About This Website

About This Website

2007: I created this site. For lateral thinking and logic puzzles
Many puzzle sites did not indicate puzzle difficulty. So I created this site which did.
Many problems were too vague, and allowed unintended solutions. So I made it easy for anyone to quickly send me feedback.
Most sites had only one puzzle per page. So I placed all puzzles on a single page. This was before the infinite scroll.

This site was originally built with Dreamweaver. Around 2007. Not because of the WYSIWYG editor. I prefer HTML. But because Dreamweaver had templates.

Dreamweaver templates let you define something once, and then any changes propagate everywhere. It allowed static HTML to scale.

I added phpBB V2 shortly after. It was highly customized. So it had a similar style to the rest of the site. It allowed the site to scale even more. Except, the site was clearly divided into two distinct regions, static HTML and a dynamic forum. PhpBB auto approved users, allowing them to post immediately, so I added a few rudimentary spam detectors to block spammers from registering. Ideas so stupidly simple I am surprised they worked... until they didn't.

2008: I added phpBB V2, highly customized, with rudimentary spam detection I hacked together.

2013: I added Skeleton, a light weight responsive framework.

2019: I removed phpBB. Spammers had finally figured out how to bypass my rudimentary spam detection.

2020: My website was replaced by this:

   Welcome to HostPapa!
   Were you expecting to see your website?

Why, yes! Yes I was!

I didn't notice until three months later, when I finally received an email, notifying me of the migration from Lunarpages to HostPapa.
March through June was peak COVID, and I was busy monitoring the toilet paper apocalypse. I guess they were too. I switched to another provider.

2026: I added back all the old puzzles and comments from phpBB using AI as explained in this architectural overview, and added heavy weight spam protection as explained in this spam overview.