Release Notes 📝

v1.2.0 – May 31st, 2026

• Try out alternative names when searching for countries! (i.e. DRC, USA, UK, UAE, etc.)
• Available for both index search and quiz
• Changed Ivory Coast to Côte d'Ivoire, Turkey to Türkiye, Aland to Åland, and New Zealand to Aotearoa
• Login no long required for looking at country details
• Quiz page no longer fully reloads when you submit a guess
• In quiz, enter and tab keys now submit the first suggestion in the dropdown!

v1.1.6 – May 30th, 2026

• You can now play without logging in! 😉
• Login required for leaderboard, mastery, and settings
• Working on further HTMX integration for smoother quiz experience

v1.1.5 – May 25th, 2026

• More flags added!
• Security improvements and minor bug fixes

• New styling for quiz, buttons, gamemode cards, and more!
• Username validation now checks for blocked words
• New descriptions for each challenge
• New flags added: Assyria and Uyghur
• Minor bug fixes and improvements

v1.1.3 – May 13th, 2026

• Added hints in quiz! Just click the button and reveal a hint about the country
• New challenges have been added! Try out "Autonomous Regions" or "Subnational Entities"!
• Continent challenges are now marked with a checkmark when you've mastered them
• Continent challenges now have a progress bar for flag mastery

v1.1.2

• New flags added: Gibraltar, Aland, Faroe Islands, Cherokee, Navajo, and many more!
• Added better filtering for home page search

v1.1.1

• You can change your username and password now!
• The rest of the continent game modes are now playable
• Continent challenges are marked with their difficulty level

v1.1.0

• Continent challenges added - play games for specific continents, North America already available!
• Quiz screen tweaks - see the pool size, a victory screen, and a "change game mode" button
• Index and footer tweaks, cleaner and more modern

v1.0.4

• Mastery page - see every flag alphabetically; flags you've collected are unlocked
• No repeated flags (you won't see the same flag twice in a game)
• Performance - the country list is now cached in memory, less database queries
• Bug fix: refreshing after a wrong guess no longer resubmits the form and double-counts your game

v1.0.3

• Email confirmation - new accounts receive a verification email
• reCAPTCHA v2 (sign-up form is protected against bots)
• Nav redesigned, cleaner navbar with mobile dropdown
• Release notes page added - this page!

v1.0.2

• Security (quiz state moved to server-side sessions)
• Leaderboard (top 10 players ranked by high score)
• Privacy policy (added full privacy policy page)
• Fun facts - each country now has an interesting fact on its detail page.
• Autocomplete dropdown (guess suggestions as you type)
• Bigger and cleaner success and error notifications

v1.0.1

• Google OAuth added (sign in with your Google account)
• Flag images (switched from emoji to Wikimedia flag images)
• Responsive layout (quiz and all pages work on mobile)
• Footer (links and site info added)
• Donation button (support the site!)

v1.0.0

Initial launch

• Flag guessing quiz with streak tracking
• Account system with email login, high score, and settings
• Country detail pages with capital, population, etc.
• Country search on the home page
• Dark / light theme toggle