Decronomicon 001: Patreon Early Access
Added 2019-07-06 03:04:50 +0000 UTCHello!
As a thank you for propelling us to make a podcast, we thought we'd release this to our patrons a bit before the official release. We can't express in words how thankful we are to all of you for getting us to this point, but if you'd like to hear us try for 48 minutes, feel free to give our first podcast a listen (tentatively named Decronomicon).
We'd love to hear what you think of our first attempt!
Andy
Comments
To build on the last point, as you are integrating yourselves with EDHREC, who already do a "daily commander". Maybe you can piggyback their daily commander and filter existing decks in a section on the home page? Podcast was great! It's nice to hear some of the behind-the-scenes work in the pipeline, something that isn't seen in many popular decklist websites.
Matthew Willis
2019-08-25 08:14:36 +0000 UTCMostly Edh in fact , I recognize the cards a lot by the arts so even if it would mean a little more scrolling it would be easier to look at a 100 cards deck.
NeoRoyal EDH
2019-07-08 15:28:36 +0000 UTCThis is an interesting idea that honestly we've never really thought of. Quick question though -- would you want to use this for EDH decks too? Or just 60 card formats?
Archidekt Development Team
2019-07-08 13:29:35 +0000 UTCInteresting podcast! Do you plan on having a way to "unfold" the deck to look at it without moving the mouse precisely from cards to cards? On tapped out for exemple I usually look at the decks with the spoiler function, a similar thing on archidekt would be really nice to look at others lists. Keep on the good work!
NeoRoyal EDH
2019-07-07 05:29:35 +0000 UTCThanks so much for this! One piece of feedback I have regarding the possibility of logging changes: While I think that saving every change is great purely from an archival perspective; I fear that just having a list of all changes would be overwhelming and not very useful. It would be great if all changes are logged automatically, but then to have the ability to flag specific change events for easier retrieval/review. This could be as simple having a tab that lists all of the change evens for the deck, but ones that are "favorited" are listed at the top. Having the ability to add a comment/note here as well would be ideal (for instance "2019-07-05 - 2 cards changed: Updated for M20"). If automatic logging of changes does not work out; I'd suggest building in functionality to allow snapshots to be created/reverted to, so changes and/or different iterations/variants of a deck can be stored but not listed as separated decks. EDIT: I really did appreciate this podcast. This is a great way to share some tidbits about what's in the pipeline, calling out underused features, etc. I don't think it's necessarily something that has to happen regularly, but could definitely be a great way to highlight new updates. The B-roll footage was a good idea, there were a few times where it would have been nice to see the specific feature being discussed at the same time, but I really didn't have any trouble picturing whatever you were talking about. I understand that would take a lot more effort to sync up specific footage however. One final thing I'd like to mention for the site is I really hope you can grow the community around the site; obviously it hasn't been around for a long time but I rarely see any comments or notes on decks, rarely see any likes, etc. I'd encourage you to (as I'm sure you already are) keep looking for ways to get users engaged with each other. Maybe highlighting a few decks each day on the front page, either curated, voted by users or selected randomly based on criteria, so that a large number of users are guided to view & discuss a few decks each day (more guidance/fewer items than the Recent Decks). For EDH it could be something like highlighting a random commander each day, then listing 3-5 public decks with that commander with 100 cards, legal for EDH, and updated within the last month. Maybe even add a poll so people can vote for their favorite. It could all happen automatically after the initial work to build the feature, and could be a permanent fixture on the front page (there's a lot of unused space in the banner right now).
David
2019-07-06 19:56:15 +0000 UTC
