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Re: Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

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Congrats! I just completed the easy demo on an iPhone SE and it worked great. No issue at all with selecting and positioning the pieces. Great work!

The UX is not good only because of the screen size. Either you see too few of the pieces or the pieces are too small. But I think there is no software solution to that, just a matter of being a game better suited for larger screens.

Re: Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

#22
Nice work. One thing though, I completed the demo puzzle and created an account but then under completed puzzles in my account, the list is empty. I wish the puzzle I had just completed when it prompted me to create an account to play more puzzles, would be added to the list of completed puzzles.

Re: Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

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post #12

I'm in the demo and trying to click and drag pieces and all it does is pan the screen. I'm using Chrome on Windows 10 if it helps. Also, I noticed that maybe 10% of pieces actually do let you move them around, but the other 90% only pan the screen.

Thanks for the report, that is very odd. It sounds like the mouse position might be offset. I haven't ran into this yet when testing Chrome on Windows 10, but I'll take another look. Sorry about that!

Same experience on iPad Safari here.

Re: Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

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post #21

Congrats! I just completed the easy demo on an iPhone SE and it worked great. No issue at all with selecting and positioning the pieces. Great work! The UX is not good only because of the screen size. Either you see too few of the pieces or the pieces are too small. But I think there is no software solution to that, just a matter of being a game better suited for larger screens.

Thanks! Yeah, it's been hard to decide what to do about mobile. The experience is not great with the high piece counts. I might consider offering puzzles with smaller piece counts if they are started on a mobile device, vs desktop. But this may affect my plans for adding (optional) leaderboards and making things a little more competitive.

Re: Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

#25

Nice work. One thing though, I completed the demo puzzle and created an account but then under completed puzzles in my account, the list is empty. I wish the puzzle I had just completed when it prompted me to create an account to play more puzzles, would be added to the list of completed puzzles.

Great point! This has been something I've been meaning to do and forgot about. Thanks for the reminder.

Re: Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the report, that is very odd. It sounds like the mouse position might be offset. I haven't ran into this yet when testing Chrome on Windows 10, but I'll take another look. Sorry about that!

Same experience on iPad Safari here.

Sorry to hear that! I have an up-to-date iPad Air 2 and I've tested playing in Safari quite a bit. The touch accuracy is a little annoying and dragging the background unintentionally occasionally happens. I think I can improve this by increasing the touch area around pieces to be a bit more forgiving. Thank you for reporting.

Re: Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

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post #12

I'm in the demo and trying to click and drag pieces and all it does is pan the screen. I'm using Chrome on Windows 10 if it helps. Also, I noticed that maybe 10% of pieces actually do let you move them around, but the other 90% only pan the screen.

Same on Brave Linux. EDIT: If I disable ad blocking, the sentry errors disappear and I am able to drag pieces. Maybe wrap the sentry code in something to account for ad-blockers.

Re: Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

#28
I thought the UI was brilliant and enjoyed the example a lot (Android phone).

Having to tap the pieces to orient them correctly became a task to do before I started. But I wouldn't have wanted to try to do that myself either on a phone.

Sad that the picture was obscured at the end. I wanted to admire my work.

Re: Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

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post #27
post #12

I'm in the demo and trying to click and drag pieces and all it does is pan the screen. I'm using Chrome on Windows 10 if it helps. Also, I noticed that maybe 10% of pieces actually do let you move them around, but the other 90% only pan the screen.

Same on Brave Linux. EDIT: If I disable ad blocking, the sentry errors disappear and I am able to drag pieces. Maybe wrap the sentry code in something to account for ad-blockers.

Interesting, that's very odd. My ad blocker also blocks sentry, yet I can still drag pieces fine.

I'll need to test Brave to see if I can reproduce. Thanks for the details.

Re: Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

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post #28

I thought the UI was brilliant and enjoyed the example a lot (Android phone). Having to tap the pieces to orient them correctly became a task to do before I started. But I wouldn't have wanted to try to do that myself either on a phone. Sad that the picture was obscured at the end. I wanted to admire my work.

Glad you enjoyed it. Orienting the pieces up front does annoy others as well, so I'm considering options to make this a bit more friendly.

Good point regarding the picture being obscured at the end. I think this especially affects mobile.

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