The Hands-On feature is evolving. Over the coming days, the /hands-on section is making room for a bigger Learn experience that is in active development. The rest of the platform, including the full lab catalogue, is unchanged.
This is a short note on what is moving, what is coming next, and where to keep practising in the meantime.
TL;DR: The Hands-On feature is stepping aside while we build a bigger Learn experience that is in active development. Labs and courses are unchanged, and the new release will land in the same slot soon.
What Is Coming Next
The Hands-On slot in the navigation is not staying empty. We are working on a bigger release inside Learn, built from the ground up with the feedback we collected from the old section. The guided format we shipped first never quite found its rhythm next to the open challenge catalogue, and rather than keep tweaking the same shape, we are clearing the slot for something we are more excited about.
It is being shaped right now. We are not ready to name dates or specific features yet, but this is the reason we are willing to make space for it today rather than later. If you want to be first to see it, the newsletter is where the announcement will go.
What Is Changing in the Meantime
A couple of housekeeping moves are rolling out alongside the new release:
- The
/hands-onroute is being taken offline. Direct links to individual Hands-On labs will redirect to the homepage. - Hands-On labs are being removed from the navigation, the dashboard, and our public sitemaps.
Standard challenge labs at /labs and courses at /courses are not affected.
What Still Works (and Where to Go Today)
Everything outside Hands-On is unchanged. That includes:
- Our challenge labs at
/labs, across web, crypto, forensics, reversing, pwn, OSINT, stego, cloud, and mobile categories. - The full course catalogue at /courses, including the existing tracks on web attacks, network pentesting, JWT hacking, and password cracking.
- Daily challenges, leaderboards, and the free tier. No credit card, no setup, browser-based.
Thanks for Being Here
To everyone who put time into Hands-On flags: thank you. The feedback we collected from the section is directly shaping what comes next, so you have already left your mark on the new release. If you have thoughts on what the bigger Learn experience should look like, drop us a line on the contact page or hit reply on the next newsletter.
That is the whole update. See you in the labs.
