I do see the page hanging now and think this may be related to yesterday's deploy. Going to go digging. Thanks for the report and sorry for the trouble!
We were supposed to have our Halloween event go live earlier today, as teased via "Out of Cards Surprise" on the October card back post for Hearthstone. We're behind on schedule due to the craze that was this past week (sup Hearthstone announcements and Duels deckbuilder) so I just wanted to let everyone know that it is delayed until tomorrow.
I don't have the exact time when it will go live tomorrow, but I can tell you that we'll be extending the availability of the Halloween event a couple of days to make sure we have at least a full week for it. It doesn't line up perfectly with Halloween being the final day, but we'll just say we're also celebrating Day of the Dead alongside it =D
I think people will like what we've got in store. It's a jump up from our previous site events and will also be the basis for our Holiday event in December. Super stoked!
At this point, we're definitely delayed until tomorrow on the Spooks. This week has kicked my ass and was meant to be most of our final implementations of stuff. Since I focused hard on getting the duels deckbuilder feature out, we're behind =( I've also slept for 4 hours over the last 32 hours and should probably take another couple hour nap.
All worth it though. I think people will like what we've got in store. It's a big jump from previous site events and will also be the basis for our Holiday fun in December, so I'm excited about that! Speaking of, work on our Holiday event is going to take place while the Halloween one takes place because November is going to be absolutely nuts. Oh, I'm so excited!
There was some decent thought that went into the initial deckbuilder design, because we'd have to support things like adventures and tavern brawls, but this actually required a lot more work than originally anticipated.
The original goal was to have this out on Thursday night after we learned of the changes. Most of the work went into rebuilding our API that serves cards to the deckbuilder (and other site features) to get more control over how we can filter and cache results.
Even then, with the front-end part being easier, I still want to fully rebuild our deckbuilder to make it even better. I'd like to solidify our deckbuilder tech between all the builders we support (Runeterra one has some better code over the Hearthstone since it was built later) to also make it much easier to build out a new, basic deckbuilders given very few pieces of data so we can support more card databases easily. That isn't in the cards yet though.
Typically achievement points are just a measure of comparison and not a real currency. They didn't announce anything specific, so I can only imagine that will be the case here too.
We had some unintended downtime this way-too-early morning. Because this kind of stuff always interests me, and transparency can be fun, let's see what went wrong!
Event Log
All times in Eastern.
2:43 AM - Out of Cards goes offline.
2:49 AM - A service unreachable email gets fired off.
This email did not trigger the alerts that it should have. Since we did a site migration a couple of months ago, our tech for that changed and was never tested. Pfft, downtime. That'll never happen!
3:01 AM - The messages begin to hit me on Discord and Twitter.
See, you don't need proper downtime checks!
3:03 AM - Investigation Begins
3:19 AM - Problem Discovered
Our container service decided it wanted to do an automatic update. That really should not have been an issue but because the containers running our site were not set to automatically restart, the site went down.
3:22 AM - Site comes back online
Updates for the service have been disabled - we'd rather manage these ourselves anyway.
What We're Changing
Obviously, our big issue is that our app containers didn't restart themselves. That's shitty and a huge oversight. A configuration change will go out in the morning that will resolve this.
The secondary issue is garbage monitoring of the site. There should be some serious alarms going off when stuff goes wrong. I'll make sure we have better processes in place going forward to notify of downtime.
There's a decent enough chance. Next year's 3 expansions have already been decided. I'm not sure if they have decided the first set of 2022 yet so a new class 2 years off Demon Hunter seems doable. Let's hope!
The third part of the year begins in December. They still have almost 2 months before the next set releases.
Expect it either the last week of October or early November. Remember, BlizzCon was supposed to be early November. They were likely planning on pulling a Battlegrounds where they announced the mode at BlizzCon and it released the following week.
I'm expecting to see more single-player content, but definitely nothing that would be an adventure. Hopefully, they can bring back a dungeon run or some new form of content
It still blows my mind how we can go over a week without deploying the site yet it always feels like we just deployed yesterday. Anyway, here's today's changelog.
Changes
Runeterra
Added card subsets.
We now flag cards based on two sets. Their primary set (Such as Call of the Mountain) and their expansion (Such as Monuments of Power)
If you search for Monuments of Power cards on the database, you'll only see those cards.
If you search for Call of the Mountain cards, you'll get COTM and MOP cards combined because they are from the same overall set.
We're also including MOP cards within the main COTM set guide.
Bug Fixes
Fixed the "Has Guide" filter on decks for Runeterra and Hearthstone.
Previously, if this was unchecked and you used any other filters on the page, it would not include decks that had a guide, only showing guide=none decks.
The functionality is now the indeed of:
Has Guide Checked = Only shows decks with written guides.
Has Guide Unchecked = Shows decks with and without guides.
The Riot API
We have starter access to Riot's Match API. We've begun collecting some data as a test and are working on formatting it. Here's the phase 1 plan.
We'll let you tell us what your Riot account name is (Such as Fluxflashor#NA1)
We'll sync your matches and match data from Riot's API.
We'll display your matches and give you some basic, personalized stats on a dedicated page.
We'll give you the option to make your match stats page public. Private is the default.
All data we will display on the site will be anonymous unless you opt-in to showcase your matches on your public profile.
Phase 2 is more stat details.
On deck guides, we'll tell you what the winrate of a deck is using data we've compiled.
We'll let a deck author decide if they want us to publish their personal stats on a specific deck they submit to the site. This would appear above the guide that they may or may not write.
I don't have an ETA on it all. We need to get further approval from Riot to increase our API limits. As of now, we can only collect data for 100 matches every hour, which is the match history for 5 different accounts. It isn't great, but we understand they need to do this.
Not a whole lot going on for PC Gaming or even Playstation/Xbox (At least right now). Even hardware isn't looking too thrilling yet. Some decent prices on SSDs, but nothing extreme. It might be worth waiting until Black Friday in November unless you need something now.
There are only so many things we can post about when you might be interested in a whole other section of things. Some great deals on Lego (Sponsored Link) which can make for some great holiday gifts (or for yourself!)
This has now been flagged as a treasure as intended!
Hey BogAl,
I do see the page hanging now and think this may be related to yesterday's deploy. Going to go digging. Thanks for the report and sorry for the trouble!
Have fun!
Making a post here for visibility.
We were supposed to have our Halloween event go live earlier today, as teased via "Out of Cards Surprise" on the October card back post for Hearthstone. We're behind on schedule due to the craze that was this past week (sup Hearthstone announcements and Duels deckbuilder) so I just wanted to let everyone know that it is delayed until tomorrow.
I don't have the exact time when it will go live tomorrow, but I can tell you that we'll be extending the availability of the Halloween event a couple of days to make sure we have at least a full week for it. It doesn't line up perfectly with Halloween being the final day, but we'll just say we're also celebrating Day of the Dead alongside it =D
I think people will like what we've got in store. It's a jump up from our previous site events and will also be the basis for our Holiday event in December. Super stoked!
At this point, we're definitely delayed until tomorrow on the Spooks. This week has kicked my ass and was meant to be most of our final implementations of stuff. Since I focused hard on getting the duels deckbuilder feature out, we're behind =( I've also slept for 4 hours over the last 32 hours and should probably take another couple hour nap.
All worth it though. I think people will like what we've got in store. It's a big jump from previous site events and will also be the basis for our Holiday fun in December, so I'm excited about that! Speaking of, work on our Holiday event is going to take place while the Halloween one takes place because November is going to be absolutely nuts. Oh, I'm so excited!
There was some decent thought that went into the initial deckbuilder design, because we'd have to support things like adventures and tavern brawls, but this actually required a lot more work than originally anticipated.
The original goal was to have this out on Thursday night after we learned of the changes. Most of the work went into rebuilding our API that serves cards to the deckbuilder (and other site features) to get more control over how we can filter and cache results.
Even then, with the front-end part being easier, I still want to fully rebuild our deckbuilder to make it even better. I'd like to solidify our deckbuilder tech between all the builders we support (Runeterra one has some better code over the Hearthstone since it was built later) to also make it much easier to build out a new, basic deckbuilders given very few pieces of data so we can support more card databases easily. That isn't in the cards yet though.
Glad you like it though!
As a member, I'm voicing my support.
As staff, I'm hiding.
At least a week which should be enough time to gather the gold if you are starting from scratch =)
Typically achievement points are just a measure of comparison and not a real currency. They didn't announce anything specific, so I can only imagine that will be the case here too.
Hey all,
We had some unintended downtime this way-too-early morning. Because this kind of stuff always interests me, and transparency can be fun, let's see what went wrong!
Event Log
All times in Eastern.
2:43 AM - Out of Cards goes offline.
2:49 AM - A service unreachable email gets fired off.
This email did not trigger the alerts that it should have. Since we did a site migration a couple of months ago, our tech for that changed and was never tested. Pfft, downtime. That'll never happen!
3:01 AM - The messages begin to hit me on Discord and Twitter.
See, you don't need proper downtime checks!
3:03 AM - Investigation Begins
3:19 AM - Problem Discovered
Our container service decided it wanted to do an automatic update. That really should not have been an issue but because the containers running our site were not set to automatically restart, the site went down.
3:22 AM - Site comes back online
Updates for the service have been disabled - we'd rather manage these ourselves anyway.
What We're Changing
Obviously, our big issue is that our app containers didn't restart themselves. That's shitty and a huge oversight. A configuration change will go out in the morning that will resolve this.
The secondary issue is garbage monitoring of the site. There should be some serious alarms going off when stuff goes wrong. I'll make sure we have better processes in place going forward to notify of downtime.
Hopefully there isn't a next time!
They aren't going to announce details on that until the start of a new Hearthstone year.
I'm going to lock this thread. No need to bump it with a response like that.
You have the next 4 days since this ends on October 20.
There's a decent enough chance. Next year's 3 expansions have already been decided. I'm not sure if they have decided the first set of 2022 yet so a new class 2 years off Demon Hunter seems doable. Let's hope!
The third part of the year begins in December. They still have almost 2 months before the next set releases.
Expect it either the last week of October or early November. Remember, BlizzCon was supposed to be early November. They were likely planning on pulling a Battlegrounds where they announced the mode at BlizzCon and it released the following week.
I'm expecting to see more single-player content, but definitely nothing that would be an adventure. Hopefully, they can bring back a dungeon run or some new form of content
Today!
It still blows my mind how we can go over a week without deploying the site yet it always feels like we just deployed yesterday. Anyway, here's today's changelog.
Changes
Runeterra
Bug Fixes
The Riot API
We have starter access to Riot's Match API. We've begun collecting some data as a test and are working on formatting it. Here's the phase 1 plan.
Phase 2 is more stat details.
I don't have an ETA on it all. We need to get further approval from Riot to increase our API limits. As of now, we can only collect data for 100 matches every hour, which is the match history for 5 different accounts. It isn't great, but we understand they need to do this.
People will always complain about Murlocs. Poor adorable little buggers.
The first round of updates done.
Not a whole lot going on for PC Gaming or even Playstation/Xbox (At least right now). Even hardware isn't looking too thrilling yet. Some decent prices on SSDs, but nothing extreme. It might be worth waiting until Black Friday in November unless you need something now.
Definitely go and take a look at all the deals yourself though. (Sponsored Link - As an Amazon Associate, Out of Cards earns from qualifying purchases.)
There are only so many things we can post about when you might be interested in a whole other section of things. Some great deals on Lego (Sponsored Link) which can make for some great holiday gifts (or for yourself!)