Sorry for nagging, but I've been missing the N5 puzzles for quite a while now. When I open the crossword page I see the N5-N4 united tab.
But even if I un-hide finished puzzles it only shows N4 puzzles. And it only showed the new N4 puzzle. Did you stop creating monthly N5 puzzles? It also only shows my N4 score instead of a combined score as would be expected. What is the meaning of combining these two? Will there be only one puzzle that covers both levels? (Don't particularly mind, just curious^^) But even then, finished puzzles of both levels should show up, right?
2) As for kanji puzzles an old problem showed up again. Again the new monthly puzzle appears twice; two identical puzzle with exactly the same name. That goes for all levels but only for kanji puzzles.
And for older puzzles that are marked #2, there are also identical puzzles only with a different number when I open them.
Let me address the N5/N4 thing, then I'll look into the other issues later tonight.
Basically, the N5 lists were hidden (permanently) this came to be because over extensive research, it was determined that there were not enough "crossword worthy" words in the N5 lists to make crosswords without them having very, very high amounts of overlap.
The N5 roughly has 700 or so words in it, if I recall correctly. When you cut out a lot of 2-3 character words that won't fit well next to other words in a crossword puzzle, you lost a HUGE amount, as the crossword puzzles naturally favor longer terms that can allow space between words.
The algorithm for the crossword puzzle was changed several times to attempt to improve the quality of the puzzles, but it just kept hitting the same group of words which extremely high frequency, so I decided to combine N5/N4 instead of leave users with substandard N5 puzzles.
Updates on the other issues will be added to this post later!
Well, I figured that N5 is lacking words to make decent puzzles. Creating a combined N5-N4 puzzle makes sense as it allows greater variability of words. However, the latest puzzle still looked like a common N4 puzzle, featuring no N5 words.
2.) I noticed that my allover score is still the same. However, I'd just like to see my N5 score every now and then, and have it show up somewhere on the site.^^
1./3.) Apparently the crossword puzzles don't load anymore.
The new crosswords with the combined 4/5 will appear in January - new ones are made every six months. The old ones are not replaced, so up until Jan 2016 will be N4 words, only.
