May 28, 2019 - Out of Cards is born.
It's now been two years since Out of Cards came online and although it has been challenging, it has been a breath of fresh air to not be beholden to a corporation that doesn't care about its communities. Its kind of crazy to think though for the majority of the site's life, we've been in a pandemic. Today is a cause for celebration though so let's get that hype train started!
Next week we'll be kicking off a site event to celebrate our birthday and it will last throughout the month of June. Things will be a bit different than last year's event though, we've got plenty of tech improvements since then, so you can look forward to a slightly less chaotic event overall. We'll be coming at you with custom content, fresh cosmetics, giveaways, and more. Speaking of cosmetics, that gold that we've been accumulating a bit of will be finally usable on the site =)
Thank you. Thank you to everyone who has been a part of our journey so far. The audience we have built has been awesome and I'm looking forward to our continued growth over the next year and beyond. Keep things positive, share kindness, and help your fellow community members. Here's to another year!
- Flux
Oh hey, while I have you here, I know the basis of our community was built off of HearthPwn and I feel like it's important to tell you that your data is being sold, again.
The company that received HearthPwn, and other sites from Fandom, is selling off everything in a 12 million dollar sale to M.O.B.A. Network, the same folks who own Mobafire. (Source 1) (Source 2)
This hasn't really been publicized but what a damn shitshow. If you look at the history of that site, which starts with Curse, everyone's data has passed through the following companies:
- Curse
- Twitch
- Fandom
- Magic Find
- M.O.B.A. Network (Mobafire)
This bullshit further cements that leaving the site and not working with the team that acquired the site off Fandom, for free, was the right call at the end of the day for our staff and community. It would be heartbreaking to be at the helm of that and seeing yourself being forced to move somewhere else yet again.
To anyone who still makes use of HearthPwn and doesn't want to move over to Mobafire's company, we welcome you here with open arms into a community we're trying to keep as positive as possible. You're also well within your rights to ask them to delete your data and account instead of having it sold - don't forget that!
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Thank you for all
I'm using this site since HearthStation and visiting it nearly everyday.
But, I'm still using HeartPwn for quest sharing. The only missing thing in this forum is an active quest sharing thread :P
Happy birthday !
I still want to push out a tool for this to make it even easier than a thread. Hopefully the time investment makes sense at some point - we've had a ticket logged for it since before we launched.
Happy Birthday and thank you so much to the staff that keeps providing such great content, constantly improves the site and is just super responsive and helpful in general. This site is everything the Internet promised to be: a nice place full of friendly people that share a common hobby. Proud to be a part of this.
<3
This is a major reason why its important we still have independent sites over nonsense social media. With a good moderation team and solid values, you can provide a fun place for folks to chat and be a part of something.
Happy Birthday!
Team is doing such an amazing job delivering quality content every single day, hats off for that and proud to be a member of this community!
Happy birthday to my addiction! 😅
(good job, team! 🤗)
They grow up so fast <3
Happy Birthday and thanks, OOC team, for all the amazing content! <3
Happy Birthmas Out of Cards! May your light shine far after all others have been snuffed, or sold off.
Out of cards best site for all things Hearthstone....nothing else needs to be said
Happy Birthday. ;)
Happy birthday! You guys rock
Best wishes (along with many legendaries) to the admins and every member of the community.
Happy Birthday!!!
Happy Birthday!!
Been very happy to be a supporter since the start and have enjoyed the ride.
Looking forward to seeing what is in the cards [wink].
Happy birthday!! Keep up the great work!
Happy Birthday! Cheers to this great site.
I've been a part of this website since its inception, before it was officially launched as Out of Cards, and it's been a real pleasure to work with everyone here and see how this website has grown over the two years that it has been around.
Happy birthday Out of Cards, and many more to come.
Happy Birthday OoC! Thanks for being an awesome group!