Unable to hide solved puzzle?

Hi! Suddenly you removed the ability to hide solved puzzles... is this your way of trying to force us to pay for the WebStart thingy? I'd really like to get back the missing display options

Yes, this is VERY inconvenient: the more you've solved, the harder it is to find your next puzzle.

Makes every search category (except maybe new?) pretty useless.

But the unsolved puzzles are still available for you. Yes, it is now inconvenient, but keep in mind, that it is expensive to host a website with such a web-traffic.
You get 40000+ puzzles for free, a very large free available content.
If you love nonograms, why do you not want to support this service?

Ra100, is it possible to help you in analysis and possible solutions? Would be a good way to take at least advantages out of my study - what else should I use computer science for ;)

//edit: Well, you do show when I solved a puzzle if it is solved. So you do still retrieve this information - then why do you not enable the filter again?

Hi LadyRose,

I'm afraid that for most of those benefits you'd need to use iGridd. The solving applet on the website has not been changed. Once you've subscribed, there are two benefits that are available for you using the old applet: You can use the filter for solved/unsolved puzzles and you can save up to 50 Griddlers and Triddlers.

Jelga

Maybe you should try subscribing instead of complaining about what it takes to keep a free site free. I highly doubt theres any conspiracy going on here, from what I know of hagit.

Okay, taking this into consideration, I can understand your argument... I still think it makes the site quite a bit more useless then before, but thinking back to my courses about database theory I see your problem...

Personally I like what you proposed in the last paragraph... just creating one page of results and maybe a next button... Another thing I could think of is maybe not always updating the filter, meaning you filtered results on your first access but then if you solve an griddler it just gets maked as solved without a new db access... that way it could just weed out the solved puzzles every few reloads or something...

Thank you Jelga,

I suspected that was the case and that was a big part of my decision not to subscribe. As much as I enjoy doing the puzzles, and really appreciate all the time, effort and money that the team puts in to the site, it just didn't make sense to me to spend money I don't really have and not any of the extra benefits I would be subscribing for.

As it turns out, my son saw my post and has purchased a subscription for me as my Mother's Day gift and with the amount of time I spend on this site I really believe that it was money well spent even if I won't get all of the features.

I'm not that technical and don't know exactly what I see in the graph, but... WOW, that's a change. I also noticed it already in iGridd, loadingtimes are a lot faster. Thanks for the effort.

I don't believe I've ever posted here before, but I've used this site probably for as long as it's been online to satisfy my occasional cravings for griddlers. I was also a little perturbed to see the option to filter unsolved puzzles gone, but as I had begun to solve puzzles in ascending order in a few categories, and as I've only solved maybe 1,000 puzzles in the categories I've so far used, I'm not having any problem avoiding pages and pages of solved puzzles. I'd probably be a bit more perturbed if that was the case.

That being said, I don't believe that removing the option can truly destroy the utility of the site given the other search features we're given. I notice that the "view all" feature isn't there anymore either, so no matter what you do, you have to choose at least one filter for the type of puzzle, right? Or is it that I just haven't figured out how to turn that off? Anyway, if you've been here for a while and enjoy minimalisms, why not include filters to show puzzles in numerical order? That way, it's a good bet that all your finished puzzles will be in the beginning pages of the list, so you'll only have to go through them once, maybe finishing a few you missed, but all the new ones should be near the end of the list, right? You can also show them in reverse order, which would put all the new ones first! Then you won't even have to remember a page number!

What you do lose is the ability to instantly see how many of each type of puzzle you have actually solved, so you'll never be sure you got them all. I'm sure the loss of that ability is very annoying if you pride yourself on keeping all of a certain type of puzzle solved.

I, for one, am extremely grateful that this site has remained free all these years. I'm sure the growing restrictions anger daily visitors a lot more than they anger someone like me who visits in spurts, but even doing things you love - like running websites - can become tedious and, more importantly, expensive. If you are naive about the costs of running a successful website, you'd probably choke on your complaints if the owners posted their base costs (and they should if only to shut us up). If it came down to it, I'd much rather pay $5 a month than run into the message "this site has exceeded it's bandwidth for the month - try again next month" every time I tried to play.

I've found myself doing a bit more griddling these days than I have in the past and I might end up subscribing this time if only to show my appreciation for all the comfort and relaxation this site has given me over the years.