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title: Changes Made to the Site on February 11 2016
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## Fixing the bottlenecks that made FreeCodeCamp.com so slow
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* Our open source community is growing rapidly, and this week our site has slowed to a crawl during peak hours.
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* We've gone through, identified several bottlenecks, and fixed them. Free Code Camp should now be faster than ever.
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* A huge thanks to <a href='https://gitter.im/berkeleytrue' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>@berkeleytrue</a> for leading this effort, and to the many campers who helped QA these improvements.
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## Introducing our new Wiki
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* Our wiki is now on FreeCodeCamp.com itself (as opposed to on our main project's GitHub Wiki).
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* Our wiki pops out like our chat and map do. We welcome feedback on this new functionality. Hotkeys, context aware wiki articles, and other features will come soon.
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* A big thanks to <a href='https://gitter.im/saintpeter' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>@saintpeter</a>, <a href='https://gitter.im/hallaathrad' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>@hallaathrad</a>, and <a href='https://gitter.im/awesomeaniruddh' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>@awesomeaniruddh</a>, along with many other campers for their hard work on this!
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## Opening our Shop
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* We have a new t-shirt campaign going on until February 15\. Hurry up and buy one of these awesome Free Code Camp t-shirts: <a href='https://teespring.com/free-code-camp-feb' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>click here for our US campaign</a> | <a href='https://teespring.com/free-code-camp-t-shirt-eu-shop' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>click here for our EU campaign</a>
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* We created a new shop page. It only links to our t-shirt campaign now, but we will soon have laptop stickers and other cool gear.
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## Retiring Camper News
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* Over the past year, Camper News has been a modest success. But so has our subreddit, which allows for commenting, moderation, and many other features. So we are shifting to Reddit for news sharing.
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* We recommend creating a Reddit account if you don't already have one and <a href='https://www.reddit.com/r/freecodecamp' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>joining our subreddit</a>. You can now share links with our entire community there, as well as your thoughts and questions.
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* We will keep Camper News live for a while, but we're removing the link to it from our navigation menu, and removing the challenge that introduced it.
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## Updating challenges
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* Many campers asked that we create an easier, HTML-focused project to precede "Build a Personal Portfolio Webpage". So we've created a new project that can be completed using only HTML and Bootstrap called "Build a Tribute Page".
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* We also resequenced our front end projects. Here's how they're now structured:
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* Basic Front End Projects
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* Build a Tribute Page
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* Build a Personal Portfolio Webpage
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* Intermediate Front End Projects
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* Build a Random Quote Machine
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* Show the Local Weather
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* Build a Wikipedia Viewer
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* Use the Twitch.tv JSON API
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* Advanced Front End Projects
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* Build a JavaScript Calculator
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* Build a Pomodoro Clock
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* Build a Tic Tac Toe Game
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* Build a Simon Game
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* You'll note that we've removed the "Build a Camper News Viewer" project since we're retiring Camper News. If you've previously completed that challenge, the "Build a Tribute Page" should already be marked completed for you on your map.
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* Also, for "Build a Tic Tac Toe Game", you no longer need to make it unbeatable. (You certainly can if you want - <a href='http://neverstopbuilding.com/minimax' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>here's how</a>. Although doing so is a useful exercise, writing an AI is a departure from the project's focus, which is front end development.
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* We added three new optional challenges that help you join our:
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* <a href='https://reddit.com/r/freecodecamp' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>subreddit</a>
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* <a href='https://medium.freecodecamp.com' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Medium publication</a>
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* <a href='https://twitch.tv/freecodecamp' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Twitch.tv channel</a>
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## Coming soon
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* We will launch our Spanish challenges in the next few days.
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* We plan to release optional React, Sass, and D3 challenges this Spring. But don't wait - you can complete the projects with the help of these projects' official documentation - 16 campers have already done just that. |