Willard

1. Community
2. Feature Requests and General Site Feedback
3. KA Guardian system--improvements

I haven't been part of the community for very long, but learning the reasons for a couple recent bans gives me the impression I could be banned and have all my programs wiped for pretty much anythi...

1. Community
2. Feature Requests and General Site Feedback
3. KA Guardian system--improvements

That's great news! Thanks for filling us in! Does this mean users that have previously been banned once, be able to submit a hidden project appeal form for their still-hidden projects?

1. Community
2. Computing Platform Community Discussions
3. Bots

It would be even easier to just hit Ctrl C on the site and shut it down. But removing things because it's easier doesn't make it a good idea.

1. Community
2. Feature Requests and General Site Feedback
3. Outdated HTML Editor

Could just add a "raw" option to settings to parse webpages literally without any AST transforms. That would also need to disable the auto reload since that has a tendency to run infinite loops whi...

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2. Computing Platform Community Discussions
3. New Khan API

Nah, there are no "authorized" 3rd party users. It's an internal API, same as the old one. You just copy the request from the developer console. You can delete everything except the body and method...

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2. Computing Platform Community Discussions
3. How does Khan Academy do filter(BLUR); so fast?

It's definitely not fast. It's called a Guassian blur. If you want to read their source code for it, it's at https://github.com/Khan/processing-js/blob/master/processing.js#L15725 The browser has a...

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2. Computing Platform Community Discussions
3. Bots

Hiding all the programs they bot is giving them even more power than they already had. I don't think it's a good solution to the problem, even if it's only temporary. They've already taken advantag...

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2. Computing Platform Community Discussions
3. New Khan API

The old API was accessed with GET requests, which meant data could be loaded with an opaque response (without CORS enabled) by loading it in a <script> tag. That was always more of a hack than anyt...

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2. Computing Platform Community Discussions
3. How do you search for a certain person or project on khan academy ?

I mean, if you have their username, you can just type it into the url to visit their profile. I made https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/searchable-program-browser/6015567628419072 las...

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2. Computing Platform Community Discussions
3. Web Audio API guidelines

I'm not a guardian, but I think the morale of the guideline is that you shouldn't play any external sound files. You can generate sounds, or play the sounds they give you, but if you're playing a s...