Out of Cards Changelog - 2020-01-18

The mid-January site update! We're aiming to get a larger update out towards the end of the month with two long-anticipated features.

New Features

• You can now vote on Hearthstone decks on embedded deck widgets.
  • Sorry this took longer than intended. We had to combat caching mechanisms.

Changes

• Improved site-wide performance via caching improvements on comments.
• Voting performance has been greatly improved.
• Users with adblock will now see in-house promotions.
  • We're going to be using the ad space on the site for our own "ads" when visitors have adblock enabled.
  • Some of these "ads" will remind you that ads help keep the site running.
  • We'd really love it if you would unblock the site. The ads we display are less intrusive than a lot of other sites in the space.
• Premium has its own dedicated landing page. We'll make it look better in the future.
• Game Portals are now live on the Homepage.
  • These take the place of the Hearthstone decks that were on our homepage from the start.
    • Hearthstone decks will still display at the top of the Hearthstone Portal.
    • Dev Commentary: This is a change that needed to happen at some point. We aren't a site that only focuses on one game and by having the entire homepage covered in Hearthstone-only content, it doesn't feel right. More Hearthstone-specific content (brawls for example) will be pruned from the homepage in the future. We'll continue to use the homepage to spotlight content from all the titles we cover, so look forward to that.
  • These are easy ways to access the different "homepages" on the site that we're calling Portals.
    • If you only want to see information for one particular game, please feel free to bookmark that portal.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Missing Galakrond's Awakening news article banner.
• Fixed article images not showing up on social media correctly.

Quote From frenzy

Is there meant to be an empty area top-right on the homepage?

This is currently intentionally left blank. We've got an ad that displays there normally. We'll need to figure out something useful to put there for our supporter friends :

Quote From phiL

Is it possible to extend the "Portal-Filter" to the "from the Forums"-Widget?

https://outof.cards/hearthstone/ could only display "Hearthstone" (and general site-news) posts and threads

 

This will be an addition soon. Forums don't currently have game flagging, so once that gets baked in and we flag everything, life will be good