Please answer the question in the title. I’d really like to know. I was recently in the hospital for a few days and was sad to see that although the subscriber numbers here kept increasing, nobody was posting any challenges. So Please tell me what is the point of a game if nobody wants to participate?
I like this game, but even with the genre hints it’s often very hard. It takes a bit to get into the habit of just taking a stab at it.
I think getting more hints, in words or images, in response to guesses would increase the interest.
The more challenges the better IMO because we all have different music taste and knowledge so many challenges I have little hope of guessing. But would still be interesting if there was more back and forth. I wouldn’t mind challenges lasting longer if the op would give clues because then even in a genre I don’t know well I could learn something new.
I don’t expect things to move very quickly as I only check things twice a day or so myself. I like the idea of browsing through a bunch of unsolved games to find one that I have a guess for, I don’t care how long they’ve been up, and as poster I don’t mind responding to old games, or if I get tired of it can always post the answer.
I have three suggestions: Longer time, maybe a week, before posting answer.
List of songs already played (not that you should never reuse one, but in some ways this is helpful and inspiring to those who might post a challenge). Not all of the Lemmy apps have ability to search within a community.
Don’t just reply “Nope” if you’ve got time to be a little more helpful–the game is hard.
This is the reason the answer is given inside spoiler tags. That way users can always practice on old posts.