We pushed several months worth of changes to production all at once late last night. This included a full React-ification of our challenge framework and other improvements to our user interface such as toasts instead of modals.
We pushed these changes on a Friday (our lowest-traffic day) without announcing them beforehand because we didn’t want a huge influx of people. And since the changes were mostly invisible, we didn’t think many people would notice them.
Long story short, even though we’d tested these on beta, the ~20,000 campers who use FCC each day quickly discovered many bugs that we had not anticipated. We knew there would be bugs (there are always bugs) and we quickly got to work fixing them, but we underestimated their seriousness.
In hindsight, we should have rolled back this morning.
So again, thank you for your patience with the buggy challenges earlier today.
Also, you may be wondering about new challenges our community is building. These are under heavy development and are still on track for a September release. Virtually all of these hundreds of new challenges will be optional, and almost all of the challenges you’re working through now will remain in the expanded curriculum.
I’m happy to answer any questions you all have about this right here on this thread.
Hello, Quincy! We’re cool, don’t worry. Actually, we’re GRATEFUL and I personally can’t believe how much work all of you are putting into this. I was up at 8 am (Argentina time) and you were working on putting up the challenges in San Francisco (Imma right?), which was like 4 am. Crazy. We’re so grateful for the great work and effort the FCC team are putting into this.
I’m having issues with the slot machine challenge (my code is correct but it t fails one of the tests) and I just tried submitting my wikipedia API challenge, and even though it redirected me to the next challenge, it doesn’t show up as completed on the map.
I’ve been following here and on GitHub (to the extent that I can), but I haven’t found anything definitive - are y’all still holding off on deploying the new stuff?
Yes - we want to be careful about introducing this. We are making steady progress toward launching this again - this time with far fewer bugs (though, as any developer will tell you, there are always bugs hidden in any app).
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