Facing weird problem lately when tried to access Codechef

yadnesh_viper · September 17, 2018, 7:39pm

Hello Codechef Community,

I’m facing this weird problem whenever I try to access anything on Codechef. It says “Hold right there Sparky!! We have encountered a lot of unexpected requests on CodeChef from your end. We would like to check that you are a human and not a bot. Prove it!” and asks me to check the “I’m not a robot” box.

It is coming all the time whenever I try to access anything on CC. It is really getting annoying to me and @admin can possibly look into this matter or at least tell me the reason for such a weird message coming time to time.

Thanks

babangain · September 17, 2018, 8:26pm

Same here!!!

rituraj22 · September 17, 2018, 9:04pm

When I try to load ranklist, this pops up 100% of the time. Very irritating indeed

amishra_31 · September 17, 2018, 10:38pm

So it isn’t just me.

alpha999 · September 18, 2018, 9:51am

Even when i tried to search i get this message

jsaurabh312 · September 18, 2018, 3:15pm

It’s one of the ‘challenges’ they use to stop or slow down bot traffic that might be passing through their site.
It’s annoying, but i think they have resolved it now.

anon2368343 · September 18, 2018, 6:14pm

same here , but for me its when i try to load ranklist of any contest past or present.

prashantpx · September 19, 2018, 11:56am

Same Here, It’s annoying…#%#%

manni_99 · September 20, 2018, 12:25pm

Same here!!! Hey Sparky…

ashsek · September 22, 2018, 3:13pm

Same here mostly during ranklists

hemantmangwani · September 24, 2018, 2:44am

Abb to apun ko lagne laga he ki apen he Robert he

meooow · September 17, 2018, 9:07pm

Why “Sparky”? XD

yadnesh_viper · September 17, 2018, 9:20pm

@meooow you might want to ask the same question to the @admin. I’m clueless

yadnesh_viper · September 19, 2018, 7:13pm

@aryanc403, I can completely understand your frustration and it is valid as well. But if you were aware of this problems since July 2018, you probably should have told them before instead of now when admins are really busy. Anyway regarding the quality of forum, facts you stated are true and it will be really beneficial to all if @admin will take action on it.

abhijeetpandey · September 21, 2018, 3:10pm

@aryanc403 , Yes, we are aware of these bugs on forum and we are very concerned about them. We understand your point. Also, bugs have been our highest priority and this is no exception. We are trying to come up with a better forum, we’ll post the details about it once we migrate.

abhijeetpandey · September 21, 2018, 3:14pm

@rituraj22 , this should not happen very frequently now, we have increased the limit. We had to introduce this because of heavy scrapping of data.

abdullah768 · September 22, 2018, 2:06pm

@abhijeetpandey the limit is still pretty small for an average user

krishyadav007 · September 24, 2018, 10:34am

I guess this is the effect of “CodeChef API Hackathon”.People are creating many projects related to subbmisions and ranklist this might have caused a traffic on codechef. During the September mega cook off (23/9/2018),they had removed “practice” and “discuss” from codechef.So to figure out who is human and not a bot they might have did this thing.