Feedback

These notes include some updates that have gone out over the past few days.

New Features

Realms

• Joining a realm will now notify you, if you are active on the website, when a new article is published.
  • This is entirely new tech we're testing out.
  • Apologies if you don't get notified.
  • We'll add settings down the line to allow this to be an opt-out feature.

Bug Fixes

Realms

• Fixed an issue where the news listing wouldn't work on the Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch realms.
• Sidebars no longer display the guide headings if there are no guides to display.
• Creating threads now properly displays which realm it's being created in.
• We have removed several redundant realms in favor of more generalized topics.
  • Examples include Zelda, Mario, and Kirby who have had their games condensed into their own realms.
  • For now, we're happy with this and will evaluate again in the future when traffic picks up.

Hearthstone

• Multiclass cards now always correctly import.
  • We've had a long-standing issue in one of our importers that sometimes would ruin classification of multiclass cards. This is no longer the case!
• Saved card packs now display signature cards correctly.
  • Demon, that was an INSANE card pack you opened.

Marvel Snap

• Fixed the realm view so you can now join and talk in the realm.

Legends of Runeterra

• Fixed the realm view so you can now join and talk in the realm.

Mythgard

• Fixed the realm view so you can now join and talk in the realm.

Yu-Gi-Oh

• Fixed the realm view so you can now join and talk in the realm.

Magic the Gathering

• Fixed the realm view so you can now join and talk in the realm.
• All urls are now accessible again after we moved from magic-arena to mtg.

New Features

Advertisements 

• All mobile users will no longer see the video advertisement.
  • As stated in our March 8 update notes, there are careful considerations to make about removing this. We'll see!

Realms

• We now cache user subscription data!
  • Slightly lower page load times, woo!
• The join realm button now has visual feedback when you have already joined a realm.
• All is now an option under the tags dropdown.
  
  • Previously, users could get stuck on selected tags, now you can reset your state without revisiting the realm page.

Bug Fixes

Realms

• Fixed an issue where some pages on realms had Create Thread buttons that would not work.

Hearthstone

• Deck widget on realm page now correctly displays 8 decks as one would expect. Bye bye empty space.
• Deck widget no longer clarifies that it is Hearthstone deck content.
  • This is an artifact from when we had decks on our homepage years ago. It was a waste of space, now its gone.

New Features

Advertisements

• Mobile users that are logged-in will no longer see the video advertisement.
  • I realize this makes Premium accounts slightly less interesting to have, but the video ad on mobile is just such a poor experience. Everyone is now incentivized to login to no longer see it! The unit makes us a large portion of our monthly revenue though, and over half our traffic is mobile, so we need to be careful about this.

Navigation

• Our navigation has been overhauled to, hopefully, be less awful.
  • Navigation has been a massive problem on the site since our launch.
  • This overhaul changes it so game navigation only appears within the concept of a realm.
• Mobile and Tablet users should always be able to easily access News and Realms.
• The new tech that powers our nav also allows us to more quickly update it since it isn't hardcoded.
• Let us know if you have any issues or have thoughts on the experience. 

Realms

• Introducing Headers and Avatars!
  • Each realm can now have a custom header image and avatar - and the header images aren't hard coded!
  • We no longer have to wait for Flux to deploy the site to change the Hearthstone header image for a new set or event!
• Introducing the Join button
  • You can now "subscribe" to a realm by Joining it. 
  • This will matter more down the line, for now, get ready by joining realms you care about!
• Create Thread button should be easier to access.
  • We've moved the button so it can be accessed in a common location on all devices.
• Characters?
  • By being a member of our site, you're a character in the Out of Games universe.

Hearthstone

• The card pack opener now supports signature cards.
  • We've added in last year's expansions!
• The card pack opener can now have "fun" packs.
  • No longer are we limited to packs that exist in Hearthstone proper.
  • Our first pack, the 10 Years of Hearthstone pack, is now available to be opened.
  • Fun packs have higher than usual appearance rates.
    • Down the line we'll update the leaderboard to have a fun and a normal leaderboard. Fun packs are about to overtake it.

Bug Fixes

Navigation

• Removed the extra News and Realm links on the profile bar when they already exist in the nav.

Realms

• Create Thread button now appears on mobile.
  • Sorry about that oversight!

Notifications

• Fixed an issue where we had debug javascript on the notifications listing.
  • Nothing to see here!

Hearthstone

• Discuss this Card links will now correctly appear across the site. [March 3]
• Tavern Crawl now works with realm threads.

Known Issues

Homepage

• Clicking on the pagination on the homepage community section reloads the page and forces you to see news content.
  • This is a mobile issue, due to the way our "tabbed content" works. Currently working on a solution.

Hearthstone

• The Hearthstone realm navigation is not 1:1 with our previous navigation.
  • Currently working on still adding stuff to the navigation. Your patience is appreciated!

Coming Soon

• Custom Feeds featuring your realms!
  • Click the Join button on any realm on the site to prepare for this update.
• Voting on realm threads.
• 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 :)
• Poll threads in realms.
  • A bit further down the pipeline but they're coming!

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.