# Code pen freezing **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [May 13, 2020, 7:06am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/code-pen-freezing/388045 "2020-05-13T07:06:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr\_Motorboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/mr_motorboat/32/150122_2.png) [@Mr\_Motorboat](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Mr_Motorboat)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 7:06am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/code-pen-freezing/388045/1 "2020-05-13T07:06:37Z")
3 times in the past while using code pen, the website has become unresponsive, resulting in a lose of progress & time. This is becoming very frustrating. 3 times today it has frozen shortly after pasting what little I had managed to save previously. Can someone shed some light on the matter? Possibly even provide an alternative to using the website? I have had a google and there are a couple of solutions on code pen but none seem to work. ---
**Author:** ![ILM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/ilm/32/363239_2.png) [@ILM](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/ILM)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 7:34am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/code-pen-freezing/388045/2 "2020-05-13T07:34:40Z")
are you saving your pen periodically? that would help in not losing the progress. Sometimes syntax errors can make the pen crash. You can use something like repl.it, in which you will need to use all you have learned, as it needs all the page elements (instead of in codepen that wants only what’s inside BODY and STYLE tags) ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Motorboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/mr_motorboat/32/150122_2.png) [@Mr\_Motorboat](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Mr_Motorboat)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 8:24am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/code-pen-freezing/388045/3 "2020-05-13T08:24:00Z")
aye I have now made an account, appreciate it ---
**Author:** ![ILM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/ilm/32/363239_2.png) [@ILM](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/ILM)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/code-pen-freezing/388045/4 "2021-06-01T18:53:53Z")
Closed on June 1, 2021, 6:53pm UTC