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Open beginner issues
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Indexed issues
21
Avg merge
5m
Merged PRs (30d)
1
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Last GitHub push
Sep 22, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 16, 2026
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  • Don't close issues that I transfer here
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    exercism/wip#64 · 3 comments ·

  • Add white space trim to language search
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 20/100

    exercism/wip#63 · 3 comments ·

  • Mentoring: In the listing of "New solutions", it would be nice to see some sort of visual cue if you have mentored a student before
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    exercism/wip#61 · 3 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • More testing
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

    exercism/wip#57 · 1 comment ·

  • Test that this auto-locks.
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 15/100

    exercism/wip#54 ·

  • Idea: Gzip CSS and JS to improve performance
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    exercism/wip#52 · 3 comments ·

  • Experimental representation analyzer
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    exercism/wip#47 ·

  • Don't let comments be published without accepting T&Cs.
    Open
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

    exercism/wip#38 ·

  • Email a mentor when they receive a testimonial
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 5/100

    exercism/wip#31 ·

  • Add script to backup git repos to s3
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    exercism/wip#29 · 1 comment ·

  • Add track median wait time to UI
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    exercism/wip#21 · 1 reaction ·

  • Auto-build/deploy analyzers from tags
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    priority/next-up status/in-progress

    exercism/wip#19 · 1 assignee ·

  • Sort out centralised logging
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    priority/next-up

    exercism/wip#18 · 1 assignee ·

  • For auto mentoring approvals, merge both comments together and be more congratulatory.
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    action/coding priority/next-up

    exercism/wip#15 · 1 assignee ·

  • Speed up Travis PRs
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    status/completed

    exercism/wip#14 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Upgrade to Rails 6
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    exercism/wip#12 · 2 comments ·

  • Add DDOS protection.
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    action/coding

    exercism/wip#5 · 1 assignee ·

  • Add option to delete public profile
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    action/coding

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    exercism/wip#3 ·

  • Mentoring: Display the position in the track of an exercise
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    action/coding

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    exercism/wip#1 ·

  • No Solutions Left to Mentor Message Needs to Be Modified for Exercise Categories
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    exercism/wip#8 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·

  • Markdown images missing from help file
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    action/meta-issue

    exercism/wip#7 · 5 comments · 1 assignee ·

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