Cube Cobra

Cube Cobra Update 5.0

Added 2021-03-25 23:57:57 +0000 UTC

Tonight's release brings a new feature that's been highly requested, but not necessarily in the way that you might expect. This is addressing the ubiquitous request of being able to sort a cube "alphabetically". The reason it's taken us up until now to have a solution is because when we sort a cube, it's not really an 'ordered' sort, it just groups cards into respective categories. The primary sort you're familiar with sorts the cards into columns, and the secondary sort sorts cards into row groups. We did have a hidden 3rd sort that is fixed on converted mana cost (or mana value, if you will) and that's what creates that separation inside of rowgroups. After that, we have an ordered sort that’s fixed on alphabetical. Because the last two sorts were fixed, even if you set the first two sorts to unsorted, the CMC sort would still split up the cards. In this release, we've exposed those last two sorts as customizable options, but they are certainly a feature for power users, as you'll find that almost all of the time, it's best to just leave them on their default values.

Another issue I wanted to specifically talk about was the recommender. As you may have noticed, the recommender is frequently down. That's because the current infrastructure isn't scalable, and it often just can't handle the workload. We already have a design planned for a new recommender infrastructure, but it's going to take us some time until we realize that goal. Until then, we've added a error message to replace the infinite load when the recommender is overloaded.

Last release I mentioned a lot about improving our data analytics pipeline. There are still some issues with it, but we have made a lot of progress with that piece of infrastructure, and once it's working under the current feature set we will be able to easily add other features that were impossible previously, such as being able to browse cubes "similar" to a cube currently being viewed.

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