Reply To: Bug Reporting
Just a note – I was investigating the website on the 16th September and, as this is my first time doing NCC, I was slightly annoyed that I would have to wait a whole month to start. However, as I reclicked on the Challenges page later in the day, I noticed that the Challenge 2 release date had shifted forwards from 16/10 to 16/9. I thought this must be a bug, but solved the challenge anyway (I had some experience doing Codewords in the papers). When the actual Challenge 2 came out, it was completely different. I looked on Github and found that the challenge I had done was actually last year’s challenge 2B so I just wanted to make this bug aware in case it matters in the future.
Thanks for this. We don’t post the current challenges until the last minute in the interests of security. Normally we populate the database with dummy text or old challenges while testing the site to make sure everything is working. In this case we forgot to mark the challenge as closed in the run up to formally opening the site so you saw the test text. Harry