RSS fFeed will be an actual thing and arrive real soon. Its such a great way to consume content, it's honestly a bit of a shame it fell out of favor =(
Again, there's a lot I want to talk about and simply can't right now. That frustration you have with me I have as well and possibly to an even greater degree. I hope you won't hold it against me.
There's definitely been changes to the way some of the data is structured nowadays. It was a lot easier to determine rewards on old-style quests, now it all goes through their bag reward system which is a mess of numbers.
I suspect they have some other trickery in place though too because the 12 RoS packs seemed kinda weird, especially since the first four quests all trigger different reward bags and then the final quest triggers all four.
So to start with, I really want to add in powerful search features like the ones we have in Hearthstone. Doing cost, attack, and health queries are definitely going to happen and for people that are deckbuilding wizards, I feel like it would give them a good amount of power.
I'd also really like to find a way to allow people to add cards to decks faster. If, for example, you were filling out the search form and a single card was the result, hitting enter should add a copy of it to your deck. This desire actually stems from years of painfully entering hundreds of tournament decks and it taking forever to transcribe lists into a deckbuilder. Luckily we see deck codes quite often now in esports stuff which makes the whole transcription process take no amount of time compared to the old way, but it could again be a powerful tool for the deckbuilding elite.
As for your first request though, I think that's a very interesting idea and it would be cool to implement. Getting the interface perfect for it though would be key. My first instinct is we should have a single searchable field below the list which when input, would highlight cards that match that input. Typing in "elem" for example should not only highlight cards with the elemental tribe but also those which contain "elem" in the card text. That's just my initial reaction on how to go about implementing a feature like that though, there may be a better way and hey maybe we could even iterate on it.
Also, while on the subject of feature stuff for decks / deckbuilder, I just want to make it known that I want to allow people to "draw cards" on at least the deck pages so you can get a feel for a deck without taking it into game. Getting an idea of what cards you can get in your opening hand is a nice little tool to have and could even help with the deckbuilder experience too provided we find a nice place to put it :D
Don't get me wrong, I think it would be very cool to be able to export decks from one site to another. Supporting such a thing becomes very difficult though because you need to scrape through a lot of profiles and even more decks. I know HearthPwn specifically bans you temporarily for visiting too many decks too fast, it just wouldn't be feasible without a lot of different workers batching the deck scraping job. More workers ends up being more money.
With that said, I'm not saying no it won't ever happen, just not right now.
It ends right before the 5th - 11:59 PM Eastern. I do see the confusion now though and regret the wording. I've been using the Gleam giveaway as the countdown for both though.
Drawing will be done shortly after midnight once I pull a bunch of data and run a randomization script to see who wins.
Score and dust columns are now colored based on their content.
Score column has been relocated. It wanted to be closer to the deck name.
Added a new filter for "has guide". Select yes if you only want to see decks that have guide content.
Developer Note: I would like to eventually have this allow you to look for more detailed guides as well.
Implemented a proper hot algorithm for decks.
Developer Note: The hot algorithm uses votes, guide content, and age of a deck to determine how "hot" it is. It is slightly beneficial to write a guide if you want your deck to climb above others. Scores are not updated instantly but rather periodically (every hour currently). Over time this will be reevaluated and I'm sure we'll make it even better to make sure the best deck content is showcased.
Deckbuilder
Added mana curve!
Developer Note: Next we'll have this on decks.
The front page pro decks widget will now always show decks in it.
Bug Fixes
Reduced the card size in our expansion guides. This was incorrectly increased in a previous "feature" change.
Not even the menu is working properly. Feels like a early 2000 forum which are dying fast.
Oh, no, now I see what you mean.
Sorry, in my country we aren't required to put our business address in the footer of our site and give you our tax numbers. That stuff belongs in a dumpster along with cookie consent banners, takeover modals, and countries that actively don't understand why things like SSL are important.
RSS fFeed will be an actual thing and arrive real soon. Its such a great way to consume content, it's honestly a bit of a shame it fell out of favor =(
RIP Google Reader
Welcome back! This serves as a changelog for site stuff that has been changed since HearthStation was shut down back in April of this year.
Changes
Bug Fixes
Again, there's a lot I want to talk about and simply can't right now. That frustration you have with me I have as well and possibly to an even greater degree. I hope you won't hold it against me.
There's definitely been changes to the way some of the data is structured nowadays. It was a lot easier to determine rewards on old-style quests, now it all goes through their bag reward system which is a mess of numbers.
I suspect they have some other trickery in place though too because the 12 RoS packs seemed kinda weird, especially since the first four quests all trigger different reward bags and then the final quest triggers all four.
On it boss.
So to start with, I really want to add in powerful search features like the ones we have in Hearthstone. Doing cost, attack, and health queries are definitely going to happen and for people that are deckbuilding wizards, I feel like it would give them a good amount of power.
I'd also really like to find a way to allow people to add cards to decks faster. If, for example, you were filling out the search form and a single card was the result, hitting enter should add a copy of it to your deck. This desire actually stems from years of painfully entering hundreds of tournament decks and it taking forever to transcribe lists into a deckbuilder. Luckily we see deck codes quite often now in esports stuff which makes the whole transcription process take no amount of time compared to the old way, but it could again be a powerful tool for the deckbuilding elite.
As for your first request though, I think that's a very interesting idea and it would be cool to implement. Getting the interface perfect for it though would be key. My first instinct is we should have a single searchable field below the list which when input, would highlight cards that match that input. Typing in "elem" for example should not only highlight cards with the elemental tribe but also those which contain "elem" in the card text. That's just my initial reaction on how to go about implementing a feature like that though, there may be a better way and hey maybe we could even iterate on it.
Also, while on the subject of feature stuff for decks / deckbuilder, I just want to make it known that I want to allow people to "draw cards" on at least the deck pages so you can get a feel for a deck without taking it into game. Getting an idea of what cards you can get in your opening hand is a nice little tool to have and could even help with the deckbuilder experience too provided we find a nice place to put it :D
Lots of work to be done on both those features.
Don't get me wrong, I think it would be very cool to be able to export decks from one site to another. Supporting such a thing becomes very difficult though because you need to scrape through a lot of profiles and even more decks. I know HearthPwn specifically bans you temporarily for visiting too many decks too fast, it just wouldn't be feasible without a lot of different workers batching the deck scraping job. More workers ends up being more money.
With that said, I'm not saying no it won't ever happen, just not right now.
Did you read my post? =P
The giveaway has concluded, thank you to everyone who entered. I'm planning on doing some more pack giveaways in the future so stay tuned.
The following three people have won themselves 50 Rise of Shadows card packs via pre-order! Please check your email for instructions.
Murlocleader, Sinti, Anchorm4n
The second giveaway, for 80 card packs pre-order has also concluded. Congratulations to Eric Gray for winning.
All winners have been contacted via email, please get read your email for instructions!
It ends right before the 5th - 11:59 PM Eastern. I do see the confusion now though and regret the wording. I've been using the Gleam giveaway as the countdown for both though.
Drawing will be done shortly after midnight once I pull a bunch of data and run a randomization script to see who wins.
Good luck!
Another day, another round of updates.
Changes
Bug Fixes
This will come with improvement to user profiles. Not quite ready to launch the new profiles though, they need some more work =)
Well met! A small update has arrived to HearthStation.
Changes
Bug Fixes
I'm putting out a change right now to convert our name field to a search field.
The search field can search for:
Should be fixed!
Investigating
<3 Frosty for doing the updates on HearthStation today.
Username changes can be requested and we'll do them for you. People constantly changing their username isn't very community-like.
Oh, no, now I see what you mean.
Sorry, in my country we aren't required to put our business address in the footer of our site and give you our tax numbers. That stuff belongs in a dumpster along with cookie consent banners, takeover modals, and countries that actively don't understand why things like SSL are important.
Please see this thread
https://hearthstation.com/forums/hearthstation/site-feedback-ideas/157-innkeeper-or-similar-support-coming