Current State of Discovery - Critical Issues & Suggestions
Dear Epic, I am creating this forum post due to many issues observed by us - developers, and you, team behind Fortnite Creative & Discovery. I will be sharing my observations, with some of the issues being here for months now.
New & Updated
Issue: New & Updated (both variants) is stuck and maps are not rotating. Same maps are showing for days.
Impact: Some maps are getting “Tested” for days now, with free promotion. New uploaded maps do NOT have a chance to get tested due to this issue (the get queued into an infinite queue).
Since: 25/11/2025 (4+ days)
Examples: 5781-1881-5260, 1799-7552-4863, 7730-3560-3272
New Experiences
Issue: New Experiences is promoting maps that are not actually new, some maps are stuck for days into the top 6 of the category. Some maps are stuck in higher positions for weeks.
Impact: Some maps are getting “Tested” for days now, with free promotion. New uploaded maps do NOT have a chance to get tested due to this issue (the get queued into an infinite queue).
Since: 01/10/2025 (2+ months)
KPDH Category
Affects: KPDH New & Updated, KPDH: Survival, KPDH: Role Playing, KPDH Party Games, KPDH: More Islands
Issue: KPop Demon Hunter category is all spammed with non-related maps, the algorithm keeps the maps that transferred the type to KPDH. More Islands & other categories are full of 1:1 maps, by the same creators & spammers. Rotation does not exist & work. Some maps are in the same category for 2 months straight, making unfair competition.
Impact: Some maps are exposed in most popular (first) Game Collection for months now, even maps with 0 players. New uploaded maps do NOT have a chance to get into any of the KPDH categories.
Since: 01/09/2025 (3+ months)
Squid Game Category
TLDR: This category has the same rotation issue on different rows. Some maps keep the 1-6 place for months now. This is the same case as KPDH.
Since: 01/09/2025 (3+ months)
The Walking Dead Category
TLDR: This category has the same rotation issue on different rows. Some maps keep the 1-6 place for months now. This is the same case as KPDH.
Since: 01/09/2025 (3+ months)
LEGO Category
TLDR: This category has the same rotation issue on different rows. Some maps keep the 1-6 place for months now. This is the same case as KPDH.
Since: 01/06/2025 (6+ months)
TMNT Category
TLDR: This category has the same rotation issue on different rows. Some maps keep the 1-6 place for months now. This is the same case as KPDH.
Since: 01/06/2025 (6+ months)
Fall Guys: New & Updated
Issue: Fall Guys: New & Updated is promoting maps in the same positions for months now, with short/long breaks. Some maps are stuck in higher positions after every update.
Impact: Some maps are getting “Tested” in the same 1-12 position, with free promotion. Some maps do not have any chance to get “Tested” - as they keep getting the higher (13+) positions.
Since: 01/06/2025 (6+ months)
Featured Collections
Issue: Every (of the 8) Featured Collection has the same issue as mentioned in “Fall Guys”. Some maps, even with crazy work - get stuck into higher positions and keep their positions after every update (mostly in the “Collection: New & Updated” row).
Impact: Some maps are getting “Tested” in the same 1-12 position, with free promotion. Some maps do not have any chance to get “Tested” - as they keep getting the higher (13+) positions.
Since: 01/06/2025 (6+ months)
Featured Collections - More
Issue: During game updates, the Discovery Team (in Epic) sometimes missconfigures the Featured Collections and for few hours after the downtime ends - some Collections (such as Tycoon, Role Play).
Impact: Featured Collections get omited after updates by players, destroying the Collection ecosystem (people just move on and play other maps instead).
Note: This has been reported few times by me: Discovery Featured Collections not working, Discovery Game Collections missing & Featured Collections not working.
There are plenty of reports on forums, twitter (x.com) or probably even directly on discord, but those problems are just throwed away by the team. Those issues affected also categories such as Horror during Halloween (Discovery & Collection unattainable for horror category since the Fortnitemares update).
Summary
In my opinion, the current Discovery system isn’t well designed, it requires a lot of fixes & changes. I showcased some of the most important bugs that should be adressed and found by Epic themselves, but sadly - we “developers” need to find them - even then, we keep getting ignored.
If Epic wants to build a good ecosystem, they should start by fixing stuff (& banning spammers - look: CREATORS SPAMMING MAPS TO APPEAR IN DISCOVERY). No action was taken to the exposed spammers, no discovery changes were made.
We (“us”, creators) should work all together (with Epic) to resolve those issues, if they can not be found & resolved by the team inside. Tonight, Fortnite is launching a new Chapter & the “New & Updated” category (one of the most crucial category for testing maps) - is broken and I am sure Epic is sadly NOT aware about this.
Why there is no TESTING going on Epic side? Why don’t you (Epic) notice those issues, that some persist for almost a year now.
I hope that this reaserch will not be ignored and changes will be made.
(Data by FN360GG and FortniteGG)
Thank you and have a good Chapter 7! 
