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Not sure how the algorythms work, but right now the "hot" and the "top" decks are showing almost the same results.

Unfortunately, this is mostly a result of having low interactions with decks as a whole. If more people voted on decks, we'd have different results between them. Hot doesn't get interesting until we've got that though.

You have that cooperation with HSReplay running, so why not use it some more?

If we were allowed to do that, it would have been done originally. The only thing we can do with winrates is show them on individual deck pages.

This might be a little insolent, but I'd really appreciate it if there was a section where you point us to meta reports.

I don't have an issue with promoting content, but I do think it would be silly if we were to promote several different reports that get put out in the community. Sometimes they don't all agree with each other and to spotlight that, it could get confusing for people. 

I do want to do more meta-focused stuff on the site though and an in-dev feature will help us put a spotlight on certain decks more. It'll be more obvious once this gets pushed out.

While we're at it, a collection of podcasts would be pretty awesome, too.

This has been a bit of a pipe dream for me. Being able to help push some of the great shows we have in the Hearthstone community would be awesome but I also can't see us posting news articles for them all. It would be kinda nuts to push down breaking news articles with podcast/show promotions, especially when 3-4 solid people are putting out that kind of content on the same day.

A weekly recap of sorts would be easier to do, but then for shows that take place at the start of a 7-day period, you end up in a weird spot of them not being relevant as often. Also, there's a greater chance that their show for that week has already been seen by folks which makes the content less useful.

That's why what we'd need is a more dedicated system in place to put that kind of content on the site and then have it show up somewhere like the sidebar on the homepage and game portal pages, and maybe occasionally pushing a particular show into the news feed itself. Letting folks subscribe to different shows to get site notifications when new episodes go live would then be a thing.

I also think for more long-term success of that though we're looking at having show runners themselves pushing their content here. While we do have several team members that listen to these shows, it isn't always immediate so us writing a synopsis for each episode isn't an ideal position to be in. Plus, the way I see it, it let's shows work a tiny bit for that promotion while we're free to do other stuff. It would mean we could open up such a thing to more folks producing that kind of content because effectively, we don't have to do anything.

There's also a great trove of YouTube content people are creating that deserve a spotlight. Some amazing deck videos out there, we really just need someone that's willing to go through it and write a bit about them when good stuff is uncovered.

Yeah, a tiny bit of thought has indeed gone into the whole podcast thing, lol.