Been a while since we've posted a set of update notes, though we haven't done anything super crazy for a while so it hasn't really been needed. I figured there may be some questions also I'm looking for targeted feedback so this thread will hopefully help with that.

Additions & Changes

General

• New Out of Cards Logo!
• Removed some advertisement slots.
  • I needed to test some new slots recently to see performance and have ultimately decided to remove our left side rail. The site felt a little too "boxed in" with it and overall, it wasn't a major change in revenue.
  • Mobile users will no longer see the static header advertisement.
  • The homepage no longer displays an advertisement at the top of the sidebar. (This has effectively been replaced by the right siderail.
    
    • There is a chance that the top sidebar ad gets removed across the site, I'll be paying attention to performance metrics over the coming weeks to make an informed decision.
• Video ads are now served by a new provider.
  • If you notice anything funky compared to before, please let us know.
• The homepage no longer displays deck lists.
  • This is one of the first steps we're taking to clean up the homepage.
  • I know this is going to be controversial, but the homepage is not the primary way our community members are clicking into decks.
    • The game portal pages are more relevant for deck lists.
  • Not all our users care about all the games we have coverage for and because of this, decks takes up a lot of scrolling space on the homepage.
  • Our homepage should be more of a portal into our different titles that are covered, and this will become more apparent in future site updates.
• Portal links have been removed site-wide.
  • This may sound counter-productive to our overall goal with sending people towards portals, which they are already going, but the next site update will be bringing back a portal switcher. It will instead be found in a new menu at the very top of the site, and not be a part of our navigation.

Hearthstone

• Deckbuilder Changes
  • How we load and organize card data in the deckbuilder has changed.
    • Please report any issues you find with the deckbuilder so they can be investigated.
  • Everything should be much quicker and subsequent uses of the deckbuilder are much faster.
• Collection Manager Changes
  • How we load and organize card data in the collection manager has changed.
    • Please report any issues you find with the collection manager so they can be investigated.

Bug Fixes

General

• RSS feeds have been fixed for all games.

Hearthstone

• All collectible cards now properly appear in the deckbuilder.
  • There was an issue during the Throne of the Tides mini-set update that prevented us from showing certain cards.
  • Our redeveloped internals make this a non-issue going forward.

Known Issues

General

• If you have ads disabled on the site due to having a Premium membership, the top of the site looks a little out of place with its wider header.
  • A solution will be implemented, however, if you are using ad-block you will be stuck with the wide header. Surprise, we don't support blocking our ads, which feed our content creators =)

Hearthstone

• Deckbuilder shows all Duels heroes, powers, and treasures regardless of class.
  • This will be "fixed" in a larger deckbuilder update.
  • Our intention is to allow Duels players to correctly create decks that are not tied to a single class.
  • We've still got some UI work to do before this will be finalized, but this is temporary measure to let it work.
  • We still need to flag Duels Heroes so we know which powers and treasures they work with, which is why we just dump them all out at you instead of filtering.
• Some Duels content is not appearing in the deckbuilder.
  • We're a little behind on flagged data. This won't require a new site update to fix, we just need to go through and get our data up to date.