Today's patch notes also includes things pushed during the BlizzCon weekend.
Hearthstone
Card data during card reveal period syncs again from Blizzard's API.
Brought back our rating system for Hearthstone cards, which was absent from our major site update.
This also adds the same rating stars to the card detail pages.
Discussion buttons for cards during reveal period now point everyone to discuss cards on their database pages.
This is very important for us. It helps add custom content to our database pages which will help them perform better on Google which is why we are doing this instead of discussion threads.
Fixed an issue with our Battle.net data where tokens were not being associated with the cards they belong to. Hello Mastermind Yogg-Saron.
Fixed the appearance of our countdown timers for card reveals.
Removed the Cataclysm box from the bottom of the homepage.
Fixed an issue with us incorrectly importing Spell Schools and Tribes for cards, resulting in "UNK_" or "Invalid" being displayed.
Articles
Added a new live blogging feature.
If you tuned into any of our live panel coverages articles this weekend, such as at the opening ceremony, you came across a new way we are able to deliver instant updates to articles.
We will be using this system going forward for live events!
Any feedback you have for it, we're open ears.
GEneral
Added new functionality to the site which allows us to clear the caches for Articles and Guides based on other events taking place on the website.
Right now we are using this specifically for Hearthstone. When we add new cards to the database, any articles or guides where these cards should appear will now have instant updates instead of us having to re-save articles and guides.
Fixed multiple pages which were using excessive amount of memory to load pages.
A crawler took the site down a few times during the weekend and so I found the pages responsible, profiled them, and as it turns out we were doing some dumb stuff with our site maps causing them to use more memory than they needed to. Loading multiple of these in quick succession was causing the site to lock up.
As a part of this, I profiled the entire website to look for other moments of high memory usage and fixed those too. There was only one other one.
The global comments page has been moved to the new site theme.
This was the final page that hadn't moved over. Goodbye Out of Games v3.
I know most people likely don't even know this exists because we don't link it anywhere. It is primarily used as a moderation tool to help us find spam comments across the site.
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