Merge pull request #309 from fraz3alpha/2021-10-broken-extension-blog-post

blog post about breaking website changes

Author: fraz3alpha

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+layout: post
+title:  "Breaking website changes"
+date:   2021-10-11 20:00:00 +0000
+categories:
+  - news
+---
+
+Your extension is broken, fix it, fix it, fix it!
+
+## I've been living under a rock, what has broken?
+
+On the 6th October 2021, parkrun started rolling out some changes to their website - this included moving the page that we add all the badges to and making it available at a different web address. The old page we used is still there, but it contains different data - so the extension doesn't know what to do with it, and promptly spits out the helpful error: "Error Map container not found".
+
+## When will it be fixed?
+
+Soon. Probably in October.
+
+Many thanks to [Russell Boyatt](https://github.com/rboyatt) who contributed some code to get most things back working again. We are testing his [changes](https://github.com/fraz3alpha/running-challenges/pull/305) at the moment. We've also tried to write some tests to automatically check the extension loads on each parkrun site, as that is incredibly tedious to check and no-one has got time for that...
+
+Russell has also been busy getting the [changes](https://github.com/fraz3alpha/running-challenges/pull/308) made to support the Austrian site that appeared recently, awesome work!
+
+We have very little free time at the moment and it's a non-trivial task to release a new version of the extension - even after all the code has been written, so please bear with us.
+
+## I would like to know what's happening with the extension on Firefox for Android
+
+This is still not available. It's because the browser has restricted the number of extensions to a very small, carefully vetted list of extensions that have millions of users that they can spend hours making sure they aren't doing anything against their policies - as and when their security model means they can accept community-created extensions again we'll try and get our extension listed once more.
+
+## If I give you some money will you do XYZ
+
+No, that's not really how it works. We did this for a bit of fun, and we aren't taking any money for it. We'll mostly do things as time allows and if we find it interesting - if you have some cash that is burning a hole in your pocket go to [the parkrun shop](https://www.parkrun.org.uk/shop/) and buy yourself something to support parkrun.
+
+If you have a regular supply of burning-a-hole-in-your-pocket money, or you just want a warm fuzzy feeling of keeping parkrun around, why not sign up to [parkrun Forever](https://parkrunforever.com/about/) and make a regular donation?
+
+## Any progress on training up the new team member?
+
+Progress has been made on standing, but not on Javascript.
+
+## How do I get more updates?
+
+It's a lot easier to write a quick Tweet than post something on this website, so head over to our Twitter account - [@RunChallenges](https://twitter.com/RunChallenges) for all the latest updates. You don't need a Twitter account to read our recent updates, and it always best to check there first before asking us directly - we'll generally put a post out as soon as we notice something is broken.