"Between Meals" - April 10, 2020

[Bob cruise director]

Brian, do you know the record of the most people using this site at one time? Lots of eager/anxious folks on right now.

You mean neurotic muggles?

[Joe Ross]

While waiting, I did Thursday's crossword - Making Amends. Was hoping for things like Amsterdam, amalgam, amidsummernightsdream, but that wasn't quite the gimmick

I enjoyed the puzzle. Looking forward to more from Chase Dittrich.

[BrianMac]

Brian, do you know the record of the most people using this site at one time? Lots of eager/anxious folks on right now.

This is probably close. There used to be a line at the bottom of the page that tracked the most users ever online, but I removed it around November when it inexplicably started saying we had like 350 people online. It must have been some kind of bot attack and I decided it wasn't really helpful.

Now please don't ask me any more questions because answering is interfering with my refreshing.

[Dow Jones]

What's the record for most posts in a week ?

[Joe Ross]

What's the record for most posts in a week ?

On this site, for the WSJCC, 416, two weeks ago for What Not To Do.

"What Not To Do" - March 27, 2020

416 Replies - 9429 Views

My guess is that there were several weeks on the WSJ Comments section for other WSJCC topics.

[geeteebee]

[Meg]

What’s the meaning of life? And don’t say 42!

[BrianDavidson]

Isaac isn't used to Al Sisti still being at the bar this late on a Thursday...

[Hector]

Sometimes I've found that browser refresh in Chrome fails to update the puzzle list, because of browser caching, I guess?

Anyway I now do a "hard refresh," which means holding down CTRL and either clicking the refresh icon or pressing the F5 key. Neither seems to be helping at the moment . . .

[Joe Ross]

You get a slight advantage by subscribing to notifications for new puzzles, if you're a WSJ subscriber.


(EDIT: Meg: The meaning of life is 51, because — for those of us that are not mathematicians — 51 is nine times better than 42.)

[Bob cruise director]

While you are waiting go to Facebook and search on "Flight Attendant Working From Home"

[skw]

First post... wanted to let everyone know that you can often find the puzzle by determining the URL. See:

https://blogs.wsj.com/puzzle/crossword/ ... index.html

for this week's puzzle. I imagine the puzzle was posted but someone forgot to put the link up.

[Troysail]

its up

[Bob cruise director]

its up

ON the WSJ page or the link above?

I can't get it on the WSJ page

[Bob cruise director]

its up

ON the WSJ page or the link above?

I can't get it on the WSJ page

UP now

[boharr]

First post... wanted to let everyone know that you can often find the puzzle by determining the URL. See:

https://blogs.wsj.com/puzzle/crossword/ ... index.html

for this week's puzzle. I imagine the puzzle was posted but someone forgot to put the link up.

Clever. Certainly mug worthy.

[boharr]

I got it on the WSJ page.

(But, darn, the grid is empty!)

[Al Sisti]

Isaac isn't used to Al Sisti still being at the bar this late on a Thursday...

He did card me, so...

[Tom Shea]

What’s the meaning of life? And don’t say 42!

But, but, but, but, but, but, but, but... it is!

It's also a great movie:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085959/

[MajordomoTom]

meaning of life?

the question: what is 6 times 9.

yes, the universie is and has always been broken