Tournament puzzle that has a set start date.
Has players that are invited in.

Set intervals it drops players out (20 players 2hr session 6 min interval drop out)
puzzle divided in to sections base on how many intervals
Example 2000 piece puzzle, 200 piece section every 6 minutes player is dropped.
reward idea have a ranked system similar to chess each rank up you get a different border around your icon like diamond, gold, bronze, peppermint, wood

For some puzzles the default rules for when the karma points decrease can be flawed and thus preventing players to move pieces. This is mostly caused when puzzles have irregular shaped puzzle pieces and the threshold with pieces in proximity are too low. For example this puzzle that was rendered with an older version created small piece fragments.

Another case for puzzles that would benefit are larger ones with very similar pieces. For example, a puzzle with a lot of sky pieces may require the player to move the same piece multiple times before joining it to another piece. The threshold for moving the same piece multiple times in this case should be higher on that puzzle.

Having these settings on a puzzle could possibly prevent players from being banned and thus less need for #47.

Maybe the players could adjust the thresholds? It could be another use for dots earned. To adjust the threshold on a puzzle would require using dots. These settings should be permanent to that puzzle.

It would be nice for private sites to have the ability to adjust or remove karma altogether, as it is less necessary when the user base is more limited.

https://github.com/Jack000/SVGnest

Have the option of creating a new puzzle from an existing. Allow changing the pieces count and other attributes like background color.

In order to do that the render process needs to be optimized.

Have a way to remove extra resources for puzzles when they have been complete and idle for a certain time period.

A site configuration will have options for how players can have of puzzle instances made. These could be based on dots or manually added per player. A future feature could tie into a online store.

Mock up of puzzle instance slots shown to a player. This shows a player with one active puzzle instance and 3 more slots available.

The previous competition's scores and jigsaw puzzles.

Maybe also manually enter the date for the next upcoming 'puzzle party' competition.

#1 Related to

Basic messaging on puzzles. Able to place a Thumbs up or other icons that will eventually fade.

Use https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibility_API and stop listening to web socket when not visible. When the browser window becomes visible again; reload the pieces.

Only allow players with the contributor role to use the custom jigsaw puzzle.

Players could earn different badges depending on various things like completing a 3000+ piece puzzle or being on a puzzle with 10 other players.

Create a new puzzle with no need for attribution. No preview image. Set as Puzzle of the Day.

This was a feature in the past, but was disabled. I think it could easily be brought back since it has value. There will probably be a lot of changes to accommodate this change.
Private puzzles would still need to be moderated the same way as I don't want to have copyrighted images or questionable content hosted on the site. It would allow players to use their own images without making them totally public. The link to the private unlisted puzzle is still shareable. The puzzle would just not show up on any of the puzzle listings.
On the player profile page I think it 'could' show up in their own listing of puzzles that were created by them.
An out of scope feature would be to add the ability to allow players to easily share a private puzzle with other players. This is related to #8.

Update:
Unlisted puzzles are supported when a player creates a new instance of an existing public puzzle.

Also, puzzles that have permission set to public can be updated to be private. This currently requires manually updating the sqlite3 Puzzle table, however. This feature is more specifically allowing a player to create a new puzzle from a new image they uploaded and mark it as unlisted. I think that this feature would be something that should be monetized. An item on the buy-stuff page could be added to allow players to create private puzzles from their own uploaded image.

For all existing puzzles; create new puzzles with varying piece counts of 30, 100, 500, and 1000. If the original puzzle piece count was higher then 1000; then recreate with that piece count as well.

Based on a advent calendar where each day you get a few more puzzle pieces that should all be able to join to at least one other piece. Would be an invite only puzzle.

This is yet one more puzzle type. The idea is that puzzle pieces can have a back side that can be flipped. That backside could be another picture therefore making the puzzle even more difficult. Of course since this is implemented via software, it can have more than just 2 sides.

This would be a new puzzle variant that would be added to the PuzzleVariant database table.

Will need a good design for using movable boards for puzzle pieces.

Sometimes a user may have clicked on the wrong piece and needs to be able to unselect it. The major use case is when that piece is part of a larger group and the player doesn't want to have karma points deducted.

It should use the same function as when the current selected piece is moved by another player. This function is found in the puzzle-pieces/src/puzzle-pieces.js onPieceUpdateWhileSelected .

The build process for puzzle-pieces.js is not the greatest and could be improved since the tools have been updated to support web components and such.

Players that have an Instagram account can choose to authenticate and authorize the Puzzle Massive application. The application will only need to have the basic permissions which are to read the user's profile and media. With this integration the player can choose to create puzzles with photos on their Instagram account.

This would also be the process for a photographer to mark photos from their Instagram account to be okay to use on Puzzle Massive. This would allow any other player to create a puzzle with one of those photos and have the proper attribution added.

The Instagram account owner should also be able to remove puzzles from the site that were made with their photos.

A player can also use their Instagram account to login with Puzzle Massive and no longer need to use the anonymous login link.

The following are known to be prerequisites to this new feature.

• Switch to using https protocol (SSL)
• Store email with player profile so a player can login that way instead of using Instagram
• Allow players to delete their account. Doing so would also remove any puzzles created with their photos?
• #30 Support emailing the player when their puzzles are ready and such
• #45 if the player is not using a public Instagram account or wishes to not create public puzzles with their photos.
• #7 would allow photos to be submitted instead of just suggested.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/06/css-containment

Have a clock icon that will toggle showing the timer. Timer should automatically stop when no piece movements in the last 5 minutes.

Needs to record and show fastest time. Both the fastest time and current time should show on the front page.

Players can send invites to other players to go to a puzzle of their choosing. The other player will be shown a pop-up or other notification that the player wants them to join that puzzle.

Scroll to that player when their bit icon is clicked.

Instead of having a puzzle reset when complete; it needs to have it's resources rebuilt. This will prevent scripts from auto completing puzzles based on the CSS. It will also help migrate older puzzles to the newest rendering process.

• Needs to keep the same URL.
• The puzzle resources will need to have some way of cache-busting
• A new status will be added: REBUILD

The karma rules on a puzzle are meant to prevent abusive players from ruining a puzzle for everyone else. However, there are some cases when a player that was doing a puzzle is blocked because they moved too many pieces or didn't notice the karma bar going to empty. A issue to improve that with a warning notification should happen, but this open discussion is about fixing it after a player has been blocked.

• Should other players be allowed to reset the karma on the player that was blocked? This could be done by either using their dots or possibly using some of their karma points. Maybe it could require at least 2 other players to do so?

• Or should the player's dot amount steadily deplete when the karma for a puzzle hits 0. Then the player wouldn't be added to the blocked player list until they also ran out of dots? This would be aligned with the goal of preventing new players that just want to be a nuisance and haven't really done any puzzles in the past.

• Or should an admin have an interface that they can manually edit a player's karma points?

Maybe all the above should be done. Okay, thanks.

Some minor layout issues with the scores.

Puzzles can be a single variant and default to 'classic' for the classic interlocking puzzle piece shape. Other variants may be more bizarre like multiple sided pieces (#44) or overlapping shapes (#14) for example.

Puzzles can have multiple features added when a puzzle is being created or a new instance of that puzzle is being made by a player. These features could be:

• #80
• #79
• #58
• #55
• #52
• #38
• #32 (Allow players to hide/hoard puzzle pieces if they have the ability)
• #17
• #13
• #12
• #10
• #5

Should show upcoming puzzle party competitions with date and time and who will be entering. Allow players to rsvp which will show a list of bit icons on the page that plan to come. Show the upcoming puzzle party on the home page?

The previous puzzle party competition's scores and jigsaw puzzles.

Also a form to register for the next upcoming party or to create a puzzle party competition.

Allow editing and viewing player details. Action buttons should also include things like ban IP.

Taken from some old ideas

• fancy effects for piece movements (rotating, fading, etc.),
• ability to hide/hoard pieces
• stubborn fist (make those pieces fit!)
• score suckers (moving 'infected' pieces degrades your score)
• bit swap/stealing

Replace the initial top left corner from being already placed in the top left corner. Allow corner pieces to snap to their positions and be a part of the 'fixed' group.

These could be randomly generated to be of different sizes and shapes. The pieces connect by overlapping parts of the pieces' image that are identical.

Provide a way to add new bit icons and manage existing icons.

Could store this in redis.

On Monday only one public puzzle would be available to play. Any players that join pieces on it will get a badge if the puzzle is completed before the end of the day.

Will need to trigger a 'critical mass' of active players on the site in order for Massive Monday. Show an alert/info bar at top of site where it shows how many players are playing. Also show the most active puzzle that will be used if critical mass is reached.

When going to other puzzle pages the UI should prevent being able to access/play any other puzzle then the current Massive Monday one.

This will replace the jot form implementation. This form will potentially be open to a wider audience and so I need it to not allow image uploads. It should be rather simple in it's design. Don't bother too much with copyright details and other text, since the player won't read it.

• URL field that will be used for linking to the image
• Piece count field

At the bottom it needs some text describing the process of submitting an image for a puzzle. Also suggest a few sites to visit to find good puzzles.

Somewhere describe that only players with the contributor role may upload images for puzzles.

Allow players to subscribe to a puzzle for notifications when it is no longer idle.

Store all puzzle resources on the local file system.

There are close to 300 puzzles that still use AWS.

For upcoming events or other alerts to display to all players.

Allow scroll jumping to only a half screen width when the shift key is held down.

https://community.unsplash.com/developersblog/unsplash-api-guidelines

• Need to include Unsplash along with author attribution.

• Provide the utm params in all links to Unsplash.

• The player will need to link their Unsplash account to their player account on Puzzle Massive.

To prevent pieces from being hidden on top of the almost finished puzzle. This should not highlight the pieces that are immutable.

Options for this that wouldn't interfere with a simple local development?

An optional start and end time can be associated with the puzzle instance and should be shown on the page.

The time elapsed should also be shown on the page (See issue #40 )

A sorter bot can be attained by other means. The sorter bot can be deployed to a puzzle to gather specific pieces. Each sorter bot is only able to gather one type of piece and can't be re-configured later. The types of pieces would be at first just the general color of a piece, or if a piece has that color in it.

Players that use a sorter bot will have to spend dots to maintain it.

Sorter bots work mostly on the server end. The bot on the client end gets a position that it needs to travel to by a certain timestamp. After it gets there it can send another request to the server for the next position to travel to. The server sends a response back if the bot has found a piece. The bot will follow the directions back to it's target drop point with the piece that it found. Other players can steal the piece that the bot has found; which will cause the bot to look for another piece.

Show puzzle counts for complete, active, etc..

Show player counts

Piece moves, joins in the last hour, day, week, total.

The puzzle will only be mutable to players that have been invited to it. Other players that are not invited can observe the puzzle, but not move pieces.

Maybe show the anonymous login link as soon as the register a bit icon?

Allow them to link their email in order to get their login link sent to them.

High scores for the last 24 hours, 7 days, Month, Year and all time.

Prevent further pieces from getting bad data set by setting the status to frozen for the puzzle. Ideally a notification should be sent.

In the puzzle admin create a way to set these frozen puzzles to buggy_unlisted after the fix to the code has happened and fixing the data isn't worth it.

Ignore 500 errors on puzzles that have been set as buggy_unlisted.