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Can I respectfully advise to spend some time adding CSS, rules, and remove strings like "response goes here for debugging" then re-submit, maybe an admin could delete the thread with that understanding. As otherwise you won't be able to re-submit as per HN guidelines, which is a shame as the concept seems cool.

You have done the hard work and built the impressive networking/ API interactions, now go the last 10% and make it usable :)

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I have added the rules but I'm not sure what you mean by CSS. Do you not feel like the UI is usable? I tried to create something very utilitarian - sort of the same philosophy as HN in that regard.

I did discover some performance regressions after this post, but I feel that is expected when getting the HN hug. Hopefully it was still playable for you?

For example, I have these questions when opening the interface

https://imgur.com/a/WeCGy2n

In addition the time seems to go negative and the game never ends in some cases?

https://i.imgur.com/2cEbcKo.png

I have been unable to connect with another player so can't comment on the game-playing experience

Thanks for taking the time to provide screenshots. That is the public lobby list. I just auto spin up some lobbies for people to join if they don't want to create a game themselves.

There are some bugs here and there that can cause a game to "collapse" for lack of a better word and never get carried forward into the next state. I think this tends to happen when the server gets overloaded and restarts. I need to look into why this happens on occasion.

The total players figure counts the number of unique visitors that have been assigned a session_id. I think it's a bit optimistic since it counts any visitor at all. (excluding google crawler bots)

I have patched the active games counter. It was counting games that had been created but never started.

Thanks a ton for your bug reports, it's helping me harden the server so people can have reliable experiences going forward.

Thanks, this is the good stuff.

Not sure if you go back and reread old comment responses, but I have made a lot of QoL improvements to the game - https://www.turingjest.app/

I will be moving away from the confusing public lobby system in short order, but the game should be smooth to play with a couple of friends you can send the link to.

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