apterous history: December 2012
Here's your handy cut-out-and-keep guide to the events of December 2012.
In the news...
- 1st December. Doris Fray joined.
- 4th December. As you've probably noticed, the shiny new notifications box is now rolled out to everyone. The main improvements are collating of related notifications into a single one, and easier management of which notifications you've actually seen. The Chrome auto-notify pop-ups (for those who have them enabled) are also working again. Happy times!
- 8th December. Jane Honeybee and Sam Cappleman-Lynes joined.
- 9th December. After a long holiday, old games (pre-December 2008) are now included in high scores. Raw scores should now be used consistently everywhere for high scores and PBs. Please let us know if you spot anywhere that this is not the case.
- 10th December. In case anyone was wondering, it does make me quite cheerful when people Nice my "Resolved" posts when I close out tickets they wanted!
- 11th December. The epic battle to prevent duplicate conundrums in Ascension should now finally be over. I feel like I've said this before but...
- 12th December. The gold, silver and bronze medals from the Aptolympics and Apto-Paralympics have been awarded, at last!
- 12th December. Gemma Church, Derek Hughes and Brian Amos joined.
- 18th December. Adam Gillard becomes the fifth recipient of a legendary Spoon of Awesome. Mazel tov!
- 18th December. Zubair Patel joined.
- 21st December. All player names are now unique. Existing non-unique names have been given a dummy middle initial. Most of these accounts are inactive but, if your name has been changed and you want to change it back, please use the Name Changer tool.
- 21st December. Luke Martin and Tricia Lockhart joined.
- 24th December. Alex N joined.
- 28th December. Nick Holland joined.
Pro Ranks
The top three players at the end of the month:-
1st. Innis Carson
2nd. Conor Travers
3rd. Dan McColm
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Monthly Top Scores
| Format | Top score | Popularity |
|---|---|---|
| Old 15 | 162 by Chris Davies | 15,772 games with 325 players |
| Conundrum Attack | 200 by Jonathan Rawlinson ×38 200 by Jack Worsley ×21 200 by Jack Hurst ×17 200 by Chris Davies ×8 200 by Conor Travers ×8 200 by Mark Tournoff ×8 200 by Rob Foster ×7 200 by Kirk Bevins ×4 200 by Dan McColm ×2 200 by Giles H ×2 200 by Jen Steadman 200 by Kai Laddiman | 2,516 games with 105 players |
| 9 Rounder | 84 by Adam Gillard | 344 games with 73 players |
| Numbers Attack | 200 by Adam Gillard 200 by Chris Hare 200 by David Barnard 200 by Graeme Cole 200 by Jamie French 200 by Martin Long 200 by Matthew Tassier | 557 games with 65 players |
| Letters Attack | 182 by Mark D | 620 games with 54 players |
| Instant 15 | 133 by Herbert Plank | 350 games with 46 players |
| Speed 15 | 161 by Conor Travers | 282 games with 41 players |
| Nice 15 | 128 by Jen Steadman | 148 games with 40 players |
| Nice Letters Attack | 162 by Jack Worsley | 361 games with 38 players |
| Instant 9 | 83 by Adam Gillard 83 by Dylan Taylor | 136 games with 38 players |
Only the month's 10 most popular formats are shown.
Facts and Figures
This month, apterous gained 217 new users, taking us to 4,845 in total. A total of 442,310 rounds were played over 28,989 games.
The Duel was won by Mark D with 2523 points from 31 games. Second was Matt Hamer with 2498 points from 31 games, and third Innis Carson with 2465 points from 31 games.
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