No, I have been using this platform for 8-9 months and never had any problem but since the last month, there have been tremendous problems because of the server. Now you cannot make every contest unrated … RIGHT
Worst Experience ever. Never felt this bad in Codechef Contest. Looks like I should switch to CF. Still my submissions are in queue, it’s been more than 30 mins.
Every time I say, I will Never Give Codechef contest but still I come back give contest because I like codechef problems. In return I get this server issues
They can’t shut down while there’s money to make from UNACADEMY courses :))
Honestly, that seems to be the only concern of codechef at this point. All of the short contests have problems, and inspite of hundreds of complaints, nothing was done about the plagiarism in Jan long challenge. It’s very clear they do not care at all about the contests.
I agree that the queue situation was not perfect. However, I decided to simply solve other problems while waiting for my submissions to judge, and it went reasonably smooth. I could’ve lost a couple of minutes in the terms of penalty time, but so did other participants, so I feel like it was more-or-less adequate.
First of all many a times the long Challenge is a total waste in time due to mass cheating. What was left, was the short contests and seeing such deprovement in it, is really demotivating and sad. Codechef should change strategies in their product and also I don’t see the need of 3 divisions at all.
The idea of starters are absolutely fine but I think there should be a rated for all contest with all divisions being merged.
Actually the old division strategy was very good. Bringing an extra division just makes the rating graph very uneven.