JetPunk Change Log

Sometimes we change the way things work on JetPunk. Here's a place to make a note of these changes. Click on each month to expand or collapse the changes for that month.
February 2025
February 7th - Minesweeper

You can now play Minesweeper on JetPunk. Check it out!

November 2024
November 8th - Sudden Death

A new quiz format has been created! Sudden Death will end the quiz as soon as you get one answer wrong. Try it out today: Capital Cities - Sudden Death.

October 2024
October 2nd - Disable SVG Zooming

You now have the option to disable the zooming on SVG quizzes using the option in the SVG selection pane. Thanks to Dimby for his suggestion on the Message Board!

September 2024
September 20th - Message Board

In an effort to move away from Reddit, QM has introduced the JetPunk Message Board. This is where you can ask questions, get help, post ideas etc.

This feature is still in testing

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103 Recent Comments
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Level 51
Sep 6, 2024
If you don't mind me asking, what led you to work for JetPunk?
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Level 68
Sep 7, 2024
That's a very long story and I don't feel like writing it out again.
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Level 76
Sep 7, 2024
https://www.jetpunk.com/users/baptistegorce/blog/interview-of-a-jetpunker-10-stewart
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Level 51
Sep 8, 2024
Thank you.
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Level 51
Sep 11, 2024
Could you spotlight user blogs on the front page more frequently? I have heard that this has been occasionally done in the past, but not very often. What would be a negative repercussion of doing this? (I am assuming that it has something to do with not wanting to fill the RUB with lots of spam blogs, but I could be wrong.)
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Level 68
Sep 11, 2024
If a really good blog comes along that feels suitable for a global audience, and not a specific group of people, that's professionally formatted and well written. Then sure. Until that happens, grey boxes will be used sparingly.
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Level 77
Sep 12, 2024
That's the unfortunate part. A lot of the best blogs only serve some niche.

And kind of unrelated, but I went over to the French blog page and now I feel cheated. Why must the English page be so different?

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Level 62
Sep 12, 2024
what's so different?
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Level 67
Sep 15, 2024
For one, the French page has a lot less publishing...
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Level 51
Sep 15, 2024
Also, the stuff there is much higher-quality...
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Level 51
Sep 15, 2024
Could we please have a weekly leaderboard of the top blogs? For example, the 10 blogs that received the most unique views and/or likes (with some metrics to discourage manipulation) would be spotlighted on a webpage? To discourage spam-posting, maybe have each user only appear once? Assuming this is even something that you would want to add, would it be conceivably possible?
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Level 67
Sep 16, 2024
Trying to make this quiz but the selector is always going to be too wide. Any ideas?
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Level 68
Sep 16, 2024
Choose the scrollable selector not the multi-column one
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Level 67
Sep 16, 2024
thanks
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Level 51
Sep 16, 2024
May we have a method of collaboration that gives credit to everyone who has worked on a blog? The blog could appear on both users' blog pages and be listed as being written by multiple people. Would that be on the table?
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Level 68
Sep 17, 2024
There is no historical record of collaboration, and it would be difficult because somebody could collab their blog with QM or myself (without us even knowing) just so their blog appeared on our blog page. Without majors changes to collaboration (which I'm not willing to do) then no it's not happening.

A question for you. Why do you feel the need to ask for big changes seemingly every other day?

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Level 51
Sep 17, 2024
Yeah, it does sound like a problem that someone could make their blog appear on your or QM's page. I am also sorry that i have suggested so many things. I did not realize that it was a problem, but i now understand that it is. You are doing an amazing job developing the site, by the way. I recently started building a website from scratch and I am now starting to understand and appreciate how much work it truly is...
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Level 62
Sep 21, 2024
Also not always collabs are for working on the thing. I have a quiz collabed w me so I can see the type ins.
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Level 67
Sep 18, 2024
Any chance of a page that shows all users who have published blogs, similar to this page but ranked by total number of blogs, or maybe just alphabetical by username?

It seems like once a blog drops off page 5 of the RUB, you'll never find it again unless you know the name or the user who published it, and for blogs several years old this is a bit of an issue

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Level 68
Sep 18, 2024
Similar to old quizzes, blogs several years old are likely outdated or not great. So not sure there is much benefit here.
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Level 67
Sep 18, 2024
True. Would still be nice if it isn't too much effort...lol
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Level 51
Sep 19, 2024
I am trying to create this quiz, but the SVG IDs do not seem to appear in the editor. Is it part of the data loss problem, or did I just do something wrong in Inkscape?
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Level 68
Sep 20, 2024
This is now fixed, it was related to the server move
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Level 51
Sep 20, 2024
Thanks. :D The server issue was one of my guesses for a possible explanation.
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Level 51
Sep 20, 2024
On the Message Board, I have been unable to create a thread or reply to a thread by a certain user. My comment will appear pending moderation. I know they have not blocked me. Am I banned from the message board or is there an error going on?
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Level 68
Sep 20, 2024
Probably just errors. It is very very new and there will be bugs. QM wanted a first beta version of it released to get immediate feedback, rather than spending weeks and weeks on it, and realising it's not what people wanted.
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Level 51
Sep 20, 2024
Got it. As for the feedback, I really like the idea. However, I think we need a more in-depth guide as to what can and cannot be posted (for example, advertising quizzes and/or casual discussions).
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Level 67
Sep 20, 2024
So, on the main Message Board page, my board says 4 comments, but when I click into it there only seems to be 2 comments (1 of them mine)
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Level 67
Sep 20, 2024
Never mind they suddenly appeared. Don't know if that was you or Dan or if it was a fluke but thanks anyways
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Level 62
Sep 21, 2024
its laggy up to a few mins. I've gotten notifications for a comment after a few minutes than I've seen it
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Level 67
Sep 21, 2024
Actually, I've noticed that the main Message Board regularly shows more comments on a thread than there are
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Level 63
Sep 25, 2024
A delete column contents button would be nice, so you can clear all entries in a column, including the answer column, without manually deleting every cell
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Level 68
Sep 26, 2024
Just delete the column and re-add it. Even with the answer column, add a new blank column, go to Column Management, change the answer column to be the new one, then delete the old column.
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Level 63
Sep 26, 2024
Oh I didnt know that, thanks!
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Level 62
Oct 3, 2024
How much time must pass to invite more people to a group without the invites being accepted?

"You can only have a certain number of pending invitations open at a given time.

You'll be able to send more when time passes or when people accept your invites."

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Level 67
Oct 3, 2024
yeah, it'd be great if we could have an option to make a non-expiring invite link
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Level 62
Oct 3, 2024
i starting inviting a bunch of (inactive) ppl to restart a group, but now i realize there's a limit so i might not be able to invite more ppl at all cuz inactives likely wont accept and space wont be cleared to invite active ppl. that's why i want to know the time limit instead.
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Level 68
Oct 3, 2024
Looks like you can only have 20 pending in a month.

Also in future questions should be asked on the message board not here. This is a changelog.

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Level 62
Oct 3, 2024
aight

after that, do they expire?

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Level 68
Oct 3, 2024
No they don't expire, only url invites expire (which I think are for friends only?)
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Level 62
Oct 3, 2024
Aight, thank you!
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Level 64
Oct 3, 2024
JetPunk doesn’t let me comment on my school iPad or when I’m in Private Browsing Mode, for some reason. It says I have an ad blocker enabled, even though this is not nor has ever been the case.
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Level 67
Oct 3, 2024
your browser's Private mode might have a feature that would set off the adblock catcher, such as, well, adblocking or cookie blocking or something
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Level 63
Oct 10, 2024
You can't paste something into an answer box with a lone space, e.g " x " would just paste as "x". I don't know if this is intentional, or even fixable, but it would be nice
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Level 68
Oct 10, 2024
This is intentional. All pasted data is trimmed of whitespace, without this causes problems for almost all pasted data.
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Level 67
Oct 10, 2024
I notice that the SVG Guide is no longer linked to the Create page. You may want to consider putting it back
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Level 68
Oct 11, 2024
It is now linked directly from the SVG Options page, and it is still in the navigation menu
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Level 67
Oct 11, 2024
Oh sweet thats all good then
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Level 63
Oct 18, 2024
You can't search "Assassinated" for quizzes I was looking for assassinated presidents
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Level 68
Oct 18, 2024
Works fine for me?
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Level 63
Oct 18, 2024
when I type "assassinated" nothing shows up
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Level 68
Oct 18, 2024
Is your language set to English, cause copy pasting that into search works fine for me
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Level 51
Oct 20, 2024
Probably GoGuardian or whatever spyware your school uses?
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Level 63
Oct 22, 2024
Yeah maybe
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Level 63
Oct 22, 2024
Would it be possible to increase svg file upload size for premium users? or is the limit all the website can take

If not, how do you make the dots invisible until guessed

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Level 68
Oct 23, 2024
Use the hidden paths option
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Level 63
Oct 23, 2024
Where is that?
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Level 68
Oct 23, 2024
Inside the SVG Options yellow button in Step 4
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Level 63
Oct 23, 2024
Oh but the problem is the SVG is too big to upload. There are other quizzes on the site with more cities, but they're invisible until guessed
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Level 68
Oct 24, 2024
That part has no effect on the SVG size, it doesn't matter whether the cities are visible or not, they're still included in the 600 kb limit
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Level 63
Oct 24, 2024
is the 600kb like the maximum physically possible or is it something that could be increased for premium users
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Level 68
Oct 26, 2024
It's not the max. possible, that's 2MB. But 600kb is already high enough to contain sufficient levels of detail in SVGs for 99% of cases. Increasing it would only cause a higher storage requirement.

For example, most SVGs save with 3, 4 or even 5 decimal places in the path definitions. Nobody can see the difference of 0.001 pixel on a screen, so it is useless extra information.

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Level 64
Nov 7, 2024
Since when has sudden death been a thing!
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Level 62
Nov 8, 2024
Sudden Death is awesome. Would it be possible to use HTML in the answers (e.g. 52) and to add the number of answers in the bottom corner like other quiz types have?
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Level 62
Nov 14, 2024
Hi Stewart! I know you said future questions should be asked on Message Board but this is a question to which no-one would likely know but someone who actually works on the site. When did the language pages change from displaying 400 quizzes per page to 200 per page?

I wish to know this to be sure I haven't been making mistakes in calculations when counting. By which I mean this type of page (https://www.jetpunk.com/fr/all). Thanks!

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Level 68
Nov 14, 2024
In the evening of October 17th 2024
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Level 62
Nov 14, 2024
Thanks! It seems nothing was affected in what I was counting.
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Level 67
Nov 16, 2024
Thumbnails not loading on the RUB again, by the way
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Level 62
Nov 18, 2024
Can you allow a quiz to be resubmitted without notifying subscribers and putting it on New & Updated Quizzes? If a quiz is outdated or not up to standard, I would like to set it to private but I don't want to notify anyone about it.
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Level 68
Nov 18, 2024
It should not notify anybody unless the stats have been reset
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Level 62
Nov 19, 2024
Okay, thank you!
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Level 55
Nov 22, 2024
It would be nice if JP had a few more tiny fun animations like the confetti at the end of a quiz (mailbox ringing slightly, as an example, or when you level up a cool zoom up)

Also, notifications for new features.

Just a question how come there are no sound effects or anything (just curious)

Might as well put it out there.

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Level 62
Nov 23, 2024
bell sound when you get a notification while logged in and actively using
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Level 55
Nov 23, 2024
That would be a lifesaver
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Level 67
Nov 22, 2024
Woah

Quick links on the ChangeLog

Also whammies?

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Level 62
Nov 23, 2024
does jp have an autosave on quizzes and is it feasable to have the ability to load earlier saves?
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Level 68
Nov 23, 2024
Autosave no, but you can shortcut with Ctrl+S.

Earlier saves also no, as then we'd have to store every single time someone saved a quiz... potentially requiring 5x+ the amount of storage space.

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Level 62
Nov 23, 2024
can it be so that "ctrl+e" on your blog/your quizzes/charts sends you to the blog creator/create page/create a chart?
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Level 62
Nov 24, 2024
Love the new whammies.
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Level 62
Nov 24, 2024
Would it be possible for whammies to overlap with answers? This would be helpful for my Wordle quizzes.
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Level 67
Nov 25, 2024
SAME!!! I would love this so much, it would be a gamechanger for a secret project I'm working on....(like, without it, my project is impossible)
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Level 55
Dec 11, 2024
I think it should be able to happen with yellow box.
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Level 63
Dec 7, 2024
Maybe an ability to crop the given svgs or the dot placer tool? I want to make cities by state but dont know how to download custom maps
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Level 67
Dec 15, 2024
idk if you are seeing the messages about this, but the comment sections in all groups site-wide are unable to be opened currently.

Quizzes, blogs, and message board posts are unaffected

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Level 62
Dec 16, 2024
When you sort by language on a User's quiz page, their takes changes as such. could it also change for stuff like sorting by type?
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Level 68
Dec 16, 2024
Not easily sorry
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Level 62
Jan 22, 2025
shucks. how does the language sorting work rn?
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Level 62
Dec 16, 2024
Have any quiz formats ever been retired?
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Level 51
Dec 26, 2024
The drag And drop format
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Level 67
Dec 27, 2024
I'd really like a new drag'n'drop. The US State Puzzle minigame shows that it can be done, and done well.

I guess the question would be if it was worth it for the Quizmaster or Stewart to put the effort in to make it

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Level 64
Jan 1, 2025
If a user unlocks a blog, but the page isn’t refreshed before another user begins to write, saves can’t be made to that blog by person 2, even though it is unlocked.

It’s a really small issue but I also lost a lot of work because I was told the blog was unlocked so I started writing.

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Level 68
Jan 1, 2025
You need to visibly see the blog is unlocked on your side. I can't change that, since your computer doesn't know whether somebody else has changed the lock status or not.

You have to be very careful with collaboration, we don't have the resources nor money to have dedicated cloud servers that check for changes every second like Google or Microsoft.

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Level 63
Jan 3, 2025
Would it be possible to increase the max number of columns in a block from 15 to 17?
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Level 63
Jan 16, 2025
A way to search message boards would be nice
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Level 62
Jan 23, 2025
Do people use their nominations less nowadays?
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Level 63
Jan 28, 2025
Can it be possible to automatically add a quiz to a series without scheduling it?
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Level 76
Jan 29, 2025
I mean you can just add it immediately after then and it takes ten seconds
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Level 62
Jan 31, 2025
is it possible to schedule at more custom,closer times? this would solve ooftownroad's prob
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Level 62
Feb 2, 2025
when u hover o'er username when in blog section, shows amt of blogs

request it be same for charts if not already

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Level 62
Feb 11, 2025
What caused the increase depicted here?

here

was there a change in users using nominations or amount given?

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Level 68
Feb 11, 2025
That's just when an influx in users appeared, no change in nominations allocated.
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Level 15
Feb 11, 2025
Are there any exact requirements of accounts for the 3 quiz limit to be removed? Or is it a case by case basis?
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Level 68
Feb 12, 2025
See here