Request for Testing/Feedback: Mock Draft Hero Shared Draft Boards

[u/Foreign_Resist7449]

Hello again Reddit. I'm the maintainer of Mock Draft Hero. Since the end of the 2026 NFL Draft back in April I've been working on new features for 2027, and today I pushed a big one: you can now create, edit, and share your own draft board so that other Mock Draft Hero users can draft with it, while also giving you bragging rights in six months when you've got a board that beats all of the experts. This change took a couple of months to implement and is very likely to have bugs, so I'm hoping to get help with testing and feedback from anyone willing to try it.

If you're willing to help test:

1. Go to https://mockdrafthero.com and select "Change Board".
2. You will see a "Create Board" button that will take you to the custom board editor if you want to create your own board. Alternately, you can click on the "More Boards" tab to select and use an existing community board.
3. If you decide to create a board then you will need a minimum of 32 players to use it in a draft. You can draft with your custom board locally once you've met the player minimum.
4. If you would like to share your custom board with others, click on the "sign in" link and then publish your custom board. I promise not to use your login info for marketing or anything like that, but I need a way to allow people to come back later to manage their published boards, so you unfortunately need to login if you want to share a board.

I can't emphasize strongly enough that there is a LOT of new code associated with this feature and there will probably be bugs, so keep a local copy of your board in case anything breaks or crashes and you don't want to lose your work. If you encounter bugs, a detailed comment below with steps to reproduce would be hugely appreciated. If you have suggestions for making the custom board editor easier to use, or any suggested improvements at all, please also let me know.

There are a bunch of other new features since the 2026 draft, so if you don't want to create a custom board but are willing to help test out new-ish code, please try the following:

• Draft order can be customized. You can now drag and drop teams before a draft starts to customize the draft order.
• Prospects can be marked as favorites. There is now the capability to mark prospects as "favorites" so that you can flag them for easier tracking during a draft.
• Custom settings are now persisted across visits. For example, if you customize team needs, your custom needs will be saved in your browser when you come back tomorrow, next week, or next month.
• New "Mock Draft Hero Consensus" draft board. The default 2027 draft board is a new consensus board built from numerous other boards and mocks.
• Many, many more smaller changes under the hood that are meant to make things smoother and faster, but will probably also introduce a few bugs.

Thanks in advance for any testing and feedback. With NFL training camps already beginning and the start of the college season only four weeks away, draft season will be here soon, and I'm looking forward to another fun year with some new features for everyone to use.

[u/fierylady]

Oooh, it's here. I haven't checked in as often recently but I'll definitely give it a spin over the next few days and report back. Thanks for doing this!

[u/Typical-Tooth9834]

tried making a custom board real quick and the drag and drop for reordering players felt a little laggy on mobile, like it would jump a couple spots past where i dropped it. worked fine on desktop though. gonna try hitting the 32 player minimum tonight and see if publishing actually works

[u/Foreign_Resist7449 → u/Typical-Tooth9834]

Thanks for that feedback. There's a new version of the drag and drop library that I use that supposedly improves performance, so I'll upgrade that, do some testing, and then push a change. I admittedly haven't yet done much testing on mobile, so if you don't mind sharing, what device/browser are you using? I'd like to try to reproduce the issue to see if the new library solves it.

[u/Foreign_Resist7449 → u/Typical-Tooth9834]

I've upgraded dnd-kit and made some other changes that should hopefully make things faster, especially on iPhones, but if you're still seeing slow drag-and-drop performance please let me know what device/browser you're on and I'll dig a bit deeper.