Feedback and Questions

Thanks for the kind words, appreciated. I do have a lot of stock, for sure, been going so long. (I was going to send you some extremes but you didn't leave an email address!)
There are extreme puzzles available here:
http://www.sudokuwiki.org/ACSPuzzles.asp

It's a delicate balance deciding how much content to provide for free and how much to charge for, especially when free is available elsewhere. I'm thinking I should really build some kind of subscription system.

Have a great new year

That's a difficult one. The solver page re-writes a cookie every time something changes. This contains the board numbers including current candidates and only a very few settings. It's a very ordinary sort of cookie. Mojove is presuming to ignore this on wake up. You'd have to delve into the settings for the browser. Maybe install a second browser like Firefox?

I would like to give the user the ability to sort the strategies. It is not an easy user interface feature to create, especially as the UI is already quite complex. But it is something I want to do.
I have not heard of Two String Kite. Do you have some help pages or reference?

Thanks! Can't wait for 9000!!

Glad to be of service!
Hope you're landing somewhere fun

There are numerous possible ways to solve any single puzzle and your choices are just as valid. As I wrote before, basic ones must come first but other than that, your choice. You have to step through each step but the solver will skip ahead to the first to si

No you dont need to try the lost in order except for basic strategies, whihc should be exhausted before moving to anything higher. Within basic strats these can be looked for en mass or in a different order but I think as listed then are in a natural order of complexity. There is a lot of overlap between more advanced strategies and it is difficult to order them in terms of complexity - so my ordering is my best subjective ordering. You can skip some by turning them off. I've wondered about allowing the user to re-order them but it's a complex UI problem, not a sudoku strategy problem.

Very sorry! Made a change yesterday and didn't check all probably browsers.
[CRTL]+[F5] to refresh the page now

I get where you are coming from. Searching for a *any*pattern in the blizzard of numbers is difficult just with pen, paper and eyeball. I started this project hoping there would be simpler strategies (but still not trial and error) and was surprised, that in the difficult puzzles those I've documented really are the best solutions. I'm certain that few newspaper puzzles rarely have the need for them and we compilers have to look very hard for hard puzzles (the distribution is weighted to easy by a long way). The site tries to record all valid approaches even ones that are very academic (that is ones that are best handled by a computer) but I do get some people claiming they solve with these methods by hand. I don't know, is the short answer. I can see that some better tools on the solver and in the app could help. But I'd need a very detailed description of how a person would use them as I don't solve individual puzzles in the same way. My work is generalizing from a strategy to find algorithms that work across many puzzles.
The other problem is space. The app doesn't really have the space to fiddle with candidates. I could try a zoom or make it tablet only. I'll take a look at candidate highlighting and links in the next version then.

I will attempt to do that next version