I’d like to have (without repeating the things already mentioned here) “blog” functionality as I have on CodeForces - possibility to write some text that is not a question, but I’d like to make it public for all CodeChef users…
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I’d like to have “report button” next to the comment on problem statement page, I’ll use it a lot during the contest
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I’d like to have possibility to contect administrator from discuss. We know, that admins are not reading all post here. It would be fine if there is possibility to rivet to the post, because there are questions we cannot answer. This can be available only for users with some karma.
Problem customized time limits. For most problems the time limit formulae work out. But for some problems I can’t seem to get AC in Java that got AC in C++ (I used fast I/O too). The problem setters should be able to customize the time limits for some majorly used languages.
As @bugkiller suggested, maybe 2 cook-offs per month at separate timezones.
Ability to +1 comments below problems. So any problems with the problems can be easily noticed.
Ability to add friends.
Thank you for this amazing site. Its loads better than some other ones.
why codechef doesn’t allow login from multiple devices? 2 at least? i am sure there are many people like me who take part in competitions more den doing prcatise problems, so only time we visit is during contest. But at other times we come for the discussions, to get and give answers. but if multiple log ins are allowed, we could take part in discussions from our cellphones itself. saves lots of time… so if possible
If we have solved any question & after many day we try to solve the same problem. So, on problem page, it must be written that this questions is solved. And if in one attempt we are unable to solve the problem then rejected submission code should be on problem page for hints.
Knowing which of the test cases failed would be great. The info may be passed on to us after the end of the competition if that helps maintain a level playing field?
its not something huge…during short contests the site becomes awfully slow…and it sometimes affects the performance too…2-3 cookoffs back site crashed for about 20-30 minutes…now some ppl had opened the problems while i could not…so the ranks went all haywire…if this can be rectified…its one of the best coding sites around…i hope this can be arranged…
In the page where all contests are listed (http://www.codechef.com/contests), it would be good, if you could make the times (start time and end time of each contest) hyperlink to http://www.timeanddate.com/ so that it shows you the times for all timezones.
One can of course find the timezone if we go to the homepage of the particular contest. But, that is a two-click process. If Codechef could support this as well, it will be a one-click process, which we all would like.
I never thought about this, when I was back in India. But now, I moved abroad, and it is a bit difficult to keep sync with IST. I mess up the timings almost every time, now.
Have you guys faced an issue where after submitted solution is tested , we hit the browser back button and the solution gets submitted again. I am not 100% sure but browser back button had some issues.
I would also like input and output using functions like topcoder. (Although I don’t know why many competitions still use the std i/o.)
Something to borrow from HACKERRANK, show which test-cases failed with their times without actually revealing the output.
You can filter languages, just click “ALL SUBMISSION” and then in the top you’ll find two combo boxes titled “Language” and “Result”. For language you can select Java and for result just select AC. You can even click in “Time” to sort the solutions by time (first click for non-decreasing other and second for non-increasing). You can even see the solutions of a single user
Do you write code on the editor provided here? Even on SPOJ the editor is not nice (as seen in hackerrank), even there I prefer writing and testing on local machine. Why a better editor?
Easier access to prev submitted solutions? I don’get it. “easier” in what way? We have already pretty straight access. Please explain a bit.
I do not like that idea, you have to realize that there are other competitions and it’s bad if there are two in same time. I love CodeChef, I really do, but if there is TopCoder SRM in same time, I’d participate in TopCoder. And even worst I do not like long contest to be shorter. You have to realize also, that contest duration also determines the difficulty of problems (in longer contest there can be very difficult problem).
@betlista >> When did I say that long contest needs to be shortened? No, it shouldn’t be. 2 weekends is just the ideal time a working guy would want, and also good for us, busy students. Regarding short contests, yes there are SRMs, Codeforces’ ones, but 2 cook-offs can be arranged accordingly with respect to those contests, not a big deal I guess. I just wanted to practice more in the given shorter period of time. Long Contests develop “idea implementations”, Short Contests develop “fast implementations”. Thats what I felt after failure in GCJ 2013. One line: more practice in 2.5 hours period
After getting my ass kicked so badly at a university competition yesterday, I can’t help but to agree with bugkiller… I believe that there’s a point in ones training where the only little thing you need to do to improve again is to put yourself under the knife… And there’s nothing better than a cook-off for that imo
Please do consider.
Even on SPOJ the editor is not nice (as seen in hackerrank), even there I prefer writing and testing on local machine. Why a better editor?