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Re:Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs ru... by dataminded on Monday October 19, 2020 @06:34PM (#24831779)
Hey!

I've been a user on the site for about two weeks. I'm hopeful that you'll succeed. Currently my group maintains a discord community that helps us find players and connect with vetted DMs.

Can you please un-SPA your site? It's really hard to use and the current use pattern is to find a DM and move the discussion off your site as quickly as possible.

- The infinite scroll feature makes it really hard and slow to find DMs. - The site doesn't let you open a DM's profile in a separate tab which forces you to lose your place whenever you visit a DM's profile - The profile summaries are unhelpfully inconsistent/dishonest (Professional for 80 years, Hosted over 1M games, etc.) The profiles can't be true and make any sorting/filtering impossible. - The DM's platforms and supported games aren't on the find a DM page. - The DM profiles lack structure and rich content features. Please add a native video embed so that we can see videos/clips. Most DM's offer that by linking to their twitch/youtube properties. Make the profile fields less generic. -- DNDBeyond content share? -- Roll20 content share? -- Audio provider? Discord/Roll20/Zoom -- vtt supported? Roll20/FantasyGrounds/etc

Looking forward to seeing where you go and excited for your success.

Re:Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs ru... by devonchulick on Monday October 19, 2020 @06:43PM (#24831847)
Hi Dataminded! Yes! This is something we have all talked about as future optimizations for the best user experience. We'll be changing a lot of our buttons over to links first. We plan to change how our GM search functions to make it easier to see a number of GM's at a glance as well, and probably moving to paginate those pages. These additional ideas for the profile are fantastic, and I will be adding them to our optimization list for profiles! Thank you so much!
Re:Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs ru... by blakewatson on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @12:33AM (#24833950)
I came here to say the same thing. :) I also wish I could see the hourly rate in the search results or at least in the profile (it seems like you have to click "Book..." currently).