Greetings MTGO Academy viewership!
You may have noticed that things look a bit different around the site. We have been working through the weekend to implement some changes, but as most tech projects tend to go, not everything has been smooth sailing! Most areas should be navigable, but you might encounter some glitches or ugliness as you go to assorted areas. We’re sorry about the mess!
Our main upgrade has been to the store (which you will find accessible through the header menu link or the shopping cart/search feature on the side). We hope that the changes to it will make it much more user friendly. You can also now see the prices of cards on our bots (Academy_Sellbot, Academy_Sellbot2, Academy_Sellbot3, Academy_Budgetbot & Academy_Foilbot) by using the store search feature!
Beyond that, we have tried to clean up how content is organized, navigated and portrayed. Currently, old content is being re-tagged to fit into the new categories (so queries into categories will be incomplete for the time being). Accessing an author’s other content should involve just a quick click on their name or in the Author Bio in the right sidebar (of articles) as we populate the biographies. You might also notice some common sense navigation that was missing from the other site (like the ability to scroll through past pages on the front page)- well, happy holidays, now we can do things that we can do on every other web site! Wheeeee!
Lastly, there will be a series of changes to the DeckTech Tool, which we will detail as we roll out!
Thanks again for bearing with us as we make a mess of things and shuffle other things around! We will update this post as things morph to keep y’all in the loop. If you have any feedback, please feel free to share in the comments below.
Thank you for your patience and your patronage,
-MTGO Academy Staff
Nice
Like the new look!
Fan of the look EXCEPT the owl logo, ug… – really a downgrade imo. Looks like bad clip art – and worse, it loses the regal look the old one had.
We aren’t classy enough here to warrant an aegis crucis.
if I may, liking the new design, but is it possible to get the text/color/formatting for links within articles changed? I’ve noticed that currently they show just like any other text and you don’t realize they’re links until you hover over them and the cursor changes
JustSin- We’ve noticed that too; whoops! It’s on our list
i am a huge fan of your content, but even though i dont want to sound rude, the new design looks worse than the old one. i miss the clean tidy design of the old site.its not that i dont like changes but this one looks kind of like web 1.0 . just being honest. keep up the great articles though
As mentioned in another video (the Ravnica 8-4 from yesterday or the day before), I cannot view videos after this upgrade. Using IE 8 (only one allowed at work) I can hear audio, but the video is just a narrow vertical white line with an “X” to close it on top.
Thanks, Toxic and zupaman. Regarding the video-IE issue, we’ll look into it. Hopefully you can still watch the videos by clicking on the titles in the lightboxes to link to Youtube directly, or is the title of the video which links to Youtube also not appearing?
I’m not entirely sure what this means.. I do not see any links unfortunately.
When you watch a video using the “lightbox” plugin on our site, the title of the Youtube video appears in the Youtube lightbox. If you click it, it’ll link you to Youtube, where you can watch the video. My guess is that the title also doesn’t appear. We’ll get on this problem soon.
Long time anon.
Why make cosmetic changes……….
I kind of liked the old look, but this new one seems fine too. It is just a matter to getting used to the new things, though getting used to V3 is going to be tough…
The new takes some getting used to. The only real problem i have with it is that some color combinations make it almost unreadable. An example of this would be the decklist in Dime a Dozen #12. The blue letters on the dark gray background look all fuzzy. I think a lighter color letter on a dark background or a darker letter on a light background would work much better.
I don’t like how I have to go to youtube to view your videos in full screen, the full screen button is no longer avliable, other then that, I like the changes. I was wondering why the decklist for all mtgo formats haven’t been updated
The decklist style has recently been disrupted as the result of a fix attempting to change another problem. We’ll be dealing with it shortly.
As for viewing videos in full screen, I don’t have a problem with the lightbox feature. I use Chrome, and it works for me. Not that you should have to use that web-browser, but thanks for the help… anything like this helps us zero in on problems.
As for the decklists not being updated, what do you mean, Perkypants?
There has been no decklists added since the 18th that was 5 days ago. I use Firefox,
Thanks for all the feedback so far. I would like to add a few information regarding our update. Most of the changes are actually done in the backend, which will improve our capabilities to manage, edit, and style content. The glitches and bugs will be squished over time. Anyone that experienced long loading time should have a much better time now after our database improvements. We are also going to constantly improve the design and utility of the site for all our users and hope to include suggestions or ideas we collect in the comments or during talks with our users.
Thanks all for your patronage and have great holidays,
Marin
Is there a plan to install cookies to keep someone logged-in? Also, after you log-in, it takes you to the store (which is done for obvious reasons) while if you wanted to simply reply to an article/post, it requires a couple of clicks to get back to where you were.
Enderfall,
Yeah this is a problem. We used to have two separate logins, one for the website (articles/videos) and one for the store. We’ve combined the two now, but for some reason, the WordPress front page login is no longer available for the time being. That won’t be the case for long, and I hope that we have the cookies set up soon, as well.
So we don’t actually want people to have to go to the store immediately upon logging in, though I understand why you would think that; it’s an artifact of a bug right now.
Hi there again,
i got a minor problem to report. I’m using safari. When i use the pop up videos the header of the site is always in front.
greetings
I just noticed that last night myself when I was on Safari! I’ll add it to our list.