Sideboard Magazine / Photo Viewer

[OdinFK]

A friend of mine has lent me a few of the very first Sideboard magazines. At that time they were basically a 32/64 page magazine, dedicated almost exclusively to the previous Pro Tour. I have taken pictures of all pages in some of the ones I have. (https://drive.google.com/open?id=11SSyk86XNRVr6btg05AZOjvPkxLNBcfP) I have a few more, and I also try to get hold of other issues.

In a way I think they would be a pretty cool fit for the site. It certainly goes a bit beyond what the site is currently offering, adding some colour to the mere stats. I talked to Mike Rosenberg about this, and apparently we will get permission to fully display all of the magazines. (maybe we would have to make a few passages unreadable, because they don't like to see some content online just like that; there are stories about side bets etc.) Anyway, I think it's pretty cool that they would let us use their intellectual property like that.

The way I imagine it being used would be that there is either a link to the Sideboard magazine somewhere at the top of the PT page, and this would redirect you to a page with images of the the pages of the magazine. Alternatively we could move the column with the results a little to the side and put thumbnails with images of the pages to the left of the results, but that would interfere with the clearly structured appearance of the site which I like a lot.

What do you think? Is there any way we could do this?

[czarandy]

Sure, that would be cool. I think we can have a link that will open it on the site in a photo viewer. LMK once the permission stuff gets resolved and I am happy to add it.

[mtgmagicalhack]

@OdinFK I think this would be great content, a user normally would not find anywhere else. Any updates on legal/permissions?

[OdinFK]

I talked to Mike and he said he was trying to get permission. Originally he had said it was not possible, but then there seemed to be a way, but I haven't heard from him in a while, but I will check back with him.

[OdinFK]

I've gotten the okay from Mike. We can use the Sideboard, but he would like me to keep him in the loop, but that's easy.

Maybe we can work through the backlog before PT 25th Anniversary. Who knows, maybe we can even get a feature for the PT coverage. I have not asked Mike about it, and it would be great to have a little more to show before I do, but it might actually fit the theme of a PT that suggests nostalgia even in its name.

[OdinFK]

Hey @czarandy ,
do you think it would be possible to implement the viewer in the next one or two weeks? I think I will finish the last events this week, and then there is not much left to do (from the editor's perspective). This would also be very helpful from the timing as I still have some hope that they might give us a little feature for the PT, and this might still be timely enough for them.

Cheers!
Florian