State of T/O

Features

yeaGO

16 August 2011

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Hello and welcome to the first ever State of T/O, where I, yeaGO, let you in on what's happening.

Preorder Partner

So we've got a new partner for ordering sealed product: Top deck Gamers. I hope you all choose to use this--you get a free upgrade (or tokens) when you use our partner!

Draft Sim

The DraftSim has gone through a complete overhaul and is much more reliable, go have a look. Now that this is stable, feature requests like improved DraftBots (and many others) can be looked at seriously.

Subscriptions/Notifications/Email

So I changed a bunch of things last month and this kinda went bad. Everyone really likes the new toolbar up top but the notifications/subscriptions themselves have become really unreliable. Don't worry, I know this. This is the next thing on my plate--to bring some coherence back to this whole thing.

Search

All kindsa messed up right now. Its on my list after the above. Sorry! For now you can prefix google searches with tappedout.net: deck name. I've got a lot of ideas about how to make search way better, and I want to do it right. That's why its taking so much time. Sorry!

User ranks

Yeah, I know. They are coming soon I promise =). The problem here is that the site got too big and the calculations used to figure out your rank became way too much for my server to calculate. I've got to break all that code up.

General site stability

July was a really really really rough month for us in terms of the serving behaving well and its understandable there was a lot of frustration. I'm glad to say this should be 100% all better thanks to some improvements in the background.

The future

I'm going to spend the rest of the month working on general stability and the above issues. Next month I'm going to start on some pretty exciting features, some backlogged requsts not mentioned above, etc.

Thanks for reading

This has become such an awesome site and I really just want to thank you all for keeping it that way. I was always worried that as the site got bigger it would lose its usefulness and polite fun mood and become not fun anymore for me to run. Not so at all, it just gets better and better. Thanks all!

bman5604 says... #1

Love the site looking forward to the changes coming. And If you need any help with your awesome sight let me know I would be more than happy to lend a hand.

August 16, 2011 12:10 p.m.

kabrazell says... #2

There will also be pie.

August 16, 2011 12:17 p.m.

Deco_y says... #3

The pie is a lie.

August 16, 2011 1:08 p.m.

aebersole10 says... #4

We appreciate all you do to keep this site awesome, yeaGO!. Thanks for all the effort you put in to help us enrich our MTG experience.

August 16, 2011 1:54 p.m.

AegairEtapa says... #5

Wooh xP

August 16, 2011 1:57 p.m.

Nobilior says... #6

yeaGO! is a beast. Just sayin'.

August 16, 2011 1:57 p.m.

Balthasar says... #7

Thanks for everything yeaGO!!

August 16, 2011 3:19 p.m.

permhole96 says... #8

thx so much bro. keep up the good work! your awesome.

thx for everything!

August 16, 2011 5:21 p.m.

Mpz5 says... #9

I think I speak for everyone when I say that you do a wonderful job. The site wouldn't be what it is without you behind the scenes and we all appreciate it.

August 16, 2011 5:29 p.m.

STG says... #10

It's lovely to see a web admin who genuinely cares and puts the effort in to maintain the site. Good on you, keep up the good work.

And WHY MUST THE PIE LIE TO US!?

August 16, 2011 6:28 p.m.

SwiftDeath says... #11

thanks for everything without this site MTG would've only became a fad for me that I would have goten out of after a few months. thank you yeaGO! and everyone who commented on my decks and anyone who helped with any and all features to this site.

August 16, 2011 6:44 p.m.

Justarsaus says... #12

since when could we pre-order off tappedout??? omfg!!! i am super exicted about this

August 17, 2011 1:40 a.m.

Site's awesome, man. It gave me the much-needed forum to vent my constantly-swirling thoughts of Magic. No other place rivals it. Keep it up!

August 17, 2011 3:37 p.m.

Swamy says... #14

Can we do something about the prices for the new 2012 set? I cant see any of the new planeswalker, or any of the new cards from the set, prices. Don't know if this is just me, but I like that about this site.

August 17, 2011 6:46 p.m.

Any chance you can get a quote feature so you can specifically reply to a person above you?

August 18, 2011 5:13 p.m.

yeaGO says... #16

@DeckBuilder345: See what I did there?

August 19, 2011 11:05 a.m.

zing.

August 19, 2011 11:21 a.m.

@ yeaGO! oh you are so very clever..... but imagine if you will that i wanted to comment on bman5604's post. Which happens to be the first one in this thread, if i happen to say @ him... guess what no one still recalls what he said at the start of the thread.... and people will either not scroll up at all and ignore conversation or have to scroll way back up to the top just to read his stuff and then back down to the bottom to read mine... much easier if i could just quote him so the conversation could flow much easier.

Also this tends to be pretty common forum functionality. Was just hoping to get this put on the list of stuff you are working on.

August 19, 2011 1:19 p.m.

weterr123 says... #19

I agree with The_Murderauder... no place rivals Tappedout. I keep trying to get people on the Magic page on facebook to come here... unfortunately they say that they prefer mtgsalvation and others... oh well, their loss. They are talking out of their derriers. Keep it up yeaGO!!!

August 20, 2011 7:18 a.m.

metalmagic says... #20

This site has been my favorite from the day I joined! I joined exclusively to do the free unlimited drafts with other people, but I've since added many decks and contributed to others and a few rules questions, and I am looking forward to the future of TappedOut! One thing that would be awesome would be to include Modern as one of the formats since it is legit now. That's my only suggestion, and everything else you mentioned sounds great!

August 20, 2011 9:55 p.m.

QuentinD says... #21

Go yeaGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(And exclamation points!)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

August 23, 2011 6:14 p.m.

this site is so amazing. best one out there. can't wait for the future.

August 23, 2011 8:51 p.m.

Swamy says... #23

Oh yeah I agree, this site is the best. I can't wait to see where they go with this. Maybe some 1v1 with other people? Don't know if that is legal or anything, but that would be awesome.

August 24, 2011 2:14 a.m.

this site is just amazing,, im new to magic, and new to the site, but this place is like, my number one go to for everything on the game, seriusly, wizards comes second

and as far as 1v1 is concerned, the playtest screen with its hide hand option and a webcam hasnt been a problem for me and friends

August 31, 2011 2:50 p.m.

wallpiece says... #25

This is one of my favorite sites ever, I really like the kind encouraging mood, thanks for all the help on my decks!

September 1, 2011 10:48 p.m.

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