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11:37 PM, Friday March 24th 2023
These are looking solid, good work.
I'll be marking your submission complete.
I hope you enjoy the promptathon and best of luck in lesson 3.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 3.
5:34 PM, Thursday May 4th 2023
Did you recieve my last submission I'm number 7 in the cue.
6:30 PM, Thursday May 4th 2023
My apologies, Richy. It looks like you did get your feedback a month ago, but due to a few factors which were entirely my fault, the critique you received was marked as spam and removed. I have now restored it, so you should see the critique on your submission.
Basically we get a ton of spam posts here (usually random people posting as though they're students but including a link to an external website), which forced us to use a whitelist of URLs that are allowed. Any links that aren't on that list automatically get removed and flagged for review by our staff.
It appears that I made a mistake when reviewing it - I marked it as not being spam, but neglected to restore the post, so it ultimately went unnoticed until you called our attention to it. Again - sorry for the inconvenience.
If you'd like, I'd happily refund the last Patreon charge that went through to compensate for the month you were left waiting. Just let me know if that's something you'd like me to do, and I'll process it ASAP.
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