| 2021-06-07 | The 'Historical World Ranking' is now available. The official ranking starts in 2000 but the database goes back to 1992-07-22. The ranking has 20 million rows and required 2 weeks of work to fix code and make it run quickly. |
| 2021-05-31 | Spent 6h creating a new admin tool to read videos and detect cheating. |
| 2021-05-26 | Reviewed and updated code for all video parsers used on the site to read video information. Wrote a new parser for FreeSweeper. |
| 2021-05-18 | Uploaded 247 scores from 72 players from 1997-2000 from old sites (Brian Chu Minesweeper Tips, Alex Perel Hall of Fame). Added 22 players and 65 more scores from old Usenet posts. |
| 2021-05-15 | Uploaded 358 scores from 152 players from 1992-1999 from old Usenet posts. |
| 2021-05-03 | Archived another site (minesweeper.cc) and added 2 research papers. Updated the strategy article. |
| 2021-05-01 | Finished archiving old versions of Authoritative Minesweeper from 2020, 2007, 2004, 2001 and 2000. Reviewed scores submitted to the original Expert World Ranking (1997) and Unofficial Site (1997) and added 200 players and 350 scores to the database. When I originally started the site I did not copy scores from competing websites. |
| 2021-04-18 | Last 2 weeks upgrading then migrating the English and German Wikis to msgame. |
| 2021-03-15 | Downloads section now has 113 games. Added 2 more math papers. |
| 2021-02-24 | Deleted 176 duplicate scores. Wrote tool to analyse clicks in videos. Uploaded more games to downloads which now has 88 games. |
| 2021-02-11 | Added IOE world rankings. |
| 2021-01-17 | Another week finding then playing and reviewing old games. Now have 42 minesweeper games for DOS which is triple the largest collection elsewhere. |
| 2021-01-12 | Finished updating 24 DOS and Windows games into the games database. |
| 2021-01-10 | Spent 3 weeks researching old minesweeper games and updating the downloads section. |
| 2021-01-08 | Archived 50 more pages for one dead site and added 5 new games to downloads. |
| 2021-01-05 | Updated profile template and created database and templates for download pages. |
| 2021-01-02 | Improved arbiter ranking code and updated cheat pages |
| 2020-12-31 | "Updated menu to include a more obvious ""log In"" link and created the ""update"" page." |
| 2020-12-31 | Fixed issue with arbiter history files caused by checksums not being unique. |
| 2020-12-31 | Replaced dead saolei.wang and minesweeper.info links in Forum with saolei.wang and minesweepergame.com. |
| 2020-12-30 | Created new homepage. |
| 2020-12-30 | Created a discord channel and fixed issue with member login sessions. |
| 2020-12-26 | Launched new site at minesweepergame.com. |
The new site took more than a year to develop and implement: