How to contribute when I found shorter answer ? - Truncate a String

JavaScript
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Update 2 : Many guys post shorter and correct answer in here : Truncate string - understanding why this works

but the Answer page is not changed yet, Why ?

Update 1 : the codes in solution page are wrong !!!

Tell us what’s happening:
It’s seem my code is shorter than the answer, Am I wrong ?

And If I right, where to contribute this ?

Thanks,

##Requirement:
truncateString("A-tisket a-tasket A green and yellow basket", 8) should return “A-tisket…”.

truncateString("Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers", 11) should return “Peter Piper…”.

truncateString("A-tisket a-tasket A green and yellow basket", "A-tisket a-tasket A green and yellow basket".length) should return “A-tisket a-tasket A green and yellow basket”.

truncateString("A-tisket a-tasket A green and yellow basket", "A-tisket a-tasket A green and yellow basket".length + 2) should return “A-tisket a-tasket A green and yellow basket”.

truncateString("A-", 1) should return “A…”.
truncateString("Absolutely Longer", 2) should return “Ab…”.

My code so far

##Result
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Here is the answer on Help page :

Basic Code Solution:

function truncateString(str, num) {
  // Clear out that junk in your trunk
  if (str.length > num && num > 3) {
    return str.slice(0, (num - 3)) + '...';
  } else if (str.length > num && num <= 3) {
    return str.slice(0, num) + '...';
  } else {
    return str;
  }

}

Advanced Code Solution:

function truncateString(str, num) {
  if (str.length <= num) {
    return str;
  } else {
    return str.slice(0, num > 3 ? num - 3 : num) + '...';
  }
}

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.142 Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:

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Please don’t post full working solution in the forum.
Here the guide to contributing to FreeCodeCamp: https://contribute.freecodecamp.org/home/

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I have the same problem. Thank you for the clarification.

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