Hi everyone! I wanted to share an early look at a project I’ve been working on. It’s a new website to track your playing card collection. It has a modern responsive design, robust search and filtering, and more.
Although fully functional, it’s still in its very early stages—I have only just started adding decks—but I wanted to share this now to get some early feedback and first impressions.
First, to address the elephant in the room. This is not intended to replace Portfolio52, and I really hope it comes back online. There is a lot of knowledge on there, and it would be a shame if it got lost (I have implemented features to prevent the same thing from happening to Deck Collect. More on that later). I had started working on Deck Collect even before P52’s recent downtime. The development of Portfolio52 has been somewhat slow for some time now, and I think there is room for another option. My goal is just to make what *I* would want to see from a collection website, and hopefully others will find it useful as well.
With that said, here are some of the key features of Deck Collect:
Deck Details
The deck detail page shows a lot more information about the deck, like artist, company, printer, and so on. From here you can add the deck to one of your three lists: your Collection, Wishlist, or Favorites.
Something I think is really useful: you can click on any of the deck’s details, and it will show you *all of the decks that match.* It’s really easy to find all decks from the same artist, with the same features, etc.
Search
Besides a simple text search, Deck Collect also has powerful filters to narrow down your search. For example, you could find only the decks by Lotrek that use Hot Foil, and so on.
Design
Of course, the whole website is built with a modern, responsive design—which means it will work great on mobile. Although there are still plenty of improvements on my list, I spent a lot of time on making it really enjoyable to use.
Export
To prevent your collection from being lost in the worst-case scenario, you can easily export your collection from your account page for safekeeping. In theory this could be imported into other websites in the future, making it easy to migrate your collection. For now at least you can have a local copy.
Not only that, but you can also export *the entire deck database.* Any decks that I or others add in the future should belong to the community, so anyone should be able to make redundant copies.
Beta
For now, Deck Collect is in a semi-closed beta while I make sure everything is working smoothly. I hope to open it up to everyone soon.
If anyone from UnitedCardists wants to join the beta and help me find any issues, please let me know! Also, I would be happy to add any frequent contributors here as Moderators, which means you’ll have the ability to Add and Edit decks. I’ll be adding decks myself of course, but the more people contribute the faster the database will grow.
Roadmap
Here’s a short list of some of the features that I would like to add:
- Sorting
- Custom lists
- Improved system for adding and editing decks
- Collection value estimate.
- Support for more deck details
- View related decks.
Deck Collect still has a ways to go, but I’m very excited to see what you think of it so far! Please let me know of any issues you find, as well as any ideas for new features and improvements.
@playingcardophile
