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[naokitoiko]

9 was Original movie's release year
10 was Movie's director.

 

[Spartaaaaa]

The timer got stuck but it kept going. I was lucky, *I* froze too for a few seconds trying to figure out what was happening, wondering if I should refresh the page or not.

Given all the unfixed bugs for years, it's safe to think a refresh mid-quizz might broke more than helping with the situation...

 

[TTRM]

Space Jam a new legacy prequel - Space Jam 1996

That's H/A. Still missing the Q

 

[BlueKidnapOverpower]

That's H/A. Still missing the Q

I think it was something about when was it premiered, can't remember the exact question.

 

[FreaKill]

Given all the unfixed bugs for years, it's safe to think a refresh mid-quizz might broke more than helping with the situation...

Yeah, that's why I hesitated instead of refreshing immediately after noticing that it froze.

 

[vobeo]

7 guys robbed my 10 cents and others. Happy Saturday gift I guess

 

[BlueKidnapOverpower]

Yeah, that's why I hesitated instead of refreshing immediately after noticing that it froze.

I didn't refresh, just opened a new tab but still didn't worked. Maybe should have not opened another tab and just wait on the "main" tab?
Asking to know what to do next time xD .

 

[BlueLuckyConjure]

That's H/A. Still missing the Q

Space Jam a new legacy prequel That was just a hint.

 

[FreaKill]

7 guys robbed my 10 cents and others. Happy Saturday gift I guess

You mean the magnificent seven that outsmarted the devilish server?

I didn't refresh, just opened a new tab but still didn't worked. Maybe should have not opened another tab and just wait on the "main" tab?

I too re-opened it in another tab and only got Q10 after a couple of refresh attempts. Curiously, after I answered Q10 in the second tab, the first tab actually decided to display it as well.

 

[TTRM]

Space Jam a new legacy prequel

That is the hint, yes, but the associated question.....

 

[Spartaaaaa]

I didn't refresh, just opened a new tab but still didn't worked. Maybe should have not opened another tab and just wait on the "main" tab?
Asking to know what to do next time xD .

Waiting for it to unfreeze did nothing, it just stayed frozen until the final score chart. No real solution there, just pure "luck" for the 7 winners.

 

[Curtainferno]

One thing that was kinda weird on my end:
On the last question, it did display the question (after skipping #9). I reflexively clicked on the first "Reitman" answer I saw, before noticing it was the wrong Reitman. But the quiz wouldn't let me change my answer. That's not how it normally works, is it? (I usually don't have any need to change answers, so I can't recall for certain.)

Also, one of the earlier questions displayed as a false negative, but I wound up getting credit for it in the end.

 

[CrimsonThrillingImage]

Well hopefully next time, the quiz can be on Sunday this time

 

[FreaKill]

One thing that was kinda weird on my end:
On the last question, it did display the question (after skipping #9). I reflexively clicked on the first "Reitman" answer I saw, before noticing it was the wrong Reitman. But the quiz wouldn't let me change my answer. That's not how it normally works, is it? (I usually don't have any need to change answers, so I can't recall for certain.)

AFAIK that's how it always worked - you can't change your answer. Well technically sometimes you can - in the past, when there were much more participants (200-300), the answer would fairly often not reach the server and it was a good precaution to keep clicking the answer until the timer runs out, so I'd guess you could change your answer in such a situation. Of course there's no way of knowing when that happens, so we can only click and prey.

Also, one of the earlier questions displayed as a false negative, but I wound up getting credit for it in the end.

That's also a fairly common bug. Annoying as hell, when that happens.

 

[BlueKidnapOverpower]

Waiting for it to unfreeze did nothing, it just stayed frozen until the final score chart. No real solution there, just pure "luck" for the 7 winners.

Thanks, is "good" to know , and yeah, seems it was 100% luck .

 

[SilverScrollMystery]

That is the hint, yes, but the associated question.....

Q9: The Space Jam: A New Legacy "prequel", the original Space Jam premiered in
A9: 1996
Did you know: The film was released in July 2021, which marked the 25th anniversary of the original Space Jam (1996).

Countdown for this one froze at 8 sec for me, didn't dare refresh lest it broke even more and the next thing I saw was the trivia snippet.

 

[Curtainferno]

AFAIK that's how it always worked - you can't change your answer. Well technically sometimes you can - in the past, when there were much more participants (200-300), the answer would fairly often not reach the server and it was a good precaution to keep clicking the answer until the timer runs out, so I'd guess you could change your answer in such a situation. Of course there's no way of knowing when that happens, so we can only click and prey.

Dang, so I misremembered? I think next time, I'll try to remember to test it out to be sure. Think I'll try setting it correctly, then try to switch to a wrong answer, then back to the right answer if step 2 worked.

 

[PurpleVanguardPlot]

For me the quiz froze on the 9th question on 8 seconds, but it does look like my answer did count based on the number of points. The 10th question did never load for me.
Looking through the logs of the network traffic I think I have learned a couple of things.

• Firestore is used.
• The communication uses long polling.
• Updates are sent every second.
• After the first update to the 9th question one more update to the 8th question was sent out.
• Some numbers seems to be missing and malformed at the end in the data on the 8 second update.

Maybe the last two bullet points could be a clue for the quiz developers?

So the sequence was:
First update to the 9th question with 10 seconds to answer.

[[2592,[{
  "documentChange": {
    "document": {
      "name": "projects/galart-6bc1e/databases/(default)/documents/questionnaires/1/questions/9",
...
        "seconds_to_answer": {
          "integerValue": "10"
        },
...
  }
}
]]]67

An extra update to the 8th question instead of an update to the 9th with 9 seconds to answer.

[[2599,[{
  "documentChange": {
    "document": {
      "name": "projects/galart-6bc1e/databases/(default)/documents/questionnaires/1/answers/8",
...
        "trivia": {
          "stringValue": "Michael Gandolfini had never watched The Sopranos (1999) prior to being cast in the role of the young Tony Soprano."
        },
...
  }
}
]]]193

And then an update to the 9th question with 8 seconds to answer.

[[2602,[{
  "documentChange": {
    "document": {
      "name": "projects/galart-6bc1e/databases/(default)/documents/questionnaires/1/questions/9",
...
        "seconds_to_answer": {
          "integerValue": "8"
        },
...
  }
}
]],[2603,[{
  "filter": {
    "targetId": 4,
    "count": 1
  }
}
]]]158

Look at the row with ]],[2603,[{ that does not follow the pattern of the rest of the communication and it looks like it should be a ] instead of the first , and then some number and a new line. So something like:

]]]###
[2603,[{

This was the last update to the 9th question. There was a 0 second update between the non displayed updates for the 10th question also.

Also the 10th question data was sent out two times, with 5 and 0 seconds to answer, but was never displayed.

 

[PurpleVanguardPlot]

Thinking some more about it I was most probably wrong about data being malformed. I guess Firestore can send multiple updates together and that is what happened. Sorry if I have made anyone look in the wrong place for bugs, but I have never used Firestore.
(The other stuff about what was updated when is still true though.)

 

[BlueLuckyConjure]

Looks like new hints are up