Out of Cards Changelog - 2022-06-24

Been a while since we've posted a set of update notes, though we haven't done anything super crazy for a while so it hasn't really been needed. I figured there may be some questions also I'm looking for targeted feedback so this thread will hopefully help with that.

Additions & Changes

General

• New Out of Cards Logo!
• Removed some advertisement slots.
  • I needed to test some new slots recently to see performance and have ultimately decided to remove our left side rail. The site felt a little too "boxed in" with it and overall, it wasn't a major change in revenue.
  • Mobile users will no longer see the static header advertisement.
  • The homepage no longer displays an advertisement at the top of the sidebar. (This has effectively been replaced by the right siderail.
    
    • There is a chance that the top sidebar ad gets removed across the site, I'll be paying attention to performance metrics over the coming weeks to make an informed decision.
• Video ads are now served by a new provider.
  • If you notice anything funky compared to before, please let us know.
• The homepage no longer displays deck lists.
  • This is one of the first steps we're taking to clean up the homepage.
  • I know this is going to be controversial, but the homepage is not the primary way our community members are clicking into decks.
    • The game portal pages are more relevant for deck lists.
  • Not all our users care about all the games we have coverage for and because of this, decks takes up a lot of scrolling space on the homepage.
  • Our homepage should be more of a portal into our different titles that are covered, and this will become more apparent in future site updates.
• Portal links have been removed site-wide.
  • This may sound counter-productive to our overall goal with sending people towards portals, which they are already going, but the next site update will be bringing back a portal switcher. It will instead be found in a new menu at the very top of the site, and not be a part of our navigation.

Hearthstone

• Deckbuilder Changes
  • How we load and organize card data in the deckbuilder has changed.
    • Please report any issues you find with the deckbuilder so they can be investigated.
  • Everything should be much quicker and subsequent uses of the deckbuilder are much faster.
• Collection Manager Changes
  • How we load and organize card data in the collection manager has changed.
    • Please report any issues you find with the collection manager so they can be investigated.

Bug Fixes

General

• RSS feeds have been fixed for all games.

Hearthstone

• All collectible cards now properly appear in the deckbuilder.
  • There was an issue during the Throne of the Tides mini-set update that prevented us from showing certain cards.
  • Our redeveloped internals make this a non-issue going forward.

Known Issues

General

• If you have ads disabled on the site due to having a Premium membership, the top of the site looks a little out of place with its wider header.
  • A solution will be implemented, however, if you are using ad-block you will be stuck with the wide header. Surprise, we don't support blocking our ads, which feed our content creators =)

Hearthstone

• Deckbuilder shows all Duels heroes, powers, and treasures regardless of class.
  • This will be "fixed" in a larger deckbuilder update.
  • Our intention is to allow Duels players to correctly create decks that are not tied to a single class.
  • We've still got some UI work to do before this will be finalized, but this is temporary measure to let it work.
  • We still need to flag Duels Heroes so we know which powers and treasures they work with, which is why we just dump them all out at you instead of filtering.
• Some Duels content is not appearing in the deckbuilder.
  • We're a little behind on flagged data. This won't require a new site update to fix, we just need to go through and get our data up to date.

Quote From Hugsja

So, I'm currently unable to build decks, like, at all. The cards just won't load. Is there anything I can do about this? I assumed it was something on my end, but I've never had it happen before.

Could you be more specific about your device and browser you are using? Essentials for any bug report!

I pushed out an update and I hope this resolved the problem with cards not loading. I was able to find a couple of conditions where data wouldn't load correctly. Please let me know if you, or anyone else reading this, has a problem going forward.