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I'm not sure if this is a bug, or not; tagging in case it is.

I find the Challenges signed (but not yet logged as found) to be a great way to keep track of challenge caches I am working on.

However, it seems that it does not run the checkers for any of the challenges. The red "unqualified" mark only changes to the green "qualified" mark if I manually run the checker itself. There have been several times where I have lost track of a challenge that I qualify for, and this page never seems to update to a green check to let me know.

I previously left a challenge I knew I'd qualified for sit for several days to see if the page would update itself, but it never did until after I'd run the checker. Even then I think I had to wait a day or two.

Today's example:

I've been working on qualifying for GC9KJ1T for a while. This morning, I logged the last D/T combination I need to qualify, GC11NCM. I waited until this afternoon, to ensure that Project-GC "knew" that I had logged GC11NCM. It did - I can see it as the latest in my milestones.

When I go to the challenges tab, however, it still shows that I'm not qualified for GC9KJ1T.

Then I run the challenge checker, and, yes, I'm qualified.

Going back to the Challenges signed (but not yet logged as found), I refresh the page, and...it's still not showing I qualify.

When, if ever, does the system run the checkers on these challenges I have signed to see whether I qualify? Or must I always do it manually? Is this by design, or is this a bug?

Edit: 12 hours after posting this, and after refreshing the challenges tab twice again, I now see a green check. So, the process seems far from automatic.

in Bug reports by hzoi (8.3k points)
edited by hzoi

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The process is automatic, but the checkers are run based on an algoritm so they will not be run daily or update as soon as you qualify. After that the ProfileStats needs to be re-rendered for the update to show on the page.

You can read more about the Auto-challenge-checkers here: https://project-gc.com/w/Auto-challenge-checkers

There also was a bug a while back where the distance didn't work as intended, so that would probably have messed up the checkers you were seeing earlier.
by Pleu (50.3k points)
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