Merge pull request #5 from puzzmo-com/changelog-completion

Adds a changelog entry for the sidebar

README.md

@@ -37,7 +37,16 @@ A C&P example which does the dates for you:
 hugo new posts/$(date +%Y)/$(date +%m)/$(date +%d)/my-post/index.md
 ```
 
-Then just change `my-post` to be a cool URL!
+Then change `my-post` to be a cool URL. Next: set up the metadata at the top of the `index.md` to include your name, the tags and the theme.
+
+```diff
++ authors = ["orta"]
++ tags = ["changelog"]
++ theme = "puzzmo-light"
+```
+
+You can see [the themes here](https://github.com/puzzmo-com/blog.puzzmo.com/tree/main/static/themes).
+
 
 ### How do we handle separate sections?
 

content/posts/2024/04/17/v1-launch/index.md

@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ Aside from the Crossword, all our games are generated by computers, which at lea
 
 ![alt text](puzzle-pool.png)
 
-Having the pool as a giant set of text files (e.g. like S3) gives us the ability to do a lot of scripting around puzzles as a giant pile before moving them up into the CDN to eventually get pulled out by the daily system.
+Having the pool as a giant set of text files (e.g. like S3) gives us the ability to do a lot of scripting around puzzles as a giant pile before moving them up into the CDN to eventually get pulled out by the daily system. 
 
 #### News
 

content/posts/2024/04/18/completion-sidebar-2/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
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+title = 'The new completion section'
+date = 2024-04-18T10:48:48+01:00
+authors = ['orta']
+tags = ["changelog"]
+theme = "puzzmo-light"
++++
+
+Hi folks, welcome to our new blog if you're a first time reader! ( The rest of our posts are tech stuff, which my wife described as _"full of jargon"_. So, it'd be very reasonable to skip. ) 
+
+We've been trying to figure out a way to give updates on major changes to Puzzmo and thought a changelog section on the blog would do a pretty good job at that.
+
+So, what just changed?
+
+**We're introducing a re-think of the information you see after completing a game today.** 
+
+![Before and after shot](before-after.png)
+
+What are the key changes:
+
+- We're prioritising your play history as a way to show progress. 
+- Globally competitive information is deemphasised.
+
+Since launch we've been re-examining ways in which we encourage competition on Puzzmo, and have a better sense of what we're doing which can make folks feel bad about a puzzle which they thought they did well in. 
+
+Some games just seem to have folks competing at a different level, which is cool, but kinda de-motivating to see straight after you completed something tricky. Now, you're mostly competing with past you, and we have kept a way to let you know about interesting highlights. You would be astute to note that the screenshots above somewhat contradict this, because they still include _"Global rank xth"_ - this is now a choice! If you set your leaderboards to be friends only, the messages will respect that choice!
+
+We're trying to run Puzzmo on a reasonable budget, and so we aren't storing all of the history for folks who are not logged in! They will see a small prompt to sign up. 
+
+If, _like me_, you enjoy the histograms - worry not, they are still around. They've moved down to the leaderboards. This has the advantage of letting us show histograms in new places.
+
+![Leaderboards with info](leaderboards.png)
+
+We've been running this system behind the scenes for a while now, so it's likely that if you are a regular player you have a history already set up to see on the next time you complete a puzzle!