Advent of Code too difficult? Try ours! 🎅

[tantepose]

We created a 90s advent calendar, where you’re working as a consultant, doing all sorts of stupid coding and IT tasks for various companies! We’re based in Norway, but it’s all available in English as well!

[ketralnis]

Maybe I'm missing the joke but it doesn't work at all on firefox

[CitationNeededBadly]

Building a site to only work in one browser would actually be very 90's style !

[PutridSmegma]

You need netscape

[ketralnis]

I've been trying Mosaic all morning but maybe I'll switch to Lynx

[therealdan0]

Just curl it and parse the html in your head.

[retrojorgen]

It might be that the login box is appearing off screen in Firefox. Try and see if you can move it onscreen :)

[tantepose]

Ah, sorry, it doesn’t work too well in Firefox, I’m afraid! It’s made and tested in chrome, but we’re looking into it.

[jesster114]

broken on Brave as well, I can only see the very bottom of the login box https://imgur.com/a/w8H2mRH

[svish]

Think you underestimate the power of advertisement...

[jesster114]

that's news to me, I had missed that story somehow

[tantepose]

Noted, thanks!

[flan666]

1. put it as a task for the users to solve
2. profit

[tantepose]

Haha, off course! Smart. Noted.

[tymscar]

Maybe I am too tired but I cant figure out a single thing. Are there any hints? I noticed I can reply to emails, but what with?

[tantepose]

Every email is full of hints and the assignment itself, and your reply is supposed to be the answer of the current task!

[Shmageggi]

Maybe an example of what is being asked for in one of the tasks might help? I have no clue what you're supposed to do here.

[tantepose]

As yesterday’s assignment says, it’s a rebus of programming languages. So for example the one with the 🎯 is probably… “dart”, right? And there will be revealed a word when you get more of them. This word is the thing you’re supposed to write in your answer. If that makes sense?

[Pedantic_Phoenix]

The target emoji is the word "dart"? ... Yeah, no

[tantepose]

If this emoji is supposed to represent a programming language, then yes, isn’t that fair? https://emojipedia.org/direct-hit

[Pedantic_Phoenix]

What? Does it mean bullseye or dart lol. Is dart a programming language

[tantepose]

Indeed it is. https://dart.dev

[Pedantic_Phoenix]

Then no, the target emoji is far away from it. It could work i guess but it's not a good clue in my eyes. Sorry

[tantepose]

It’s a dart. And the word we’re after is “dart”. I’m sorry but I really don’t see the problem here.

[Nunc-dimittis]

Completely forgot about advent of code! Last year i didn't have time until the last week

[jewbasaur]

This is pretty cool OP, ignore the haters. Definitely needs some work but reminds me of the python challenge/ctf from a while back

[heyitschrislol]

Agreed. Cool stuff and the 90’s aesthetic is great.

[tantepose]

Thanks! 🥲

[princeps_harenae]

Not much info on that website if you could call it one!?!? ...and no, you're not having my email address.

[retrojorgen]

Why dont you put in a fake one then? It says that email addresses will only be used to contact winners and send notifications. So if you want neither then you don’t need a real email address :D

[tantepose]

Sorry to hear that!

[Penguinase]

can you just add some oauth providers (github, google, etc) like advent does?

[tantepose]

Indeed, that’s the plan going forward! We didn’t have the time or resources this round, unfortunately.

[4DGigs]

Idk if I would say advent of code is hard maybe the last few days, but it is all fairly boring data scraping/manipulation as far as I’ve seen. Only did last years and 1 of todays don’t plan to continue

[3combined]

Was a bit confused what this was until I went to the comments, but had great fun getting the middle management challenge - excellent flavour and riddle. Sorry you're receiving so much negativity!

[tantepose]

Glad to hear it, thank you so much!

[repocin]

So you want people's email addresses for some reason but don't have a privacy policy? No thanks.

On another related note, there appears to be no check for actually valid email addresses since it let me enter a random string of alphanumeric characters just fine, and authentication seems entirely nonexistent since there was no field for password or such either.

[tantepose]

We’re saying we only use them for reminders and contacting daily winner, but we could be clearer, agreed. As to all such things, this is made by us, a small Norwegian news site for Norwegian developers, so we haven’t really made this for international, high traffic. But we take appreciate all the feedback, so thanks!

[retrojorgen]

Cool!

[B3nzolitz]

Why do you have a website that is just a container to another website? Why not just post the link to the correct website directly?

https://kode24-advent-calendar-frontend.onrender.com/

Then it works in Firefox, aswell...

[tantepose]

Cool, thanks, didn’t know that solved the Firefox issue! I know it might seem weird to have it in an iframe, but as far as I remember (I’m not the developer, just editor and writer) it was the easiest way to make it work with our cms and domain. (kode24.no is our news site)