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Friends Drawer Improvements in Bedrock

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With the latest Beta & Preview release for Bedrock, players can now find the Friends Drawer in the top right corner of the Main Menu and Game Menu screens, in addition to the Play Screen. We hope this will make it even easier for players to connect and play with their friends.

As always, we're keen to hear your feedback on these changes and how we can improve the Bedrock user experience further. Please let us know what you think in the comments below!

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    I think this is actually worse than how it was before because it doesnt directly show the name of the world you want to join and "friend of friend" option basically has no meaning now. can we revert this one back - or at least change it so we can see name of the multiplayer worlds now? 

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    I want to make some suggestions. Compared with json UI and Ore UI, Ore UI has too few functions. First of all, Ore UI does not display the friend's archive name and friend's version number, which brings trouble to players. The player doesn't know what the friend's version number is. If there is a version difference, friends can't surf the Internet. I want to add Ore UI's suggestion about displaying friends' version numbers. The second point is that Ore UI does not display the name of your friend's archive. Imagine that you can't see your friend's file name when playing, and you can't judge what he is playing, which will also bring some trouble, so please ask the developer to add and display his friend's file name. Thirdly, the color coding support for the "§"character is added in Ore UI, which leads to few default colors in Ore UI. I wish I could add this function back.

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    You should be able to add an invitation option on this page. You can see who invited you, and you can refuse or join the game.

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    It looks terrible, the main menu looks even more cluttered and ugly than it did before.
    Please move it to the bottom, perhaps alongside the profile button.

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    This change rather discourages playing with friends.
    The Realms feature is paid for and only some players use it, and I feel that the old friends tab was by far the easiest to use.
    I think it would be good to separate it from Realms, so why not increase the tabs to four and have a friends tab?
    With a solid name and number of players displayed as well.

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    I prefer the multiplayer world list as it used to be.
    So for me this “friend drawer” is the worst.

    There is a “join” button next to a friend's name, but you can't see who is hosting the world you are joining, the world name, or how many people are joining.

    If the friend drawer doesn't solve that problem, they should add the multiplayer world list as a separate screen.

    The “friend drawer” idea is great, but there must be more improvements to be made. Please consider this.

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    win+rで前のUIだせるよ

    minecraft://openServersTab
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    フレンドのフレンドの機能が削除されたことでフレンド同士の交流が少なくなり、いずれマイクラをプレイヤーする人が減少すると思います
    旧フォームとまではいかなくとも、フレンドのフレンドの機能は戻してほしいです

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    フレンドのフレンドの機能が削除されたことでフレンド同士の交流が少なくなり、いずれマイクラをプレイする人が減ると思います旧
    フォームとまではいかなくとも、フレンドのフレンドの機能は戻ってほしいです

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    Hi, I am translating at deepl, so I apologize if there are any funny points.
    The new UI friend view is very confusing to use and a new friend tab needs to be added in addition to world, realms and servers.
    I would like the new friend tab to show the world name, version and number of participants.

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    The friend’s drawer should be removed from the Title Screen/Main Menu. If not removed, then its location should be adjusted.

    It not only clutters up the Title Screen, but it also breaks the established UX design pattern where all buttons and options appear under the Minecraft logo. This change also causes issues with splash text being incorrectly aligned on the logo which breaks parity with Java.

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    change it back please, its very useful and important seeing the version, player count, and world name.