You're incorrect in your assumptions of how the front page picks decks. Votes do matter to some degree, but it isn't everything. All decks have an internal score we call the "hot score" and is periodically recalculated.
I completely agree though that we need to do more for deck discoverability. One thing that I implemented early on was automatic flagging of decks that have guides written for them. This is linked in our navigation as the first item under Decks to encourage people to not only write guides but also make it so much easier to find good decks. https://outof.cards/hearthstone/decks/?has_guide=true
I've talked internally about doing something with showcasing a random deck with a guide on the front page or also allowing staff to be able to "recommend" decks that would gain increased internal scores to get them to the front page faster. We've also got some work to do with making it more obvious that people should be voting on decks which may end up helping some other decks see the light.
There is a lot more work we can do with decks and it'll be something that gets improved down the line. There's also plenty of places we haven't been automatically linking decks yet which can help with it too. Right now though, the focus is on some other tools that we want to get out for the community (which should help with decks too) and then we can wrap back around and start working more on the core of decks.
Some updates have gone out over the past few days, here is our changelog!
I'm sorry these don't come out as frequently as they should. We didn't push out much worth mentioning during the card reveal period and expansion launch. I've also been helping get all our new staff on board, as you've probably noticed with all the great new content we've had on the front page. Love 'em <3
New Features
You can now "install" Out of Cards onto your Android Phone if you use Chrome.
Chrome on android has this cool feature called "Add to Home screen". We now have meta data that tells this how to act and will show our derpcorn icon should you choose to add the site to your home screen. It is easy, one-tap access to the site!
Content authors on news posts now have bios!
They'll display at the bottom of posts if an author has written one. Learn more about all of us =)
Deck Collection BBCode
We've got a new bbcode you can use to promote your decks. "hsdeckcollection" is the tag name and it accepts a comma-separated list of deck ids.
Example usage:
Card BBCode can now use custom names!
By using the new, optional text argument, you can now give your memes card tooltips and styling.
We've got better caching on the homepage now which have increased the page load speed by almost double!
Deck Embeds now display class icons in the in their headers and have footers with votes, dust cost, comments, views meta data.
Card and deck listings now have pretty headers when a single class is selected.
Card and deck listings now have pretty urls when a single class is selected.
Desktop users no longer have sticky navigation.
Dev Note: Feedback was mixed on this but ultimately it was decided to remove the sticky nav for desktop users as it sometimes created more problems then it solved.
Achievement points now display on your comments and forum posts.
Bug Fixes
When you have a class selected on the decks listing, the archetypes box will now populate with only that class (requires a page reload)
Archetypes now sort by class and then alphabetical by default across the site.
When you earn a new forum title, your old one will now still say selected.
Fixed the default font in the editor from displaying as Arial. Open Sans is the way forward!
When sending someone a direct message, you will no longer have it appear as unread for yourself.
There is no way to use Amazon Coins to purchase stuff off the Battle.net web store. They can only be used for stuff in-game.
With that said, Uldum packs are in-game so just load up the Amazon App Store version of Hearthstone and buy em. I always recommend checking in-game first to see if what you want to buy is available before buying amazon coins.
Homepage determines decks based on an algorithm I don't plan to make fully public. Good, fresh content gets noticed though by the site =)
Also, I encourage you to post deck guides in the relevant class forum and start an actual discussion around it. Its another great way to get some eyes on it!
To the Dr. Boom thing. Pocket Galaxy definitely need an adjustment too but screw everything about Dr. Boom. Legitimately makes me want to not play the game.
Honestly, Sherman, you're a unique case for us. You've made a career in the Hearthstone community out of trolling everyone. Because of this, it is hard to do anything about it because I'm certainly not going to ban dozens of people that actually behave.
People get tired of the nonsense, including us, and it's not something we want to promote here.
I feel personally attacked friend, considering you downvoted all of my decks. Even accused me before of falsely advertising my decks, when I didn't list any winrates or even say the deck was powerful.
You know what other type of people were annoying on Hearthpwn? Hypocrites.
I didn't downvote your stuff
Why would you lie?
I'm looking at a terminal output right now with all your voting data. You've downvoted 14 things on the site, 9 being decks Colin wrote guides on.
That is shit we don't want to continue here and you bet is going to be actively policed. Vote harassment is beyond stupid and is the real plague of community sites.
And just so we're clear, you're not the only one who has done this. I've removed close to 600 negative votes over the past couple of days with one of the biggest offenders hitting 142 decks.
I'm not lying. I did not have a personal vendetta against anyone and I did not personally downvote anything. Why would I lie? Good question. Because I wouldn't. I think it's your job to figure it out on your end.
So hold on a second. Are you telling me the database was lying? I better put a bug report in so I can check that out /s
I hate calling people out on it but if you're going to make public statements that are factually incorrect, I don't really have a choice. Don't do it again and we're cool.
I don't think priest is going to go hiding, though it certainly did take a decent hit. Extra Arms felt so great to play, it is a shame =(
This'll be out shortly.
I agree this would be awesome.
You're incorrect in your assumptions of how the front page picks decks. Votes do matter to some degree, but it isn't everything. All decks have an internal score we call the "hot score" and is periodically recalculated.
I completely agree though that we need to do more for deck discoverability. One thing that I implemented early on was automatic flagging of decks that have guides written for them. This is linked in our navigation as the first item under Decks to encourage people to not only write guides but also make it so much easier to find good decks.
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/decks/?has_guide=true
I've talked internally about doing something with showcasing a random deck with a guide on the front page or also allowing staff to be able to "recommend" decks that would gain increased internal scores to get them to the front page faster. We've also got some work to do with making it more obvious that people should be voting on decks which may end up helping some other decks see the light.
There is a lot more work we can do with decks and it'll be something that gets improved down the line. There's also plenty of places we haven't been automatically linking decks yet which can help with it too. Right now though, the focus is on some other tools that we want to get out for the community (which should help with decks too) and then we can wrap back around and start working more on the core of decks.
thats an error on our part, sorry!
Some updates have gone out over the past few days, here is our changelog!
I'm sorry these don't come out as frequently as they should. We didn't push out much worth mentioning during the card reveal period and expansion launch. I've also been helping get all our new staff on board, as you've probably noticed with all the great new content we've had on the front page. Love 'em <3
New Features
Changes
Bug Fixes
There is no way to use Amazon Coins to purchase stuff off the Battle.net web store. They can only be used for stuff in-game.
With that said, Uldum packs are in-game so just load up the Amazon App Store version of Hearthstone and buy em. I always recommend checking in-game first to see if what you want to buy is available before buying amazon coins.
Also, shameless plug to support the site
https://outof.cards/guides/31-how-to-use-amazon-coins-to-purchase-cheaper-hearthstone-packs
Homepage determines decks based on an algorithm I don't plan to make fully public. Good, fresh content gets noticed though by the site =)
Also, I encourage you to post deck guides in the relevant class forum and start an actual discussion around it. Its another great way to get some eyes on it!
This isn't even the right forum for it.
Got Colossus of the Moon. RIP
Really hoping we'll get a round of buffs sometime too, hopefully focused on a cool event.
Oh my god please yes.
To the Dr. Boom thing. Pocket Galaxy definitely need an adjustment too but screw everything about Dr. Boom. Legitimately makes me want to not play the game.
Rastakhan's Rumble announced and released changes 3 weeks after the expansion dropped.
We're entering the third week of Saviors of Uldum, so unless they release the changes this week as well, it won't beat that!
A page for each board detailing interactions is definitely something we'll get working on soon.
What would make us the only site you want to visit?
Cheese wanting fan creations stuff, no surprises :P
Don't worry, it is coming!
Should be whatever the current set rotation is for Arena, unless a blog post that comes out says otherwise.
Honestly, Sherman, you're a unique case for us. You've made a career in the Hearthstone community out of trolling everyone. Because of this, it is hard to do anything about it because I'm certainly not going to ban dozens of people that actually behave.
People get tired of the nonsense, including us, and it's not something we want to promote here.
I'm going to lock the thread now since tony has started deleting his posts.
Let this be a lesson, don't lie about facts.
So hold on a second. Are you telling me the database was lying? I better put a bug report in so I can check that out /s
I hate calling people out on it but if you're going to make public statements that are factually incorrect, I don't really have a choice. Don't do it again and we're cool.