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Maybe no way around this, but I've noticed this issue when I'm on a "puzzlepicnic.com" address for one part of the site (say, the forum), and "www.puzzlepicnic.com" for the other (say, the puzzles). So if I click a link for a puzzle at "www.puzzlepicnic.com" while in the forum as "puzzlepicnic.com", it will appear that I have logged out. So then I just change the URL and it still has me as logged in. Not sure if this could be related to this particular issue or if it is separate.

Number: Puzzle #2741
Genre: Staircases
Author: Term
Appeared at: June 12, 2011

Nice puzzle

I liked the design of this one, especially the way the staircases interact.

Number: Puzzle #2399
Genre: Sum Thing
Author: Jfo
Appeared at: January 10, 2011

Nice design. I found this one much more difficult than the rating. Is there a trick to this one that I missed? Wound up using a lot of trial and error.

Number: Puzzle #394
Genre: Platform
Author: Bram
Appeared at: August 8, 2007

Tricky, tricky. This one took me much longer than it should have, although the whole genre is like that!

Quite an interesting genre, once you understand the rules anyway. I liked the somewhat unexpected construction in a part of this puzzle, although it threw me off so much that I must have tried every other sensible construction...

I don't think Nikoli has an app.

Otto Janko has a Fillomino Applet:
http://www.janko.at/Applets/index.htm

It draws in lines automatically, but you can also place/remove lines manually with left-click (or right-click; there is no concept of connectors).

I understand the rationale for why the separators are right-click. I just naturally try to use left-click to place the separators for some reason. Maybe because I type in the numbers and rarely use left-click for anything when solving Fillomino puzzles (mostly just to re-focus the applet), since connectors are not required. It is such a small thing though, it doesn't really matter.

Just came here to suggest that Left-click be used for the separators, and saw that it had been suggested already.

Here is an alternate reasoning for this:

1) The left-click is the dominant button, and should correspond to the most useful function. Knowing that two adjacent numbers are not the same but not knowing one of the two numbers is a common occurrence, and the separator provides useful information here.

2) The only time connectors may provide information is when you know two numbers are connected but don't know the value of the number. That is not a very common situation (comes up in the larger Nikoli puzzles but not common in smaller puzzles). Of course, if you know the value of one of the two numbers, the other is the same, so the connector is not needed.

But perhaps the biggest reason for making the separator left-click and connector right-click is that just about every other applet on this site that has the concept of separator and connector has left-click as the separator and right-click as the connector. Heterocut, Seethrough, Neighbours, etc.

Of course it is really not a big deal!

Yes I agree. Nice design, although I found it very straightforward to solve.

Brilliant design (all ways). Thank you for the puzzle. Enjoyable to solve but not too easy.

What I do on these puzzles is, using different colors for different regions, draw squares around the individual cells that are part of the same system. I use blue for "real" walls and every other color for region identification. Eventually the "colored" squares will be replaced with blue walls or white space once more information about a region has been figured out. It sounds a little clunky, but it's not that bad, and it beats relying on memory for the more difficult puzzles.

Number: Puzzle #2525
Genre: Cogwheels
Author: xevs
Appeared at: February 19, 2011

Nice one

Number: Puzzle #2484
Genre: Tapa
Author: xevs
Appeared at: January 28, 2011

Nice

Happy New Year!!

Number: Puzzle #2062
Genre: Heterocut
Author: anurag.sahay
Appeared at: December 25, 2010

Unusually straightforward for a Heterocut!

Number: Puzzle #2390
Genre: Fillomino
Author: Forseti
Appeared at: December 20, 2010

Nice blend of genres!

Very nice. I found it actually quite straightforward though. It really falls into place quickly once you get going. EDIT: Never mind, I goofed somewhere, and was only accidentally correct

Upon re-doing it, it wasn't quite as straightforward, but still has a nice flow. It worked out the same way as Forseti got it.