I get needing donations, but seriously, I get these popups literally every single lesson. This is excessive and incredibly annoying. At this point, I don’t even want to continue using this site, and I sure as anything will not be donating.
Let me reiterate, this has occurred on literally every lesson I’ve been doing when I got past Basic JS lesson 9 or something.
I don’t have money! I don’t have anything! That’s why I’m using FREEcodecamp instead of going to a real school! This is a website, not a mobile game. I mean no disrespect to anyone when I say this. I’m okay with popups SOMETIMES, but not when they’re this long and happen literally every time. I finish these easy lessons in anywhere from 15 seconds to a minute. On average, I’m seeing more popups than actual lesson.
This needs to stop. I cannot learn, I cannot focus, with all of this. This isn’t a good experience. I understand you can’t survive without money, but use a banner or something.
Hmm, you’re contradicting yourself a bit. Is it literally every step or no? Literally every single step would, I believe, be a bug in what you’re seeing and not what everyone should be seeing.
I get your frustration, @Emberone; however, in my experience it would only show up half way through a project and then again when I completed it. Really quite reasonable. Try refreshing your browser and disabling extensions if it’s bombarding you - maybe some bug there is triggering it.
On a lighter note, it’s good to hear it went back to normal. As @JeremyLT says, they’re coded a certain way and shouldn’t cause too much distraction.
Hey everyone,
I think it bothers everyone or most of us when we are coding and suddenly a popup that long comes. If the supposed bug happened to you ( @Emberone ) today, then I can relate bcz It did occur to me while doing some projects today. Not that it happened after every 1 step exactly but it did occur more frequently than other days. I think it’s not that big of a deal but I understand your frustration. Happy coding!
Yes – please let us know if turning off adblockers / other browser plugins you has fixes it.
My understanding is you should only see one a donation prompt after the first 3 challenges you complete in a session, and again every 10 or so challenges.
I’m mentioning @abdolsa here to bring this to his attention since he’s in coded these donation prompts and is in charge of tweaking them.
Perhaps some aggressive security settings or extensions are clearing session data from your browser so that it keeps being treated as a “new session” with 3 consecutive donation popups? I’ve seen that kind of thing happen more and more as we’re all trying to protect our data and keep the spam at bay.