Milestone M36 – reboot begins, simplified course creation & critical bug fixes

Let’s go through what we got done in Milestone M36 (May05 – May18) for NeetoCourse.

New features and enhancements 🚀

✅ NeetoCourse reboot begins

We’ve started streamlining the course-building experience, removing legacy complexity built for BigBinary Academy. Most updates this cycle support this new direction.

✅ UI consistency updates

– Improved the empty state when no courses are listed to match other products.
– Removed old Lesson/Exercise pills from the course structure dashboard.
– Updated various UI texts for clarity.
– Renamed “slug” to “URL” across courses, chapters, and pages.

✅ Simplified course creation

Manual course creation is now the default. GitHub integration option has been removed.

✅ ActiveRecord cleanup

Resolved remaining issues flagged by active_record_doctor.

Bug fixes ⚒️

✅ Judge0 timeout handling

Fixed an unhandled timeout error in the Judge0 API for code submissions.

✅ Elasticsearch seeding fix

Implemented retry logic to fix occasional failures in Elasticsearch index creation.