sure, I could have put this in a different thread. But they were never replied to when I wrote this 2 other times...
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You probably meant to post this in the proper forum then: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/d-d-beyond-feedback and haven't seen any of the many videos where they explain that animators aren't actually programmers, and there are different teams that work on different sections.
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The team is very much aware of the limitations of the site wide search, I believe it was addressed on a dev update featuring Dave Hartless. However, it's not a trivial thing to upgrade (site wide indexing for massive amounts of content would have to be rebuilt for one thing).
Ultimately it's something the team would love to improve, but it's a case of bandwidth and priorities.
Also, as an aside; the team that works on digital dice isn't the same team that'd work on search refinements, so those two things don't compete for resource allocation really.
Considering how often this topic comes up maybe some of the teams should be reassigned to improving the usability of the site rather than pretty new features that don't make it better for those of us buying the books and trying to use them.
I put it to you that your priorities for allocating bandwidth are wrong.
This is absolutely going to come off as being non-constructive criticism by my tone but truly I just want the most important website to my virtual life to be better. I am the biggest DnDBeyond fan as a player...as a relatively new DM, I am annoyed that so much time is spent on digital dice creation while what is arguably the most important part of DnDBeyond is left to Beshaba to determine what a search result will be. (Ironically, I had to search for "5e Gods of chance" on Google...because you can not do it with DnDBeyond...see the rest of my post.
If you think I am being harsh. Search: "Concentration." I am not sure why I have to then click the compendium button to find the "Concentration" description. Or when you search, similarly, for "conditions." Even after you select compendium, the first 4 hits are weather. Now the examples I gave are the easy ones. I recently wanted to remember what the rules were for jumping. To find out, for a new dm, you have to search: "jumping" then select compendium then scroll down to the 5th option after the 3 rings of jumping, and one other... then select the "movement and position" option, this brings you to said option where you then have to scroll to find the link to chapter 8 "special types of movement." I am not a programmer, but certainly, tweaking the search engine is easier than making dice with smoke coming out of it...otherwise, google it is. Where if I type: "5e jumping" guess what immediately pops up? Or "5e Conditions." Or "5e Gods of chance." Technically, I should just use Roll20's search engine since the first two immediately came up with jumping asking me: "Which did you mean? "Jumping or "Ring of jumping"? With the appropriate hyperlink. I really love DnDBeyond, as a paid Master tier subscriber, and someone who has invested several $100, please work on what is important for your users. Not digital dice. And sure, I could have put this in a different thread. But they were never replied to when I wrote this 2 other times...
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ModeratorYou probably meant to post this in the proper forum then: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/d-d-beyond-feedback and haven't seen any of the many videos where they explain that animators aren't actually programmers, and there are different teams that work on different sections.
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The team is very much aware of the limitations of the site wide search, I believe it was addressed on a dev update featuring Dave Hartless. However, it's not a trivial thing to upgrade (site wide indexing for massive amounts of content would have to be rebuilt for one thing).
Ultimately it's something the team would love to improve, but it's a case of bandwidth and priorities.
Also, as an aside; the team that works on digital dice isn't the same team that'd work on search refinements, so those two things don't compete for resource allocation really.
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Considering how often this topic comes up maybe some of the teams should be reassigned to improving the usability of the site rather than pretty new features that don't make it better for those of us buying the books and trying to use them.
I put it to you that your priorities for allocating bandwidth are wrong.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/d-d-beyond-feedback/6999-search-within-sources
https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/d-d-beyond-feedback/105706-search-is-awful
https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/d-d-beyond-feedback/102675-search-engine