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Right now, there's no much feedback other than \"You got it wrong, actually, it's X. Anyway, moving on...\".…",{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},"39276746","ruggeri","I liked it a lot, especially the UI. I disagree with any suggestion that makes the game easier. There are a lot of websites with name-that-country games. For people who are…",null,[62,68,72],{"value":63,"source":64,"evidence":65},"React","maker",[66],{"id":67},"post",{"value":69,"source":64,"evidence":70},"Material UI",[71],{"id":67},{"value":73,"source":64,"evidence":74},"Hosted on Vercel CDN with no back end",[75],{"id":67},"unknown","launched",{"praise":79,"objections":111,"requests":173,"questions":223,"alternatives":240},[80,93,104],{"value":81,"source":82,"evidence":83},"Enjoyable, polished UI and a fast check-correct loop","commenter",[84,88,89],{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},"39272838","thih9","My score was 7\u002F20. I enjoyed it; I like that you can use this without entering the country name, i.e. do just \"Check\" -> \"Correct\"\u002F\"Wrong\". This is such a fast and rewarding…",{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"39272219","getwiththeprog","Thank you for highlighting my ignorance of geography :) Keep up the great work.",{"value":94,"source":82,"evidence":95},"Fun way to discover how little geography one knows",[96,100],{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"39272507","skor","Nice, enjoyed seeing how I don't know the political map as good as I thought. If I click \"Check\" without typing anything and then click \"Correct\" my score goes up.",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"39272680","praveen9920","Good work. I couldn’t name 98% of the countries. Realised my geography sucks",{"value":105,"source":82,"evidence":106},"Spaced repetition of mistakes is valuable",[107,108],{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},{"id":109,"by":10,"text":110},"39281809","It does keep a list of countries you got wrong and you can go through them again.",[112,131,146,161],{"value":113,"source":82,"evidence":114},"Keyboard navigation and Enter key handling are broken, especially in Firefox",[115,119,123,127],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"39272493","progval","I'm having issues with keyboard navigation on Firefox: * Typing a few letters then pressing tab closes the dropdown instead of selecting options in the dropdown * when the text…",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"39272735","frereubu","Yep, I'd play this a lot more if I was able to use only the keyboard.",{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"39272476","trurl42","Keyboard accessibility could use some love.",{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"39274249","baryphonic","Great work! Only feedback would be to make the drop-down search aware of the abbreviations for various countries. For example, St. Lucia rather than Saint Lucia, DPRK for North…",{"value":132,"source":82,"evidence":133},"Colour coding of contested territories confusing, e.g. North and South Korea",[134,138,142],{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"39272665","asimpletune","I love it, my only feedback was the I didn't really understand which I was supposed to pick when it showed me N. Korea. Because all I saw the Korean Peninsula, and the north was…",{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"39280647","MrResearcher","Yep, when North Korea is selected, both North Korea and South Korea are highlighted and it's not clear which country is requested. Same goes for South Korea.",{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"39271713","midasuni","What do the colors mean Why was North Korea in dark green and South Korea in light green, and which should I name?",{"value":147,"source":82,"evidence":148},"Dropdown covers the map and is awkward on mobile",[149,153,157],{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"39274470","fifticon","This is already written elsewhere, but this game screams to work efficiently with the keyboard, so one can just type country names and hit 'return'. I can already mostly navigate…",{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"39274623","hasty_pudding","you lost me at the drop down on mobile. I'd suggest on mobile just having a selection of four to eight options that you can touch with your finger.",{"id":158,"by":159,"text":160},"39289882","KomoD","I wish the dropdown didn't cover the entire map when you focus the text box, another nice feature would be being able to select multiple regions (e.g. just Europe and Asia)",{"value":162,"source":82,"evidence":163},"Scoring bug: skipped or null answers counted as correct",[164,165,169],{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},{"id":166,"by":167,"text":168},"39280510","retwertett","On Firefox if I type the answer and tab to the continue button, It's counted as correct, even if it's false.",{"id":170,"by":171,"text":172},"39274058","john-radio","Excellent! Small bug: null responses are considered \"correct\" in the right\u002Fwrong counter. I've skipped 3 and gotten 3 wrong, and it's showing 3\u002F6 correct.",[174,179,187,198,209],{"value":175,"source":82,"evidence":176},"Keyboard submission and better keyboard flow",[177,178],{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},{"value":180,"source":82,"evidence":181},"Show neighbouring countries or the correct answer after each guess",[182,183],{"id":53,"by":54,"text":55},{"id":184,"by":185,"text":186},"39274567","billfruit","Or atleast uncover the names of countries already answered, feels like slowly colouring in the map of the world.",{"value":188,"source":82,"evidence":189},"Multiple choice or easier difficulty modes",[190,194],{"id":191,"by":192,"text":193},"39272243","adithyassekhar","You can make this more educative by showing 4 or 5 options to choose from for a particular country.",{"id":195,"by":196,"text":197},"39272621","tempestn","You could do easier difficulty by making the questions multiple choice. 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I can't continue like this after 3…",{"value":210,"source":82,"evidence":211},"Show capital cities or country facts",[212,215,219],{"id":213,"by":58,"text":214},"39276835","Oh, another suggestion: show the country and let them name the capital!",{"id":216,"by":217,"text":218},"39280709","S_Bear","A hint with the capital would be nice, especially for the tiny island nations. Otherwise I thoroughly enjoyed it! (129\u002F195)",{"id":220,"by":221,"text":222},"39274276","forinti","I liked it. Maybe you could add some facts about each country as a tip or after the answer was checked. And the tiny countries such as the Vatican or the Pacific Island states…",[224,232],{"value":225,"source":82,"evidence":226},"What do the green colours mean?",[227,228],{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},{"id":229,"by":230,"text":231},"39272098","the_origami_fox","The pictures come straight from Wikipedia. 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