2020 Design Questionnaire

TappedOut forum

Posted on April 8, 2020, 10:45 p.m. by yeaGO

UI/UX design questionnaire: TappedOut.net

  1. What prompted you to create an account and start using TappedOut?

  2. What do you mainly use TappedOut for?

  3. Tell us about a time when you were using our website and it was a challenge to complete your task? What were you trying to accomplish and what about it was difficult?

  4. What’s your favorite features of TappedOut? Name 2-3 features you enjoy the most.

  5. What’s your least favorite feature of TappedOut? What about that feature makes it less enjoyable?

  6. How often do you visit our website from your mobile device?

  7. Tell us about a time you visited TappedOut on your mobile device and it was frustrating to use. What did you want to do and what about it was frustrating?

  8. How can we make using TappedOut better for you? Name 2-3 improvements we could make.


Thanks a lot. Feel free to answer these questions via the contact form if you would rather not put them here for some reason. Also bear in mind that the goal of this questionnaire is to discuss the design and usability

Caerwyn says... #2

What prompted you to create an account and start using TappedOut?

  • The deckbuilding feature, particularly the built-in tools like average mana cost and ability to sort the lists using a number of different criteria (including custom criteria).

What do you mainly use TappedOut for?

  • Looking at deck lists and providing advice, posting on the forums, answering questions on Rules Q&A, and reading articles (when they are posted).

Tell us about a time when you were using our website and it was a challenge to complete your task? What were you trying to accomplish and what about it was difficult?

  • Sometimes the webpage loads slowly, and there have historically been issues when saving decks. This can be quite frustrating when the system crashes, undoing significant time investments.

What’s your favorite features of TappedOut? Name 2-3 features you enjoy the most.

  • Deckbuilding feature and tools, Rules Q&A, and the articles section.

What’s your least favorite feature of TappedOut? What about that feature makes it less enjoyable?

  • Issues with deckbuilding tool

How often do you visit our website from your mobile device?

  • On a daily basis.

Tell us about a time you visited TappedOut on your mobile device and it was frustrating to use. What did you want to do and what about it was frustrating?

  • I would say the mobile site works about as well as the regular one. It has the same issues, but still generally works better and is more user-friendly than dedicated mobile versions tend to.

How can we make using TappedOut better for you? Name 2-3 improvements we could make.

  • Fix issues with deckbuilding side of things. I also see a lot of people who do not know that links/images have to be manually enabled for each account, since that is not well publicized--maybe there could be some dedicated place where people can make that request. Convince more people to write articles (I know that's not a IO/UX design issue, just mentioning it).

Hope some of that helps!

April 8, 2020 11 p.m.

SynergyBuild says... #3

What prompted you to create an account and start using TappedOut?

  • I made an account soon after coming back since this seemed to have one of the best communities for modern at the time, but stayed for the rest of the communities, specifically commander. It also has a really good playtesting system.

What do you mainly use TappedOut for?

  • I use it to deck build, playtest, and chat a lot with cool people here!

Tell us about a time when you were using our website and it was a challenge to complete your task? What were you trying to accomplish and what about it was difficult?

  • It was difficult to talk about leaks multiple times because I know there are rules against discussing them. I've gotten used to it, but I am okay with it all, otherwise, the new mulligan rule is a little weird with the whole thing.

What’s your favorite features of TappedOut? Name 2-3 features you enjoy the most.

  • Playtesting, Forums, and Deckbuilding for sure! Chat is pretty sweet too, and commenting I'd count with forums.

What’s your least favorite feature of TappedOut? What about that feature makes it less enjoyable?

  • The Community feature seems kind of useless, and a bit of a really small page for a whole tab, when draft simulation, card building, and more are huge things under the same amount. I mean, I've been on it, it's cool, but I feel like more can be added to it to make higher ranks special, or remove it as a whole tab to make using the website more clean.

How often do you visit our website from your mobile device?

  • Pretty often, probably around 8-20 times a week, depending on how active I am, but it depends a lot, I may be underestimating this number.

Tell us about a time you visited TappedOut on your mobile device and it was frustrating to use. What did you want to do and what about it was frustrating?

  • There have been a couple of issues with advertisements a while ago, but it's been great since, I mean, playtesting is difficult to impossible, since I can't click on a card, it just starts to drag it, but I love the rest!

How can we make using TappedOut better for you? Name 2-3 improvements we could make.

  • The main improvements would be to add something special to the community members or clean it up more, to add playtesting features to mobile and changing mulligans on it, as well as perhaps an explanation of the whole event thing, I never understood it :p
April 8, 2020 11:06 p.m.

LordBlackblade says... #4

What prompted you to create an account and start using TappedOut?

  • I was looking for someplace to keep my decklists and inventories that I could easily acess and was user friendly.

What do you mainly use TappedOut for?

  • I primarily use the site to keep track of my collection and tinker with my deck lists. I also enjoy seeing what others have come up with. On occasion the forums can be engaging as well.

Tell us about a time when you were using our website and it was a challenge to complete your task? What were you trying to accomplish and what about it was difficult?

  • The only thing that springs to mind was a few years ago when I was trying to update my binder/inventory at the time to keep track of cards I wanted to get and I had some issues syncing the two. This has been resolved in the intervening time (to my knowledge).

What’s your favorite features of TappedOut? Name 2-3 features you enjoy the most.

  • Definitely the deckbuilder. I thoroughly enjoy good articles as well.

What’s your least favorite feature of TappedOut? What about that feature makes it less enjoyable?

  • Maybe the user ranks? It's not a huge deal, but I don't feel that they accurately represent who the "movers and shakers" are among users. That's purely my interpretation of course.

How often do you visit our website from your mobile device?

  • At least once a day, though I prefer to use my PC.

Tell us about a time you visited TappedOut on your mobile device and it was frustrating to use. What did you want to do and what about it was frustrating?

  • Not really a site problem, but coding on a phone is a nightmare. Trying to tag users/cards/etc. is not as easy as on a PC.

How can we make using TappedOut better for you? Name 2-3 improvements we could make.

  • I'm a proponent of more tutorials for things for example fixing cards. I've learned decently enough how to do it, but someone who is a real pro showing their process would be nice. There are more features on the site than are at first apparent, and guides are always appreciated (not that some don't currently exist) I also want to second more article writing for sure!
April 9, 2020 12:07 a.m.

Femme_Fatale says... #5

What prompted you to create an account and start using TappedOut?

  • It was what popped up during a google search 8 years ago.


What do you mainly use TappedOut for?

  • The playtester.


Tell us about a time when you were using our website and it was a challenge to complete your task? What were you trying to accomplish and what about it was difficult?

  • Ability to explore alters, custom cards or combos. There's very little if any at all, methods of mass exploration of these three features on the site.


What’s your favorite features of TappedOut? Name 2-3 features you enjoy the most.

  • Playtester, draft sim, live editor.


What’s your least favorite feature of TappedOut? What about that feature makes it less enjoyable?

  • Combos. It's misused way too much so there's a lot of data that isn't useful at all.


How often do you visit our website from your mobile device?

  • Zero, I do not have a mobile device to crawl through tappedout.


Tell us about a time you visited TappedOut on your mobile device and it was frustrating to use. What did you want to do and what about it was frustrating?

  • It requires A LOT of scrolling. Hoping things can be compressed more into two columns.


How can we make using TappedOut better for you? Name 2-3 improvements we could make.

  • Better forum organization, names and subforum descriptions. Tutorials and/or descriptions on how to use the many features of the site. Being able to find and learn the existence of the many features of the site easily.
April 9, 2020 12:30 a.m.

enpc says... #6

What prompted you to create an account and start using TappedOut?

  • deck builder feature, still one of the best out there.

What do you mainly use TappedOut for?

  • deck tinkering, commander forum discussions

Tell us about a time when you were using our website and it was a challenge to complete your task? What were you trying to accomplish and what about it was difficult?

  • trying to find old comments that have been archieved within an update is difficult since you have to go the update page and then click on the comments section and then filter through pages and pages of comments.

What’s your favorite features of TappedOut? Name 2-3 features you enjoy the most.

  • As mentioned, the deck builder is one of the strongest that I have seen out there.

  • rules Q&A is good (and keeps each rule question from becoming a separate thread).

What’s your least favorite feature of TappedOut? What about that feature makes it less enjoyable?

  • the inability to disable custom css for a deck temporarily. There are many decks where I can barely read the cards and the charts don't work, but I don't want to disable css for all decks.

  • sometimes clicking on the charts doesn't work properly in highlighting cards. This is particularly true when viewing on mobile.

How often do you visit our website from your mobile device?

  • regular basis, at least once per day

Tell us about a time you visited TappedOut on your mobile device and it was frustrating to use. What did you want to do and what about it was frustrating?

  • sometimes when viewing on mobile, an object will force the page not to snap to the dimensions of the screen. This then means that the dropdown menu is off the side of the page.

How can we make using TappedOut better for you? Name 2-3 improvements we could make.

  • have a setting to default view a deck via your preferred sort method (as a user setting). Too many times I go to a deck page sorted by custom categories which are so unusable I have to re-sort the list anyway. (you could have a notification that you're viewing not as the deck provider's default sort order if you wanted to know if custom catergoies were enabled).

  • ability to turn css off temporarily for a deck.

  • being able to load comments which have been archived without having to click to a different screen. Also, having a comments control panel (like scroll to end/scroll to deck buttons). Especially helpful on mobile.

April 9, 2020 3:33 a.m.

DrukenReaps says... #7

1) What prompted you to create an account and start using TappedOut?

...That was like 3-ish years ago according to the website... Heck if I know.

2) What do you mainly use TappedOut for?

Theory building these days. So many decks on my profile I've never built. Saves me a lot of money, lol.

3) Tell us about a time when you were using our website and it was a challenge to complete your task? What were you trying to accomplish and what about it was difficult?

The only thing that usually proves to be a challenge on this site is leaving comments. I'd say more often than any other website I get disconnections. Usually happens when I hit 'preview your comment' and then the next page says it can't reach the website.

4) What’s your favorite features of TappedOut? Name 2-3 features you enjoy the most.

Easy to use deck builder and simple navigation of the forums.

5) What’s your least favorite feature of TappedOut? What about that feature makes it less enjoyable?

The card search function. I'd like to have something that feels easier to use like scryfall. I don't find the website pulling up a list of every card when I hit 'card search' particularly useful. Maybe just go straight to the 'advanced search' instead?

6) How often do you visit our website from your mobile device?

Once every 3 or 4 days I'd guess.

7) Tell us about a time you visited TappedOut on your mobile device and it was frustrating to use. What did you want to do and what about it was frustrating?

I don't really do much when I visit on my phone. I've got the thumbs of an Ape so I usually just peruse my own decks. If I want to say anything I'll wait until I get on a computer. This in no way reflects on the website. Just me.

8) How can we make using TappedOut better for you? Name 2-3 improvements we could make.

I don't know the cause of being unable to reach the website on occasion but if it is possible to fix that I feel it should be a top priority. It happens so much more often with this one than with anything else I use.

Being able to opt out of the craziness that some people design for their deck pages would be nice from time to time. Some of them even cause my home computer to load rather slowly or are really hard to read...

April 9, 2020 5:16 a.m.

Boza says... #8

What prompted you to create an account and start using TappedOut?

The interconnectedness of the site. Everything is linked to everything else and the site is a one-stop shop for MTG content, by far the best forum I have been on.

What do you mainly use TappedOut for?

The forums and maintaining a library for decks.

Tell us about a time when you were using our website and it was a challenge to complete your task? What were you trying to accomplish and what about it was difficult?

Though I do not know how to improve it, and the error is probably in me, I have a difficult time viewing singleton 100 card decks and making any sense of it. I do not think the site's UI is the best for viewing them, though custom categories have helped a lot.

What’s your favorite features of TappedOut? Name 2-3 features you enjoy the most.

Article writing, the chatroom and best of all, the card linking system that works the same for decks and users.

What’s your least favorite feature of TappedOut? What about that feature makes it less enjoyable?

Probably css customizations of deck pages. Most if not all feel like I am blinding myself when I open them. The checkmark in the settings seems to be doing something, but not all customization is removed.

How often do you visit our website from your mobile device?

I rarely choose to do so. This site is overflowing with information that a small screen squishes and makes it a bit harder to view.

Tell us about a time you visited TappedOut on your mobile device and it was frustrating to use. What did you want to do and what about it was frustrating?

The layout is well translated to mobile, but it is a bit frustrating to navigate. Everything is one long column that you have scroll down through. Makes it time consuming to find the thing on say a user profile that I am looking for.

How can we make using TappedOut better for you? Name 2-3 improvements we could make.

This site has so many features, that I need a comprehensive list of them to really remember some of the ones I do not use regularly.

However, if I have to name some improvements:

  • A system message column on the homescreen - threads like this will get buried in a couple of days by new content. So I suggest making another box with links to important topics like this one, similar to the one for articles.

  • In the same vein - a coordinated forum for site help. Maintaining such a large database is not a simple job. So a coordinated thread where people can sign up for DB help, ask for assitance and coordinate will be appreciated.

  • Forums - chief among them - poll creation capabilities. I think that a lot of threads can use that capability and it will greatly enhance user experience. There are some others, but best to limit myself.

April 9, 2020 5:51 a.m.

smackjack says... #9

I do a short version: I like the deckbuilder, playtester (v1) and deckcycling function. I dislike that the page sometimes is pretty slow. Mobile works well. The fixed ad on the bottom of the screen is annoying as hell.

Suggestion: More interactive playtester. I realize playtesting against other users is a legal problem, but maybe some automated actions? Like a simple random event generator that displays messages like "your opponent wipes the board". These events are turn based, like on turn 5 there are X% chance your opponent boardwipes.

April 9, 2020 6:57 a.m.

abby315 says... #10

What prompted you to create an account and start using TappedOut?

  • It was the most popular and easiest to use deckbuilding site when I started playing about 6 years ago. Recommended to me by some friends for workshopping lists. Stayed for the community and the interesting brews; it's what makes me excited about MTG nowadays.

What do you mainly use TappedOut for?

  • Brewing decks and seeing what other people are coming up with. It's the best place to be during previews; I feel like it's the only community where everyone gets excited about the cards and new possibilities.

Tell us about a time when you were using our website and it was a challenge to complete your task? What were you trying to accomplish and what about it was difficult?

  • The ad slowdown of ~2017 was the only time I really remember having issues with the site. The other small issue that comes up is knowing where everything is. Now that I'm extremely used to the site I know where all of my favorite features are and can get there quickly, but I don't feel the various features are weighted or nested in an intuitive way.

What’s your favorite features of TappedOut? Name 2-3 features you enjoy the most.

  • 100% the deckcycling. No other decklist site for any game I play allows me to constantly see new, interesting lists. It's also the most democratic system I've come across because it doesn't feature decks only by pros or by popular streamers.
  • I also love the custom list categories and Visual Deck Editor.

What’s your least favorite feature of TappedOut? What about that feature makes it less enjoyable?

  • The various ways to choose custom/alter/alt printings in your deck. It takes a long time to sift through alter codes, or upload your own. Can there be a way to upload your own image when you add a card or something similar? I hate having to go to a different database.

How often do you visit our website from your mobile device?

  • Probably about 20% of the time I'm on the site, or about once a week. I mostly use it to see frontpage decks, check notifications, and check the forums.

Tell us about a time you visited TappedOut on your mobile device and it was frustrating to use. What did you want to do and what about it was frustrating?

  • I actually think it works really well for a mobile site. Most things work the same way they do on PC. The playtester doesn't work, but I wouldn't want to playtest on my phone anyway - too small.

How can we make using TappedOut better for you? Name 2-3 improvements we could make.

  • Make the most-used features more prominent and find a good system of organization for the rest. I think there should be much more emphasis on the Create Deck link; right now it's hidden in the folder icon or under Deck Builder, which is really more of a deck search tab.

  • Better organization for the forums, it's hard to find what I want.

  • I really like the frontpage layout. I think it's a great example of the most-used features all in one place: decks, comments, forums, and articles.

April 9, 2020 9:04 a.m. Edited.

Icbrgr says... #11

What prompted you to create an account and start using TappedOut?

  • This is a playground for brewing and getting deck ideas.

What do you mainly use TappedOut for?

  • playtesting decks to make sure they are satisfactory before buying them IRL.... stroking my ego with receiving upvotes.

Tell us about a time when you were using our website and it was a challenge to complete your task? What were you trying to accomplish and what about it was difficult?

  • Sometimes trying to link decks with a large deck slug just doesn't wanna work in the ADVERTISE YOUR __ DECK! Forums.

  • every once in a while ads will pop up over buttons in the playtester making it unusable.... but this is seldom.

What’s your favorite features of TappedOut? Name 2-3 features you enjoy the most.

  • playtester

  • seeing my virtual decklist broken down into catagories and hovering my mouse over cards to see them.

  • searching hubs/specific cards for other/silmilar decks to compare and contrast via score/recent ect ect.

What’s your least favorite feature of TappedOut? What about that feature makes it less enjoyable?

How often do you visit our website from your mobile device?

  • daily

Tell us about a time you visited TappedOut on your mobile device and it was frustrating to use. What did you want to do and what about it was frustrating?

  • sometimes custom CSS coding doesn't display deck pages properly.

How can we make using TappedOut better for you? Name 2-3 improvements we could make.

  • I think the most room for improvement is with the site is the PLAYTESTER .... it would be nice/neat if you could have "an opponent deck"
April 9, 2020 10:49 a.m.

Magnanimous says... #12

  1. I wanted to store decklists.

  2. Deckbuilding, card searching, and (recently) forums.

  3. Can't think of one, overall great site.

  4. Card and deck search, playtesting, previewing comments.

  5. Auto suggestions. There are often way too many suggestions, so it feels like I'm searching through another long list (I think around 10 cards is best). The suggestions don't seem relevant - i.e. high cards in a low cost deck, permanents for an instant and sorcery deck, cards that don't fit the mechanics I'm using.

  6. & 7. Don't use mobile

  7. I preferred the old search layout, now I use gatherer. I liked that adding/deleting terms was super easy. When writing comments, the preview boxes are different widths than the actual forum text boxes so what looks small in the preview comes out as a wall of text. Single line breaks are reduced to spaces, so I need to do double line breaks. Also, when doing this list I skipped 7 so it autocorrected 8 to 7 and I don't know how to fix it. Would also be nice if I saw more format diversity (have 0 interest in EDH and it's 70-90% of the site).

April 10, 2020 12:28 a.m.

Magnanimous says... #13

Forgot one thing, might like to see an option to search through cards visually (like Gatherer) or even to just have the text of the cards displayed with the name so I don't have to hover my mouse over every card I'm searching through.

April 10, 2020 12:33 a.m.

Boza says... #14

Magnanimous - "Single line breaks are reduced to spaces, so I need to do double line breaks." - Two spaces, followed by Enter will make a single line break.
So end the sentences you want to single line break with two spaces after the punctuation mark.
That should really be added to the formatting tips, as it is incredibly helpful.

April 10, 2020 2:23 a.m.

Wihito says... #15

The reason my list of decks is so large is because it's a very daunting task to delete them all.

TypicalTimmy: Here's a tip: Open each page in new browser tabs, then bulk edit them one by one. That way bulk editing one page won't change how another looks because you've already loaded it into another browser tab!

When writing comments, the preview boxes are different widths than the actual forum text boxes.

Magnanimous: Well, comment box size changes with browser window size, so I'd say that doesn't matter much. Here's a tip: Textarea elements such as the one you write comments in are re-sizeable with the little drag-able stuff in the bottom right.

What prompted you to create an account and start using TappedOut?
Of all the ones I saw, this one felt the most genuine, with an active community that cares about brewing decks together and helping each other with new ideas.

What do you mainly use TappedOut for?
Brewing decks, keeping track of my decks, inspiration and inspiring others.

Tell us about a time when you were using our website and it was a challenge to complete your task? What were you trying to accomplish and what about it was difficult?
Sometimes css, html and js in the description just weren't there anymore, and sometimes saving the deck again didn't help.

What’s your favorite features of TappedOut? Name 2-3 features you enjoy the most.
Deckcycling/Deckfeaturing, I like how it's possible for everyone to get some attention
Customizing decks with CSS, HTML and JS, I've definitely had fun with it!

What’s your least favorite feature of TappedOut? What about that feature makes it less enjoyable?
Having to enter an edit page to add cards with a slow searcher. It's tedious.

How often do you visit our website from your mobile device?
Rarely, never for deckbuilding, mostly just for reading notifications.

Tell us about a time you visited TappedOut on your mobile device and it was frustrating to use. What did you want to do and what about it was frustrating?
Scrolling down to the last third of a decklist to see which commander it runs, it should be the first thing that shows up.

How can we make using TappedOut better for you? Name 2-3 improvements we could make.
Upping the responsiveness, it often feels slow and/or clunky.
More columns in decklist for bigger screens, or set a max-width so it's perfect for 3 columns, then 2, then 1.

April 10, 2020 5:10 p.m.

Femme_Fatale says... #16

I will second the "upping the responsiveness" of Wihito's comment. When I ask mtg players in other discords why they don't use tappedout, "because it's slow" is a common reason I get.

April 10, 2020 7:49 p.m.

JANKYARD_DOG says... #17

Code for this block is at the end if anyone wants to lick and stick.

I was informed about its existence by another player at my FLGS
Mainly I use T/O for keeping/editing deck lists and creating new ideas with cards outside my collection. I use to do some trading on here but it's been awhile since I've done any anywhere. Or play for that matter.... sad panda.
My biggest difficulty to date I think is the numerous time I have lost information while making deck lists, or typing long comments and having them disappear. Sometimes it was my own doing because the inconvenient position of the back button... but other times it was site error I believe. After hitting preview or save it would reload without the information I had spent so much time inputting.
The ability to cycle decks and get feedback is great, even though it has seemed to die off a bit after the introduction of discord to the site(not sure if related but...). The deck builders seem pretty easy to manage, not overly complicated or flashy. And I cannot stress this enough... the black background w/white text. I wish I could make everything I read as such... so much easier on the eyes.
I primarily use mobile because my available laptop can support a house window better than anything digital. I don't really use the app though, I prefer the site still.
Again, the placement of my back button is just inconveniently placed by the enter button. Other than that, sometimes formatting in the comments setting it to widescreen occasionally... can't think of anything else at the moment. Oh... I take that back. I recently upgraded (monthly) and for some reason still cannot open chat with anyone for some reason.
Keep fighting the good fight. Haven't checked the draft sim lately but last I did I thought it could use work. It beeped at me when I had all sounds off. For my cube it wouldn't arrange packs as I wanted... again this was awhile ago so may not even be relevant. I don't know if there could be an option to confirm leaving page if you hit 'back' accidentally? Or when typing comments even.

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April 10, 2020 9:32 p.m.

Suns_Champion says... #18

What prompted you to create an account and start using TappedOut?

I guess I stumbled upon TappedOut in my early days and figured it would be a good place to create decks and get feedback. What do you mainly use TappedOut for?

Deckbuilding, playtesting, and more recently, writing articles.
Tell us about a time when you were using our website and it was a challenge to complete your task? What were you trying to accomplish and what about it was difficult?

The deckbuilder has its fair share of glitches. The site has crashed on my occasionally. Sometimes it doesn't save correctly: If I were to step away from the computer to let my dog out, and my computer screen fell asleep, then I got back and continued to work, none of that work would be saved. Sometimes the search engine in the editor doesn't work correctly.

What’s your favorite features of TappedOut? Name 2-3 features you enjoy the most.

  1. Playtester
  2. Custom Categories: specifically, CCs that you can put one card into multiple categories. Twilight Prophet in #carddraw and #lifegain, for example.
  3. The ability to use CSS to customize decklists
  4. Deckcycling and Featuring
  5. The Deckbuilder in general
  6. Card hovers: like when you hold the mouse over a card and it pops up

A lot more than 2-3, sorry.

What’s your least favorite feature of TappedOut? What about that feature makes it less enjoyable?

The "cards" feature on the top bar... never used it. Scryfall is good enough for me.

How often do you visit our website from your mobile device?

On a daily basis.

Tell us about a time you visited TappedOut on your mobile device and it was frustrating to use. What did you want to do and what about it was frustrating?

The messages/chat feature is a nightmare on mobile. Very difficult to tell who you are talking to, and near impossible to write a sentence, then go back and ass a sentence before it.

TappedOut generally runs significantly slower on mobile, especially viewing decks with coding.

It is occasionally difficult to hit the correct icon on mobile. I attempt to hit notifications and 80% of the time get the deck folders dropdown. Perhaps that's just me.

How can we make using TappedOut better for you? Name 2-3 improvements we could make.

  1. Rehaul the deck editor search engine. It is slow, and sometimes requires you to type three letters in a row to get it to bring up cards.

  2. I'm liking the look of the newer editor or "live editor." It's got some problems though. Occasionally if you try to sort or stack it by different groups it throws you out of the editor completely. It's hard to read cards because they're all stacked. I suggest the normal popup system or maybe something like Archidekt has where the cards move to show you what you want to look at.

  3. The chat/message system could be improved, as discussed.

This post should be stickyed.

April 11, 2020 4:57 p.m.

Optimator says... #19

What prompted you to create an account and start using TappedOut?

I wanted a place to organize by decklists and view them easily.


What do you mainly use TappedOut for?

Lots of stuff. Mostly keeping track of my real decks (CMC, colors, price, etc) but also brewing theoretical decks. I also look at other deck lists a LOT--especially before EDHREC became a thing. Making swaps is so much easier when I can look at the whole deck at once and sort by CMC etc.


Tell us about a time when you were using our website and it was a challenge to complete your task? What were you trying to accomplish and what about it was difficult?

The Friends List and Followers part is pretty poorly done.


What’s your favorite features of TappedOut? Name 2-3 features you enjoy the most.

I like being able to sort my deck lists with various categories, see the names, and see the overall price of the deck. I think the UI is pretty good for entering deck lists and finding specific card prints.


What’s your least favorite feature of TappedOut? What about that feature makes it less enjoyable?

I think the window of editing one's own comment is too small. It should be small, but it's a little too small in my opinion.


How often do you visit our website from your mobile device?

Maybe four times a week?


Tell us about a time you visited TappedOut on your mobile device and it was frustrating to use. What did you want to do and what about it was frustrating?

When entering cards to a deck list on mobile, if you hit the "Maybeboard" tab and enter a card it still goes to whatever board the dropdown menu was at. On the website switching board tabs switches what board entered cards go into. Very annoying.


How can we make using TappedOut better for you? Name 2-3 improvements we could make.

On a deck list there is a list of used tokens. Any time they are moused-over they pop off the right side of the screen no matter what. Fix the coding on that.

I would LOVE a browse-able database for basic lands. A way to look at them in large groups by set or plane or artist and a way to see which arts are reused in which sets would be siiiick. Also, showing which promo basics are from what promo line and what code to use to have them show up properly (and if they're foils) would be very useful.

If there was a way to tag a deck as a real, physical deck, owned deck vs a theoretical deck would be cool. Not just the "Prototype" tag but a way to differentiate a deck-building exercise vs a real, owned deck.

I think it would be great if there was a way to see if a deck has already been up-voted by oneself, both in the deck's page and on the main page when browsing cycled decks. Perhaps a gold thumb or border or star or something small to show it's been up-voted already.

The box to write the personal description for one's account in the "Settings" page is waaaay too small.

May 28, 2020 2:33 p.m. Edited.

Zimbardo says... #20

1.Joined because: post deck lists to share with friends. 2. Main use: save deck lists and a cube list for sharing. 3. Challenges: Drafting an online cube, and some card images were broken. 4. Favorites: ability to draft a custom cube online with other people. 5. Least Favorite: Sometimes I make changes, and it doesn't save because it didn't fit the format rules. I'd rather it just saved instead of losing my changes. 6,7. Mobile: rarely use on mobile. 8. Biggest improvement: fix the broken image bugs on the draft system, and make the images larger and more readable. Get high quality images from Scryfall or similar.

June 24, 2020 7:45 p.m.
  1. PLEASE add the function where you can drag and drop cards into your custom groups. You have the function of drag and dropping cards to delete, but why not have drag and drop to different custom groups in the 2020 deck builder?

Everything else is perfect

July 14, 2020 12:35 p.m.

VampDemigod says... #22

1: I wanted somewhere where I could create and playtest decks. I love all the features being in one place.

2: These days I occasionally post decks. Mostly, I spend my time on the site helping people improve their decks and helping them understand formats.

3: Well, a thing I’ve noticed recently is that some people don’t have a points listing in their profile. I can’t see any connection between the accounts that don’t have it listed either. The only other thing I can think of is that recently, whenever I try to sim a solo draft on the site, it logs me out so I can’t save my picks as a deck.

4: I really love how T/O lets you playtest your brews. I also think the ranking system is fun, and I enjoy being able to save a phantom draft as a deck.

5: I don’t like how your title (i.e. deckling) doesn’t change as you rank up. I completely understand the idea of making it customizable with premium, but it feels weird being top 15 on the site (literally on the decklord leaderboard) and having it still say deckling.

6: All of my access is from the browser of my mobile phone. I would estimate my visits as somewhere between 2 and 10 a day.

7: See my earlier note about being signed out of a draft while drafting.

8: Fixing the logout while drafting bug and giving us the ability to spend our daily cycle on someone else’s decks would make me very happy.

August 30, 2020 3:54 p.m.

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