I think it has been widely agreed that the new Landing page is a hollow nonfunctional advertisement to frequent users, but the worst part - in my opinion - is that the blog posts have been removed entirely. We already noticed the shift in priorities with blog posts in the last few months, lots of "buy this Partnered Content" or "Play this super specific genre of Partnered Content" type posts that I, personally, couldn't be less interested in, and there being fewer and fewer posts inviting users to get excited about certain subclasses, monsters and special Livestream events/giveaways. However I never imagined the blog being removed entirely and replaced with useless ad space.
The blog writers - probably laid-off, old blog posts - nowhere to be seen. This burning of culture and robbing us of our heroes in the name of greed is exactly the DRACONIC behavior we have spent years combating in our games and stories.
I expect this to cause many players to cancel their subscriptions and turn to *seafaring behavior*. Advertising does not generate profit, creating fans does. Losing fans certainly won't. Do better.
I will lend my voice to the impression that the new homepage is not much of an upgrade, as a first experience for me.
Firstly, the animated background is - in my view - undesirable. It makes it too busy on entry, and it increase the processor requirement - enough so that I can hear my computer's fans starting up when I get there - which is a sure indicator of it being poorly optimized.
Secondly, I think there's a lot of space being wasted, and I have to scroll down to get what I'm actually interested by, which are the News. I think it's an inconvenience to have to do 2 pagedowns to get to content that actually interests me. Not to mention, everything that precedes is old news to me, since I'm already a Master subscriber.
I read in an earlier news post that this tech for the homepage was modular, so, I would recommend that this dashboard enable a degree of customization so that it can be tailored to the user's experience.
Honestly, the most useful part of Dndbeyond is its black menu bar at the top. One big loss to me was the access to individual class spelllists when they were deprecated for larger class/background/species images, [Redacted]. The homepage's prime use for me was seeing news/blogs - losing ready access to something my eyes could quickly pick up is a net loss on any potential activity in the community you could have exposed me too, therefore, less marketing exposure... and if I want news I'll probably just look elsewhere.
I hope you can use this criticism to better serve your clientele. Better service means more clientele, means more money spent here because you're more worth it than elsewhere.
The website is asking me to buy stuff I already purchased, Use an App I Already use, subscribe to the site I already subscribe to and purchase a tier level I already subscribe to.
I miss the old Site. The new one is more advertisement than information.
The fact that it's suggesting I subscribe, and create an account, as a Master Tier subscriber, already logged in, says volumes about how little they care about people reading the homepage.
This feels like Hasbro demanding the site go full sales terminal. As in, a sales terminal at a kiosk, trying to lure new people in only.
It looks EXACTLY like the Taco Bell kiosks that use the software of the app to order food.
The blog posts are nearly at the bottom.
& it feels like it's trying to fish what a chart/graph/LLM/other useless attempts at data-based prognostication said a younger generation would be sold units successfully by. It has VERY "How do you do, fellow gamers" energy as spouted by someone who thinks this will move the stock price & RoI up.
But there isn't enough community outrage left to move the stock price down enough to fix this.
I agree it looks awful and is selling stuff I already own but I'm confused by people complaining about the lack of blogs. Am I the only one seeing a big news section in the middle that has all the recent blogs and news items?
The fact that the GIANT "play D&D" box is above the news tab where the blogposts show up is massively hindering for regular users. I know how to create a character, I know how to play D&D, I want the news on maps VTT, not to try it. I've been using it. I honestly wonder if this design went through ANY user testing. This is making the site easier to leave if nothing else.
I agree it looks awful and is selling stuff I already own but I'm confused by people complaining about the lack of blogs. Am I the only one seeing a big news section in the middle that has all the recent blogs and news items?
Try reading it on a phone device and it's hard to spot unless you're actively looking for it. I have a 32" monitor in landscape mode, and only then does the blog posts appear when you first open the page.
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I think it has been widely agreed that the new Landing page is a hollow nonfunctional advertisement to frequent users, but the worst part - in my opinion - is that the blog posts have been removed entirely.
We already noticed the shift in priorities with blog posts in the last few months, lots of "buy this Partnered Content" or "Play this super specific genre of Partnered Content" type posts that I, personally, couldn't be less interested in, and there being fewer and fewer posts inviting users to get excited about certain subclasses, monsters and special Livestream events/giveaways. However I never imagined the blog being removed entirely and replaced with useless ad space.
The blog writers - probably laid-off, old blog posts - nowhere to be seen. This burning of culture and robbing us of our heroes in the name of greed is exactly the DRACONIC behavior we have spent years combating in our games and stories.
I expect this to cause many players to cancel their subscriptions and turn to *seafaring behavior*. Advertising does not generate profit, creating fans does. Losing fans certainly won't.
Do better.
I will lend my voice to the impression that the new homepage is not much of an upgrade, as a first experience for me.
Firstly, the animated background is - in my view - undesirable. It makes it too busy on entry, and it increase the processor requirement - enough so that I can hear my computer's fans starting up when I get there - which is a sure indicator of it being poorly optimized.
Secondly, I think there's a lot of space being wasted, and I have to scroll down to get what I'm actually interested by, which are the News. I think it's an inconvenience to have to do 2 pagedowns to get to content that actually interests me. Not to mention, everything that precedes is old news to me, since I'm already a Master subscriber.
I read in an earlier news post that this tech for the homepage was modular, so, I would recommend that this dashboard enable a degree of customization so that it can be tailored to the user's experience.
Honestly, the most useful part of Dndbeyond is its black menu bar at the top. One big loss to me was the access to individual class spelllists when they were deprecated for larger class/background/species images, [Redacted]. The homepage's prime use for me was seeing news/blogs - losing ready access to something my eyes could quickly pick up is a net loss on any potential activity in the community you could have exposed me too, therefore, less marketing exposure... and if I want news I'll probably just look elsewhere.
I hope you can use this criticism to better serve your clientele. Better service means more clientele, means more money spent here because you're more worth it than elsewhere.
Thank you for reading.
The homepage lacks any sort of elegance and looks like it was designed for a mall kiosk.
The website is asking me to buy stuff I already purchased, Use an App I Already use, subscribe to the site I already subscribe to and purchase a tier level I already subscribe to.
I miss the old Site. The new one is more advertisement than information.
The fact that it's suggesting I subscribe, and create an account, as a Master Tier subscriber, already logged in, says volumes about how little they care about people reading the homepage.
This feels like Hasbro demanding the site go full sales terminal. As in, a sales terminal at a kiosk, trying to lure new people in only.
It looks EXACTLY like the Taco Bell kiosks that use the software of the app to order food.
The blog posts are nearly at the bottom.
& it feels like it's trying to fish what a chart/graph/LLM/other useless attempts at data-based prognostication said a younger generation would be sold units successfully by. It has VERY "How do you do, fellow gamers" energy as spouted by someone who thinks this will move the stock price & RoI up.
But there isn't enough community outrage left to move the stock price down enough to fix this.
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I agree it looks awful and is selling stuff I already own but I'm confused by people complaining about the lack of blogs. Am I the only one seeing a big news section in the middle that has all the recent blogs and news items?
It's not missing, but you certainly have to go looking for it and scroll down until you get to it. Whereas before it was readily accessible.
The fact that the GIANT "play D&D" box is above the news tab where the blogposts show up is massively hindering for regular users. I know how to create a character, I know how to play D&D, I want the news on maps VTT, not to try it. I've been using it. I honestly wonder if this design went through ANY user testing. This is making the site easier to leave if nothing else.
Try reading it on a phone device and it's hard to spot unless you're actively looking for it. I have a 32" monitor in landscape mode, and only then does the blog posts appear when you first open the page.