Welcome everyone! This is my first ever blog post to come with a website update. Most of my work has been in the dark and I thought this would be a good way to spread some light upon the work that I do with the website.
First off, I would like to apologize for the lack of updates on the website. The website takes quite a lot of time to keep updated with the new cards, variants, connecting with TCGPlayer etc. And sadly this isn't my job, but is all done in my free time. I've been working on some ways to make these things faster and which allows me to spend more time updating the website with cool new features. So thank you for sticking around and believing in my ability to get the website where it needs to go.
Now as for the updates:
Search
Search has finally gotten an update. You can now also search on the ability text of cards. Just search "Attack" and you'll find all the cards that specify "Attack" in their name and/or ability text. So this means that you won't be limited to only searching on the name of the card now. The next steps will be looking into even more advanced searching as currently it is still quite limited, but this is a step into that direction.
Deckbuilder
Small update on the deckbuilder. You can finally choose Data Vault and Thermal Oscillator for your decks. At first they weren't allowed due to technical restrictions, but they are now available and work as expected.
And those are the biggest changes. You might see some other things around the website, but above are the bigger things that I've worked on. Now, I also want to talk a bit about the future of the website and which changes I am planning on making:
Deckbuilder performance
The deckbuilder works, but it currently has the problem that as more cards are added, the slower it gets. I am working on fixing that by migrating some of the code used for it to a new system. This will probably have an impact on a lot of the website, but I think it will improve the user experience a lot. Stay tuned for more information about this!
Legal decks
As you might have noticed, there is currently nothing in place to indicate if a deck is legal or not. This is also the reason why the card count hasn't been updated for the Twin Suns deck as I have no way to mark the current decks as non-legal. This also becomes very important when older sets start to rotate out. There are 2 things that I want to do here:
- Add an indicator to indicate if a deck is legal or not.
- Add a new deck type that doesn't care about legality. This can then be used for more casual play.
Community
Currently it is a little bit difficult to get a hold of me if you have any questions or find any issues with the website. I want to look into a better way of doing this. This might be discord or a forum section on the website, I am not quite sure yet. But if you do have any feedback currently, please send me a message on Reddit for the time being.
And that is all for now. I hope you like this website update blog and are excited to see where the website will move towards. There are a lot of plans that I want to work on, now just to find the time to actually work on them.
Thank you for using the website!