Considering I've coded the entire site myself, yeah, it is something that I could add in. Its not something that is getting written and deployed before this post was going up.
We won't be adding rarity colors to name text, it just kinda looks like vomit and anyone else generating similar images isn't doing it as well (I assume for similar reasons).
The biggest issue with having the card images stand out more is it gets a bit busy. There were many iterations of these images with different levels of opacity. Some cards look really good with a brighter look, but others not as much. The current version is what I would consider being a good overall compromise.
Several cards don't even look great alone because crops aren't even good. Some art just can't be cropped good to fit in a small line like that, you see this even in the in-game collection manager. You've also got spells that aren't even immediately identifiable by image since you aren't used to seeing them always since they don't sit on the in-game field. There's a lot of reasons why crops aren't great and are really only there to break things up a bit and make the images less dull.
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Doing mana costs is something I am considering adding. We could pull an HSR with it and use that to indicate the rarity of a card.
I'd like short links up on the images so people know where they can grab the deck code should the image get shared around without the deck url.
Dust costs also need to be added.
I want to get archetype-specific backgrounds because it would look much more awesome.
The only risk is having to do a lot of updating when rotations happen due to card changes.
Less of an issue for a deck like "Watch Post Rogue" where we aren't likely to get other watch posts, but "Freeze Mage" could easily see very different ideas.
I'm glad everyone without premium enjoyed our premium trial today!
I believe all outstanding issues with premium have been fixed at this point (other than the annoying one that resets your profile cosmetics every month). The last one with everyone having premium was an oversight a simple conditional check fixed.
You should have Premium. I do think I know what's up though.
You posted this when some bad code was deployed on the site that changed how we handled the premium cache. It has since been resolved, can you confirm that you are a premium member still?
I'm very happy to see it return and early on in the expansion cycle. I understand them not wanting to do it the first week, but the second is an absolute must! IIRC one expansion we were 4 or 5 weeks in when the recipe brawl arrived and it was like, what's the point?
We only had a recipe brawl once last year so let's hope this is changing it up.
We don't have these exposed yet on the pages themselves, they're only seen when linking the list on Twitter, Discord, etc. (Places that use meta data to display an image for a webpage)
The plan is to add a button to copy the image URL of the deck.
You're a moron. Don't come back.
If I didn't provide the context, someone would have in the comments.
If I didn't provide the context, someone would have complained about it.
If I didn't post about this, I'd be questioned about why we're covering it up.
You can't win on the internet. I gave people the facts, they can use them as they see fit.
Considering I've coded the entire site myself, yeah, it is something that I could add in. Its not something that is getting written and deployed before this post was going up.
Definitely, something to do down the line.
We don't have the ability to disable comments on articles, this is probably one of those times it would be used.
Keep it civil.
You can perform a reset of your own collection by visiting your collection management page.
This will send an empty collection to our server to delete your existing one.
No plans to move the forums on the homepage or game portal pages as it would add even more vertical scrolling to get to the news content.
We won't be adding rarity colors to name text, it just kinda looks like vomit and anyone else generating similar images isn't doing it as well (I assume for similar reasons).
The biggest issue with having the card images stand out more is it gets a bit busy. There were many iterations of these images with different levels of opacity. Some cards look really good with a brighter look, but others not as much. The current version is what I would consider being a good overall compromise.
Several cards don't even look great alone because crops aren't even good. Some art just can't be cropped good to fit in a small line like that, you see this even in the in-game collection manager. You've also got spells that aren't even immediately identifiable by image since you aren't used to seeing them always since they don't sit on the in-game field. There's a lot of reasons why crops aren't great and are really only there to break things up a bit and make the images less dull.
Sidenotes:
I'm glad everyone without premium enjoyed our premium trial today!
I believe all outstanding issues with premium have been fixed at this point (other than the annoying one that resets your profile cosmetics every month). The last one with everyone having premium was an oversight a simple conditional check fixed.
It has been a long day.
You should have Premium. I do think I know what's up though.
You posted this when some bad code was deployed on the site that changed how we handled the premium cache. It has since been resolved, can you confirm that you are a premium member still?
Looking into this.
I'm very happy to see it return and early on in the expansion cycle. I understand them not wanting to do it the first week, but the second is an absolute must! IIRC one expansion we were 4 or 5 weeks in when the recipe brawl arrived and it was like, what's the point?
We only had a recipe brawl once last year so let's hope this is changing it up.
Not pushing anything else out today so here's our changelog.
A special thanks NerdyMcNerd for pointing out I've been putting 2020 in the titles. Gotta love a fantastic copy-paste job!
Additions & Changes
General
Hearthstone
Bugfixes
General
The value!
Deployed code to fix issues with threads not updating.
Thanks, fixed!
Also, sorry about the slight downtime =)
Today's update includes a large upgrade to our underlying site framework so patch notes are thin as most of the work is backend related.
New Features
Hearthstone
Additions & Changes
Magic
Bug Fixes
General
Hearthstone
We don't have these exposed yet on the pages themselves, they're only seen when linking the list on Twitter, Discord, etc. (Places that use meta data to display an image for a webpage)
The plan is to add a button to copy the image URL of the deck.
We've covered Libram paladin enough :P. Paladin is currently destroying the ladder and certainly doesn't need any more help spreading the holy light.
It'll arrive