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 2024
February 27th - New Badge

Check out our newest badge: The Greece Badge.

February 21st - Click Map Columns

Click Map quizzes now have the option to use multiple columns instead of a single scrollable column. Example: Europe Map Quiz

January 2024
January 30th - New Badge

Check out our newest badge: The Africa Badge.

January 21st - Element Renaming

A long overdue change, the Elements of the Periodic Table quiz has finally been updated to use the official IUPAC names for elements. The only change for most featured quizzes was "Cesium" to "Caesium".

January 19th - Various Changes

Albanian and Picard have been added to the Countries by Language list!

Quizzes which you have given a spotlight award to are now visible on the Your Favorite Quizzes page.

Series can now be created with non-latin character names (e.g. Chinese or Japanese names)

January 11th - JetPunk 'Wrapped'

The closest thing JetPunk has to a personalized "Spotify Wrapped"! See what it's all about here: Your JetPunk Quiz Report 2023.

January 1st - Word of the Day

For all of 2024, enjoy a "Word of the Day" on JetPunk at the bottom of each quiz page!

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Level 63
Mar 4, 2024
Is there a way to transfer blog ownership or must this be done manually by a moderator such as yourself? For instance, if I own a blog that's collaborated with @Fianchetto, is there a way to make it their blog short of just getting you to move it?
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Level 68
Mar 5, 2024
No. Collaboration simply lets people edit blogs/quizzes, it does not contribute to their account at all.

If you want it moved, it must be done manually by me, as you could imagine a power like that being easily abused. However once it's moved, we're not moving it again. I.e. I'm not wasting my time moving a blog between two users every week so they can share it.

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Level 60
Mar 5, 2024
Wonder if it would be worth it to put my Viewer Voting blog into Gekko’s series.
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Level 63
Mar 6, 2024
oh, ok. I may be coming back to ask about this later.
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Level 59
Mar 21, 2024
If the power to transfer ownership was only given to the owner of the blog (like an owner of a google doc can), would that be abuse free?
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Level 68
Mar 21, 2024
No, not at all. Users would create blogs and move them to random people's accounts. So then to make it work you'd have to have some sort of request / acceptance. But that's not worth the effort for something that would almost never be used.
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Level 59
Mar 25, 2024
I have needed to transfer quizzes before, would it serve greater purpose there? Perhaps a poll on the server would be capital. Eh prolly not as usefull as i think it is lol
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Level 50
Mar 8, 2024
idea for a groups of things with yellow box where instead of the answer cells being yellow, the headers would be yellow

example:

Countries with Red Flag-----Countries in Europe

Germany---------------------------Finland

China-------------------------------Germany

Australia---------------------------Greece

Liechtenstein---------------------Liechtenstein

if you enter Germany in one column, you get the answer but only for that column

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Level 68
Mar 8, 2024
I don't think this is currently possible, and I also don't see how it could be possible to make either. Sorry
+1
Level 50
Mar 10, 2024
What about an option for Jetpunk users to voluntarily see more ads per page to support JP
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Level 68
Mar 10, 2024
This is not possible no.
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Level 60
Mar 11, 2024
A yellow box in this manner would be great. Maybe along with the Merge Cell feature that currently exists, there could be a Merge Yellow Cell to allow the yellow box to go around multiple cells. Would that be any more viable?
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Level 68
Mar 12, 2024
No, this is something i tried to add in the past but it's just too complicated to interface with a completely customized grid
+2
Level 60
Mar 10, 2024
How does the spotlight raffle work again, and how many people on average go into it each day?
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Level 68
Mar 10, 2024
It varies depending on how many quizzes have been queued up. If more than 1 weeks' worth of quizzes are already queued up, then no spotlights are awarded. If there are available "slots" in the next week, we keep picking random names from the ballot 4 times a day.

On average there's maybe 20-30 a day sent out (assuming that there's always about 6 days' worth of quizzes scheduled.

Balloting works by giving a ballot for every 10 levels over 50 in English. So if you're English 90 you get 5 ballots. We exclude those who have won the raffle recently, and maybe some other conditions. Then it's a straight random pick out of all ballots.

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Level 38
Mar 10, 2024
Can I have my 100+ day streak back please?
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Level 68
Mar 10, 2024
Streaks are computed based on your personal score file, we can't restore a streak to an arbitrary number once it has been lost. Sorry.
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Level 50
Mar 11, 2024
Can you tag other people's quizzes? I recently got Premium, and I want to be able to tag some other quizzes to improve the tag feature. Some people have tagged mine before I got Premium. How does that work?
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Level 68
Mar 11, 2024
No because it would be too easily abused. Some quizzes are tagged by QM when a new tag is added, on certains themes or if they get lots of takes. But he doesn't have time to tag everything.
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Level 60
Mar 11, 2024
What happened to the Messages tab under Notifications for messages with QM?
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Level 63
Mar 12, 2024
I didn't notice that ever existed
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Level 68
Mar 12, 2024
The tabs shown are only the most recent notifications you've received. So if you haven't received a message in a while then the tab will disappear. I think it's the most recent 500 notifications?
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Level 60
Mar 19, 2024
It hasn't been too long; I've probably had around 10 notifications since. Not a big deal since I can still access it under Contact Us, though.
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Level 68
Mar 19, 2024
Yes it's always under contact us. Also all notifications which are not comments are deleted after 1 month, so maybe that's why. The messages themselves are not deleted though.
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Level 54
Mar 12, 2024
I have not opened notifications since about one month but the notification tab only show around 600 notifications. They change every day. I think it's like notifications from previous 7 days. Is it?
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Level 68
Mar 12, 2024
Comment notifications are removed after 30 days, other notifications are removed after 1 year.
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Level 63
Mar 15, 2024
scoring scale? is that new or am I unobservant?
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Level 68
Mar 15, 2024
Its always been there since the start of JetPunk to determine points, but it was only last year made more publicly visible. Previously it was always just in the backend.
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Level 60
Mar 18, 2024
What’s up with TenThousand’s user page? Doesn’t load properly when I try to access it.
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Level 68
Mar 19, 2024
What do you mean? It looks fine to me.
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Level 73
Mar 19, 2024
He has 10,000 quizzes so it wouldn't load for me
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Level 63
Mar 19, 2024
Same with the QM's page for me. I saw he had five unfeatured quizzes on his profile so I went to load it and it wouldn't load all the way, then froze. I'm not sure if it's my computer or the site, but it would seem that if a profile has a huge amount of quizzes it freezes.

Also, did TenThousand (who I'm pretty sure used to be Jerry) rename themselves before or after they had got to ten thousand quizzes?

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Level 60
Mar 20, 2024
It looks like it’s not loading properly for anyone with a whole bunch of quizzes.
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Level 59
Mar 21, 2024
After. Half the quizzes are spam translations like “flag kalaring kvij”
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Level 50
Mar 22, 2024
A lot of them are just this one quiz translated into 50 random languages.
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Level 63
Mar 21, 2024
Hi guys, spelling mistake on the front page.

JetPunk.com has taken over 16 different international football clubs. Can you guess their now logos?

Probably should be 'new'. Thanks

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Level 68
Mar 21, 2024
Fixed thanks
+1
Level 63
Mar 21, 2024
nw
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Level 54
Mar 22, 2024
is it possible to apply a class e.g. border country to all elements in file through xml editor in inkscape?
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Level 68
Mar 22, 2024
Through the XML editor, no, not that I know of.

However you could easily do this in a text editor using find and replace (assuming they had something in common already)

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Level 54
Mar 22, 2024
Ok, thanks!
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Level 59
Mar 23, 2024
Ordering a comment section by +1s button? (maybe for comment threads, ordering the top comments by average +1s in responses + +1s on original comment)

So:

+1

replies:

+6

+2

would have a score of 5

which would rank under:

+4

replies:

+2

which would have a score of 6

this way the most interesting comments would be at the top

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Level 68
Mar 24, 2024
The problem is this doesn't work in places where not all comments are shown. Also it means the scale of what comments receive +1s is skewed, because those with the most would inherently see a lot more.

I think keeping it as chronological makes the most intuitive sense right now. Also this isn't reddit.

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Level 61
Mar 25, 2024
I do like the idea of sorting by likes
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Level 63
Mar 26, 2024
was gonna point out the 'reddit-ification'
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Level 61
Mar 24, 2024
Please PLEASE increase the nomination limit. All the time I see an amazing quiz, but I can't nominate it because it has 101 answers. At the very least could you increase it to 200?
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Level 59
Mar 25, 2024
they dont want countries by “blah blah” quizzes. perhaps 120 or something could be more lenient but unlikely
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Level 61
Mar 25, 2024
That's not what I mean. There are so many unique quizzes with over 100 answers that will probably never be noticed because they aren't able to be nominated
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Level 59
Mar 25, 2024
maybe limit to 200 as long as it doesnt have the word countries in the title!
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Level 61
Apr 7, 2024
But then "Proposed Countries" will get blacklisted
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Level 54
Mar 27, 2024
Is their a way to know the user who has collaborated quiz with me? There are at least 10 quizzes collaborated with me by someone I don't know.
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Level 68
Mar 27, 2024
If you go to the quiz preview it shows you the creator
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Level 54
Mar 27, 2024
Ok! than you.

That will help

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Level 63
Mar 29, 2024
And in your notification center it should come up under the 'other' tab if you have that turned on
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Level 59
Mar 27, 2024
On charts, points with color fffffff change to black in dark mode and lines dont:

https://www.jetpunk.com/users/helloisgone/charts/american-flag

in dark mode the points become black but the lines dont, i think neither should become black

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Level 68
Mar 29, 2024
Actually this is intentional, because otherwise nothing would be visible ordinarily on light-mode. I'm not sure why the lines don't turn black, they should.
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Level 59
Mar 29, 2024
if the point was slightly off fffffff would it not change?
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Level 68
Mar 29, 2024
Correct, we only change those exactly at ffffff or 000000 (this happens in a lot of places, for example for the text of the chart even)
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Level 59
Mar 30, 2024
I think this is likely a fringe case but would it be possible to intruduce a “do not invert line color” button on the editor
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Level 68
Mar 31, 2024
I think not, since adding options for every small case like this is not such a good idea for user friendliness
+1
Level 50
Mar 27, 2024
Could we have a way to import and export Tile Select quiz questions?
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Level 68
Mar 29, 2024
It's quite complicated to do that, and Tile Select is too underused to justify it. Sorry
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Level 50
Mar 30, 2024
Since there is a Christmas Jeppy, could we have one for Halloween?
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Level 63
Mar 31, 2024
And/or Easter, Thanksgiving, July 4th, etc?
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Level 50
Mar 31, 2024
Easter-Too religiously exclusive. Thanksgiving-Mostly American, and mostly celebrating colonization and genocide. July 4th-Extremely American. And btw, aren't you from New Zealand?
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Level 59
Mar 31, 2024
we have christmas so why not? easter has also become pretty secularized

thanksgiving is litterally about cooperstion, ur talking about colombhs day

RAHHH AMERICA MENTIONED im pretty sure a third of people here are americans tho

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Level 60
Mar 31, 2024
I don’t see how Easter is any more religious than Christmas. JetPunk is a mostly American site, so Thanksgiving could work. I don’t think anyone associates Thanksgiving with genocide or colonization. 4th of July wouldn’t work, and what would Jeppy even dress as?

As for Halloween, I think there would be just to many things to decorate Jeppy with, that in the end it probably wouldn’t work.

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Level 63
Apr 1, 2024
Well JetPunk is primarily an American site, so yeah, I listed American holidays. But if you must have New Zealand, give Jeppy a moko for Waitangi Day. But be warned, that could be more controversial than any of those other holidays I mentioned.

ItzIngenious to answer your question, for the 4th of July Jeppy could wear one of those stars-and-stripes top hats? Very stereotypical 'American'

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Level 59
Apr 1, 2024
I think halloween only. And for halloween, every time you reload, jeppy will be in a random jeppy halloween costume from that quiz of jeply halloween costumes
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Level 63
Apr 1, 2024
For Easter, I had thought to give Jeppy bunny ears or paint him (her? them?) like an Easter Egg. Because, as Neo said, Easter's now pretty secularized, to the point of supermarkets having huge displays of chocolate for months beforehand.
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Level 59
Apr 10, 2024
him, his name was ike
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Level 54
Apr 11, 2024
What about some Halloween pumpkins hidden around JetPunk quizzes that you would have to find and after collecting some. You could earn a spotlight!
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Level 63
Apr 12, 2024
ooh I do like the sound of that.
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Level 50
Mar 31, 2024
Could we have more quiz ranks besides "Featured" and not featured? I would suggest "Classic Quizzes" for older quizzes with over 1 million takes, a "Hall of Fame" for excellently-made SVG and otherwise quizzes, like the Easter Egg hunt that was featured today, or some of overtired's Countries Visited Maps. (For some reason, these get a very low number of takes.)
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Level 59
Mar 31, 2024
not ranks but maybe little badges for the quizzes or smth

but prolly jot a great idea

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Level 73
Apr 1, 2024
There are tags
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Level 59
Apr 12, 2024
Require the first blog by users to be approved first, if it isnt already
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Level 59
Apr 16, 2024
is it possible for say, a linked jetpunk acc to show up the same when hovered?:

exp:

I link an acc on a blog. Normally when someone hovers over a name in comments, the age of acc + others come up. Is it possible to do the same for links in comments and blogs and quizzes (kinda like the wikipedia previews

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Level 68
Apr 17, 2024
I'll think about it
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Level 59
Apr 17, 2024
👍
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Level 59
Apr 17, 2024
While two people cant edit a blog at the same time, can someone see the preview while some else edits without ruining the editing?
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Level 68
Apr 17, 2024
Preview doesn't affect the editing, correct. (Same goes for quizzes)
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Level 59
Apr 17, 2024
Thanks!
+2
Level 59
Apr 20, 2024
Showing the average time taken for those that completed
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Level 63
Apr 20, 2024
Yes I've often thought about that. Perhaps next to the info box showing answer stats at the end of a quiz (41/50, beat 88%, high score 41, etc) there could be a time stats box (time used, best time, average time used, faster than %, etc.)

Also is the times taken counter on thr user profile new?

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Level 59
Apr 21, 2024
yea thats new
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Level 63
Apr 22, 2024
I like it
+1
Level 58
Apr 23, 2024
The "About us" page needs to be updated, its over 900 million takes now.
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Level 68
Apr 23, 2024
This is now done, thanks
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Level 61
Apr 24, 2024
Is it possible to increase the limit of a randomized quiz, so a flag quiz has random orders every time?k
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Level 59
Apr 24, 2024
also maybe some "always appear" questions on random quizzes
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Level 54
Apr 24, 2024
I typed the name of Paris and London before the map was loaded(Internet is slow here) and the cities didn't turn green altough I typed the correct answer and it accepted it. I don't think that this also happened before. Can it be fixed although it is not a major bug and it occur only when you have slow internet connection.

Here is the link of picture

https://ibb.co/zsgkwBy

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Level 68
Apr 24, 2024
There is nothing we can do about this. We already prevent starting a quiz before a map has loaded, but we can't detect when it's been loaded onto the page or not, so if your connection is very very slow it can cause problems to start a quiz between then.

It also has no effect on the scores, only the map will visually not have the class applied to the earlier answers.

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Level 54
Apr 24, 2024
Ok, Thanks
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Level 50
Apr 24, 2024
Have you considered an option to make pie charts?
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Level 68
Apr 24, 2024
It's on the long to-do list.
+2
Level 50
Apr 25, 2024
awesome
+1
Level 59
Apr 25, 2024
Do not allow a user to see the answer stats page while the quiz is running
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Level 66
Apr 25, 2024
I don't think anti-cheat is much of a problem. They could always open the quiz in another tab and give up, or Google the answers, or look at the source code...
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Level 63
Apr 26, 2024
Yep I discovered the answers in the source code thing not to long ago while poking around with the developer tools. Funny
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Level 59
Apr 26, 2024
just cuz theres 12 smuggling routes doesnt mean a government shouldnt close one

i love neoproverbs

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Level 63
Apr 27, 2024
Make a neoproverb blog, please. We need it.

#neologismsforever

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Level 59
Apr 26, 2024
Is there a way to add multiple of an element into a blog at once
+1
Level 68
Apr 27, 2024
No. But you can click on the components on the right to append one to the end, so if you click several times, several will be added.
+1
Level 59
Apr 26, 2024
ability to set a custom split view. Like set a split view button that say, when clicked adds a split view with two images, or however else the user sets it
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Level 68
Apr 27, 2024
This is too complicated and specific. It's leaning into creating blog "templates"