Fortnite’s Redesigned Discover Adds Video Previews and a Top 10 Row
GAME MODE Staff·Oct 18, 2026· 2m read
Epic will require new thumbnails and logos to publish or update islands from October 22, and says it has removed more than 81,000 spam islands since March.
Fortnite’s Discover screen is changing. Epic Games began rolling out a redesign on October 15, after detailing it in an October 5 post on its developer forums. If you don’t see it yet, that’s expected: Epic’s v42.40 update notes say the new look is arriving gradually and will reach more players over time.
What changes on the Discover screen?
Mostly, more motion. These are the changes players will see:
- A hero carousel: the top of Discover becomes an edge-to-edge, video-fed spotlight with several rotating spots.
- Epic’s Picks: tiles in the curated row play a short, muted clip of an island’s trailer when you hover over them.
- A top 10 row: a new portrait tile shape appears in a ranked row of Fortnite’s top 10 islands.
- More labels: tiles can show an island’s like percentage along with New and Updated labels.
- Richer details pages: an island’s page can now carry a muted gameplay video next to the screenshots and trailer.
What do creators need to upload?
Creators get four new asset types: a gameplay video, two portrait thumbnails, an art-only landscape thumbnail and a transparent island name logo. From October 22, portrait thumbnails, landscape thumbnails and logos are required to publish or update an island.
Two more rules decide who gets seen. A trailer rated General Audience is needed to appear in the hero carousel or Epic’s Picks. And since October 15, Content Pre-Checks also review every thumbnail, including ones already published; those that miss Epic’s best practices can affect an island’s Discover ranking.
If you plan to publish or update an island, upload the new assets in the Creator Portal before October 22.
How big is the spam crackdown?
Epic says it has removed more than 81,000 spam islands since March. Its latest ban waves took down 44,535 duplicate islands and 707 accounts, helped by new signals that catch developers using alternate accounts to avoid bans.
And Epic’s forum post says that work is ongoing:
“We’re also continuing to ramp up our efforts to prevent duplicative content from entering the ecosystem.”
