I find it hard to justify a subscription when the site functionality is this lackluster. The loading times and general usability of this site is not good enough for a paid service. It's been bad for years and AFAI there's no improvement in sight.
It shouldn't take 3-5 seconds to load every page and every feature. No other website is this slow for me, including 4k streaming. Sure, if you only load one page one time, it's a couple of seconds and it's forgiveable, but using this site to make characters, look up rules, read source material, check items and spell descriptions etc. takes years of my life and the psychic damage stacks up fast.
The search functionality is so bad it's not even worth using, even when you know exactly what you are looking for. Needless to say any spelling mistakes will net you zero results. If you use external web searches you get other sources as top results because dndbeyond's site is so slow and unreliable.
Example: I want to learn more about the superior technique fighting style and the maneuvers I can choose. I type in "Superior technique" and I get five results of Voiceless Talker Graywarper NPCs. They don't even have the damn search words in there.
Another example: I'm looking for magic items from sources that I own and that I can actually use and add to characters. No way to filter that despite having a Master tier sub with a thousand dollars spent on sourcebooks.
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I find it hard to justify a subscription when the site functionality is this lackluster. The loading times and general usability of this site is not good enough for a paid service. It's been bad for years and AFAI there's no improvement in sight.
It shouldn't take 3-5 seconds to load every page and every feature. No other website is this slow for me, including 4k streaming. Sure, if you only load one page one time, it's a couple of seconds and it's forgiveable, but using this site to make characters, look up rules, read source material, check items and spell descriptions etc. takes years of my life and the psychic damage stacks up fast.
The search functionality is so bad it's not even worth using, even when you know exactly what you are looking for. Needless to say any spelling mistakes will net you zero results. If you use external web searches you get other sources as top results because dndbeyond's site is so slow and unreliable.
Example: I want to learn more about the superior technique fighting style and the maneuvers I can choose. I type in "Superior technique" and I get five results of Voiceless Talker Graywarper NPCs. They don't even have the damn search words in there.
Another example: I'm looking for magic items from sources that I own and that I can actually use and add to characters. No way to filter that despite having a Master tier sub with a thousand dollars spent on sourcebooks.