Rätselportal <-> Sudokuportal

[Richard]

In order to promote a broad variety of puzzles in the portal we suggest to publish not more than seven puzzles per week.

I think we are way beyond that point.
My suggestion would be to ask authors to limit the number of puzzles they publish to one or two per week, not seven. With the enormous number of new authors, it is already a challenge to get more solves to the individual puzzles in case there is such a limitation.
It is really a shame for all those nice puzzles around that they are only solved a handful of times, looking at the time spent to create puzzles. For hobby.
I just have taken a look; from the 100 most recently posted puzzles, around 50% has still blue stars. And I know from my own experience that there are real gems inbetween. Also on the pages after that, many blue stars, or just enough solves to have red ones...

Unfortunately the discussion about the puzzle flood didn't get much response. The 'problem' is still there; way too much puzzles are posted for this portal.
Some observations:
- more and more authors find their way to the portal;
- some of them publish only one or two puzzles and leave it to that, others have the vibes and are posting at a high speed;
- one player announced a stop in posting puzzles, which is a pity, since he/she has real good ideas. another player announced to reduce the number of puzzles posted, which is good, I think, unregardless of the quality of the puzzles.
- many of the new authors (not all!) don't solve puzzles themselves, or only a few; for me that is a bit strange: how can you expect solves on your own puzzles if you don't active solve yourself?
- some of the new authors are really bringing in very good new ideas, that really deserve more attention/solves;
- thermo, sandwich, magic squares turn out to be easy variants to get started writing sudokus; the portal seems really flooded with these types.

For what's it worth.
I hope the discussion will be continued...

Oh, and yes: there is of course a personal interest too. I will bring it up myself before someone else does. My puzzles are also solved less often then before. To a certain extend I can live with that, in case I get a lot of nice ones to solve myself in return that give me also new inspiration for SVS and thus also for coming competitions/championships that I organise or submit sudokus for. But I have to admit that I sincerely hope that the number of solves on my puzzles will not drop any further.