I've been away from my home computer for a while so I've used the web client (rather than Steam's) for the past several days, and was having no issues until today. My friends list cleared itself of all entries at some point in the last 16 or so hours, and I've been struggling to remember the entries to repopulate it. Here's the F1 data from the login instance I noticed on. Spoiler: wordswordswords === CARD HUNTER CORE PC Client === Sun Jan 3 01:35:04 GMT-0700 2016 Sandbox Type: remote Version 3.98.0.11311 SFS Version: 1.2.0 Create landing screen. Initializing world screen Landing screen: set login dialog No bootstrap configuration file. Loading configuration from ch-config.json Authenticating... https://live-server.cardhunter.com/game_login.jsp?time=1451810106263 Connecting... Connected Logged in as Andmcmuffin2 === SERVER CONFIG === - CAMPAIGN_TEAMS: True Loading static data... Fetching manifest received block list received friend list Manifest loaded. Creating CSV parser. Processing manifest. Processing: Hint Loading from http://live.cardhunter.com/data/gameplay/Hints/Hints.csv Processing: Card Loading from http://live.cardhunter.com/data/gameplay/Cards/Cards.csv Processing: Adventure Loading from http://live.cardhunter.com/data/gameplay/Adventures/Adventures.csv Processing: Equipment Loading from http://live.cardhunter.com/data/gameplay/Equipment/Equipment.csv Processing: CharacterArchetype Loading from http://live.cardhunter.com/data/gameplay/CharacterArchetypes/CharacterArchetypes.csv Processing: Figure Loading from http://live.cardhunter.com/data/gameplay/Figures/Figures.csv Processing: ExperienceTable Loading from http://live.cardhunter.com/data/gameplay/ExperienceTables/ExperienceTable.csv Processing: HealthTable Loading from http://live.cardhunter.com/data/gameplay/HealthTables/HealthTable.csv Processing: TalentTable Loading from http://live.cardhunter.com/data/gameplay/TalentTables/TalentTable.csv Processing: Prompt Loading from http://live.cardhunter.com/data/gameplay/Prompts/Prompt.csv Processing: Keywords Loading from http://live.cardhunter.com/data/gameplay/Keywords/Keywords.csv Processing: Price Loading from http://live.cardhunter.com/data/gameplay/Prices/Prices.csv Processing: StarterPack Loading from http://live.cardhunter.com/data/gameplay/StarterPacks/StarterPacks.csv Processing: MPReward Loading from http://live.cardhunter.com/data/gameplay/MPRewards/MPRewards.csv Data loaded. Verifying data. Initializing deck builder StaticCardRenderer::checkTextArea Destructive Purge Thumbnail Title is too wide. StaticCardRenderer::checkTextArea Destructive Purge Thumbnail Title is too wide. Initializing deck builder StaticCardRenderer::checkTextArea Destructive Purge Thumbnail Title is too wide. StaticCardRenderer::checkTextArea Destructive Purge Thumbnail Title is too wide. Initializing deck builder StaticCardRenderer::checkTextArea Destructive Purge Thumbnail Title is too wide. StaticCardRenderer::checkTextArea Destructive Purge Thumbnail Title is too wide. Initializing deck builder StaticCardRenderer::checkTextArea Destructive Purge Thumbnail Title is too wide. StaticCardRenderer::checkTextArea Destructive Purge Thumbnail Title is too wide. Initializing deck builder StaticCardRenderer::checkTextArea Destructive Purge Thumbnail Title is too wide. StaticCardRenderer::checkTextArea Destructive Purge Thumbnail Title is too wide. StaticCardRenderer::checkTextArea Destructive Purge Thumbnail Title is too wide. StaticCardRenderer::checkTextArea Destructive Purge Thumbnail Title is too wide. StaticCardRenderer::checkTextArea Destructive Purge Thumbnail Title is too wide. StaticCardRenderer::checkTextArea Destructive Purge Thumbnail Title is too wide. I understand if it's not possible to recover the list, but it's a frustrating bug to encounter.
And so it did. Go ahead and mark this one as "solved", then, I'm just curious as to how it happened in the first place.