No Hint Mode

Open Incompleteusern opened this issue 5 months ago • 2 comments

I wonder how pedagogically useful it would be to have an opt in mode to disable hints.

Sep 24 '25 20:09 Incompleteusern

Essentially, there should be a setting to disable ARCH or not?

Sep 25 '25 20:09 Kempu33334

if we did implement this, the least code complexity needed for it would be have a setting under UserProfile and then have a check in ARCH that 403's any requests if the setting is there

that said, even ignoring maintenance/code issues, my sense is that this isn't useful pedagogically. i think most people shouldn't be spending additional time thinking about "am i taking too many hints or not" and having to decide whether or not to flip this switch is more distracting than helpful on average. reminds me a tiny bit of https://xkcd.com/1445/.

if there's people who would really want this feature for some reason comment here i guess and if there's enough support i'll reconsider. otherwise i'll probably wontfix this.

Sep 25 '25 22:09 vEnhance