#1: Valerie Mates (va­le­ri­e­) on Jul 10, 2022

I'll announce staging-site news here.

I fixed a bug in the "News" menu option where it was showing *all* news instead of just the unread news.

I'm currently working on ways to make the different colors of 1's more distinct. Currently I'm trying out *wider* 1 images, but I don't love them. Also the blue 1 color is lighter. Anyway, details are in puzzle 35294: https://staging.webpbn.com/35294
Input is welcome!

Things I'm currently working on:

1) Setting up e-mail verification settings so that the server can e-mail reset passwords to people, when people lose their password. Right now some e-mail hosts do accept mail from webpbn and some don't. If I get this right, then webpbn should be able to send e-mail to pretty much any site.

Eventually I'll add options where people can sign up to have comments on puzzles and discussion-forum comments e-mailed to them. We will need to have e-mail flowing correctly in order for that to work.

2) Adding a note that pops up when a person starts to leave a page that has an un-saved comment on it.

3) I'm still collecting input on the wider 1's. And anything else you'd like to comment on.

I made the blue lighter in SVG mode, both for clues and for squares. I'd appreciate feedback on what you think.

To try out SVG mode:
1) Go to Settings.
2) Go to the Options tab.
3) Look for Drawing Mode, and select SVG mode.
4) Click on the Save button.
5) Navigate to a puzzle.
6) If you've already seen the puzzle, you may need to right-click on a white area near the puzzle and then select "Reload frame".

If you're already in SVG mode, you may also need to do #6 to see the new shade of blue.

Finally, if you don't want to stay in SVG mode, repeat these steps and select HTML mode.

Lots of updates!

Currently I'm working on e-mail notifications. It doesn't do anything yet, but you can go to the Settings page and click on a new tab to see what's under construction.

I've made a number of tiny updates to wording and graphics on the screens for creating an account or resetting a lost password, and improved several places where it checks for a valid e-mail address when one is entered.

I've added "Welcome, username!" at the top of the menu. This is mostly useful to me when I am hopping between test accounts, so that I can tell which one is logged in. But I think there are times when it's useful to other people too, so I copied it to the main site.

I've added code that shows the row and column of the cursor while you are solving a puzzle, and also the percent filled in.

I added code that may help prevent the input keyboard from popping up if you're on the site on an iPad.

I added code that notices if you have an un-saved comment and asks "Are you sure?" when you try to navigate away from the page.

I'm working on adding a feature where if there is new news, the site shows it to you.

One

Two

Three!

Four...

Five...

Six...

Seven...

Eight...

Nine...

Ten!

Eleven!

Twelve!

Lucky thirteen!

Fourteen....

Fifteen...

Sixteen

Seventeen...

Eighteen...

Nineteen...

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

Baskin Robbins 31 Flavors

100000 in binary

RPMs of an old record, rounded to the nearest 1.

34

Old enough to be president of the USA.

Three dozen.

37

38

Three baker's dozens.

Over The Hill.

41

The ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.

43

44

RPM for little records

46

47

Four dozen!

Seven Squared.

Half a century!

51

Cards in a deck.

53

54

I'm a speed limit!

Eight times seven.

My actual age!

58

59

60

61

62

63

64

65

66

67

68

69

70

71

A subway station on the IRT line in Manhattan. Express and local trains stop here.

The street on the north side of The Dakota.

74

3 times (five squared)

Spirit of...

The year of the original Star Wars movie.

78

Another IRT station, but this time local trains only.

Four score.

Nine squared.

82.

83

84

85

No longer available.

87

Keys on a piano.

89

Nonagenarian.

91

92

93

94

95

Another IRT station.

97

98

Luftballons.

$1.

Dalmatians.

102

A bus in a Christine Lavin song.

Another bus in a Christine Lavin song.

A radio station's call number.

Another radio station....

And another.

I think I read a book called "Nikki 108," a zillion years ago.

109

6 in binary

7 in binary

112 - whew!

New changes:

(1) The News page now shows the most recent news first.

(2) If there is news that you haven't seen, the system will interrupt what you were doing to show you the news. Then from the news page you can click on "Continue to where I was going..." to go to what you were actually aiming for.

Eleven Squared!

122

123

Double and double.

Five cubed!

126

127

2^7

129

130

131

132

133

134

The first three sequential odd numbers.

136

137

138

139

140

141

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