Questions tagged [coding-challenges]
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Challenges won't sort by newest
When trying to sort the list of coding challenges by Newest (which the dropdown claims to be the default), they are actually sorted by Latest Activity. This is very clear given challenges are numbered!...
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Stack Overflow Coding Challenges: new collaboration with Kaggle
This month (October 2025) we are teaming up with Kaggle to create a special two-part challenge.
Kaggle is a platform for Machine Learning and Data Science folks to explore data and complete challenges....
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Add pagination and collapsible posts to Challenges
The Challenges pages load all posts (submissions) on a single page. Moreover, the submissions tend to be much longer than regular answers on the main site. Take this example; with close to 50 posts, ...
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Editing a discussion/challenge when viewing an old revision uses the old revision in the editor
I just submitted an edit to one of my challenges, and when doing so noticed that it was missing something from an edit I'd done previously. Upon looking at the history (which doesn't show this anymore,...
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How to hide the disturbing "Challenges" counter or leave the event until hopefully possible?
How to hide the disturbing "Challenges" counter or leave the event until hopefully possible?
Every day it shows this counter (i.e. (1)) unless I visit the challenges to mark it "read&...
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New and improved coding challenges
TLDR: We are making some UX improvements to Coding Challenges, and releasing a new challenge each day during the week of September 15, 2025.
A challenge a day keeps boredom away
Each day next week, ...
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Coding Challenges will continue to supersede the Discussions space
As noted in this post, Coding Challenges will, for now, continue to use the functionality first built for Discussions. The longer-term plans for Challenges are still taking shape, and any questions ...
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Next for Coding Challenges: submit your own ideas
What we’ve learned so far
In the first phase of the Coding Challenges experiment we posted 4 challenges for users to participate in, and we got a great response from the community overall. We were ...
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Feedback on "Code Challenge" Four
Use this post to provide feedback on the fourth coding challenge (which you can participate in here), just like you did for challenge one, two, and three. General feedback about Coding Challenges, and ...
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Feedback on Coding Challenge Number Three
Use this post to provide feedback on the third coding challenge (which you can participate in here), just like you did for challenge one and challenge two. General feedback about Coding Challenges, ...
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Can I find my Coding Challenge submissions anywhere in my profile?
Is there a dedicated view on the Profile that links to Code Challenge submissions?
And if not, should there be one, to make it e.g. linkable?
For instance answers have their own linkable section. ...
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Allow undeleting self-deleted challenges
I was recently enjoying the new SO Challenge feature.
After enjoying the coding challenge, I wanted to post my submission. But silly me - I accidentally posted it while formatting the post. I deleted ...
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Feedback on the Second Coding Challenge
We are testing out the idea of hosting coding challenges on Stack Overflow. Feedback on the general concept, and on the first challenge specifically, are being collected on the original meta post.
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Testing out coding challenges – Discussions going on pause
Update on June 16, 2025
This experiment is being extended through July 15th. Challenge 3 will be posted on June 17th, and challenge 4 will be posted on July 1st. All challenge posts can be seen at ...