[GlickWick]

I still maintain that the Mario Maker series could be absolutely brilliant if Nintendo would invest in better discovery algorithms and searchability. The pool is going to be flooded with garbage, and rightfully so given that kids love to play and make things too. There's nothing wrong with that, but in the end it means you've fallen into a tough situation where the internal discovery tools don't work, and the only way for a level to be "discovered" is for an influencer to find it.

I doubt you can ever build a perfect fix for this, but it could be a lot better than it is right now. Unfortunately it's just an abandoned project at this point, and the inevitable Mario Maker 3 will likely just have the same issues.

[physicles]

It's not a full solution, but there must be lists of good levels out there on the internet. I just found https://www.reddit.com/r/TraditionalMarioMaker/.

For me, couch multiplayer would make it 10x better. I bought the game and was sorely disappointed to see that this wasn't included.

[cubefox]

Actually people on social media sites like Twitter solve a similar discoverability issue by following interesting people. Subscribing to interesting level creators inside the game reduces the problem to finding these creators.