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.

• Go to the Edit Collection tab.
• Click the "Bulk Remove Filtered From Collection" button.
• Click "Save Collection" button.

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:

• 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.

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

• Improved loading of our custom Fonts for a small speed increase.
• Added additional lazyloading across the site.
  • Chrome users, this doesn't help you as much as Firefox because of how ridiculous Google is with considering how far "the fold" is. Morons.
• Removed unused JavaScript.

Hearthstone

• Decks
  • Deck pages now display a fourth button in the sidebar to allow you to copy a deck's image.
    • Please note that when you first save a deck this will not display.
    • Please note that when you update a deck, the new image will not immediately be available.
    • Images are queued up for processing after your deck has been saved. We can't render them during the web request - that isn't a good idea!
    • If no one else is creating decks, your image is usually created with 15 seconds of your deck being saved.

Bugfixes

General

• Forums
  • Threads will now correctly update again when community members reply to them.

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

• Decks
  • Changing a deck's cards now saves a changelog and displays it inside of a spoiler on the deck details page.
    • This is NOT retroactive, only deck changes after the update will add this.
    • This tech will be applied to other game decks on the site in the near future.

Additions & Changes 

Magic

• Updated symbols for Mana and Sets.

Bug Fixes

General

• Fixed an issue where we were spamming Twitter.
• Forbidden pages on the site now indicate they are Forbidden in the page's title.
• Forums
  • Threads are correctly sorting again by most recently updated first.

Hearthstone

• Decks
  • Dust calculation JS now properly excludes dust costs for free cards.

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

Happy Easter!

Additions & Changes

General

• Pagination
  • Added First and Last pages to our base-level paginator.
    • This was previously only a feature on our table listings.
    • You will only see skips to first and last if you are more than 5 page numbers away from them.

Runeterra

• Importer
  • Updated card database for 2.5.0
    • This happened on Friday and was accidentally delayed due to incorrectly importing older patch data.

Hearthstone

• Decks
  • Generated deck list thumbnails are now JPEGs to save bandwidth (and storage!)
  • API
    • is_free bool added to expansions API.

Bugfixes

General

• Twitter Recaps
  • Fixed an issue where we were not correctly associating posts with their parent statuses in some scenarios.
  • Fixed a rare crash that could occur, preventing us from getting some conversation data.
• Profile Links
  • Fixed an issue where the site would error if we passed a None value to our profile link generator.
    • This fixes some very old forum problems that could only be seen if you went back far.
• Avatars
  • Pins no longer display in places where we don't want to see them.

Hearthstone

• Decks
  • Fixed an issue where generated deck list thumbnails would not contain all cards.
  • Dust calculations no longer count core cards as having dust costs.
    • We're flagging expansions now based on being "free" or not so we won't have to run a code update in the future when sets change up.
    • All decks have had their dust calculations redone on the site.
• Collection
  • JSON Importer no longer errors on the site.
  • Web page for collection management now says "My Hearthstone Collection"

Known Issues

General

• Avatars
  • Cache takes longer than normal to break when you change your avatar image.