Alright so it sounds like you're just missing CSS.
Could you try to hard-refresh your page for Out of Cards? You can do this by pressing Ctrl+Shift+R when you have any Out of Cards page open. I recommend first closing your browser completely though and then trying this just to make sure we're at a base-level state (rebooting your computer as a whole might not be a bad idea either).
If a hard-refresh doesn't work, I'd like to know what your browser console is saying, if anything.
F12 will open your browser's console and the Console tab itself, after a refresh, might display some information about why it is having trouble loading the css file. Speaking of, what happens if you try to visit our recent CSS file directly?
I'd make use of the general forums for now as we can always move threads to their correct forums down the line. I'd rather try and have a single forum for the game get traffic and talking then breaking it up into a couple, at least to start. Breaking up the forums when there is low traffic to them can do more harm.
Just wanted to comment so that it is known that there are at least some people wanting this 😃
I want to point out that this is really important for us to know. There might be things that have the priority from time to time, but knowing that a feature is requested or that there are people that would gladly use it makes us understand what's worth investing our (Flux's) time into.
Thanks for your precious feedback: as Flux said, it's a matter or "when" rather than "if".
Yup, couldn't agree more! Feedback is super important and drives much of what we do =)
Thanks for the response, but I believe there is also a "chicken-egg" debate to this. Maybe if this would be available you'll get more people on the site who play and at least you'll be ahead of the competition, which might be relevant when snap becomes big.
With the limited availability of the game, I know we're not missing out on a ton right now. That isn't to say that I didn't want to have a deckbuilder out day 1, we've just got so many ongoing projects on the backend that have taken priority that it's not the the works right now
I've also promised our Yu-Gi-Oh folks that they're getting their deckbuilder first since that tech has been in development for a while now. The Marvel Snap builder is going to be arriving very shortly after the Yu-Gi-Oh one goes live and will be making use of our new direction for what deckbuilders mean on Out of Cards.
There was a lot of work done to ensure all our old links would forward to the correct location, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone discovered a one-off issue here or there.
All our articles are now classified under "news" on the site now, instead of their game-specific paths.
Keeping things game-specific ended up being a bad design decision.
Article themes are now gone.
This has been this way for a bit now with our article header overhauls, but now we're no longer serving theme information at all with our articles. This doesn't really matter for 99.9% of people.
Added new cache functionality to our BBCode to provide speed improvements.
We're currently only live with this for Hearthstone as a "live beta test".
Other BBCodes will move over to our new internal structure in the future.
Mercenaries
Added a new party tag for "Event".
Bug Fixes
General
Fixed an issue where logged-out users were encountering a server error when trying to create a new thread on the forums.
Removed references to RSS feeds in places where we don't support RSS feeds.
Hearthstone
Fixed an issue where multiclass cards would not always appear in the deckbuilder.
Magic the Gathering
Fixed an issue where some of our cards didn't have images.
Known Issues
This morning we had an issue with comments on the site.
As of right now, this issue has been resolved though some content may take some additional time to uncache.
FIXEDHearthstone Subportals (Duels, Mercs, Battlegrounds, Fan Creations) are currently erroring.
Firefox users who have private browsing permanently enabled cannot use the Hearthstone deckbuilder.
Due to how we load data for the deckbuilder, Firefox's private browsing mode doesn't let you use IndexedDB.
There is an incredibly tiny percentage of people that might have this enabled. I don't currently plan to offer a workaround.
Firefox has had an open issue to support it for 10 years now, all the other browsers support it in their private browsing modes by using an in-memory version that doesn't persist data to disk, losing the data on exit.
100%, this card is a way to test an upcoming mechanic.
We used to see things like this in Tavern Brawl, like when we got the Discover debut in Captain Blackheart's Treasure, so precedence in mechanic testing is definitely a thing.
Hearthstone has gotten more complicated over the years and the vast combinations of cards just lets too much crazy stuff happen and it's been very clear they can't predict much of it anymore since they have to balance cards more than ever. The move to 40 health will be a huge positive for the health of the aging game and might lure players in to give it a try - I'd love to see the metrics on who came back for the new legendary.
I fully expect them to debut this with Hearthstone's next year in 2023. That'll be the year they switch to 4 expansions per year, 40 health on heroes, and do a significant core set rework. We should also see the new rotating format during 2023, with Classic being kicked to the curb.
Remember that this year's final expansion is going to be bigger than ever, which is probably going to help give us a huge push in diversity so when they drop the number of cards we're seeing at the start of next year, it doesn't feel like there are no cards in the game anymore. If Hearthstone's 4 sets a year drop the total cards in a set back to 135 (removing the extra 35 from the mini-sets), it's going to feel like there are not enough options midway through the new set.
Yeah, I'm a little off-topic here but there you have it, my predictions that I can link back to in 2023 when this is all true.
I'll add onto this, thanks to Nirast for picking up the slack!
Normally Riot sends us notes in advance of them being publicly announced which is why we're normally able to get them up nicely formatted on the moment they drop (there was one time where we posted on the embargo time and Riot didn't... that was some nice traffic). That hasn't happened a few times now, receiving them after they go live. I'm not sure what's up with the change since it doesn't even seem to be consistent. But because of that, there was just a lot of other things going on at the time LoR posted their notes and it wasn't stuff I could jump off of. Many other folks here too are busy with other things or are around on a more limited basis so we were able to get to them when we could.
I agree though, it's not a great look for us, especially when I've prided my content career on the fact that I've been first to break a lot of news and generally speaking, we're still damn fast. I know our Runeterra coverage has also just been close to non-existent over the past half year or so, maybe a bit longer. When we lost our primary for covering the game, we just weren't in a great spot to bring someone else on at that point in time, and LoR traffic has just been downhill both here and in general, so hard committing to a new person is a very risky play. Riot pushing forward on a more PVP focus for the game in their recent announcement is nice to see though because that makes me more hopeful they're trying to figure out what to do with the game instead of just letting it die out.
Actions speak louder than words though, and not only does that apply to Riot here, but us too. On that action side of things, there hasn't been much of it and it is my hope that we can turn that around by finding some new people who want to cover LoR on Out of Cards.
We don't have the option to sync your cards automatically as Riot never gave us access to it. You are able to manage your collection manually though, you can find your LoR collection in the menu at the top of the site with your username.
There is functionality to bulk add cards, so for example, if you know you have the entire foundations set, you can filter for that and click the bulk add button to push them all into your collection.
I actually want to write an article about the Mage hero situation badly because their internal ids hit a new milestone with Kael - they ran out of letters for Mages so he is "AA".
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.
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!
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.
Alright so it sounds like you're just missing CSS.
Could you try to hard-refresh your page for Out of Cards? You can do this by pressing Ctrl+Shift+R when you have any Out of Cards page open. I recommend first closing your browser completely though and then trying this just to make sure we're at a base-level state (rebooting your computer as a whole might not be a bad idea either).
If a hard-refresh doesn't work, I'd like to know what your browser console is saying, if anything.
F12 will open your browser's console and the Console tab itself, after a refresh, might display some information about why it is having trouble loading the css file. Speaking of, what happens if you try to visit our recent CSS file directly?
https://almost.outof.cards/static/b2.259/CACHE/css/output.ecbf78a48c44.css
We're going to need more information. What do you mean by "broken"? Screenshots of what you are seeing? Browser? OS? Thanks
I'd make use of the general forums for now as we can always move threads to their correct forums down the line. I'd rather try and have a single forum for the game get traffic and talking then breaking it up into a couple, at least to start. Breaking up the forums when there is low traffic to them can do more harm.
No one saw the Voyage to the Sunken City background art for 30 seconds. I definitely did not make that mistake. Nope.
It's still on Twitter if you care.
Yup, couldn't agree more! Feedback is super important and drives much of what we do =)
With the limited availability of the game, I know we're not missing out on a ton right now. That isn't to say that I didn't want to have a deckbuilder out day 1, we've just got so many ongoing projects on the backend that have taken priority that it's not the the works right now
I've also promised our Yu-Gi-Oh folks that they're getting their deckbuilder first since that tech has been in development for a while now. The Marvel Snap builder is going to be arriving very shortly after the Yu-Gi-Oh one goes live and will be making use of our new direction for what deckbuilders mean on Out of Cards.
Additions & Changes
General
Mercenaries
Bug Fixes
General
Hearthstone
Magic the Gathering
Known Issues
Agreed. We'll have one on our next site deploy!
The video was recorded some time ago before they did a balance pass. Cards on our page are up to date!
Sexual innuendo. Many laughs were had and several Battlegrounds streamers were being way over the top about it too.
100%, this card is a way to test an upcoming mechanic.
We used to see things like this in Tavern Brawl, like when we got the Discover debut in Captain Blackheart's Treasure, so precedence in mechanic testing is definitely a thing.
Hearthstone has gotten more complicated over the years and the vast combinations of cards just lets too much crazy stuff happen and it's been very clear they can't predict much of it anymore since they have to balance cards more than ever. The move to 40 health will be a huge positive for the health of the aging game and might lure players in to give it a try - I'd love to see the metrics on who came back for the new legendary.
I fully expect them to debut this with Hearthstone's next year in 2023. That'll be the year they switch to 4 expansions per year, 40 health on heroes, and do a significant core set rework. We should also see the new rotating format during 2023, with Classic being kicked to the curb.
Remember that this year's final expansion is going to be bigger than ever, which is probably going to help give us a huge push in diversity so when they drop the number of cards we're seeing at the start of next year, it doesn't feel like there are no cards in the game anymore. If Hearthstone's 4 sets a year drop the total cards in a set back to 135 (removing the extra 35 from the mini-sets), it's going to feel like there are not enough options midway through the new set.
Yeah, I'm a little off-topic here but there you have it, my predictions that I can link back to in 2023 when this is all true.
I'll add onto this, thanks to Nirast for picking up the slack!
Normally Riot sends us notes in advance of them being publicly announced which is why we're normally able to get them up nicely formatted on the moment they drop (there was one time where we posted on the embargo time and Riot didn't... that was some nice traffic). That hasn't happened a few times now, receiving them after they go live. I'm not sure what's up with the change since it doesn't even seem to be consistent. But because of that, there was just a lot of other things going on at the time LoR posted their notes and it wasn't stuff I could jump off of. Many other folks here too are busy with other things or are around on a more limited basis so we were able to get to them when we could.
I agree though, it's not a great look for us, especially when I've prided my content career on the fact that I've been first to break a lot of news and generally speaking, we're still damn fast. I know our Runeterra coverage has also just been close to non-existent over the past half year or so, maybe a bit longer. When we lost our primary for covering the game, we just weren't in a great spot to bring someone else on at that point in time, and LoR traffic has just been downhill both here and in general, so hard committing to a new person is a very risky play. Riot pushing forward on a more PVP focus for the game in their recent announcement is nice to see though because that makes me more hopeful they're trying to figure out what to do with the game instead of just letting it die out.
Actions speak louder than words though, and not only does that apply to Riot here, but us too. On that action side of things, there hasn't been much of it and it is my hope that we can turn that around by finding some new people who want to cover LoR on Out of Cards.
We don't have the option to sync your cards automatically as Riot never gave us access to it. You are able to manage your collection manually though, you can find your LoR collection in the menu at the top of the site with your username.
There is functionality to bulk add cards, so for example, if you know you have the entire foundations set, you can filter for that and click the bulk add button to push them all into your collection.
I actually want to write an article about the Mage hero situation badly because their internal ids hit a new milestone with Kael - they ran out of letters for Mages so he is "AA".
Great job, Blizzard!
We missed posting about this - source is the announcement video!
Everything should be starting in 34 minutes!
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.
Could you be more specific about your device and browser you are using? Essentials for any bug report!
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
Hearthstone
Bug Fixes
General
Hearthstone
Known Issues
General
Hearthstone
Dean has previously stated that if they go to 4 expansions, the mini-sets are gone.