I am really enjoying gamedev.net lately. I like what they have done with it. The interface is just fun to use.

I feel a dedicated screemshots gallery would be nice. In general, I would try to make images more prominent somewhere in the interface.

On my own website, I have found that having a high density of good content is key to making it browsable and fun.

When you have content separated out into different “projects” or forum threads, there is a lot of clicking to do, relative to the content you are seeing (which equals dopamine). When you merge a stream of good content all together, you end up with something that is very fun and rewarding to browse through. We got rid of our “projects” section, which had become a database of unfinished ideas, and instead focused on screenshots and videos, which may contain links back the whatever the author is trying to promote. This worked a lot better because we are serving up a lot of good content per page and the user does not have to hunt and click to find something cool to see:

Example:
https://www.ultraengine.com/community/gallery/category/1-screenshots/

Programmer71 said:

Josh Klint, I'd like to know your point of view about the nanite tech of unreal engine 5, is it still worth to work on an engine ? in my opinion it is not.

I think it just depends on whether the user has the ability to produce / capture that kind of content. Displaying it is not that hard.

At NASA we do have some Lidar data from Martian surfaces and lunar caves and such. For that sort of thing, I think it could be very useful and I have considered implementing something like this in the past.

For indie game development, it is probably not very practical.