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 61
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 61
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 61
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.
+3
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
+1
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
+1
Level 61
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
+1
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 61
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.
+3
Level 50
Feb 22, 2024
Can we have a way to schedule a blog to post in the future like we do for quizzes?
+1
Level 68
Feb 22, 2024
This is planned for the future but is not yet being worked on
+1
Level 62
Feb 24, 2024
+1
+3
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? :)
+3
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
+4
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
+4
Level 66
Feb 29, 2024
Any particular reason why? I liked it.
+3
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
+1
Level 62
Mar 4, 2024
I quite liked the Country of the Day. No idea that it failed. oh well
+1
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 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 49
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 49
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 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 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.
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Level 68
Mar 19, 2024
What do you mean? It looks fine to me.
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Level 72
Mar 19, 2024
He has 10,000 quizzes so it wouldn't load for me
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Level 62
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 62
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
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Level 62
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 62
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 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 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 50
Mar 27, 2024
Could we have a way to import and export Tile Select quiz questions?