2nd July. Spamming the vote-change notification is now even more pointless.
2nd July. If you post a ticket as private, you may now choose to make it non-private later.
3rd July. The picking frequencies charts now show more information, and support all variants.
3rd July. Tournament fixture creation automatically starts an aptomail thread with the organizer and participants. (This is enabled by default but the organizer can opt out.)
4th July. The user page and game list now show the game result in a dedicated column.
5th July. Some bots now pick 5 or 6 large numbers in Spoilage.
5th July. Occasional issue with duplicate numbers rounds.
5th July. A game is now announced as a tourney game at the beginning and end (and links to the relevant tourney).
6th July. Bot letter picking is now updated for the latest dictionary (currently English only).
6th July. PBs for maxes are now tracked and announced in chat (as well as raw score).
7th July. The "unplayed tourney games" notification is now better organized, especially when there are many outstanding games, and can be switched to an even more compact view with [See less].
8th July. The difficulty rating of all conundrums has been updated, with much more accurate ratings for many examples.
10th July. The classic 14 Rounder final format is now set up correctly in the custom rounds menu and, to celebrate this momentous moment, the 14 Rounder is now a high score format.
11th July.Pro Ranks now allows jumping to dates, and generates a unique URL depending on the filters and page within the ranking.
11th July. The apterous site policies are in effect from now. Please read them and understand them!
13th July. You can now seek a game (similar to sending an open challenge), specifying the format you want to play and letting other players find you.
13th July. You can now retract your offer to resume an existing game up until the other person accepts. (This is one of the longest-standing requests ever in various forms and is now finally possible!)
13th July. It's now much more conspicuous when a game is in a non-standard dictionary or variant.
13th July. You can now enable and disable challenge sound effects and in-game sound effects separately from the Settings cog on the top right of the game window.
15th July. The letters deck is now automatically reshuffled after each 15-round batch within a Mocktorun.
18th July. A new Dictionary Corner guest is on the loose.
19th July. Bots now correctly receive only 7 points if you make them buzz for an overtime Goatdown conundrum.
20th July. Various issues that could cause a game to end prematurely are now fixed.
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22nd July. Players are now notified if any game of theirs is discounted, as are the organizers of any tournament that those games occurred in. The easiest way to avoid this humiliating experience is... don't cheat!
26th July. You can now report a user, via the link on their user page. Keep in mind the site policy.
27th July. Home page is now much more usable on mobile.
27th July. You can now retract a nice on a ticket post (as you already can on every other kind of comment).
This month, apterous gained 73 new users, taking us to 15,993 in total. A total of 340,061 rounds were played over 22,524 games, by 306 different players.
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1st. Zohaib Rehan
2nd. Tom Cappleman
3rd. Dylan Taylor
