Our open source community is growing rapidly, and this week our site has slowed to a crawl during peak hours.
We’ve gone through, identified several bottlenecks, and fixed them. Free Code Camp should now be faster than ever.
A huge thanks to @berkeleytrue for leading this effort, and to the many campers who helped QA these improvements.
Introducing our new Wiki
Our wiki is now on FreeCodeCamp.com itself (as opposed to on our main project’s GitHub Wiki).
Our wiki pops out like our chat and map do. We welcome feedback on this new functionality. Hotkeys, context aware wiki articles, and other features will come soon.
We created a new shop page. It only links to our t-shirt campaign now, but we will soon have laptop stickers and other cool gear.
Retiring Camper News
Over the past year, Camper News has been a modest success. But so has our subreddit, which allows for commenting, moderation, and many other features. So we are shifting to Reddit for news sharing.
We recommend creating a Reddit account if you don’t already have one and joining our subreddit. You can now share links with our entire community there, as well as your thoughts and questions.
We will keep Camper News live for a while, but we’re removing the link to it from our navigation menu, and removing the challenge that introduced it.
Updating challenges
Many campers asked that we create an easier, HTML-focused project to precede “Build a Personal Portfolio Webpage”. So we’ve created a new project that can be completed using only HTML and Bootstrap called “Build a Tribute Page”.
We also resequenced our front end projects. Here’s how they’re now structured:
You’ll note that we’ve removed the “Build a Camper News Viewer” project since we’re retiring Camper News. If you’ve previously completed that challenge, the “Build a Tribute Page” should already be marked completed for you on your map.
Also, for “Build a Tic Tac Toe Game”, you no longer need to make it unbeatable. (You certainly can if you want - here’s how. Although doing so is a useful exercise, writing an AI is a departure from the project’s focus, which is front end development.
We added three new optional challenges that help you join our:
We will launch our Spanish challenges in the next few days.
We plan to release optional React, Sass, and D3 challenges this Spring. But don’t wait - you can complete the projects with the help of these projects’ official documentation - 16 campers have already done just that.