paulv66 wrote:
I’m curious as to why the line above the puzzle has been set up in this way.
There's a process running that does the "real-time" communication with the server
to enable the "solved ticker" (and with that, the "last solved by" info and the total number of puzzles solved).
The "last solved by" info is not permanently stored somewhere. Also, the process is restarted every 6 hours.
To show the info for earlier days, I'd need to add some functionality.
I could just query the database for the last solver of a certain puzzle, but that's a relatively expensive query
(so the page would get stuck on it).
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="paulv66"]On a related point, I note that the number of times solved counter includes puzzles solved after the solution has been published. When I find a puzzle particularly difficult, I like to check how the number of solvers compares with the number who solved the comparable puzzle for previous weeks. But this comparison is distorted by the inclusion of ‘late’ solvers in the numbers.
Good point, I'll see if I can do something about that.
This would also take some time to implement, but this info is interesting of course.