Sporcle vs JetPunk

I've never used Sporcle much (I don't even have an account), but the main thing for me would be intrusive ads, quiz moderation, and overall site design: Jetpunk is better in all of these. However one thing I like about Sporcle is that, as an outsider, it seems to offer more when it comes to quiz-making, with stuff like their minefield/no outlines quizzes where you actually click on the map being quite enjoyable (Seterra has similar quizzes on a better platform though)

Unpopular opinion ahead:

Ironically, I never knew that a site called sporcle existed, until some users mentioned it the jetpunk comment section. While both sides are great and I use both, sporcle definitely takes the cake. As Quizmaster mentioned jetpunk is way smaller than sporcle, and jetpunk does not have any employees,so it would naturally lag behind sporcle. I think sporcle is better because they are more community-inclined (they have users who have been chosen as "curators" for various categories iirc), they have a quite diverse variety of quizzes(especially on cricket, India etc). And of course sporcle has evolved a lot over the years, having added new fun features like multiplayer showdowns, parties etc.

Coming to jetpunk , it has a slightly better user interface, less advertisements (most people use adblockers so this does not concern them). The Jetpunk quiz editor has way less variety but it is way more functional and easy-to-use than sporcle.

In my opinion, JetPunk is more friendly to newer and less serious users. The quizmaking tool is easily accessible to those with a high enough rank, while it’s pretty easy to make a quiz as well. Sporcle has a very hard-to-navigate system and, I think, a lesser sense of community amongst new users. There’s videos of people taking, but less comments for the amount of people the site has. One thing Sporcle has over JetPunk is the quiz formats. Most of JetPunk’s quizzes are text or picture quizzes, then map quizzes, while Sporcle has tile elimination quizzes that I wish would come to JetPunk. I think that JetPunk is better, but Sporcle does have some good features that JetPunk lacks.

I don't know... Sporcle has overused good formats, and keeps on making new ones. Sporcle also has a lot of more spam. So obviously... JetPunk.

I used to use S****le before I discovered Jetpunk. In my opinion, their set up is not as user friendly for new members. After a certain amount of time using any website, you become accustomed to how it works. With Jetpunk this is a much quicker process.

I have learnt so much from Jetpunk. As a 50+ year old user I find Jetpunk to be very easy to use. Ive even learnt some very basic HTML code

The stories about being banned from Sp***le make me want to go over there again, change my details and then comment about Jetpunk just to be banned...Thats about as badass I get these days.

Edited to add.....Jetpunk also have many abbreviations and spelling allowances for countries in the popular "Countries of the World" quiz, wheras that other site makes you type out Bosnia and Herzagovina in full and also spell Kyrgyzstan exactly ...not very user friendly that

To answer, I neeed to create a BLOG... so, I’m going to prepare it. I’m going to compare Kahoot, Sporcle and JetPunk.

JetPunk is surprisingly big. #15 in quiz sites. (Sporcle is #7, but they don't deserve it)

Pros of Sporcle: More varied quizzes and quiz types; I often find myself taking quizzes for hours after finding a good series; multiplayer, Sporcle showdown is super fun; tons of badges to grind for (this could be good or bad depending on how you look at it).

Cons of Sporcle: Convoluted site littered with ads and other things I don't care about; worse quiz editor; data collection.

Pros of JetPunk: Better quiz editor; cleaner site; more involved community; better Countries of the World Quiz; better for learning things.

Cons of JetPunk: Smaller site so updates take longer; not much variance from geography and other basic topics.

Hey. Sporcle Curator and contributor here, though I'm by no means any sort of official spokesperson. Someone over on Sporcle made mention of this blog page a couple weeks back and I've been here quite a bit since then, seeing how the site works. I have a few thoughts to share about topics mentioned throughout the comments.

First, the blockage of 'JetPunk'. I don't have a definite explanation, but perhaps the 'punk' part is being blocked as an offensive term.

Second, the ads. Yep. The ads are awful. I won't dispute that. They're a lot lighter here.

Third, the quizzes. The formats are different, and each has its own set of advantages. Sporcle has eight different formats:

Classic, Clickable, Grid, Map, Multiple Choice, Picture Box, Picture Click, Slideshow), and JetPunk has five (Text, Picture, Click Map, Multiple Choice, Tile). The two Sporcle formats that stand out from JetPunk's offering are Slideshow and Grid. (1/5)

Slideshow allows for several large images to be contained in one quiz, which is, in a great number of cases, preferable to a smaller collage. Grids allow for Crosswords, along with Sudoku and any number of other grid-based puzzles.

Fourth, the quiz quality. Sporcle has thousands of awful quizzes. This is inevitable, seeing as the quiz creation feature has been fully available to all users for about a decade. Here, there is an approval process, and a strict three quiz per day limit, cutting down on submissions, and ensuring that these submissions display some degree of quality and originality (This is the purpose of the required approval, yes?). But given that there are quizzes contributed every couple minutes on Sporcle, it really isn't reasonable to expect/pay anyone to review these. We do have a report button, should any user come across an inappropriate, broken, or blatantly copied quiz, and moderators/admins privatize these within a day or two. (2/5)

Fifth, the quiz variety. By simply the fact that Sporcle has more quizzes, we see quite a bit of variety. Sure, there are plenty of pointless quizzes. A few are even published, like the Spacebar Challenge. But everything needn't be serious. We're trivia lovers, and trivia can be as trivial as we like. The eight different quiz formats, along with all the fine tuning in settings allows for a great number of differences as well. As someone very familiar with the Sporcle quiz editor (I've made well over 400 quizzes using these eight formats in numerous ways), the JetPunk editor was a bit confusing in a few aspects, but with some time, it looks like I'd figure it out well enough. The formats for Geography Map quizzes in particular seem to have a very intricately standardized format with the SVGs system. (3/5)

Sixth, the Community. It was mentioned above that the videos Sporcle posts lack in comments. Yes, most people ignore those. But that doesn't mean that we have no community. We aren't YouTube, and people aren't coming to Sporcle for videos. There is an entire section of the site dedicated to the Community. There, we have sections for Quiz Feedback, Feature Requests, Problem Reports, General Discussion (site related), Off-Topic (not site related), Contests, and a Game Room, along with topically-based areas and a Trophy Case for achievements. We also have messaging and chat functions and a simpler user following process. Users can send out bulletins to their followers asking for help, giving updates, complaining, complimenting, or anything else they might want to send out. (4/5)

Then, there is the Editor/Curator system, which is wonderful. (my very biased opinion). There are 15 Editors for the 15 categories, and 220 subcategories curated by another ~150 users (multiple positions can be held). Each of these users can 'pick' quizzes they deem worthy of being featured on their respective category or subcategory pages. This is a far more effective way to recognize users who make quizzes than featuring can be, as that is limited to few every day while dozens of users may receive picks (mind you, picks usually receive 100 to 300 plays in a few days, while publishes can get anywhere from 800 to 50,000 in that time). But I don't really see much of a community here either. There are a few user blogs every day, but not a large number. I saw mention of Reddit and Discord being used, but I have no idea of the magnitude of either of these in JetPunk's community. (5/5)

Well, JetPunk is

(gets banned)

Can’t finish a single quiz on Sporcle because it is so glitchy and full of ads. Jetpunk is better