Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1ui8ibd/comment/ovhesw1/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1uobs2c/comment/ovrpzgk/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1uoh2sp/comment/ovsf3rq/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1up6hza/comment/ow46dvt/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1up6hza/comment/ow46itx/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1urlyjk/comment/owiq1t3/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1urvbkb/comment/owt7i4o/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1up2bdf/comment/ovws96i/
https://www.reddit.com/r/onednd/comments/1uq0o7u/comment/ow4g163/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1urybfw/comment/owkbxih/
https://www.reddit.com/r/gencon/comments/1urxky8/comment/owkfoc9/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1upgyy9/comment/ow0k6qa/
Thanks for Porting these over.
He/Him. Loooooooooong time Player.
The Dark days of the THAC0 system are behind us.
"Hope is a fire that burns in us all If only an ember, awaiting your call
To rise up in triumph should we all unite
The spark for change is yours to ignite."
Kalandra - The State of the World
I agree. It seems mad to me that multiple staff members post on Reddit, yet we can't even get the Community Manager to interact on their own forums. Especially with things like AMA's, I can understand that it might be easier to run them on Reddit, but someone from DDB should be compiling the answers to post here, either as a news post or here in the forums.
Thanks you for putting in the effort that DDB can't be bothered with.
Precisely. There's value in using Reddit for this, the format is better for an AMA, but that they don't also display all of that (or even effectively advertise that it's coming up) on their own site is a staff failure on DDB's part.
It's also worth noting that WotC staff participate near-exclusively on /r/dndbeyond and /r/onednd, ignoring much larger communities like /r/dndnext or /r/dnd.
It's another of those things that continues to make modern D&D feel like it's designed solely for a small minority of players.
Framing it as "WotC staff" is a little misleading, it's almost exclusively people from the D&D Beyond team with the exception of u/latiajacquise and u/DnD_CommunityTeam. Which makes participation on r/dndbeyond seem fairly self explanatory for everyone except the two community focused accounts. In fact with the exception of u/GrandPyromania, the DDB staff seem to exclusively post on the DDB subreddit, which makes perfect sense. I do see a few posts in other subreddits, including r/vtt and r/dndnext, but it's mainly r/dndbeyond.
As for r/onednd vs r/dndnext, it's only u/GrandPyromania who is actively posting there and it seems to be them engaging with topics that pertain to the 2024 rules. So this doesn't seem to be D&D Beyond/WotC ignoring communities and instead them posting where it makes sense or engaging in personal discussions.
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So it's a.) people who are specifically WotC staff and b.) DDB staff, who by extension are WotC staff. Don't try to obsfucate.
Furthermore, since you're citing /u/latiajacquise, she posted the recent video on the Villainous UA solely in the /r/dndbeyond and /r/onednd subreddits—not a single post in /r/dnd or /r/dndnext about them. Are those communities uninterested in D&D and the designers' insights?
As people have already noted, there's very little DDB/WotC staff interaction here on the official forums and most of it is restricted to a handful of subreddits. If they interact solely with specific communities, then they're getting a very narrow view of what players think about the game—and what players want from the game. Especially now, when we're firmly at a point where a significant portion of the playerbase feels the designers don't care at all about their enjoyment of the game.
I wasn't trying to obfuscate, I was trying to point out it was DDB staff talking about DDB stuff on the DDB subreddit, not general WotC staff talking about general D&D stuff. That's a non-trivial difference that recontextualizes it from "ignoring the community" to "posting topics where they belong"
Those would be the perfect subreddits to post it, given it's hosted on D&D Beyond and it's content for 5.5e which is what the r/onednd subreddit is dedicated to. Again, posting topics where they belong.The forums aren't a great place for community interaction because the reach is narrower—a fraction (forum users) of a fraction (D&D Beyond users)—and isn't great for rapid interaction. Reddit on the other hand, with it's threaded posting and wider reach, would give a much better ROI on time invested as far as community interaction goes. The forums aren't special, they're a clunky little niche. And if the argument some people have is "I don't use reddit", well I can assure you there more people using reddit that'd say "I don't use D&D Beyond".
As for restricting it to a handful of subreddits, they're restricting it to the subreddits where the posts are relevant. DDB content to the DDB subreddit, 5.5e to r/onednd. If you also look, LaTia posts GenCon stuff to the GenCon subreddit for example. Also there's the fact that the community cross posts the relevant stuff to other subreddits—I've regularly seen r/dndbeyond posts cross-posted to r/dnd and r/dndnext. Although I will say the reactions on the former are typically very negative, so that might be a contributing factor why that's not an area they engage.
The DDB staff and WotC community staff are posting in the right places, rather than just spamming stuff everywhere or where it might get ignored.
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The D&D Beyond Staff, who are what I'm posting about, are almost always within the r/dndbeyond subreddit. LaTiaJacquise does some inside the r/onednd subreddit but a lot of that is in the realm of community management and customer support. WOTC_Zac does sometimes post new features in other subreddits for visibility, but again, they're all D&D Beyond staff.
I'm not reposting the reddit accounts of Justice Armand or Mackenzie de Armas etc because that's not relevant to D&D Beyond.
The points being made are why I conceded that Reddit is a better forum for this purpose. Again, it's still the case that communicating that these events will be happening to D&D Beyond would make for more effective communication.
So, let me get this straight.
They only post on /r/dndbeyond and /r/onednd and not the larger ones, but don't post here, the actual D&D forums, about D&DBeyond issues, but it is logical to exclude the D&DBeyond forums, because "Not everyone uses D&DBeyond?"
Can we see the contradictions here? When it comes to D&DBeyond issues, wouldn't the forums be the best place to also post about it?
The Forums for the thing that those posts are about. The place where, y'know, the news would matter most.
I can get posting there about D&DBeyond issues as a method for luring in more use to the service, but to just exclude THE PEOPLE ALREADY HERE, does seem a little like negligence.
Can we not rely solely on Perringaiden to stay abreast of progress on development progress for THIS SITE?
Either that or pay them.
He/Him. Loooooooooong time Player.
The Dark days of the THAC0 system are behind us.
"Hope is a fire that burns in us all If only an ember, awaiting your call
To rise up in triumph should we all unite
The spark for change is yours to ignite."
Kalandra - The State of the World
That's not what I said. I said it's logical to invest time interacting through the community through a platform better suited to interaction (rather than discussion) with bigger reach. My point about people not using D&D Beyond was not a justification for focusing on reddit, it was a rebuttal of the sentiment that I've seen where people have used their non-use of reddit as a reason for prioritising the forums—more people use reddit and don't use DDB than use DDB and don't use reddit.
There's no contradiction, just misrepresentation. Also DDB issues aren't exclusively shared/raised through reddit, they're raised on the discord server and here when the issue is persistent enough that it makes sense to use a slow-moving forum.
Follow the changelog
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Changelog doesn't show AMAs or the answers given, so that's a non-answer.
No, I was only addressing the point of progress on site development, which is what the changelog is for
I'm pretty sure "formal" AMAs are announced on the forums even if they're hosted elsewhere on more suitable platforms.
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The changelog only shows what has already been fixed or added. It doesn't include anything about what they're working on or what they have planned. For that you have to go to an external site (or rely on Perringaidens's posts). Why are you acting as if it's unreasonable to expect their community support team to crosspost information to their own site? A simple summary of the AMA questions and answers should have been in a newspost on the front page within a day or two.
As far as I can see only one of the two AMA's were announced on the forum, and only the day before. Otherwise the only announcements that I'm aware of is small mentions within other general news posts. They've not exactly made an effort to make them visible to users on the website or forums.
Oh, then you want the roadmap. Both the changelog and roadmap are accessible from the Community tab of the menu.
Not necessarily, as I've shown. It's documented on the site.
Never said it's unreasonable, that seems like a mischaracterization of what I've said in pursuit of invalidating my opinion, although I am neither surprised or perturbed by this. What I've said is that I see the logic in using reddit as an engagement platform due to being better designed to function as one compared to the forums, and the forums providing a poor ROI on the finite time the community team has to interact with the community. The forums are not (IMO) an effective tool for shallow/wide engagement and is much more suited for narrow/deep engagement. The forums are a clunky tool with poor reach.
This seems to demonstrate a misunderstanding of how the community team engages on reddit and furthers my point about the logic in using it as an engagement tool. Just look at the quotes provided—sans context they do not relay much useful information and it's almost always more advisable to actually read the short interactions at the source.
Okay?
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It would be nice to hear from the community team themselves their reasoning for doing it the way they do.
He/Him. Loooooooooong time Player.
The Dark days of the THAC0 system are behind us.
"Hope is a fire that burns in us all If only an ember, awaiting your call
To rise up in triumph should we all unite
The spark for change is yours to ignite."
Kalandra - The State of the World
Zac, at least, pretty reguarly gives the equivalent of AMA answers to questions people ask.
And I've found that my support issues are addressed there within hours, vs never being responded to here.