Going forward, please use this post to give feedback or ask questions about Stack Overflow Coding Challenges. This can include specific concerns about individual challenges you are working on, as well as general feedback about the feature.
To ask a question about, or provide feedback on, a specific challenge please include the challenge number (visible in the title of each challenge) and/or the link to that challenge in the first line of your reply to this post.
On that note, the first challenge of 2026 (authored by someone you might recognize) is now available!