Long time no talk, Supershow. This is the Corrugated Cardboard Villain. We have a lot to discuss.
First things first: We know how outdated the site has become. We are working on a massive update of cards. We are working with over 1,000+ images and it will take some time in order to get things fully pushed. I do not have an ETA at this time when our update will be live, but I’m hoping we can be caught up with current releases in a month or two. Keyword: hoping.
In this upcoming batch of updates, please bear with us through the growing pains as we try to ensure our images are as accurate as they can be. I admittedly do not know what the most recent versions of cards are, and I’m working with what images I have to ensure the highest amount of accuracy possible. I’ll be working to correspond with all of you in the community to make sure the website’s accuracy is as precise as possible.
Secondly, some rationale of our absence. We’re a small team with busy lives outside of the PC, and I myself have particularly stepped away from the community for some time to take care of personal matters. I have admittedly grown distant as well from burnout after taking care of the website so carefully for its first 4 years, and was sad to have missed many of the goals I had for us, such as the Hall of Fame, player interviews, decklists, the whole nine yards.
I am sad to say that the scope of the website will remain as it is for now. I’m not ready to come back to the community in full swing at this time, and I’m taking my time to work through a lot of personal / financial issues of mine still. My only large goal for the future is to complete the Advanced Search feature for Tornado, Trios, and 1-30s (though 1-30s is a much, much farther off goal due to the scale of that project).
I’d like to take this time to remind the community that we are always willing to accept any help with articles, card updates, etc. As I mentioned, our team is small and we can only get so much done with our lives. That being said, your donations have not gone unnoticed during this time, and we are extremely appreciative to anyone who has supported us on Ko-fi and to friends in the community who have sent various forms of contributions such as image scans.
We are endlessly thankful to SRG themselves through this time for their commitment to contributing with us and supporting us so much through all of this time. I wouldn’t continue working on this website if I didn’t believe in the game as much as I did, and it’s clear that trust has been reciprocated back to us to provide the best database for the players.
We thank you, the community, as well for your patience. We know this has been a rough time with the site being so behind for so long, but hopefully we’ll have that corrected in due time. You have all been very encouraging through and through, and I’ll never have enough thanks to give to the countless people who helped me here.
Next blog post, I hope to come to you with news of the update being done, and I hope that post will be written up soon.
– Love For Family, Kiara, the Corrugated Cardboard Villain