Mystery Hunt Index Updated

Oct 10, 2020 23:10


It's only early October and I have all the 2020 puzzles indexed. Still slow but better than some years. I've addressed some feedback you guys left (but not to include any non-MIT hunts yet; someday, maybe) and I added a new top-level page with all the puzzles in alpha order by title instead of hunt order. This still needs some refinement.

We know now Galactic's going to run an all-remote hunt while it's not safe for 2000+ of us to gather in one place. Yay for still having a hunt!

Some stuff happened with the hosting platform but I dealt with it. I believe a limit I was facing (in the rather distant future, if I only index MIT hunts, but sooner if I add others) no longer exists as a result of the changes.

I no longer have a hunt to index, and I have a bit of free time coming up as a result of unused vacation days this year, so I might get around to working on the biggest planned feature which does not involve indexing non-MIT hunts, which is synonyms. The way this would work is that in the lists of keywords, cross-references would appear from alternate forms of a keyword to whichever one I have chosen as canonical, such as between Fences puzzle and Slither Link. On the page for the canonical keyword, an "also called" line listing all the synonyms would appear. Some work on the editor UI would allow me to find these keywords by their synonyms, as well as to create synonyms. And then of course I have to go through my 1800 keywords and add synonyms. Or maybe I'll just go through the puzzle type keywords and do that, and let you guys suggest the others.

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