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Dear puzzle fan,

PuzzlePicnic has just been updated! Well, that's nothing new: it happened before. But we decided that it might be a good idea to give our members and visitors some insight into what's happening behind the scenes, and for that purpose each new update will now be accompanied by a post on the forum describing what actually changed.

... which is not altogether too exciting for the current update, since this is mainly a bugfix update. So without further ado, here are the changes.

New Features

Clickable histograms
The bars in the puzzle histograms on our statistics pages are now links to the puzzles page, where the puzzles that were represented by the bar are shown. Also at the top of each statistics page, a bar representing all puzzles on that page has been added.

Messages to accepted puzzles
Judges can now directly post messages to the authors of puzzles that have already been accepted, or are stored in the silo.

Fixed Bugs

Difficulty stats
The lists of puzzles by difficulty on the statistics pages now show up correctly.

Sorting puzzle selections
Sorting on the puzzles page now works correctly, no matter what combination of selections is made.

Profile link
The username in the top right corner of the website for users who are logged in is now correctly capitalised, and always links to your profile.

Estimated difficulty
The estimated difficulty of puzzles that authors can see on the statistics page of their puzzles is no longer sometimes zero.

New genre dates
When a new genre is added to the site, existing puzzles in that genre that are not yet published no longer get dated to the current date.

We have just done another update. Again, most changes took place behind the scenes. The most important change is a new communication method, that hopefully solves many of the problems that several users experienced when checking their solutions for correctness. Here is the full list of visible changes.

Fixed Bugs

Warnings for unverified puzzles
Some puzzles incorrectly had a warning that they had not yet been verified. This has been corrected: now the warning is only shown if the puzzle really has not been verified.

Puzzle selections
The puzzle selections are now not only stored correctly when sorting, but also when going to the next page!

Images
Images attached to judge messages (for authors) now show the right content.

New communication mechanism
The applet now has two communication mechanisms instead of one. It is now possible to communicate (sometimes asynchronously) via Javascript. This hopefully solves the notorious Firefox-bug.

Cookie storing
The puzzle cookies are no longer overwritten by static applets (such as the ones on the page to edit your puzzles).

"Discuss this puzzle"-link
There has been a change in policy for the Puzzle Feedback forum. From now on, only members are allowed to open topics on this forum via the puzzle-page. Naturally, the link to an already open topic is available for all visitors.