New Features

Realms

• You can now filter threads in realms by tags.
  • Perfect for those card reveal threads on the Hearthstone realm!
• Tags can now be seen on each thread's listing item.
• Recent and Top guide content now appears on each realm sidebar.

Bug Fixes

Infrastructure

• A couple of weeks ago we had some unexpected site downtime.
  • We had another brief outage, though planned, last week, to address a configuration change.
• The underlying issues have been resolved and over the past couple of weeks things look stable.
• We've also noticed a large reduction in error rates on the site with pages failing to load at times.

Hearthstone

• Whizbang's Workshop correctly appears where it should.
• Threads once again get created during card reveals.

Realms

• Unpublished article content no longer appears at the top of realms.
• Fixed an issue with new threads not being assigned tags.
• Pagination of threads has been fixed.

General

• Fixed an issue where staff nuking spam accounts weren't deleting realm threads.
• Logout and login pages no longer have styling issues.
• The homepage caching of our threads block works as intended.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where pageviews were not calculating correctly.
  • This was not a wide-spread issue, any missing data for views is lost.
• Hearthstone deck listing now loads properly.
  • This was particularly annoying to track down the root cause of the problem.
• Guides that were previously broken now load correctly.
  • Those are some great looking Warcraft Rumble guides, link!
• RSS feeds from the old site now work again.
  • RSS clients must be able to handle redirects.
  • If your RSS client doesn't, update the url to include "realms" in the path. Example:
  • https://outof.games/hearthstone.rss -> https://outof.games/realms/hearthstone.rss
• Comment links work again.
  • The site was getting a bit confused about which type of thread it wanted to go to. 

Features

Realms

• Introducing realms, the evolution of our portal system.
• Realms are your destination for each and every video game.
• Our highlight of realms is to focus on community discussion.
  • Share links to keep the community informed.
  • Participate in regular chatter by creating text threads.

Realms are our evolution of portals and forums. Our forums were difficult to navigate and ultimately,  spread too thin so they looked more inactive than they were. We're hoping to make it easier to join in on discussions via our realms.

Activities

• Word searches join the site as a core feature.
  • No longer are these news articles we create just to serve as a word search.
• You can find the most recent activities at the bottom of the homepage.

Homepage

• No longer just for news articles!
• We now feature articles, our latest opinions, and reviews prominently on the main page.
• Featured content appears at the very top of the home page in a carousel so we can highlight very important news.
• The most recently updated guides also make an appearance on the homepage.
• Activities are joining the site for the first time and can be found at the bottom.
• The new right-side column puts a focus on the community of the website.
  • This showcases our new realms system.
  • All recently updated threads in all our realms appear in this feed. 

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where create thread page didn't correctly display forms.
• Fixed an issue where the front page carousel wasn't linking to articles correctly.
• Fixed the "More game Guides button on the homepage.
• The Out of Cards logo no longer appears in our mobile header.

Known Issues

• Achievements are not firing for activities.
  • There are new "completed x activities" achievements that aren't firing and have been removed temporarily.
  • If you complete any activities while these aren't working, you will not have credit for their completion afterward.

Soon

• Subscriptions to realms!
  • Customize your site experience and see what you want to see.
• New navigation!
  • Realms will have their own navigations we can further customize on a per-realm basis.
• Hearthstone Puzzles
  • We have a couple of things we need to fix before we bring this back - if you saw it you know what we mean :)
• Image threads in realms.
  • Image style threads already work if you use an image link as a link thread.
• Poll threads in realms.
  • A bit further down the pipeline but they're coming!

I have been on Out of Cards since it's creation, migrated from Hearthpwn after that whole fiasco. i admit i have never been an active member of this community with little posts and interaction. But i have come daily or weekly for some years now and.... well no kind way to put this. Site feels dead. Whole of it, Out of Games, not just the card part. Vast majority of news articles have 0 comments or 2 or 3 at most. Forums are inactive with the Recent Posts window showing threads that have last replies from 2 days ago to 2 weeks ago.

So, if it's not too bold or rude of me to ask, i want to know how things look from the dev side of things. What the site staff thinks and feels about the current status. I hope it's just me and things are actually going good, i like this place a lot.

Hello there, hope everyone is having a great day. I have a feature to suggest, as titled:

• Can there be a deckbuilder page related to YuGiOh?

I have been playing YuGiOh - Master Duel since January 2023 and decided I would like to share my brilliant ideas here, especially with Treasure Panda. It might attract influx to the website because other YuGiOh related websites have crappy UI when it comes to deckbuilding and sharing, which can be a good consideration to add a "Deckbuilder" section within YuGiOh. I mean, even copying one from Hearthstone in this website and calling it a day should work like a charm to me because editing guide UI after picking cards within deckbuilder is perfect that no website can match to be honest.

I hope it will be considered to be added because we have deckbuilder of these games in Out of Games, so why not for YuGiOh as well:

• Hearthstone
• Runeterra
• Mythgard
• Marvel Snap

Thanks for reading and have a good day everyone.

As of this writing, the card back gallery is updated through May 2023, and we are on the doorstep of August 2023.  It'd be nice to see this updated.

https://outof.games/hearthstone/card-backs/

Thanks for your continued efforts in making this site awesome!

I was just randomly browsing the site for the first time in a couple weeks, and I opened a Nifty thread, and it says Banned under his name.

Is that for real?

Hi, it occurred to me several times in the past and today still that most of the Hearthstone decks on this wonderful community site are added by the same handful of people over and over again and very frequently. I am not going to name names here, nor do I really have to because it is pretty obvious which members are doing this (just look at the frontpage). Also, the reason is most likely to generate traffic to their streams/videos/channels.

Somehow this does not feel right/fair, but I am not even sure this is the best way to describe it. There are no restrictions set into place to limit this behavior and I am not even advocating for it, but I am just wondering about your opinion if you have any.

Cheers!

Here's a list of the games that might give some traction if featured, at least according to my tastes:

Battle brothers, Wartales, Rimworld (+mods!), Jagged Alliance 3 (upcoming), Spaceborne 2 (very active dev and complex game), Age of Wonders 4, Humankind, Distant worlds 2, maybe other Paradox titles.

Curious to see what other people like :)

Just an FYI, the main game page for Hearthstone still has all the March of the Lich King links above the latest article post.

Howdy fellow users of Out of Card,

During the last Winter Holiday event, I was one of the lucky winners! On top of the amazing price of 1 free month of premium service I won, I was also sent a nice goodie bag. Today, I wanted to showcase my price to you all, as well as extending my gratefulness and appreciation for all the hard work OoC's staff is doing year round. Without further ado, here's the content of the package that was sent to my door:

OoC Stickers, OoC Enamel pins & HS cup holders

Thank you Out of Card 

Many diamond card animated images are missing from 2022 and later. Only cards up to Alterac Valley have diamond images.

Just wanted to theorycraft a DK deck.

Not sure if this is possible with how the bbcode rendering works but I find it frustructing to hover over a Marvel Snap card and only see the image with the cost and power of the card.  I do not know enough of the Marvel Snap cards yet to know what the ability of the card is without clicking through to the specific card page which breaks up reviewing a deck list or reading an article.

It would be nice if the card's associated Ability text could be rendered below the card's image as well.

As the title suggests the LoR Deckbuilder isn't really working as I would expect that it should (from allowing to put in cards from more than 2 regions, being incapable to detect dual region cards for the region they are used for and having some cards twice in the cardpool (like Yasuo))

But I don't wanna be a dude just complaining that the deckbuilder is not as I would expect it but would like to ask if I as someone who does some web developement could get my hands on improving the deckbuilder and make it more as I would imagine it. 

If someone in charge (who isn't patches  the pirate) gets to read this feel free to comment or pm me weather that could be a thing :)

Yeah, so basically the site has been completely broken on PC for me since today.

No idea if you're already working on it, but I figured I might as well let you know, although it was difficult to even find the Forums.

Most likely planned at some point, but it would be nice to have the possibility to share decks from marvel snap and talk about them. There are some people on this site who play it (I think) and it might be nice also for people not playing it to see what kind of strategies are present in snap.

BR,

Cleef

Seeing how we always get Word Search Puzzles, which tends to be a bit boring by now. How about a different kind of puzzle like:

1. Crossword Puzzle. More challenging for the brain to find the exact word to put into.

2. Card Memorize. Do a bit of flipping cards and try to find the same exact pictures (2 for easy, 3 medium) and try to be the fastest. (marking the ranks just like how the score on opening pack works.

And a bit of upgrade to the Word Search Puzzle, maybe the ability to rotate the Puzzle board to make a fresh search point?

These 3 things are never mentioned in the patch notes nor properly documented anywhere else

Also, the last patch added a lot of Mercenaries and Solo Adventures achievements..

Would it be possible to make an article whenever new skins, card backs and achievements get added?

Hi!

Would like to suggest a small improvement - adding scroll bars (or anything that can make the whole text visible) for people's signatures on this site.

At least on mobile, some long ones can't be shown fully (e.g. when the people comment on something). One example is, I think, Avalon's signature.

Thanks