JetPunk Change Log
Premium Members can now see their Top Days and Top Quizzes by Day in a new report, available from Quiz Analytics!
We've had a deep reorganization of our navigational menus at the top, as well as many other back-end changes to improve this part of the site.
Charts now have the option to invert the direction of their axes.
After you finish a quiz, you can now more easily play the next or previous quizzes in the series using the buttons provided (next to the retake button). Also, on English quizzes, you can share your result by copying it to the clipboard, which can be easily pasted onto any social media feeds!
An example of this is shown below:
Random Countries on the World Map
I got 19 / 20 for 4 / 5 points
🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/176412/random-countries-on-the-world-map
User stats page will now show your progress through a level, similar to post-quiz stats. You can also filter by quiz type on other languages.
After community suggestions and discussions on the Word Search Feedback Blog, many suggestions have now come to fruitition. With all-time stats, a challenge mode and community-voted themes, there's lots to look forward to with JetPunk's Daily Word Search! Read all about the changes in the new monthly round-up: Word Search Round-Up - February 2022
View stats on your Total Level and Total Points for all featured quizzes in the "Total" page of User Stats.
JetPunk introduces a brand new daily minigame, JetPunk Daily Word Search! Enjoy a brand new puzzle each and every day, hand-crafted to perfection. More Info
Chart lovers can now create Bar Charts! When creating a chart, you can select the chart type in Step 1 on the right hand side. You also have the choice of bar width and whether to stack multiple series ontop each other.
You can create charts by going to "Create" in the navigation bar and then clicking the green button "Create Chart".
Introducing Series Analytics! Now, when Premium members use Quiz Analytics they can select "Series Report" to get the total takes by day for all quizzes in a selected series.
Note: When first running for a series it can be slow, and bigger series will take longer
Rejoice! Numbered quizzes and blogs in series will now be sorted correctly, regardless of where the number appears in the title. You will have to resave your series to apply the change.
We also added the option for blog series to have the order of the blogs manually changed, simply go to the blog series page and click "Reorder". Note: due to technical restraints, modifying the series through the "Manage Series" page will reset the order.
Thanks to a massive collaboration between many members of our French community, I am pleased to present Anecdotes! The French version of "Interesting Facts"! It also comes with its own Chercher des anecdotes (aka search page).
Thanks to youtubeplayer, a condensed Polish version of the JetPunk SVG Guide is now available. It is linked, along with the Italian version, here: JetPunk SVG Guide.
As a special holiday gift to you all, all JetPunk pages will now feature a Christmas Jeppy in the navigation bar. Enjoy!
On User Analytics, Premium members can now select a custom number of days to show for charts, as well as the option to overlay a 7-day average.
Due to an increase in toxic behaviour, we have implemented major changes to blogs as well as the ability to disable comments on quizzes, blogs and charts. See more here: It's Time For A Change
Blogs can now be tagged as a Badge Blog.
Also, you can now search all Interesting Facts and Interesting Quotes using the new Interesting Search page.
Continuing JetPunk Dark Mode, we have now updated all JetPunk Standard SVGs to the new Dark Mode SVGs. All quizzes using JetPunk Standard SVGs (e.g. the world map) will have the update automatically applied.
For those wishing to update custom maps, see the new question on JetPunk's SVG Guide: How do I make SVGs for Dark Mode?
Note: We will not be updating SVGs on quizzes manually, unless it is necessary, it is up to users to fix it themselves where desired.
We added dark mode. You can access it via the "More" menu on the nav bar.
After saying I wasn't going to do this for years, I changed my mind for selfish reasons. Unfortunately, I recently had something called Posterior Vitreous Detachment (PVD) in both eyes. This is something that happens to almost everyone eventually, but rarely people as young as me. Unfortunately, my PVD was unusual because it led to a detached retina in my left eye. I've had two surgeries so far, and at least one more is planned. With luck, I will recover most of my vision in a few months but it's not certain. My right retina is still in tact but I have a ton of annoying floaters now. All this makes starting at a white screen very unpleasant. So now, on JetPunk at least, I can stare at a dark screen instead!
Many small fixes and additions today:
- Copying JetPunk Charts didn't change the title correctly
- Adding a Chart to a Blog when you have no Charts caused problems
- Charts with empty rows didn't format correctly
- Charts using dates would fail to draw if just one date was invalid
- Map Quizzes with answers starting with non-alphanumeric characters now jump-to-letter correctly
- Geography Snap now shows your total matches in the top box
- Snap Stats now shows the total matches by user in the chart
- Blogs with images will now show the image caption when showing a larger version of the image
- Recent Quizzes in non-featured languages can now filter by language in the table
On the User Notifications page (click the bell icon), you can now mark comments as "unread". This will give you back the notification for that comment, allowing you to read it later the next time you visit the notifications page. You can unread as many comments as you'd like, as many times as you need.
You can now add your JetPunk Charts into a JetPunk Blog! The chart must be published, and must be created by you to be used in the blog.
Users can now create their own JetPunk Charts. Just go to the main create page and then click "Create Chart".
You can now see all your friends' scores for Geography Snap! Simply click the link on the right-hand side of the Snap page, or go direct here: Geography Snap - Friends Stats
If you are sick of getting friend requests, you can now disable social features on your account.
Premium users can now compare two quizzes at once using the new "compare" report in Quiz Analytics.
On each map quiz's stats page, you can now display Your % on the map instead of the quiz's % as a whole. Example here
Also, on a user's page you can now filter quizzes by rating.
Because of too many repetitive quizzes, we will now be featuring quizzes from further down the list of nominated quizzes.
The quiz with the most nominations will still be featured each week, but any additional featured quizzes will be chosen based on CREATIVITY.
When editing images on desktop, you can now fix a specific aspect ratio to ensure the image is always the proportions you want (e.g. Square).
Randomized questions are now possible in Tile Select quizzes, however due to limitations of the stats system, you must have the same number of tiles in each question for this to be possible. Also, Tile Select quizzes can now have up to 100 questions instead of just 20.
You can also now change the question of Tile Select using left/right arrow keys or tab / shift+tab.
Minor improvements to groups, including the the owner being able to delete a group and edit its name and description. Also the ability to jump to a comment from the User Notifications page.
We have also added graphs to Friend Stats pages, similar to those within Quiz Stats
After some issues were brought up with the new "type in cells" of Step 2 in Text Quizzes, we have now changed this again to a different system. We believe this new system is much more reliable, with far fewer problems. The downside? You can no longer edit HTML directly, and so to do this use the new "Edit HTML" button.
A small downside for a small number of users, largely outweighed by the massive benefits in stability of the changes. Most of the changes were backend, so most users likely won't notice them.
This means to add <br> tags, you can just simply click enter in the cell!
Today we reimagined what the Quiz Editor could be, and added a bunch of new features to it including Random Picture quizzes and picture in Tile Select quizzes. You can see the update blog here: The Create Update
Pictures within Multiple Choice quizzes can now have their attribution shown after the quiz is finished by clicking on them.
Some minor changes and fixes today. Notably including group notifications for the group owner (only the group owner), adding quizzes you've nominated but haven't been featured into Your Favorite Quizzes (accessible from your user drop down). Also hovering over circles in the dot placer now shows their name.
You can now create Groups on JetPunk. This can be used to share quizzes and scores with a group of people who share similar interests.
Today we released The Blog Update. This has been a major development for 2 months now, and is finally available to users!
Read all about it here: The Blog Update
We will now be highlighting more user quizzes on the front page with the User Spotlight feature.
Today we gave blog owners the power to delete comments from their own blog. We hope this helps to reduce spam within the blog comments. Read more here.
You can now remove ignored users, allowing them to add you as friends.
Also, friends stats are now available from the more info box on every quiz.
You can now search for pictures by answer in the picture selector when creating a picture quiz. Simply click "Search within collections" then type a search term and it will show up to 30 images from quizzes with that term in that image's answer.
The old blog article on Collaboration I wrote was outdated and largely useless now. Thankfully, we have a new info page with the information on it! Collaboration on Quizzes.
We've added picture choices to Multiple Choice quizzes, simply select the green image icon and select a picture, then it will appear as a choice instead of text!
You can also choose the layout of the choices now, as well as having up to 8 options instead of 6!
We added Super Tables to many more pages, including All Featured Quizzes and Recent User-Quizzes.
You can now schedule a quiz to be in a series once released. To do this, schedule a quiz as normal and then select a series from the selection box in the scheduler window. The quiz will be added to the series immediately after scheduling.
We added more regions and updated the user countries map shown on users' profiles. You can edit your own map here: Edit Countries Visited Map.
A massive thank you to IAB whose subdivision maps were a massive help in getting this update done
You can now search and filter quizzes on the Create Quiz page by type and language.
Today we added a way for user's to add tags to their French quizzes. Originally, French tags were only given by Stewart or Quizmaster, but now we have given the option for Premium french users to access this feature for their quizzes as well. Note that French tags are not fully created yet, so if a tag doesn't exist right now, it may do in the future.
If you have French quizzes, a new button on "Create" at the top will appear for you to add tags to your French quizzes. Alternatively visit this page.
Quizmaster released a new minigame, and this time evil demons are, yet again, trying to destroy the United States!
Try your hand at putting back together the U.S. in our U.S. State Puzzle minigame!
For all Geography Snap fans, you can now enjoy Capital Cities alongside your usuals for the game. We've also expanded the game modes so you can select any combination of categories you wish!
Due to spam, users will now only be able to submit one blog post per 24 hours.
We've made some changes to the navigation bar at the top of the site to reduce crowding and allow for future additions.
We've made some improvements to Multiple Choice Quizzes, including the option to randomize questions!
We also added importing and exporting, akin to Text and Map quizzes, so you can export your quiz to a spreadsheet, as well as then importing a quiz from a spreadsheet. To see the formatting for this, try exporting a Multiple Choice quiz to see.
You can now see all series created by a user. This is linked on their user profile and on each of their series pages.
You can now see quizzes collaborated with you on the Create / Edit Quiz page. To uncollaborate from any quiz, simply click the button on the end of its row.
Today the index of information pages was updated with a modernized appearance.
You can now see the answer stats for an SVG quiz on the map! These are color-coded based on % guessed, just visit and quiz's stats page (that has an SVG and is non-randomized) to see it.
A note that we released a brand new minigame, Geography Snap, on October 25th! See the blog about it here: A New JetPunk Minigame.
In other small changes, we've expanded Super Tables further to Most-Taken User Quizzes (including adding a new language selector there) and to Your Favorite Quizzes as well as the often-used New and Reset Quizzes page! Lastly, we also added a new "reply" button to the last comment of a chain, to make it clearer that you can reply there, but the indent level will remain the same.
We have begun converting some of our tables into "Super Tables". These new tables are searchable, sortable and filterable! You can also select a random quiz from the table with a single button.
As of today, you can see these changes on any User Quiz Page, Series Page or any Quiz Suggestions Page. (To access the latter, simply finish a quiz and click "More Suggestions" in the grey box at the top).
Over time, we will continue to convert other tables to include this new functionality.
Quiz creators can now block users from commenting on their quizzes.
We made many behind-the-scenes changes to how our site works in order to reduce the time we spend moderating quizzes and comments.
We've taken action to reduce the amount of spam on our Recent User Blogs page. Some users have now been hidden due to excessive and low quality blog posts. Don't let this happen to you! Use proper punctuation and spelling today.
Today we made a few small changes, including:
- Nominations will now show how many you have left, and how long you have to wait if you've run out. They are also visible to the user themself on their quiz index page.
- You can now remove your rating from a quiz by clicking the small grey "x" to the right.
- Private quizzes are now "link-only" and won't be visible in a user's quiz list except to the user themselves.
- In the quiz editor you can now add / remove caveats more easily, as well as collapse or expand all type-ins at once.
- For our color-blind users, we now make standard city-circles a little darker so they can be more easily differentiated from the correct cities.
Stewart has added a bunch of new features to make it easier to add maps to a quiz. There are so many changes it's hard to summarize them all. Fortunately, you can read all about them in this blog post.
Thanks to Stewart for all his hard work to make this possible!
Update (June 23rd) - We have now added zooming capability on clickable map quizzes too, by popular demand.
Finnish is now a featured language! A massive thank you to user Penguinish for translating the site into Finnish for us!
Along with this, all featured languages will now have a front page, meaning a new quiz will appear there every day!
You may have noticed that we made a change to the sidebar to make it look less cluttered. We also added a new page showing the most-taken quizzes per day by language.
Slow typists rejoice. We've added a couple more type-ins. "NZ" will now work for New Zealand, and "KSA" will now work for Saudi Arabia.
We have expanded our list of most-nominated quizzes to show all quizzes with at least 3 nominations.
We now accept "DR" as an official type-in for the Dominican Republic.
Quiz creators can now mark a quiz as "private" if they don't want it to show up in the recent user quizzes list or in search.
This option is located underneath "language" in Step 1 of the quiz editor.
You can now mark a comment on one of your quizzes as "sticky" so that it will always appear at the top of the comments section.
Sometimes, updated quizzes appear on the Recent User Quizzes page and on e-mails sent to subscribers.
To prevent clutter, we've changed the criteria for when a quiz will appear in those places. Here are the new criteria...
1. The quiz must have new or changed answers.
2. The quiz can only be marked as updated every so often, depending on how often it has been taken.
| Times taken | Minimum interval |
|---|---|
| 1000 + | 3 months |
| 250 + | 6 months |
| 50 + | 10 months |
| 10 + | 24 months |
| < 10 | never |
Is there a reason behind why you want to do this?
POV: My comments two years ago be like: Bad translations from Google, some idiocies in Portuguese, dumb questions, arguments with Kalbahamut2. When someone responds to my comment, I want to be able to see it
POV: my comments 5 months ago be like: arrogant criticism, unneeded opinions, unresearched statements, criticizing users when I don’t know the full storyPOV: my comments 4 years ago be like: me not commenting because i'm too scared to say anything on the internetPOV: This can be a new thread possiblyWhy are you so against making a "whole blog" for a table? Do you have some unjustified prejudice against shorter blogs? Or even informational ones?
Well, I’m not against short blogs, even because you don’t need to write 50k characters in a blog. The point, is that short blogs and this type of table can bring spam to RUB, like what happened on badge era, where the most of blogs were tables of badges from the HTML code of Pandora49. If someone start doing this type of table in the blog, can bring a flux of new users trying the same. But, thinking now, with the more rigid rules with spam and toxicity, this can have a less """""impact""""" at RUB
I don't think calling any "trend" in the RUB that you dislike "spam" is a particularly fair or nice thing to do.
Maybe it would be possible to like remove the borders between subdivisions you haven’t visited.
Like If you visited Victoria and New South Wales, it wouldn’t show the borders between the other provinces you haven’t visited.
Even if this isn’t something you want to do, thank you! You do so much for this site and I mean it really is amazing how you still take the time to see random requests from users on the change log.
@TheNatureThread (I know pinging someone doesn’t work)
no, they should delete cyprusAlso, is there any easy way to find a reference between the JetPunk world map and a trace map? I'm trying to emulate a map I found on the JetPunk world map, but I'm worried the borders will be off.
Unfortunately I cannot change the algorithm for it since it would have unexpected consequences on other quizzes.
You'll quickly get used to them :)
idk what is drastic on symbols getting “unbolded” ;-;, so, I already have to apologize in advance for bothering you lolAlso I'll take a look at the scrolling issues on mobile, it shouldn't be possible to scroll left/right
I think the Social page would make more sense under About JetPunk. In addition, I think About JetPunk should go to the bottom or at least under Data & Charts and Blogs, since those are similar to creating quizzes.
Finally, I think the blog section should be plural, given that it includes multiple blogs and that Data & Charts is plural. Maybe Official Blog should be plural too, since Official Blog implies there's only one entry, at least to me.
Thank you for all the work you do!
So overall, the Random button is currently clicked about 400,000 times each day, and contributes to 10% of all the takes on the site. So yes, it is very heavily used.
Random is under Featured for Mobile version purposes.
"Blog" here can be used as meaning a single blog post, or a person's blog, and since it is "Official Blog" is means the latter, referring to a collection of Blog Posts. I'll consider the other options.
btw can i mess up the stats by setting up a 24/7 macro clicking the random button lol
If we did Instagram as well it's just another social media we'd have to post to and keep up to date which just takes too much time, especially when I have a full-time job outisde of jetpunk and Dan has a lot of moderation to do.
The own Stewart just disobey the official JetPunk vocabulary rules lolStill took me a minute to find out how to get to minigames :)
I'm not good at getting used to stuff
The last one mentioned might not be as important, but it would be useful on large pages, like this one.
I'll fix it
Also, I'll be the user that grumbles and grumbles about the update, not a fan of cascading dropdown menus :P
And yes, while submenus are a big change for us, it means we're much less limited in the number of links we can add to the menu
I also noticed that while taking a SVG quiz, the answers grid get cut when I scroll down, and the tab of “insert answer” is getting scrolled together, while it should have been stuck on the place where it is (idk how to explain, but...).
Are you mobile or desktop?
What do you call the "side bar" here.
Did you do anything before taking the quiz?
Is this related to the new menu somehow?
How does the grid get cut?
I recorded a video to explain what I mean, but I couldn’t send it on here, so, I’m gonna send by another way.
By "side bar", I mean the right-hand column of "stuff" on desktop. So, on the quiiz editor, this is where you have "Insert Answers" (what i thought you mentioned before) as well as the step buttons. For a quiz page itself, this is where "hot quizzes" are, as well as link to series and tags.
For mobile, this doesn't exist in the same way.
I literally didn’t say I was going to send by email because you told some months ago for don’t share publicly lolSo, the scrolling up-down issue is happening on the quiz itself, not in the editor. I told about the editor for some reason to explain the “scrolling left-right” point (which was working normally on the quiz I used as example). Apparently, is an internal issue with my browser, but I didn’t do anything of different, and this started after the update :)
Just a small request: would it be possible to add a language selector near to the search bar, as before? Because in some situations, with the current organization, it can be impractical without it, and I don't think and hope it would not disturb too much.
im probably just being overly dramatic
When I login to my account, the shield surrounding the level your account is disappears until you go to a new page on the website, and the 0 in the notifications occurs when you have an unread comment that was sent when your account was not logged into, and does not get fixed until you check on your notification page. When you don't have any new comments while your account was logged out of, it works perfectly fine.
P.S. I only added the image because I am horrible at explaining things :/
The image was very helpful - thanks!
If all else fails QM can just spotlight additional quizzes (though unlikely that will ever be necessary)
its consistent so im guessing more traffic or smth
The only way around this would be to "fix" the timing which fixes also the issue of big quizzes slowing down the timer. It's on my todo list
Edit: Should now be fixed.
I know JetPunk doesn’t choose what ads come, but I think something definitely needs to be done about this one.
A simple solution would be to change the CSS used to be:
.svg-holder .svg-correct tspan { fill: ... }
.svg-holder .svg-incorrect tspan { fill: ... }
This way, in this specific case, the css should work OK.
Also, can you make it so only one drop-down menu can be opened at a time with the menu tab on mobile, as it gets really messy when you open all of them at once.
The second is intentional because it gets confusing when things are closed for you
Most notable is images are no longer allowed.
Quiz here and SVG here, but I'm not sure why it's so grainy in the preview.
Could we have the ability of editing the text of an answer cell at Manual Mode, without creating another lab at the Answers step?
I know, I didn’t explain that very well, but I tried my best here.
So, sorry, but this isn't going to be practical or viable to do.
Thank you
Yes I'll add that quiz to your series for you.
Just waiting on an update related to pictures in general I'm working on, but lack of time is meaning it's going to take a while.
Very few quizzes will be affected since the island doesn't appear on almost any SVG maps and overseas borders are excluded from the majority of quizzes.
So is there a separate database for badges which does not reflect with resets or updates in the quiz? Not that is should change every now and then, obviously, just curious.
I think you'll find that's already been there for about 5 years now
EDIT: After some beef of the most of users, it’s weird to see that JetPunk follows S*****e...
Instagram may not be used much, since keeping up with posting on socials takes a lot of time, but it's good for us to have a presence.
Also we follow Sporcle because they're also a quiz site. While certain users may bad mouth them and abuse them, they're just another company trying to make money from quizzes. Nothing wrong with that.
“You grant JetPunk a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable worldwide license to use the content and to create and use derivative works.”
I quite couldn’t understand what did that mean. Does that talk about something like image licenses?
“Any content that is meant to be shocking”
I mean, although I’ve asked you before posting my blog about 10 Problems with Brazil about if there would be any problems with images and texts, I don’t think it was supposed to be shocking, but I think it could be looked like that. I disagree I bit from that. What is the purpose on here?
Now, I know the existence of these terms of service, but I was thinking of doing a blog that would work like a “JetPunk Constitution”, with the main rules of use of the site. Is it allowed?
The first one might mean that you give JetPunk permission to use your content (as in blogs and quizzes maybe)
However, I interpret the first part as what Einstein says, by using our site you allow us to use your content however we want, whether that's blogs, quizzes, charts etc...
No idea on the shocking part.
I don't think a blog is necessary.