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Change Log

WIPs

• "Supporter Mode" - an optional purchaseable upgrade to the game that removes ads for a quarter/semester/year at a time
• europe & asia server options when creating a new game (currently games default to north america)
• super secret new features (sry)

v0.48.0 - 4/20/2021 - 7/27/2021

• added an in-game timer, can be shown via the gear icon
  • timer is just your own time spent within that puzzle and does not show or count other people
  • timer pauses itself after 60 seconds if it thinks you're afk
  • timer is stopped instantly and saved if you exit the puzzle (closing the tab, going to the homepage, etc)
  • timer stops if a puzzle is completed
• made some changes to how sounds load+play (attempted ios+safari sound fix)
• ported large amounts of the in-game interface, hopefully it works the same as before:D
• if a player is alone in a game, they gain access to the /vacuum command even if they aren't the creator

v0.44.0 - v0.47.0, ~ 4/20/2021 - 7/10/2021

• retuned the total pieces / total puzzle statics to reflect reduced players during summertime - as of 7/10/2021 there are 910,000 completed puzzles
• major upgrade to database, reducing the "disconnect" bug that occurs freshly after starting/continuing a puzzle
• new load balancing strategy to keep most games lag free
• improved social media images: pasting the image link from browsing now displays a large thumbnail in discord, facebook, twitter etc

v0.43.0 3/29/2021

• improved performance of setting up a new game
• fixed a bug where sometimes people would end up with a few clones of a puzzle they started

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• added prototype "/vacuum" command that can be typed into chat
  • pulls all pieces towards the center of the puzzle
  • will mildly shuffle pieces, but tries to keep them mostly together
  • ignores pieces that are already merged into a group
  • ignores pieces in a player's hand
  • this command only works for the puzzle's creator or the host

v0.40.0 2/22/2021

• made some upgrades to hosted mode x2
• made it so that slower connections have a better chance of making it into the game
• put some length limits on player names
• fixed a vulnerability that let someone create a 10,000 piece puzzle *ahem*

v0.37.0 2/9/2021

• improved frontpage performance by ~12x
• hosted games now tell you that you're not signed in before trying to join
• fixed a bug in hosted mode where the host sometimes couldn't ban/kick a player
• generally improved performance of images, sign in, and puzzles being saved or loaded
• lots of little fixes to the catalog
• background color is now saved (local on your computer/browse, not cloud)

v0.34.0 11/12/2020

• chat box is now clickable
• chat now works on touch/mobile devices
• old chat functionality of pressing 'enter' to start typing still works btw

v0.33.0 10/21/2020

• improved game loading speeds
• fixed two bugs that would at random cause pieces to be stuck after starting a game

v0.32.0 8/27/2020

An entirely new design for browsing our image catalog!

• Latest Images page - shows the newest stuff
• Category/By tag pages - shows all images with a certain tag
• Individual image pages
  • Linkable! You can now link an image to your friends for some pre-puzzle discussion!
  • Credits the photographer (in the case of photography put into the public domain)
  • Shows related images
• Shows portait and landscape images (previous catalog cropped all previews to a misleading square shape)
• Mobile/Tablet/Desktop compatible - the catalog has been made for a variety of screen sizes
• No longer requires sign-in just to browse (though sign-in is still required to actually create a puzzle)
• Requires drastically less bandwidth to browse (various image and pagination optimizations)
• Coming later: better tags, image descriptions

v0.30.0 6/10/2020

• Can now interact with pieces *through* the chat interface
• Pasting a link to another puzzle in-game produces a clickable link for the other players
• Chat occupies less screen space, and can be hidden entirely
• 'Hosted' games are now marked on the front page

v0.29.0 6/6/2020

Chat system and a new anti-troll mode initially rolled out to user-created games (not the themed or chaos lobbies).

• New chat system
  • Press enter to start typing, and enter again to send
  • Colorized usernames
  • Text lasts much longer before fading away
  • Pressing enter after text has faded away shows the chat again
  • Per-person mute feature removes a username and all their messages from the chat
  • People joining the game are announced by the server in the chat, among other things
• Hosted mode
  • A new *public* game mode where the person who starts a puzzle gains the power to kick/ban players. This is like the current public games but with some ability to fend off trolls.
  • This mode is member-only (everyone must be signed-in to play).
  • Kick: disconnects a player from a game, but allows them to rejoin
  • Ban: disconnects a player from a game, and prevents them from rejoining
• Player List
  • A new button has been added to the interface that shows the player list
  • Everyone currently connected can be seen in the player list
  • Various moderation opions exist in the player list
• Scores for members are now saved long-term along with the puzzles, instead of being session only (only for the game modes receiing this patch, for now)
• Scoring has been removed for anon players (no deliberate reason for this... just a side effect of how things work now).

v0.28.0 5/4/2020

• private puzzles are limited to 10 players
• fixed a bug where the wrong private game could be joined via create/resume/reconnect (is this is the last of this bug? we shall see)

v0.27.0 4/29/2020

• user-initiated public games are back!
• fixed two bugs where players attempting to continue or start a new private game could be placed into an existing private game

v0.26.0 4/21/2020

• improved sign in, all devices should now stay signed in properly
• decreased the chance of puzzles getting lost/bugged during traffic spikes
• fixed an intermittent bug where players were all being sent to the same server when trying to create a new puzzle

v0.24.0 4/18/2020

Mostly bug fixes for problems found by players (thank you!), and server improvements.

• now running 650+ game lobbies
• added ~40 more images, many picked by players
• tweaked ad frequency (less, overall)
• created some new themed puzzle playlists for the front page
• fixed a bug where a player who refreshes the page right as they join could enter the game twice and would not be able to move any pieces
• fixed a bug where a game server would fail to clear the board before loading a new puzzle, and then would present the players with two (or more) puzzles worth of a pieces
• fixed a whole bunch of very weird ghost piece / can't move piece / extra piece / extra player hand bugs related to the above
• fixed a bug related to traffic spikes where certain servers were not being returned to the pool of available lobbies
• bug found: during traffic spikes a small (less than 1%) number of puzzles were failing to save. Game lobbies will now repeatedly try to save puzzles if they ever encounter a failure (we won't know if this works until more time has passed).
• bug found: during traffic spikes there is a very small chance that a newly created puzzle will not be added to the "My Puzzles" page. There is no fix for this yet -- but if it happens to you, the puzzle can be recovered by going into your browser history and rejoining it.

4/10/2020

• login now lasts 36 hours (instead of instantly ending when closing the browser)
• improved image loading speed
• added more private game lobbies

4/6/2020

• added 300+ more game lobbies
• created new playlists for the themed lobbies
• added scoring to chaos and themed games
• added video preroll advertisements at a maximum rate of one per 15 minutes
• NOTE: we'd like to offer an ad-free premium version JigsawPuzzles.io in the future with some additional gameplay value (for now we just need to pay some server bills!)

v0.19.0 3/24/2020

• "username has joined" appears when someone joins a game
• player hand-cursors are now visible immediately when they join (previous only visible after touching a piece)
• Scoring: scores are now visible in the top right
• Scoring: players get a point when they lock a piece to the board
• Scoring: hide the scores by clicking the 'Scores' button
• NOTE: this patch will role out gradually and will not be on all servers immediately
• Infrastrucutre: added 200+ private lobbies over the previous few days
• Catalog: added 400+ images over the the previous few months (so many that we need to make a new catalog / interface in the near future)

v0.18.0 4/5/2019

• users can create public games (not just admins)
• public games: auto save every 20 seconds, remain active so long as they have players
• homepage: shows user-created public games
• homepage: autorefreshes servers
• homepage: shows puzzle progress percentage and sorts games by population
• my puzzles: saves in-progress public games, can continue a public game that was stopped

v0.17.0 3/25/2019

• added 600 piece option for new puzzles
• added 1000 piece option for certain high quality images (search for 'Chaos')
• began including public domain classic artwork
• added a 5 minute afk timer
• fixed a rare stuck piece bug

v0.16.0 3/13/2019

• fixed the most common stuck piece bug
• fixed a few rare crashes
• fixed one of the bugs that had fused pieces looking strange
• made the final few puzzle pieces easier to find
• improved game consistency during packet loss

v0.15.0 3/10/2019

• added 52 new images, many animals and birds-eye-view
• improved server performance (especially chaos)
• tripled total server capacity

v0.14.2 3/8/2019

• added 21 new images
• fixed a bug that was causing completed puzzles to stay visible after the next puzzle loaded

v0.14.0 3/5/2019

• added touch support for tablets
• increased puzzle loading speed (3x)
• numerous performance and stability fixes

2/9/2019

• Like/Follow on Facebook and Twitter
• New puzzle page shows most recently added images
• Added many images w/ tags: Seattle, Mount Rainer, Arches National Park, Moab
• Created Chaos3 playlist with 16 new 4k resolution puzzles

v0.12.0 - 1/23/2019

• mousewheel zoom now works in many more browsers
• fixed a bug that had puzzles stuck at 99% loaded
• fixed a very rare bug where a piece would disappear

v0.11.0 - 1/22/2019

• new chat system
• choose nicknames and cursor colors
• fixed a bug that caused public puzzles to sometimes get stuck after being finished

1/21/2019

• enabled facebook login
• added many new puzzle images
• added a second chaos server, with new images

v0.10.0 - 1/20/2019

• pieces can now only be held for a limited time
• fixed a rare "stuck piece" bug (losing internet while moving a piece)
• added more private game servers

v0.9.0 - 1/18/2019

• misc quality of life fixes for those who normally play with packet loss
• fixed a visual bug where locked pieces would be misaligned
• fixed numerous visual bugs relating to moving fused pieces

v0.8.0 - 1/17/2019

• mousewheel zoom now works when playing the game on a third party site via iframe

v0.7.0 - 1/15/2019

• public puzzles on the front page save progress
• puzzles now show loading progress