Yesterday, I was doing quite a bit of coding, and I had made significant progress on one particular challenge (sum of the primes), but when I came to continue my work today, it was all gone. In fact, all my work, throughout every challenge I’ve done, is gone. While it fortunately knows that I did the challenges, so I don’t have to start from scratch, every letter I typed is gone.
Also, it was a nightmare to log in, and the new website looks awful.
I went to log in to FCC today and was told I needed to add an e-mail address. When I did, all my progress was gone as well…I just about finished the Twitch TV project…I hope the stuff is still there…
@Aviage-01 yes I logged in today and to my surprise everything had changed on the website.
Your progress is still there, it’s just under “learn” and go to the last exercise.
I really am not a fan of the new layout so far-extra clicking to get around things seem unclear. Additionally the exercises pages are missing hyperlinks to suggested documentation like the MDN website.
They are working on a method to download all your code previously stored on freecodecamp.org however it’s not live at the moment so only progress is saved from the old site currently.
I went to the exercise where I had done the work, but it was all gone. I had already written a program to find primes, although I hadn’t yet gotten it to sum them.
Is that different from the last last exercise?
@AlexandrewM as well:
Also, I know that my progress is still there. It’s the code I typed that I am looking for.
Fortunately the challenges that I spent so much time on are OK, because they are on CodePen.
Also, I know that my progress is still there. It’s the code I typed that I am looking for.
Fortunately the challenges that I spent so much time on are OK, because they are on CodePen.
Let me try and help out, because the statement “my work is gone” is rather vague and can mean many different things.There are two different types of saved progress for Free Code Camp: your profile and your browser cache.
Your completed challenges are all saved to your account in the FCC database. You can see the list of completed challenges and also the last submitted solutions by looking at your profile page. When the update happened you have not lost any of your completed challenges or projects. They are available on your profile to view.
Your current challenge progress is saved in your browser’s local storage. It appears with this update that the map no longer exists. Keep in mind, the map was stored in local storage too, so if you cleared your cache, your last solution would not load in the map. If you are changing browsers or clearing your cache regularly you’ll have to use the new explore area to navigate to your next challenge. Especially as you get to more complicated challenges that may take multiple sessions, I strongly recommend saving your in-progress work outside of the browser cache. This is a good opportunity to learn the ins and outs of your GitHub account, but you can also just save locally or use a service like repl.it which allows for versioning. With the new update, your current progress in local storage may have been lost. Sorry for any inconvenience, I know that’s aggravating, but there’s not much that can be done.
Thanks for that, but it’s not just my current challenge that’s been lost. Every character I typed in challenges in FCC, say, my Falsy Bouncer, is gone - is that ALL stored in the browser cache?
Also, I haven’t cleared my cache, so would it be possible to dive into my Chrome and somehow retrieve the code?
No, if you completed and passed the challenge, your solution should be available on your profile. I can double check, but if you passed the challenge, it should be saved to the database.
I’ve completed and passed challenges/projects about until about half through the intermediate algorithms. I’ve viewed the challenges from both my portfolio page and from the new learn.freecodecamp.org url. In both cases, it says that the challenge has been completed, but the code is not there. The work is gone, but the progress is still there.
Ah! Thanks for that. I’ve now found at least SOME of the work, even thought most of it is still missing.
However, when I click on the link to go to one of my challenges, it opens a blank page, and when I go to those challenges, it shows me the original code.
Also, even with challenges I’ve done since the update, they aren’t keeping what I’ve done. For instance, I went back and did the Hello World in HTML challenge, but when I go back and check on that now, it’s still showing the starting code.
Things are definitely still buggy. Keep in mind, the entire platform was built from the ground up in React I believe. I can’t login for anything right now. Driving me crazy.
It looks like the ability to access previous solutions from the portfolio page is one of the areas that still needs work. The first HTML challenge is not getting marked as completed for anyone. Go ahead and jump to another challenge and ignore this one for now.
First HTML section has new code lessons, but they won’t accept valid solutions. No way to progress. This could be off-putting to your newest recruits as these are the first lessons they will attempt…
New HTML section will not let me copy blocks of text. I like to move text and code samples by copy/paste. This eliminates spelling mistakes & other errors.