More prominently display games "Looking for players"
I had a hard time finding the link to browse through games marked "Looking for players".
On the home/root page, after I logged in, there is a prominantly displayed button that says, "Browse", but the link takes me to the default "Featured" Filter.
I am embarrassed to admit that it was not immediately obvious to me that I needed to click another link (the one leading to the "Looking for players" filter) to get to the results I wanted.
Perhaps a new styling of those filter links on the /games page?
Perhaps a few more links on the home page to other filters?
My favorite solution would be a separate, parallel click-and-drop-down menu in the main site's navbar listing all the filters. To left of my username's navbar menu, a menu labeled "Browse", which when clicked would drop-down a list of links to "Featured", "Most favorited", "Recent activity", "Newly started", and "Looking for players". This options is the most intuitive to me - I spent a while looking for just such a menu all over the site!
Definitely a mention in the player's section of the Help pages would be helpful.
Errin
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Jonathan Lawn
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Currently, there are three ways I know of to try to find a game.
- Checking each new item in Forums->Looking for players
- Scanning down Browse->Looking for players
- Slack channel "Will to play"These are dispersed and each involve a number of clicks. How about a unified experience with less clicks.
- Add "Looking for players" button on the front page
- This leads to the current "looking for players" list (currently off the Browse button)
but the page is augmented with a link to the "looking for players" forum and an open commentary thread (which hopefully might replace the Slack channel, or you could just have a link to the Slack channel, with the appropriate disclaimer!).