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Let's talk about the new Minecraft Launcher Home Page!

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In the official Minecraft Launcher, we have just released a new feature under the “experimental” banner: The New Home Page.  

This new Home Page aims to be your basecamp into the Minecraft experience on PC. Here, you can do all the most basic Launcher functionality, from launching games, to accessing Quick Play, to finding out News about what’s going on in the world Minecraft.

If you want to give it a try, go into the Launcher’s “General” Settings tab, scroll down to the “Experimental Features” section, and click the “Enable HomePage” option. Once you do, your “News” section will change to the brand new “Home” layout.  

We would love to hear your feedback as we continue fine-tuning the Home Page. We want to know what you think and how this works for you, so please feel free to add your comments and thoughts under this post. Along with your general feedback, we also have some specific questions we’d like you to consider: 

  • What do you find useful about the new Home Page? 
  • Are there any key functionalities you feel are missing? 
  • Does anything feel like it’s in the wrong place? 
  • Was anything you’re used to accessing difficult to find? 
  • Is there anything you see here that you don’t think you need? 

Please let us know your feedback, thoughts, ideas and suggestions the comments! 

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    looks nice!

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    1: I would like if you could change skins in the home for all games

    2: the Pre-Releases look kind of wide

    3 Would like to see a wallpaper or something for the home

    But it looks great, you guys did a great job!

    Keep up the GREAT work!

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    i love it but there should be a play button (for dungeons, legends, java and bedrock) because the only way you get the ability to play in home is the quick play feature

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    I feel like the big box should have a smoother animation when switching between articles and a bar showing you the time left before the article scrolls to the next one, as well as dots indicating how many articles are going to be scrolled through. I'm not sure if I worded this right but basically look at any other game with a similar box and you'll understand. Also, I feel like the little boxes to the right could use some improvement. They should be a bit bigger/wider and should constantly show the title, not only when it scrolls to it. Also, I feel like a brief description would be nice instead of just a title. Maybe the first paragraph or something?

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    The New Launcher seems nice, here are my thoughts:

    - The play button seems a bit small, maybe make it bigger. 

    - The tabs on the side don't look like tabs, it could be made more obvious they are clickable tabs

    - The thumbnails for articles are stretched, and they are too small for my personal preference. I think they should be bigger

    - The white outline provides too much contrast, it looks better without it

    - A lot of the spacing is uneven.

    - The big thumbnails have low quality/resolution.

    - The filters UI definitely could be improved


    Also, I see other people suggesting there be some sort of community forum and server list. Personally I disagree with this. I support the idea of adding links to official minecraft communities, but I don't think having one implemented straight into the launcher is a good idea.


    Overall I think this new UI needs some improvement. I prefer the old one over this one, but I understand that this is in development so things can only change for the better. 

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    It's very nice. I think there is every feature is perfect

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    I love the new homepage, but I wish that the display for the info of the pictures could be smaller, but it looks great otherwise.

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    Just checked out this new launcher page - it looks great! However, there are some ideas I suggest you look into:

    1. The centered layout of the Quick Play / Play Minecraft buttons is great and brand new. However, these buttons are way too small compared to the rest of the home page. The text in the version button is barely readable. It needs to be upsized.
    2. The font has been the same, shifted off from the Java/Bedrock pages, but I think it would be a great time to use a more Minecraft-y font in some more places. Currently it's only used for large titles, but it should be used at least a bit more.
    3. The new sidebar showing more news needs a lot of work. The description texts need to be much smaller so that the entire description is visible. And it has to be centered - it's currently at the top of the box and isn't as visually pleasing.
    4. Add more animations! When shifting from one sidebar news to another, make the news at least slide from one to another, or even fade. It's abrupt when it moves from one to another so suddenly.
    5. Last, rename Minecraft for Windows into Minecraft: Bedrock Edition. It makes no sense - we have three more playable Minecraft games in Windows, and it will also fit in nicely with Minecraft: Java Edition.

    Now, as for my suggested features, it would be great if you added tabs for easier, direct access to the Minecraft Feedback Website (feedback.minecraft.net), Bug Report Website (bugs.minecraft.net), and Help Center (help.minecraft.net). This may be enough.

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    I love the classic layout of the home page and I will miss it and I'm sure many people will be mad about this change but I have to be honest this looks a lot more modern and I can't wait to see it come out of experimental.

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    yes, its very good idea but it could use a lot of work. When I looked at the Launcher for the first time i was overwhelmed because there was sooo much clutter on my screen. I had to take so time to understand what was what which is a very big downside. the news section is just way too big and takes up too much space. I can personally say that although people no read MC news the don't do it very often and unless there is a snapshot or a major update. I like that the quickplay screen looks better but having the play button next to it and all the icons being incredibly small is kind of bad. The way the normal launcher has the play button is much better. The news panel at the bottom is better but it would be better if there was some space between the play button are and news because that just looks so much cleaner. 

    All in all, its a decent concept btu with a little bit of work here and there to make it clutter free and easy to use I would gladly have this become my default homepage, 

     

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    Honestly I don't see the point in changing the launcher again, it seems just fine as it is right now.

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    可以跟forge合作吗 自己去单独加mod真的烦：（

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    Could You please make classic skin for the launcher?
    I'm not the biggest fan of the new art style, but I really appreciate new functions such as Quick Play. Very useful feature :)

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    it... it didn't launch my forge 1.19.2 in the homepage tho

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    I don't like the idea of having the play button at the top of the screen. Plus, this gave me an idea of adding our own images to the front page for customization. Let there be a customize button to move stuff around or add our own photo gallery.

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    This new launcher is really cool and beautiful, but I think the old one is better, besides the launcher has been like this, the same way for years. It's like the earth block background when you go to the game options. Minecraft removed that, and I think changing the launcher style wouldn't be so cool, at least for now.

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    no im not so sure about this one

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    I like the concept of bringing the game aesthetics into the launcher, however I wish the play button were bigger and in the center as opposed to at the top. The images for the tabs are blurry. I wish the search bar and the play button were swapped, it makes more sense for a search bar to be at the top similar to a web browser. 

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    So I actually don't like this one, and I think that I can speak for alot of the minecraft community when I say that having a thumbnail for each game or version of the game would be very good to keep. Also it is my personal opinoin that each game should have its own part of the launcher that changes the look of the launcher entirely! But other than that it looks ok 6/10

     

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    why under the search bar every ver. & snapshot is so stretchy?

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    it looks alright, definately not stretch out the thumbnails under the search bar, maybe get rid of the search bar because who is going to use it? next make it cleaner, dont just clutter the front page with too much info, people want to use the launcher to play the game not to read news. Also the big text box is too big in my opinion, make it be like a pop-up as a notification like as if you got an error, and add a bit of texture into the "PLAY" button, looks kinda bad when its just bland white. I think thats all to be honest

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    Cool home page

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    129

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    i like it

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    It looks ok I guess. It doesn't seem to serve any purpose though.

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    amazing idea

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    Es una buena interfaz, espectacular. Saludos desde Ecuador 

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    Not a big fan of the home page. 

    1. When I open the Launcher, my intention is to launch a game. I don't really care about News, or ads, or anything other than Java Edition. I will never play any of the other editions. It would be really nice to be able to hide everything for editions I will never play.

    2. Don't care about Quick Play either. I turned it off pretty quickly after it was introduced. I am perfectly capable of selecting the game I want from a list.

    3. In the existing Launcher, the Play button is nice and large. And the currently selected game version is easy to see and change. In the new home page, these are much smaller and it's difficult to see which version is going to be launched. I have active games in several different versions and I need to be able to see which one is selected when I'm looking at the launcher. There's no reason for the buttons to be so squashed together. There is plenty of room for them.

    For me, the old version is better. 

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    Gostei da nova página inicial, somente a parte onde está as notícias que me incomodou um pouco no canto inferior esquerdo, ao invés desse cinza escuro, ela poderiam ser um pouco translucida.

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    This simply feels unnecessary, I don't see what the point in changing the launcher is when its already so simple and easy to use. If this does get added I sincerely hope they add/keep a option to use the current one, as appose to forcing everyone to use the new look.