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 72
Jan 1, 2024
Word of the day?
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Level 81
Jan 1, 2024
I kind of like it! Pretty interesting addition.
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Level 62
Jan 3, 2024
@DictatorTal my thoughts were originally closer to ItzIngenious but now I too find myself enjoying this!
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Level 60
Jan 1, 2024
Was this added or is it a suggestion? If the ladder, I think it would be rather dull and unnecessary.
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Level 66
Jan 1, 2024
It was already added. I don't get what you mean by dull and unnecessary, though—the whole point of JetPunk is to learn.
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Level 60
Jan 1, 2024
It is actually quite cool now that I’m first seeing it. In my mind I didn’t imagine it would have the definition and an example, but I’m not sure what else I expected.
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Level 62
Jan 1, 2024
"Ladder"? Oh dear. I have a suggestion for tomorrow's word of the day...
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Level 60
Jan 1, 2024
Ah, that would appear to be my mistake….
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Level 72
Jan 2, 2024
I see what you mean by dull and unnecessary.
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Level 62
Jan 5, 2024
She had been lachrymose ever since her boyfriend fell into a vat of acid and died? that's today's definition and it's not very *dull*
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Level 72
Jan 5, 2024
No I mean "ladder" would be dull and unnecessary. Is there a unique word archive or something, because I want to use some of them but I feel like I'll just forget?
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Level 54
Jan 4, 2024
Really loved the 'word of day' thing.

Suggestion: You might add dictionary pronunciation.

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Level 60
Jan 7, 2024
It would be cool if stats showed for each option on multiple-choice quizzes. After completing a multiple-choice quiz, the % that chose each option could appear in the corner of the option.
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Level 68
Jan 10, 2024
This is planned for the future, but difficult as means 3x as much data stored for multiple choice!
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Level 59
Jan 8, 2024
Idea: Search and replace feature in the blog editor
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Level 68
Jan 10, 2024
Maybe, but it's complicated because it would interfere with the browser's ctrl+f
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Level 21
Jan 10, 2024
what is the clipboard?
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Level 68
Jan 10, 2024
The clipboard is where stuff you have copied is. It's a function on every computing device to allow you to paste the data somewhere else (with ctrl+v on computers or holding/double tapping on phones to paste)
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Level 50
Jan 10, 2024
Could you add a feature that allows users to generate polls and surveys with multiple choice, checkbox, answer input, and other types of questions? Some people have requested that on my "What Should We Add to JetPunk?" blog asking users what features they would want to see on the site, and I strongly agree with that.
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Level 68
Jan 10, 2024
This has been suggested in the past, and unfortunately it's a big undertaking that's simply not worth it for the result, as much like blogs, it'll end up with probably less than 100 votes in every poll.
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Level 62
Jan 13, 2024
Woke up this morning with a new idea for the quiz editor. The ability to merge cells in a picture quiz, so one picture was connected with three answers, much like having one hint connected to three answers on a text quiz. Not sure if this is doable but now I can't shake the idea and just think it would be a great addition
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Level 68
Jan 14, 2024
This has already been suggested and is on the todo list for the future, but it's not as easy as it sounds, so hasn't been done yet.
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Level 62
Jan 25, 2024
Wow! guess it wasn't an original idea...

Speaking (typing?) of unoriginal ideas, I am fully onboard with adding a scheduler to the blog editor, similar to the one on the quiz editor. I know y'all are busy, and that that idea has been suggested many times before, but...well, I'm putting in my oar on the topic.

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Level 59
Jan 18, 2024
Idea!!

Unequal point on multi choice or even ithers.

You can set one of the questions to be worth 6 or however many points, so getting it wrong would be 19/25 instead of 19/20

Getting a different one wrong but that would be 24/25 instead of 19/20. I can reexplain if need be

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Level 68
Jan 18, 2024
I understand the premise, and it may have use elsewhere (like the "save the world" type quizzes), but I don't see the point or benefit in adding that to Multiple Choice
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Level 59
Jan 20, 2024
I used multiple choice because multiple choice tests irl are most likely to have differing points by each question
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Level 72
Jan 22, 2024
In the word of the day example sentence, the entire sentence following the word of the day is in bold.
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Level 68
Jan 22, 2024
Fixed thanks
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Level 60
Jan 26, 2024
Could "mt" be an automatic type-in for "Mount" or is that too difficult
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Level 59
Jan 28, 2024
it usually is isnt it?
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Level 60
Jan 29, 2024
nope sadly
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Level 59
Jan 29, 2024
then on that pattern maybe also, st for saint, ft for fort, and pt for port
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Level 60
Jan 30, 2024
ST is accepted tho
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Level 72
Jan 31, 2024
I think ft and pt are usually accepted, at least on us cities quizzes.
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Level 72
Jan 27, 2024
Is the word of the day underlined now? Also, will there be an archive of the word of the days at some point?
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Level 60
Jan 27, 2024
I’m positively sure I collaborated a blog with another user, yet he claims he didn’t get it. Is this a glitch on JetPunk’s end?
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Level 68
Jan 27, 2024
He definitely got it, I checked his account and he can see your blog collaborated on the create blog page. He also has his own different version of the same blog though, so don't know what's going with that, but no glitch on JetPunk.
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Level 60
Jan 27, 2024
Ohhh, maybe he didn’t count the blog I shared as the blog my tribe submitted.
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Level 81
Jan 30, 2024
Ooh, new Africa badge! Very cool, I really like the look of it. Great addition!
+1
Level 62
Jan 31, 2024
Beat me to it Dictator! I'll begin work immediately
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Level 62
Jan 31, 2024
Hmm, I just got an ad for JP Premium...makes me want to buy it.

self-advertising apparently works quite well

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Level 68
Feb 1, 2024
it's a new thing we're trying when ads don't show correctly
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Level 60
Feb 2, 2024
Is it possible to be able to edit type-ins of picture answers without the pictures or would that be too hard
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Level 68
Feb 3, 2024
I don't really understand the question. You edit typeins for picture quizzes just like text quizzes?
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Level 60
Feb 7, 2024
I know but you cant edit the type ins if there are no pictures in the answer
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Level 68
Feb 7, 2024
Oh I see, well without a picture the answers don't really exist (and don't show in preview for example). But I can see what can be done.
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Level 64
Feb 9, 2024
Am I right in saying that some users now have a "translation" badge next to their premium badge? How does one go about getting one?
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Level 68
Feb 9, 2024
These are only for users who have worked with us to translate the site into featured languages, and are verified in fluency for both their language and English. It is not something people will be able to get.

It's main purpose was so that users in those languages can see when a comment is made, or a quiz was made, that it was made by an official translator.

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Level 59
Feb 12, 2024
Can mobile users not add/remove blocks/rows/columns or merge cells?
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Level 68
Feb 12, 2024
Yes you can. It's all done inside the settings cog at the top. This opens up to show the full options of the standard right side menu
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Level 59
Feb 13, 2024
tysm!
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Level 50
Feb 18, 2024
Could we please have a way to bookmark quizzes to come back to them later if we're busy? I know most browsers have some way to do that, but it would be easier (for users) to just do it through the site.
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Level 68
Feb 18, 2024
You could do this by ratings, but yes some format of quiz playlists has been requested many times now so will happen at some point.
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Level 50
Feb 22, 2024
Can we have a way to schedule a blog to post in the future like we do for quizzes?
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Level 68
Feb 22, 2024
This is planned for the future but is not yet being worked on
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Level 62
Feb 24, 2024
+1
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Level 65
Feb 27, 2024
This new badge looks like a fun yet difficult badge, and we seem to be getting more badges recently. Maybe more of other countries? Maybe one of a certain nation in SE Asia? :)
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Level 59
Feb 29, 2024
dw SirPhillippines, the Brunei badge will come sooon since that was clearly what y’wished for!
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Level 65
Mar 3, 2024
Brunei badge ftw
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Level 60
Feb 27, 2024
Surely the Greece Country Quiz should be included in the Greece badge?
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Level 60
Feb 27, 2024
Or is the badge intentionally centered around Ancient Greece?
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Level 72
Mar 5, 2024
Maybe just trying to keep quizzes out of multiple badges
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Level 59
Mar 7, 2024
the welcome badge has quizzes in others
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Level 66
Feb 29, 2024
Whatever happened to the Word of the Day?
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Level 68
Feb 29, 2024
It was scrapped
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Level 66
Feb 29, 2024
Any particular reason why? I liked it.
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Level 68
Feb 29, 2024
Don't know, it was QM who managed it. Perhaps it was too much work to maintain, perhaps it wasn't helping traffic. Don't know.
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Level 60
Mar 11, 2024
Is there any way to find the archives, if they still exist?
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Level 68
Mar 12, 2024
Nope it's gone entirely. We're talking like 6+ years ago
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Level 62
Mar 14, 2024
@DollyfroggyThere is, and it's called the Wayback Machine by Internet Archive. However, that only works if their crawler had saved a copy of said page.
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Level 50
Mar 2, 2024
I have some suggestions for changes.

1-Notifications for replies to comments.

2-Ability to tag or organize charts in series.

3-Ability to like charts.

4-Announcement on front page with a link to the Country Quiz of a randomly-selected "Country of the Day"

5-Chart format with world map (manually change colors of different countries, like Google Sheets' GeoChart)

6-Pie Chart format

7-Site background should be pictures of landmarks instead of plain white or black

8-Country pages-Pages for each country with a photo, interesting fact, and links to its Country Quiz, Subdivisions Quiz, Biggest Cities Quiz, etc.

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Level 62
Mar 3, 2024
Backing #3, #6 & #8. Maybe #1. The others are okay but it's just my preferences
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Level 62
Mar 3, 2024
Actually I like #5 too
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Level 68
Mar 3, 2024
1) this is intentionally not a feature because we don't want to moderate the inevitable flame wars that would ensue from it.

2, 3) Charts are not used enough to justify this amount of work

4) Country quizzes were something trialled a few years ago for a "quiz a day" special. It failed spectacularly and are some of the lowest taken featured quizzes across all languages.

5) This is simply not possible to do on JetPunk

6) The one is possible, though its use cases are limited

7) Sorry, but this is a terrible idea for any serious website to undergo.

8) While a compilation like this would be nice to have, something similar was trialled many years ago as "JetPunk Data", and the result was absolutely zero traffic found it and it was a massive waste of time. So it was scrapped and never revisited.

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Level 62
Mar 4, 2024
wow
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Level 62
Mar 4, 2024
I quite liked the Country of the Day. No idea that it failed. oh well
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Level 62
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 62
Mar 6, 2024
oh, ok. I may be coming back to ask about this later.
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Level 48
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
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Level 48
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
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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 62
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 id 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 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 62
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.