The Now Defunct Compendium Search Engine and the Evil Wizards

[Xyrlove Woodsoul]

Much to my dismay, I went to the free compendium search engine thing Dungeons & Dragons Compendium today (and practically live there when I'm on-line) and saw that they have totally changed it. One used to be able to fiilter and sort monsters, magic items, and other game elements http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Tool.aspx?x=dnd/4new/tool/compendium, but now it's just generic blah- no longer can one filter and sort things.
This has TOTALLY paralyzed my game, insofar as making my adventures, i.e., figuring out what monsters to use, magic items to give, traps, etc.
So is the old compendium tool now defunct? Exclusive to insiders?
Thanks.
Sincerely,
P.O'd

 

[chitzk0i]

What the carp, the horrific mobile version is the only one I can find a link to. Seriously, it's bad.

 

[Octangula]

I have DDI and it's only giving me the mobile version right now. But my previously open compendium tabs still work (and no, I'm not about to reload them).

Viewing the source code for the page, I'm inclined to put it down to DetectMobileQuick() not working correctly, rather than malice. Time will tell...

 

[Dragoslav]

Yes, they couldn't possibly screw it up this badly on purpose. I'll give it some time to see if they can fix it.

 

[Xyrlove Woodsoul]

Yes, it's bad. it doesn't even let you go the next page when looking up a category. It just gets cut off, starting with things starting with the letter B.
But, it looks official.

 

[Ryujin]

I have DDI and it's only giving me the mobile version right now. But my previously open compendium tabs still work (and no, I'm not about to reload them).

Viewing the source code for the page, I'm inclined to put it down to DetectMobileQuick() not working correctly, rather than malice. Time will tell...

I agree completely. It's likely a coding glitch, rather than something done by design.

Hanlon's Razor applies: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

 

[Keeblrkid]

Yup, they need to be emailed or something, because this thing is awful. Hopefully it is just a glitch.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Hanlon's Razor applies: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Dannyalcatraz's Blunt Observation: everything wrong involving computers involves malice.








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[drothgery]

What the carp, the horrific mobile version is the only one I can find a link to. Seriously, it's bad.

At first I was thinking that it was just detecting IE9 as mobile IE 9 for some reason, but it looks like that version is showing up regardless of browser.

 

[AntiStateQuixote]