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by cyberlimerence 660 days ago
Really cool project. I went through all 40 puzzles, only missed a couple :(

Some friendly feedback: maybe add a way to quickly go to previous/next puzzle directly, like arrows on the side of the screen. Modal with "play" button reloads on every puzzle, so you have to press the button every time, I think it should come up only once on start up. I see that it takes some time for the graph to load, but modal should close itself then. Also, I'm not sure if it is a timezone issue on my side or calendar in archive is off by one day: you need to click the next day to get puzzle for the prior day. Not really important, but August 16th puzzle is mislabeled (atmospheric ppm. vs temperature anomaly).

Thanks for putting this together, I'll try to play again sometime.

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Thank you for the feedback - you playing and taking the time to write all of this is super helpful and I really appreciate it.

The option to move quickly between puzzles totally makes sense - I added in buttons below the "Graphs title" to do so. Does it work well from your PoV?

I also made it so that the "play" button only pops up on your first graph of each day, afterwards it will not impede you as you binge :)

I fixed the August 16th labeling (regex strikes again) too, nice find.

The date thing is almost certainly due to varying timezones of players - they're all around the world at this point. I'll have to think more deeply about how to fix that, but it is 100% going to happen.

Thanks again for all the feedback and for playing!

I also trimmed down the graph rendering so it doesn't take as much time (now that the play pop up isn't in the way)