thank you for publishing such an excellent and unique puzzle! my partner and i just spent three hours puzzling through it and we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly!
we figured it all out without any of the hints from the bottom of the page, left or right, only to be extremely skeptical of the final message telling us we were done, especially since we'd already previously been fooled by the initial (lack of) instructions. we had all this information we hadn't decoded and figured there must be one last puzzle. dunno if there's any way to fix that, but it was a little frustrating having to peek into the spoiler forum to figure out that no, actually, we were, in fact, done; the game was not lying to us, for once.