WCA Software Team Registration System Stress test

[An Animating Cuber]

The WCA Software Team is getting very close to launching the new Registration System. They want everyone to pitch in to try and CRASH IT!

At 8pm ET on Monday 19th August (24:00 UTC), registration will open for Crash This Comp 2024 on our test server:

Crash This Comp 2024 | World Cube Association

The World Cube Association governs competitions for mechanical puzzles that are operated by twisting groups of pieces, commonly known as 'twisty puzzles'. The most famous of these puzzles is the Rubik's Cube, invented by professor Rubik from Hungary. A selection of these puzzles are chosen as...

staging.worldcubeassociation.org

We'd like as many people as possible to try and register when that registration opens - as if registration for a really popular competition has just opened. Here's what you'll need to do to participate:

1. Go to Crash This Comp 2024

2. Click "Sign In", and then "Sign in using your WCA account" - this will log you into our test website

3. You should be redirected back to the competition - if not, go back to it.

4. Submit your registration!

(Definitely not just Roman’s message copied over to here)

 

[Lord_Oscar]

That's a nice address for a cubing comp

 

[Mike Hughey]

I love the schedule. Wish I could attend a competition with a schedule like that! Love the time limits too, except 5BLD is a little strict for my taste.

 

[Lord_Oscar]

I love the schedule. Wish I could attend a competition with a schedule like that! Love the time limits too, except 5BLD is a little strict for my taste.

If only the comp actually existed...

 

[Mike Hughey]

I think we successfully crashed it?

I pressed the register button and it acted like nothing happened. I tried filling in a comment and still nothing. Pressed it 10 or 20 times, then started trying to navigate away and got a timeout. Now I can't even get back on the registration page.

Edit: Tried again a few minutes later and now (after about 10 seconds of being unresponsive and showing no indication I had clicked) I got a page saying I was awaiting approval. So it did finally work.

Edit 2: I just realized the page's appearance changed once I was accepted - instead of 2 steps, now there were 3. So I'm guessing they changed the page in between those attempts?

 

[precompsubwr]

instead of 2 steps, now there were 3. So I'm guessing they changed the page in between those attempts?

I believe it's been like that since at least yesterday, I looked at the page for other open comps and it showed 3 steps

 

[Mike Hughey]

I believe it's been like that since at least yesterday, I looked at the page for other open comps and it showed 3 steps

That may be, but when I initially pressed the Register button (before being acknowledged as registered), it only showed 2 steps (it didn't show the first Requirements step). Once it took my pressing the button, it then showed 3.

 

[precompsubwr]

That may be, but when I initially pressed the Register button (before being acknowledged as registered), it only showed 2 steps (it didn't show the first Requirements step). Once it took my pressing the button, it then showed 3.

3rd step is just waiting approval, I'm guessing it doesn't show up until you register

 

[An Animating Cuber]

Well I got 504 Gateway errors so if probably worked

 

[precompsubwr]

Well I got 504 Gateway errors so if probably worked

Works on pc, try it there if you can

 

[Mike Hughey]

Eventually the errors stopped happening. I did get accepted eventually; currently there are 124 people "registered".

Seems like it struggled but eventually sort of worked. Hopefully it gave them enough information to make it work better.

This was fun; I love that our community spends this kind of effort to try to provide quality software. Much credit to the software team.

3rd step is just waiting approval, I'm guessing it doesn't show up until you register

When I first loaded the page, it showed 2 steps: "Register" and "Approval", even though it had the checkbox for me to agree to the requirements. It did not show the "Requirements" step, but it already showed the "Approval" step.
Then once I checked the box and then registered, it showed 3 steps, including the "Requirements" step.

 

[Spencer131]

time to hack the wca with my coding skills