22.06.2020, 18:48
First I bring my personal view on some aspects and afterwards I describe the position of the board of the club Logic Masters Deutschland, who is mantaining the portal website.
I like the expression „flood“ for what has been happening for some months now because like in a water flood immense force and energy is involved and we have to think about canals and dams in order to deal with it coming up to our purposes. For those, who don’t know our statistics, please have a look at https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/S...?chlang=en.
For me the main disadvantages are:
1. New puzzles and comments are much shorter visible on the portal start page and thus do get less attention.
2. I do not like Sudokus very much but prefer other puzzle types.
Against 1. two new lists have been launched containing the latest comments and (so far here not mentioned) the latest solved puzzles, that can be reached from the portal start page:
https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/R...?chlang=en
https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/R...?chlang=en
Against 2. I have set myself a bookmark in my browser as mentioned by Realshaggy. It contains a permanent link created from our advanced search page showing the latest non Sudokus:
https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/S...46=NSudoku
This is for me much more comfortable than doing something I’m totally against, namely ignoring puzzles. Of course searching for labels works only properly, if the authors set the Sudoku label when publishing their puzzles. That’s why I really support the small comments like „Please add Sudoku label.“.
I admit: It is an unusual feeling having so many active people in the portal that I don‘t know for many years or from the last two WSPCs. But that is no disadvantage, it is just unnormal to me and in general a positive trend.
I observe, that the communication in the portal in general is polite and constructive as always. And it covers all aspects like praise/critic, solving techniques, design techniques, portal handling, rating, testing and the current flood topic. I see the comments overall in favor of the authors, the puzzles and the solvers. Maybe we should add a hint to this discussion to https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/R...?id=0003PX despite the unfriendly cause here in the beginning.
glum_hippo is absolutely correct, Sudokus have a very special position among the logical puzzles; e.g. having their own world championship. I do not like their position of domination but have to respect it. Only a very small percentage of people solving Sudokus becomes interested in solving other logical puzzles as well. This can only happen after getting to know about the wonderful broad world of logical puzzles and increasing the audience is – at least for me as a member of LM Germany – our task and chance. I am – at least for now – against a clear cut in the portal between puzzle types apart from labels and tags. By the way: Because of almost the same reasons I’m against tendencies to sort out variant ideas from the WSC, that may be – following a certain categorization – not Sudoku like enough.
But I enjoy many flood advantages:
We see
- a lot of really good puzzles
- made by new authors
- containing great new ideas (For me the most important achievement at all.)
Sometimes users have complained in the past, that portal puzzles can’t be solved online. Now the new tool Penpa-edit has been introduced to us.
We’ve got at least one new club member
.
Non rhetoric: Where have these new authors published before? Some of them do so still on their own websites, I know. The portal obviously satisfies a need for many people enriching our community.
So far my personal point of view. It represents of course only one contribution to our board discussion in the last weeks. We‘ve received a lot of important input from some portal users. As mentioned above our web“team“ (that’s actually for a long time now only one single person) has added the two new lists containing the latest comments and latests solved puzzles. Additionally one small additional passage has been added to the guidelines on https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/H...?chlang=en :
In order to promote a broad variety of puzzles in the portal we suggest to publish not more than seven puzzles per week.
I admit that this is a place not easily noted by already established authors and not read by everyone of them anyway. Mainly because of the described advantages we did not want to take heavy measures at the moment. The proposal from Joe Average is absolutely worth of special thought. E.g. Richard has asked us for something like this some time ago.
I like the expression „flood“ for what has been happening for some months now because like in a water flood immense force and energy is involved and we have to think about canals and dams in order to deal with it coming up to our purposes. For those, who don’t know our statistics, please have a look at https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/S...?chlang=en.
For me the main disadvantages are:
1. New puzzles and comments are much shorter visible on the portal start page and thus do get less attention.
2. I do not like Sudokus very much but prefer other puzzle types.
Against 1. two new lists have been launched containing the latest comments and (so far here not mentioned) the latest solved puzzles, that can be reached from the portal start page:
https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/R...?chlang=en
https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/R...?chlang=en
Against 2. I have set myself a bookmark in my browser as mentioned by Realshaggy. It contains a permanent link created from our advanced search page showing the latest non Sudokus:
https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/S...46=NSudoku
This is for me much more comfortable than doing something I’m totally against, namely ignoring puzzles. Of course searching for labels works only properly, if the authors set the Sudoku label when publishing their puzzles. That’s why I really support the small comments like „Please add Sudoku label.“.
I admit: It is an unusual feeling having so many active people in the portal that I don‘t know for many years or from the last two WSPCs. But that is no disadvantage, it is just unnormal to me and in general a positive trend.
I observe, that the communication in the portal in general is polite and constructive as always. And it covers all aspects like praise/critic, solving techniques, design techniques, portal handling, rating, testing and the current flood topic. I see the comments overall in favor of the authors, the puzzles and the solvers. Maybe we should add a hint to this discussion to https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/R...?id=0003PX despite the unfriendly cause here in the beginning.
glum_hippo is absolutely correct, Sudokus have a very special position among the logical puzzles; e.g. having their own world championship. I do not like their position of domination but have to respect it. Only a very small percentage of people solving Sudokus becomes interested in solving other logical puzzles as well. This can only happen after getting to know about the wonderful broad world of logical puzzles and increasing the audience is – at least for me as a member of LM Germany – our task and chance. I am – at least for now – against a clear cut in the portal between puzzle types apart from labels and tags. By the way: Because of almost the same reasons I’m against tendencies to sort out variant ideas from the WSC, that may be – following a certain categorization – not Sudoku like enough.
But I enjoy many flood advantages:
We see
- a lot of really good puzzles
- made by new authors
- containing great new ideas (For me the most important achievement at all.)
Sometimes users have complained in the past, that portal puzzles can’t be solved online. Now the new tool Penpa-edit has been introduced to us.
We’ve got at least one new club member
.Non rhetoric: Where have these new authors published before? Some of them do so still on their own websites, I know. The portal obviously satisfies a need for many people enriching our community.
So far my personal point of view. It represents of course only one contribution to our board discussion in the last weeks. We‘ve received a lot of important input from some portal users. As mentioned above our web“team“ (that’s actually for a long time now only one single person) has added the two new lists containing the latest comments and latests solved puzzles. Additionally one small additional passage has been added to the guidelines on https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/H...?chlang=en :
In order to promote a broad variety of puzzles in the portal we suggest to publish not more than seven puzzles per week.
I admit that this is a place not easily noted by already established authors and not read by everyone of them anyway. Mainly because of the described advantages we did not want to take heavy measures at the moment. The proposal from Joe Average is absolutely worth of special thought. E.g. Richard has asked us for something like this some time ago.