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Quote from Demonxz95 >>

I know this is basically just the Season 9 poll, but dammit, I wanted to do this my way. I will update this with the season winner and mini comps when they are all done.

Once spoilers are added to OutOfCards, I will start transferring the Winner's Galary over to there. I also noticed the old gallery appears to only be accessible by mods. Is that intentional? I will actually need to know when all of the big comps and side comps were if I'm going to post this on OutOfCards.

 Looks like the original user who posted the old Winner's Gallery was deleted in the Great Purge of EU Regulations. I've restored the original post, so you should hopefully be able to see it now.

If you can give me a list of anything you need to know that you can't find in either Gallery in a PM, I'll grab any threads/dates you're looking for. It'll be nice to have a record of as much as possible from our time here on Hearthpwn over on OOC.

While I'm here, in the interest of full disclosure, the last post I made here - February 12th - was made with the knowledge that something was going on behind-the-scenes in regards to Hearthpwn's future (though I didn't know what yet), and the idea of creating an entirely new site had already been floated around among the more senior mods. That's the main reason that no work was being done to fix the mess we'd made of the Winner's Gallery - there might not have been any point to it by the time it got done, and assigning someone to it would've been taking them away from trying to prevent more water from flooding the sinking ship, or from preparing the lifeboats (as it were, metaphors, y'know?).

I am very grateful to you for doing this work when we let it fall by the wayside. I plan to try and get the Winner's Gallery to be an actual part of the site on OOC, so that it will literally automatically update once a poll ends with the new information. We sort of had that started here, but we had to hack around Hearthpwn's weird and old code and use Flux's own external site for most of it; then it broke anyway after like four weeks.

Quote from GoliathTheDwarf >>

I agree. A mod told me that there's some sort of code corruption that's preventing it from updating properly, and they haven't got around to fixing it yet. 

 To expand upon this, we had a system in place that would have automatically updated the gallery every week with the winner, and it worked for a few weeks. It broke, however, and we didn't notice for some time.

Since then, we've not had a chance to try and fix the system that was in place - a combination of everyone who could being busy with other things (both Hearthpwn-related and IRL), and the site itself going through a bunch of changes that break different things each time.

In theory we could probably update it manually, but because of how it was set up it's a lot trickier to do so than the previous gallery was, and could end up breaking in different ways. It's also just very low priority, compared to keeping the competitions running (on the part of the FC mods) and the rest of the site running (on the part of anyone else who might know what to do). I'm not even sure I know how I'd add Season 8 (or 9) at all, never mind getting the rest of Season 7 up.

It's something that needs to be sat down and looked at for a good few hours at least, and we're really just too busy (mostly IRL) to devote time to it right now. Right now the majority of the time FC mods have to spend on the site is spent maintaining the WCDC and CCC.

I won't promise anything - because lord knows I've done that before and never been able to follow through - but I don't think an official update will come before the end of Season 9. When that break comes, maybe.

Quote from CheeseEtc >>

Also, does it mean that the WCDCs will move out from the forums entirely in the long term?

Quote from Demonxz95 >>

What about big comps. Are those going to be saved there as well?

Greetings everyone! Welcome to the brand-new home of the Winner's Gallery for the Weekly Card Design Competition - or, well, the link to the Winner's Gallery anyway. Our big new update has given the Winner's Gallery its own home on the site, separate from the forums, but we don't actually have a nice convenient link to it yet, so for now, please use the banner above, or this handy link here!

We know that this doesn't have all the information available in it yet, so if you'd like to see the old Winner's Gallery, you can find it here.