This relates a Javascript Project let me know for future if this question should have been asked in that sub-forum. I was working on the following project (Build a Cash Register Project: Build a Cash Register | freeCodeCamp.org). For clarity I am doing the JavaScript Algoritms and Data Structures course. I accidently press ctrl+c instead of ctrl +v and loss code I previously cut (ctrl + x) so I pressed revert to saved code and lost all my work.
This was around 1.15pm my (UK) time on Saturday I had saved my code several times I even started my code the previous day and had shut down my laptop in-between. There was even more one occurrence of forgetting to save before logging out realising immediately logging back in and not losing recent changes presumably due to not shutting down the webpage.
I am aware the site is having difficulties that day and maybe still is, is this linked to this however it is not clear from the description of difficulties this is one of them. I am not ruling out I pressed the wrong button but I am fairly convinced I did not.
In an ideal world I would appreciate my program being restored even to an older save but I accept this may not be possible particularly given the time I have taken to report my issue. I mainly want to try to prevent/minimise this happening to others or myself in future and try to establish if at the moment due to site bugs if there is stuff to avoid or be careful about doing on the site.
Sorry for the length of this post I have tendency to over explain but in this case I think I had a lot to explain.
In case in was not clear the saving worked before however I think that was only time I pressed revert to saved code in this project are you saying at least with bugs there is effectively two tiers of save one that protect you could form be lost it you press save before closing the tab/webpage and one that keeping your last save if you press the revert to saved code button and maybe some other circumstances.
On a side point, I am also pretty I did log between my pentumplute and last save.
Finally since it is a relevant time can I ask if ilenia-magoni is your username on the support forum, I have wondered before, however I am aware as the accounts have different places attached to name (if you know what I mean) it is less likely.
For clarity even if you reveal you are same person I will stick to referring to you as ILM I could say more but will leave it there. There is just some benefit, knowing you are the same person, when I am on the issues site.
but your code can be saved in the browser local storage, this is valid for all challenges and does not have issues
and some projects, specifically certification projects, allow for saving to the server
at this time saving to the server is broken, so the saving you did saturday would not have actually saved to the server, and that’s why the button Revert to saved code does not work, because it retrieves the saved code from the server
What you describing is similar (and in a way equivalent) to what I thought but makes more sense. To be clear I know what you saying in truth I am were they both theories yours would make a lot more sense that mine. If I have lost you don’t worry trying to understand the important is at the moment I need to avoid using the revert to saved code button.
Is there a list somewhere of the issues at the moment. Should this be easier the issues I care about, is ones affecting the JavaScript Algoritms and Data Structures course alongside the JavaScript part of the stack developer course, and old CSS course as I sometimes look at them aswell.
By notice about site issues, no longer being on the home page of forum, have the major site issues around the likes of server saves been resolved.
If there is still issues, there are only two points, that comes to mind which may be caused, by same specific issue anyway. One is regarding other circumstances where local saved work could be deleted. The one example, than comes to mind is with one of regular programs (I think you call them ‘course’ I do like that word choice) e.g. (Review Algorithmic Thinking by Building a Dice Game: Step 15 | freeCodeCamp.org) it there a way to lose progress on previous steps than the one you are currently working on.
I also like to know if there is any issue, with ticking off certification projects.
In even if this issue is currently resolved, it is possibly still worth answering these questions anyway from a perspective of what server saves issues cause if time, as people might find it helpful to refer to the next time, there is this issue. I would like to say this would never happen again but my very limited understanding of these things it probably will, though probably a long time off. Of course you are much more knowledgeable than I and know if it is actually unlikely to reoccur.
On another topic when I said tier I should have said type. I was trying to be more specific with words when I, did not need too and ended up being not accurate in explaining what I was thinking.