#CSS Challenges Clearer Details and Pre-Voting Review of Submissions

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gusty rover
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Discovered uiverse a few days ago, was pretty excited, especially as the first challenge I'm participating restricts modifying HTML & encourages creativity using vanilla CSS without relying on easy workarounds in JS, SASS, etc.

That said, had no idea my submission would need to be reviewed before it could be voted on, let alone it would take so long to get reviewed.

Voting has been open for a few hours, yet my submission is still not visible/elligible for voting. Based off counting submissions vs visible entries, I'm guessing I'm not the only one.

Currently, there are 67 submissions, yet only 44 are able to be voted on.
(I assume the little human icon is total amount of submissions, as there is no alt text on hover...)

Suggestion: A final "review time" grace period before voting begins, so that all submissions can be voted on at the same time.

While the challenge was fun and welcome, styling the card was a bit frustrating, as I didn't know what the rules/restrictions were beyond "styling the card in your own unique way without altering the HTML." Ex; didn't know font imports weren't allowed until the submission editor warned me. (I coded locally...so lucky I thought to test it first.)

Before I started, I scanned the site for rules, details, etc. & couldn't find anything.

After submitting, & encountering the "review" flag, I scanned the site again, saw the link "Post Guidelines"... hidden in the footer... thought it referred to posts in a community.

After reviewing the notion, I'm still not sure if it applies to CSS Challenges, submitting outside of challenges, or both? I'm afraid I broke a lot of rules for my submission without realizing it. ex: em vs rem

Suggestion: Present clear & detailed guidelines in a more UX friendly way, &/or locally hosted static pages in the navigation.

Additionally, basic suggestions for challenges would be welcome, like recommended size of cards. I had to use web-inspect on uiverse to try & guess.

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Hit character limit lol

Wanted to make sure I add:

Love the concept of the site though, and appreciate the effort that's going into it.

Just think in this case, more information in an easily accessible place, ideally hosted on the main site, would be valuable at increasing the UX and encouraging participation.

Additionally, making it clear about the reviewal process during challenges, time it takes for reviewal, how long voting goes on for (I still haven't figured that out), and making voting more equitable by having a grace period, would go a long way.

Still tho, thanks, I had a ton of fun!

ornate galleon
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I think those are good ideas.

pseudo jacinth
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First, all challenge submissions are reviewed before the vote.
Then, when you create a post, you have some rules and a link to the guidelines.
For the size, etc..., you're right

gusty rover
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How is someone like me, a new user on the site, suppose to know that if it doesn’t say it anywhere?

Haven’t created a “post” yet (if by that you mean submitting components/elements outside the challenge) which explains why I haven’t seen that.

Is it a requirement that you create a post normally before being able to submit challenges?

also…it’s 3am EST here now, I submitted mine ~15minutes before the challenge deadline…yet …? lol

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Another thought, it might be ublock origin blocked the pop up, as I got it on the ipad when i clicked “create” just now, but didn’t on the PC earlier. I’ll check tomorrow.

marble gulch
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Thanks for sharing your experience, I agree with many of your points, challenges definitely need some UX improvements.
However, all the posts that are submitted before the deadline are always reviewed so that they can make it before the voting starts, I didn't see your post there yet when the deadline expired.
Second, the total amount of participants (the people icon), means that they created a post for the challenge, but didn't manage to finish it in time to submit it for review.
I approved your submission now.

marble gulch
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There might be some issues with the deadline where it's parsing the date incorrectly if you're saying you submitted before the deadline, I will investigate this before the next challenge

gusty rover
# marble gulch If you can find an bug where the popup doesn't show, I would like to know more a...

Yeah, I just tried the "create" button on PC and didn't run into issues.

Trying to remember my steps/journey when I first clicked into the challenge a few days ago. I did have some issues with the site loading in FF initially [*] and switched to chrome.

In chrome, when I clicked into the challenge editor, rules modal did not pop up either. I wonder if it had already 'triggered' the State in FF so it didn't show when I reloaded in chrome?

Also, I did delete my 'submission' (it was empty) when I first clicked in [ anxiety panic haha ] then decided I'd might as well have a go, worked on the card in VSC, then decided to test it in your editor, went to click into the challenge again and still no modal.

I'll keep an eye out on the next one 🙂 Maybe my browser / pc is just being a POS. (wouldn't be the first time)

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[*] due to all of animations playing at the same time and some dev stuff I was running, not on you guys, though if possible may want to disable animations unless on hover for performance reasons.

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So, I'll amend my suggestion then to have an easily accesible link somewhere for the basic rules so they can easily be referenced 🙂

Seriously tho, thanks a ton. Love what you guys are doing with this.

gusty rover
marble gulch
gusty rover
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3:45pmEST

marble gulch
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Alright so that looks like it expired an hour earlier for you