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jamin
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 1225
Best Total: 27m 9s
Posted - 2006.03.30 11:21:01
I've been making my way back through the past games archives and have worked back to December 2005 puzzles so far. I have noticed a slight usability issue - I have to click back through fourteen pages of archives before getting to the puzzles I am after.

Any chance of presenting the archives in a month-to-a-page format with the root archive page having links to each month?

Just a suggestion to aid us newcomers who have to catch up ( :
foilman
Kwon-Tom Admin
Puzzles: 3384
Best Total: 24m 6s
Posted - 2006.03.30 12:46:57
Yes, I keep meaning to do something about that, but it just hasn't happened yet. Thanks for reminding me!
procrastinator
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 1083
Best Total: 12m 56s
Posted - 2006.03.30 14:45:23
In the meantime: After you hit "Older" once, the address ends in a number. If you reduce this number by 30, it takes you back 30 days.
foilman
Kwon-Tom Admin
Puzzles: 3384
Best Total: 24m 6s
Posted - 2006.03.30 18:12:24
The funky new archives are now active!! Check them out... and report all problems here.
Fgnn
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 717
Best Total: 19m 46s
Posted - 2006.03.30 22:16:06
Look really good man. One thing I think would be cool too is a tracking system for which archive puzzles you have done (if its not too hard to impliment).

-Fgnn
foilman
Kwon-Tom Admin
Puzzles: 3384
Best Total: 24m 6s
Posted - 2006.03.30 23:15:19
Yes... it's something I've thought about, and it's certainly possible to do, it's just that it would make the size of the database explode!! As it's only the last 7 days that count towards any sort of score, I made the decision not to keep a record of all older solved puzzles... but maybe one day I'll change my mind...
PuzzleLover
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 1033
Best Total: 38m 17s
Posted - 2006.03.31 09:40:32
The new archive access is excellent, thanks!

I'd also like to know which archived puzzles I've worked.  If you just saved a bit for archived puzzles worked (and threw away solution times or other info), the database size should stay tractable.
drnull
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 1053
Best Total: 23m 25s
Posted - 2006.03.31 15:32:59
Quote:
Originally Posted by foilman
The funky new archives are now active!! Check them out... and report all problems here.
Nice job on the new archive display!  It's slick.
oyvind
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 6527
Best Total: 12m 45s
Posted - 2006.04.05 10:08:33
The new archives are great, but I found a problem:
When I choose a new month in the archive, choose a puzzle and go back to the archive again, I get the annoying "Warning: Page has expired" message. Then I have to click refresh and hit "Retry".

Another 30-minutes work for foilman?

Øyvind
foilman
Kwon-Tom Admin
Puzzles: 3384
Best Total: 24m 6s
Posted - 2006.04.05 13:45:27
I can't seem to replicate the problem here... if I click "archives", change month, click a puzzle, then click archives again, it works as it should with no errors...?
foilman
Kwon-Tom Admin
Puzzles: 3384
Best Total: 24m 6s
Posted - 2006.04.05 13:49:36
However... it might be fixed anyway. Give it a try again.
oyvind
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 6527
Best Total: 12m 45s
Posted - 2006.04.06 07:14:14
Excellent, it works now
foilman
Kwon-Tom Admin
Puzzles: 3384
Best Total: 24m 6s
Posted - 2006.04.06 07:40:11
Hehe, that was a lucky guess by me then!
adhawkins
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 1082
Best Total: 44m 12s
Posted - 2006.05.10 12:22:01
Just another vote for some method of showing which older puzzles I've completed.

Any chance?

Andy
foilman
Kwon-Tom Admin
Puzzles: 3384
Best Total: 24m 6s
Posted - 2006.05.10 14:46:42
Oh ok then you talked me into it. I'll see how it goes with database size...  Any puzzles you complete from now on will appear with shading in the archives so you can see which ones you've done.
Last edited by foilman - 2006.05.10 14:46:56
astrokath
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 3258
Best Total: 13m 42s
Posted - 2006.05.10 15:00:42
Quote:
Originally Posted by foilman
Oh ok then you talked me into it. I'll see how it goes with database size...  Any puzzles you complete from now on will appear with shading in the archives so you can see which ones you've done.

Seems to work fine.
I assume the old ones will still not have times stored though...?
Last edited by astrokath - 2006.05.10 15:03:15
foilman
Kwon-Tom Admin
Puzzles: 3384
Best Total: 24m 6s
Posted - 2006.05.10 15:06:03
That's right. It's just a "you have done this puzzle" indicator, with no time or anything...
astrokath
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 3258
Best Total: 13m 42s
Posted - 2006.05.10 15:21:35
Woul it be posible to add some cross-hatching for when we've done the "wrongs" as well?
foilman
Kwon-Tom Admin
Puzzles: 3384
Best Total: 24m 6s
Posted - 2006.05.11 09:52:52
I wasn't planning on doing that... but I've done it anyway! From now on, the shading will turn into cross-hatching when you've done the 'wrong' puzzle too.
adhawkins
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 1082
Best Total: 44m 12s
Posted - 2006.05.11 11:33:27
Great stuff, thanks!

Andy
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