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Using the keyboard to type out your name (rather than using the signature pad) results in really small (unreadable) text.

Some J-Archive games don't contain a full board of questions because time ran out during the show. It would be nice if JParty would allow you to play those games anyway, and just leave empty spaces where the missing questions are.

By the way, this app is fantastic! It's really easy to play and a lot of fun!

Hi guys

Thanks for a GREAT job on JParty..

For me (and probably others), one thing that would really improve this project, is the ability to split into a server and a client/admin component.

I think the following steps are needed:

• Split the code into backend and frontend components
• Depending on the current design, some kind of API may be needed?
• Authentication from the frontend (admin) towards the backend

This would provide the following:

• Ability to run without a shared local network, therefore also using this through google meet, teams or similar
• In time, being able to use two separate devices for the game screen and the admin screen.

Is this something that you have thought about?

I would love to join on getting this done..

I'd love to introduce a settings panel at the home screen to adjust some features, such as monetary amounts, hints, etc.

For “true” daily doubles

It would be helpful to allow the host to move on to the next round or end the current game and go back to the welcome screen, without having to complete all the questions.

Add the slideshow they do in the show to introduce the categories. I also think the flickering board animation would be cool, but I don't think it's necessary. Maybe include it as a toggle to turn on-off in a settings panel.

update may 14 2023
I know how to get a game now in Jparty I am just new to it that's all

The game has not been functioning at all as of late. I thought it had to do with how J-Archive was scraped, but custom games don't work either.

I'll try to take a look at fixing it this weekend.

I was thinking of a way to avoid scraping J-Archive, and I thought why not just scrape the Wayback Machine? Yes, using an archive to scrape another archive. I think all (or nearly all) of the games are already on there (I even hand-checked the most recent 10 episodes) so it wouldn't be much of a problem. That way the app is not breaking J-Archive terms & we can actually share it with more people. The nice thing about J-Archive the page layout/setup hasn't changed in years, so scraping different formats would not be an issue. We could build in a fallback that would scrape the J-Archive, but that wouldn't be necessary if we made sure all the recent games get scraped.

The one downside is that it would be a few seconds slower to load (exactly how long, we'll have to see), but I personally think the tradeoff is worth it.

It seems pretty easy to implement. I may take a look if I have time. Here's a useful tutorial:
https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/the-wayback-machine-scraper-63238f6abb66

Sometimes the wrong game gets loaded when typing in the game ID.
Games are retrieved form J-Archive with each keystroke, and sometimes it's possible that the last keystroke is missed. The result is that the correct ID shows in the input field, but the description below it is for a different game.

Typing slowly or pasting from the clipboard gets around it, but it happens easily enough that it might be worth putting a short delay before fetching the game.

Add support for picture clues! Many image clues are already in the J-Archive. We would just need to grab those and display them. Also could add support for audio clues.

For images not in the J-Archive, you could use the Pexels API to grab a relevant image by searching pexels for the answer term or searching the whole clue.

If a player types in their name instead of drawing it, the font that's displayed on their podium is super tiny.

update may 14 2023 i fixed i uninstall it then put it back now the qr code it works just letting you guys know thanks to Mr. Thomas and ben