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Certificate problem (bug)
I had enough lingots to go for a certificate, so I started by trying one in French. On about the third or fourth question, the website froze up so completely that I had to force-quit and restart. Obviously this meant I wasn't able to complete my certificate, but the 25-lingot fee was subtracted from my account anyway.
Then I switched to German and tried to do a certificate for that language, but it wouldn't even load the test, and simply subtracted the fee again.
Now my lingots are severely depleted and I haven't been allowed to take any certificate test yet. This is quite irritating. I would love it if someone could take a look at this and fix it. Thank you in advance!
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We are looking in to this. Duolingo's recent burst in popularity has taxed our webservers in ways that don't cause much trouble for lessons or practice sessions, but can occasionally cause problems for the certification and placement tests. You were one of the (really) unlucky ones. :(
I'm working on it and will get a fix out as soon as I can...
Yes, we already refunded JinxLeRai and everyone who contacted us about not being able to finish the test! :)
Your sound issues are a more general problem with the site and some older web browsers. The slowness of the test is probably due to the huge amount of use we've been getting for the past week (twice what we're used to). We're making some infrastructure changes to make the site more zippy, but for now at least the tests don't crash completely. :) Thanks for the report.