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Neil
@neilbefore.me
Yu-Gi-Oh Community Feed Maintainer

he/him
Senior Software Engineer
Former: Microsoft, CloudCheckr
Developer at ygoprog.com
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look at my son
did a quick update to prevent new posts from the user that was flooding the yugioh feed with the same post over and over. one of these days I should put something together to make management of the users and such a bit easier haha
January 21, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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Dog.
January 19, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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3-1 at locals this week playing primite odion. I've been super unhappy with the format the last couple months and none of the decks i have access to were clicking with me or uh....performing at all. a friend sold me his odion core for cheap and then Coder, Neil, Chloe, and Momo helped me build.
January 18, 2026 at 4:32 PM
I just witnessed THE John NJYugioh show up on the Yugioh feed. What a blessed day.
January 16, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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can't believe they put the yugioh guy in the horse game
January 15, 2026 at 8:39 PM
look at my son
January 7, 2026 at 4:35 PM
they call it glizzard 3 in japan
I just saw someone refer to three hot dogs as a Final Fantasy spell called glizzaga and I’m losing my mind
December 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
they put me on a card
October 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Really excited for both this and our other planned features around this! Genesys Prog sound cool to anyone?
YGO PROG UPDATE: Genesys

- Added Genesys (and historical Genesys) support to our Deck Builder
- Added Sets: MP25 Tins, MP25, DOOD

We should have some other cool Genesys-related features coming out relatively soon too!
September 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Did another pass here. Removed a few more keywords.
It's VERY overdue but I just did a bit of a Yugioh feed update.
- Got rid of a couple of the remaining false positive key words. Almost all of them were from a couple keywords. (Sorry Maxx Crosby fans)
- Added a couple more blocked words to curb those type of issue a bit more than I already have.
September 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It's VERY overdue but I just did a bit of a Yugioh feed update.
- Got rid of a couple of the remaining false positive key words. Almost all of them were from a couple keywords. (Sorry Maxx Crosby fans)
- Added a couple more blocked words to curb those type of issue a bit more than I already have.
September 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Congrats to @sirtractor.bsky.social for the Elestrals Premier Win!

Check out their list and more from the event over at Top Elestrals

www.topelestrals.com/tournaments/...
June 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
We have some more written Elestrals strategy content up on Top Elestrals!
New Top Elestrals Article!

The first in a series of primers we have been working on is a Frost Primer written by @thelawygo.bsky.social

This in-depth article will give you significant insight on how to effectively build and pilot Frost decks in Elestrals.

Check out the article below!
Frost - The Element of Options by TheLawTCG | Top Elestrals
A primer going over the various options when building Frost for the Firestorm metagame, discussing 5 different options for deck building.
www.topelestrals.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I've gotten so much more done here and everything looks so much better than I ever could have imagined by this time. I think I can have my entire intended feature set ready before Elestrals Clash comes out.
I've been slowly releasing all sorts of features throughout the past few days.
- Pretty in-article Deck and Card Embeds
- EDK File Format Export
- A revamped home page
- Automatic Spirit Calculator in the deck builder

Check it out over at www.topelestrals.com
June 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This one was a lot of learning and was a significant challenge for me since I'm not generally a frontend dev. Please check it out if you are interested!
I put together a deck builder, along with a tournament, deck, and card database over at TopElestrals

Check it out: www.topelestrals.com/deck-builder
May 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Check out our latest post over at TopElestrals! I'm excited to get some written analysis started for Elestrals!
Check out our latest article over on TopElestrals, a competitive analysis piece by the one and only
@daimax.bsky.social. I believe written competitive analysis is a key part of improving player's skills to please give it a read!

www.topelestrals.com/posts/april-...
April 26th Webcam Premier Top 8 Breakdown | Top Elestrals
Reviewing decks from the latest webcam premier and identifying well-positioned decks to prepare for the next.
www.topelestrals.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
For those interested in Elestrals, this site has been a project I've been working on in the background bsky.app/profile/tope...
April 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
There is no other game like Void Stranger.
April 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
unrelated to the yugioh feed updates yesterday. there was some issue with integers getting converted to bigints that the atproto lexicon did not like so the feed was not ingesting new posts for a bit.
January 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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November 6, 2024 at 12:00 PM
I'm unreasonably excited to switch over to Primite Blue-Eyes next week.

I've been playing Fiendsmith Ryzeal. The Fiendsmith cards are so fun to play with, but the Ryzeal cards are just not.
January 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Did a bit of a Yugioh Feed Update today. Added a couple more things to the blocklist, removed some users from the alwaysallow list as well as some keywords.
January 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Hi, no that's not the case. I don't remember the screenshot but I must've posted it in the GF teraleak discord server when I was in there. Was looking to see the stuff and whether or not there was anything worth making a video about.

Really hate that someone took that used a slur repeatedly.
January 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
my biggest contribution is either ygoprog or the yugioh feed here on this very site
My biggest contribution was this post in response to a dzeef post. Like 500 NR decks, some other memes, but my this was my biggest.
December 24, 2024 at 5:57 AM
Pretty happy with the results on my latest yugioh feed changes. Only been a few hours, but I haven't seen any overtly NSFW content on the feed since
December 22, 2024 at 12:40 AM