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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Realistically with how insane this week has been and a Hearthstone mini-set dropping tomorrow, birthday stuff will need to start next week.
Hey Flux, any update on the birthday event? Know you and the team must still be busy with it and other things, so no pressure 😜
Already 2 years? It feels like it was no so far away. HB out of cards
Thanks for the hard work folks! ♡
Congratulations Flux and team! I made the switch from Hpwn to OoC in the very beginning and haven't looked back! Best site for card game related news!
To many more happy memories on OoC! 🎂🥳🎉
You're simply the best!
Thank you for everything! Not missing a certain other side a bit
Woohoot it's that time for OoC
Congratulations with your 2nd Birthday dear team, thanks so far. You're all great people !!
Happy Birthday!
Long live OoC!!
This is the only thing for which I've ever used Patreon. Thanks for being positive and keeping the content and news flowing.
Congrats. This is my one-stop shop for Runeterra news. Love the site.
Happy Derpbay to all you!!
Happy Birthday!
Seems we're way behind in traffic. Which, I suppose, says nothing about the quality of the community. Did a majority of them just decide to stay?
A big "problem" you could say is logged out folk. A large chunk of our viewers have accounts compared to the old site. Those anonymous people that are netdecking or just coming by for news, they don't really have a reason to go elsewhere. You've also got the very casual people that come back to Hearthstone for a few weeks each expansion and just go to the one place they know.
I imagine most of the users did not care who was moderating Hearthpwn, as long as it was moderated. A good comparison (kind of) is if Mark Zuckerberg got tired of Facebook and made a brand new social media platform. How many people do you think are going to leave facebook after using it for years?
Cheers and beers to the next two years!
🎤Save, your, BEERS for another day🎤
I believe this is the only site I have whitelisted for ads. I know it's not much, but I do visit daily, often multiple pages. The whole team here is fantastic, and this is still just the beginning.
Greatly appreciate that! Thank you <3