Challenge Accepted... Daily! Spiceworks Trivia is Back!

Sean-Spiceworks · 2024-08-19T08:20:39.034Z

We announced the return of the Daily Challenge a few weeks ago. And today, it is back! Don’t worry about missing the previous update; we’ll reiterate important points below.

Getting Started

The first thing to know is that this initial implementation only works for logged-in members. In the future, we’ll have some functionality for logged-out visitors, but even then, you will want to log in to save your progress and join the conversation.

Where can you find it? Today, you can find it by visiting the Daily Challenge category or the My Feed area of the Community Homepage.

Participating in the Daily Challenge is pretty straightforward. You’ll see the question of the day and be able to choose your answer from the selected options. And yes, we are continuing with the "I’m not sure, but I’m excited to learn more! " option from the unofficial version.

Once you’ve submitted your answer, it will let you know if it is correct. You’ll also see the button update to say “Visit the Topic.” Note the topic will not be accessible until you’ve answered the question, even if you have the URL directly to it.

Once you’ve answered the question, the next one will be available starting at midnight UTC the next business day. When it won’t be available the next day, the Daily Challenge banner will update to state when it will be next available.

Other things to know

Everyone gets the same question . Our first change is that everyone will get the same question each day.
Topics are available to everyone when the question has been closed . As mentioned above, you can only access the associated topic once you’ve taken the active Daily Challenge question. This changes once the question is no longer active and will be available for everyone to discuss.
Leaderboards and Profile are “Coming Soon.” These are fast-follow items. Since no one has streaks yet, we decided to save this for shortly after the launch. We also have some exciting plans for leaderboards, where you can compare yourself based on various things, such as people you follow or who have the same job title.
Badges are also “Coming Soon.” Much like Leaderboards, bling for your profile (aka badges) for the new Daily Challenge will be added later (badges from the vintage platform still exist on your profile).
Minimizing Daily Challenge . As you may have noticed, when you take the Daily Challenge, the question does not disappear and remains in Your Feed while it is active (for the day). We plan to adjust that soon so you won’t need an extra mouse scroll to view the rest of your Feed.
Submitting questions . If you have ideas for questions you’d like to see in the Daily Challenge, don’t hesitate to email the team at community@spiceworks.com.

We’re excited to (re)launch the Daily Challenge! If you have any questions or issues, let us know below. While we have some things already coming for future updates, we want to hear your ideas, so don’t hesitate to post them in the spiceworks-community-feature-request area.

Known Issues

We’ll update this list as things come to our attention, but the one(s) we’re currently aware of are:

You see the Daily Challenge banner but not the question. While we work to resolve this correctly, you can force refresh the page, which will typically make it appear.
When you submit the correct answer, instead of a green checkmark, you will see a green “x.” More info. Resolved 21 Aug

DailyLlama · 2024-08-19T08:27:52.161Z

Woo! For the first time ever, I have 100% of the answers right

Adam345 · 2024-08-19T10:29:31.089Z

Yup - me too. I wonder how long that’ll last

CharlesHTN · 2024-08-19T12:29:12.448Z

I’m tied for first place, and for longest streak ever! Woo Hoo! I shall reward myself with some bacon!

Jake1590 · 2024-08-19T13:08:46.941Z

I got it right too! Joined the 100% club for a day. Thanks so much for the work in putting this back, was an important part of starting my day! One bit of constructive criticism. I got it right, and it shows Correct, and Green, but there is an X over to the right, instead a Checkmark. This is just a visual annoyance, makes me question “Did i really get it right”? Just a thought. Many thanks again! Good work!

Lois-Spiceworks · 2024-08-19T13:16:36.900Z

Jake1590:

One bit of constructive criticism. I got it right, and it shows Correct, and Green, but there is an X over to the right, instead a Checkmark. This is just a visual annoyance, makes me question “Did i really get it right”? Just a thought. Many thanks again! Good work!

It was intended to be a green tick, we accidentally broke it last week and decided not to try and release a change at the last minute as those often don’t go well. It’ll be fixed in the near future, in fact I think it’s actually in QA already.

machomanrandall · 2024-08-19T13:24:41.464Z

Excited to see the return! Got my first question right so I’m off to a great start this week Also shout out to @Josh-J-Spiceworks for doing the Unofficial version while we waited!

Sean-Spiceworks · 2024-08-19T14:39:51.073Z

Lois (Spiceworks):

Jake1590:

One bit of constructive criticism. I got it right, and it shows Correct, and Green, but there is an X over to the right, instead a Checkmark. This is just a visual annoyance, makes me question “Did i really get it right”? Just a thought. Many thanks again! Good work!

It was intended to be a green tick, we accidentally broke it last week and decided not to try and release a change at the last minute as those often don’t go well. It’ll be fixed in the near future, in fact I think it’s actually in QA already.

I’ll add that to the Known Issues section above. Thanks for calling this out, @Jake1590

Sean-Spiceworks · 2024-08-19T16:12:26.127Z

James404d · 2024-08-19T16:54:11.745Z

Not a single use of ™ in this post from @Sean-Spiceworks, unbelievable.

mountainbiker · 2024-08-19T17:18:15.516Z

Yay! It has felt like something’s been missing from my daily routine for so long.

Glad it is back - thank you Spiceworks Team!

it-monkey-mike · 2024-08-19T17:22:21.140Z

DailyLlama:

Woo! For the first time ever, I have 100% of the answers right

And I start with 0% right…
Oh well, there’s always tomorrow!

NULL · 2024-08-19T17:27:30.737Z

Well that is a kind of streak in its own right.

Kind of like my streak fly fishing… Much to my sons’ enjoyment.

StoneyD · 2024-08-19T21:52:31.224Z

Looks like I got it right - 100%. Yahoo!

alaric2977216 · 2024-08-20T08:13:52.238Z

are you going to be resurrecting the old questions or do you want the community to put it’s thinking caps on & (re)submit interesting ones

Josh-J-Spiceworks · 2024-08-20T12:38:11.500Z

If you’ve got ideas for questions (or even a whole question with explanation/source/etc.) Please let us know! We don’t have a formal submission process yet, but if you PM me, or email us at community@spiceworks.com, we’ll review and get it added to the queue!

We haven’t added any of the old questions yet, but we do have a backup of most of the old ones, and may review some of the better ones if we need to. However, there’s a lot of questions in the old system that are no longer relevant, and/or weren’t well-liked by the community, so I’d prefer to stick with new questions where we can.

Lois-Spiceworks · 2024-08-21T11:17:25.051Z

Lois (Spiceworks):

It was intended to be a green tick, we accidentally broke it last week and decided not to try and release a change at the last minute as those often don’t go well. It’ll be fixed in the near future, in fact I think it’s actually in QA already.

This is now fixed.

Jake1590 · 2024-08-21T13:58:23.699Z

Got my third one right and see that it is indeed fixed! Thanks! Again great work SW team!

GeorgeSVFC · 2024-08-21T17:49:35.826Z

This is awesome! I like seeing the daily changes too.
I will, however, miss @Josh-J-Spiceworks Three Rs. Maybe that could be a weekly Wednesday feature?
Great job, Team Spiceworks!!

cdoublejj · 2024-09-05T14:16:05.311Z

about time. if i can find it. man, this new GUI is very busy compared to the old one.