Version 2.almost1

[Gary]

Ok I've started rolling out a few of the features I promised yesterday and I would appretiate any feedback you can give me, wether you spot a bug, want to tell us if the feature isn't quite right or even (hopefully) if it is.

The following features should now be live:

• Deck stats - Simple text stats on the right hand side of the deck viewer.
• Nested comments - Comments can now be replied to and replies are shown underneath the parent comment, much easier to cummunicate like this.
• New card search - Added colour options and a few extra card filters to help find Cards.
• Delete decks from profile (deck list) page - You are finally able to delete those old decks!
• Delete own comments - Delete your own comments.
• Report offensive comments - You can now report offensive comments but please use this sparingly as this is an additional manual job for us at the moment.
• Faster card delete - Cards can be removed from your deck without two page refreshes now and just a simple popup confirmation. Alternatively you can set card quantities to 0 to remove them from your deck.
• New Bayesian Rating System - This is our solution to the downvoting problems we've been having. Way better than the old voting system is so many ways and most importantly adds weighted voting to the mix to practically render multi-account down-voting pointless.
• Random decks list - The old most rated decks have been removed from the homepage as the voting system has changed completely, we're working on a replacement, but we need vote data in the DB first!
• New Deck Search - We have added a new deck search, that should make it a lot easier to find decks. Added Card Name, Colours and Deck Type search options.

Please do let me know if you find any problems so I can fix them! Enjoy!

[Gary]

Before you ask:

• No, you cannot add your own profile picture for the comments system yet (sorry).
• The social stuff has been put on hold so we could roll the above features out first, it's about 80% done and will be coming soon.
• The deck votes table was wiped, we're starting from scratch.

[timothybaelz]

I think this new setting is way better to find the cards u r looking for and the stats of the deck really help out good job and keep it comming.

[Snowball]

Couple of things:

The deck stats by type, for creature counting it is not counting artifact creatures (counting them only as artifacts) this makes the count not very useful if you are running artifact creatures.

The "rate this deck" input box doesnt have any information to say what should be put in it... is it out of 10? 100? 57?

[Snowball]

Other than that though looking good! thanks for your hard work

[whitey_mcfly]

how about doing a rotation of different types of top decks, say, every week or month or so? like burn one week, casual play the next, etc.

[Gary]

Originally Posted by Snowball

Couple of things:

The deck stats by type, for creature counting it is not counting artifact creatures (counting them only as artifacts) this makes the count not very useful if you are running artifact creatures.

The "rate this deck" input box doesnt have any information to say what should be put in it... is it out of 10? 100? 57?

Hey Snowball, I was unsure of this one... should the count add one to artifacts AND one to creatures?

True, I guess I never thought about it as I knew! If you enter an incorrect value it tells you "Only vote between 0.00 and 10.00" so it's out of 10, but because of the decimals I guess it's effectively out of 1,000! :P

Originally Posted by whitey_mcfly

how about doing a rotation of different types of top decks, say, every week or month or so? like burn one week, casual play the next, etc.

Yeah, we have a few ideas on this, but we really need to see if the new data we're going to be collecting is going to work the way we want it to first and we also want to be 100% sure our voting problems will be solved before we go creating extra stuff for it. For now the ratings will simply be shown on a per deck basis, and will therefore probably be giving a much more accurate result as there's no need for people to play silly fools for no reward. :P

[Snowball]

Originally Posted by Gary

should the count add one to artifacts AND one to creatures?

In my opinion yes, as what the stats are useful for is say checking that you have a decent creature-base, or checking how vulnerable you are to anti-artifact stuff or how much synergy with a particular card type your gona get, so I'd say them counting as both would be most useful, though it should probably be explained that this is the case somewhere.

[Snowball]

Also, from a user interface point of view there is no feedback when you put in a rating if the deck has too few votes, the page just reloads, so I have no idea when I'm using it whether or not my vote has actually gone through.

[Snowball]

Also, I think the icon on the delete deck button is pretty unclear, maybe make the waste basket bigger?