'Chatbot' was rejected outright in yesterday's COHABIT 7-by-many.

AI is here to stay, and I think most people will have interacted with a chatbot by now.

Alan, could you please reconsider the status of this word when you have time?

I can't message kathyF because she doesn't appear to be a member of the forum, but I hope she'll be able to read this.

Thank you, kathyF, for the many 7-by-many 'Your puzzles' you create with a very low common word count. I really enjoy the challenge, as do many others judging by the large numbers who play them.

In yesterday's PHILOSOPHIES/PHILOSOPHISE/POLISHES 7-by-many both ellipse and ellipsis were classified as common, but ellipses was 'Sorry, not known'.

I realise that ellipses is the plural of ellipse as well as being the plural of ellipsis, but I was trying it as the latter meaning (. . . ) (and I missed ellipse altogether).

Would it be too confusing to add ellipses to the dictionary, Alan?

Alan, this is a request for a modification which may be either relatively simple or require a huge amount of work. I know nothing about coding, so I've no idea which one it is.

It may also depend on whether other players find merit in the suggestion. Here goes.

I'm an avid player of the 7-by-many games in Your Puzzles, but I don't play the Standard, Challenge and 10-letter Your Puzzles. Many puzzle creators tick the 'Hide solution till closed' box, and that can mean in some cases that a week goes by before the solution is available.

Would it be possible to have an option to be notified when the solution becomes available, with a link to the puzzle, for Your Puzzles that one has played? I know that there is a 'You played' filter for closed games, but it would be nice to be able to see individual puzzle solutions when they become available, rather than having to go through the solutions for a lot of puzzles at once. I feel that I am neglecting to learn new possible words by not checking the solutions often enough. 

I will understand if the answer to my cheeky request is a big flat 'No', and I'm also prepared to be told that I'm just being lazy.

I'm also not too sure if there are many forumites who play Your Puzzles, so I don't expect much support. Just thought I'd ask.

 

Minuteman was a second seed word and minutemen was common in the MINUTIAE 7-by-many.

I realise that "I've never heard of it" is not a valid reason for objecting to a word's common status, but it seems that according to Wikipedia they were 'civilian colonists who independently formed militia companies self-trained in weaponry, tactics, and military strategies, comprising the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War'.

This seems to me to make the words both fairly obscure and geographically limited. I request that they be demoted to rare.

In yesterday's PLAINSMAN 7-by-Many, MANSPLAIN was 'Sorry, not known'.

I won't womansplain what it means – it's obvious  My browser underlines womansplain in red, but not mansplain. I think mansplain has made it into several dictionaries, and I'd like to suggest its inclusion as a rare word.

I realise that I'm going out on a limb by suggesting an upgrade from rare to common, but I'd like to put in that claim for timeline, featured in yesterday's ENLISTMENT/TIMELINESS/TIMELESSNESS game.