As a beginner is it discouraged to join tables with experts?

[Spiegel428]

Is there a section of the site where people wanting to learn how to play the games, and find others in a similar situation, or somewhere you could post to find someone patient enough to help you work through a game? Tutorials will only ever go so far I find.

Some groups that may help with learning the games:

Talkative and friendly games - https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=1088438
Play a game we have never played - https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=10129965
Discover and play all games - https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=7553079

[cigma]

No one has said we can't join a table, to me personally, but there's also something about the interface that doesn't really encourage me to join a game I don't know how to play. I find you can read the rules, and watch youtube videos, but that's still very different from actually playing the game. And then you read that some games here, have special features that might be different from the real version, that you have to somehow know.

Is there a section of the site where people wanting to learn how to play the games, and find others in a similar situation, or somewhere you could post to find someone patient enough to help you work through a game? Tutorials will only ever go so far I find.

Hm, I tought that good tutorials should help you with that. As your experience was different, I would like to hear about what you think how they could be improved. What were you missing?