If that’s the case then I don’t see any benefit of doing this. I believe we will get ratings change very soon after contest ends. It was beneficial for long challenges ( sometimes even for short contests) where we can predict ratings in between of contest to get motivation/happiness.
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See , if we apply some thoughts. They most probably did it cuz people in Long Challenges might see how many problems they can solve, if they can solve ‘x’ problems, they check if its enough to get a rise, if yes, then they submit. But you have to be confident about your solutions before coding them.
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Doing this is misuse of tools. One shouldn’t do this. One should participate without checking it. This will hinder one’s overall progress. Don’t participate for ratings. Instead participate for learning.
Maybe Codechef is trying to stop this 
In my case I don’t check it before submitting. I solve as much as I can in one try. Then I check it to see what’s the ratings changes to get some motivation. I get motivation if I see I am getting negative ratings change or if I am going to miss being 6 star by few ratings. This is a good use of this tool.
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I don’t think this is the reason. Might be one of many reasons like no/less resources available to maintain the API right now at the present moment.
Any way I feel predicting rating change before contest isn’t bad because after all these are competitive contests right? That’s why CF predictor has so many users - Firefox(1.4k) and Chrome(14.5k). But yes I understand, few people might see it as a bad habit. I feel it’s not bad until you break the rules. I agree with both opinions though.
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It isn’t bad. What I am saying is not participating because you will not get positive change is bad.
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i think we can do it just for short contests of div1.only takes 8-16 minutes.feasible
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I was thinking along the same lines. Moreover if possible having a separate queue/scheduler for div2 which start after contest ends. Will give it a try. Ofcourse this way new predictor will be very slow compared to the old one.
It is feasible in long challenge for div1 users at least.
You can probably run it for 4 hrs every night so that we can get prediction after a day at least.
Or just keep running it for 10 days. It will be updated every 4 hours or so.
@dushsingh1995
Something is better than nothing.
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Only God knows when the rating predictor works 
and after every long challenge this post appears on discussion forum despite the fact that its under maintenance 
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I’m sorry for the let down. Should change the title lol. 
This post appears frequently because people keep asking and I’m unable to deliver. 
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Not your fault - if Codechef no longer provide the required APIs, then there’s not much that can be done
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I personally agree with you on this point. When it comes to gain/loss, you cannot learn.
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Thanks to everyone who have used the predictor and found it useful. This was one of the reasons to bring back the predictor and other one being to apply my newbie web development skills and to learn something new.
I’m sorry to say this, I won’t be able to bring it back again since there is no support as of now. Link - https://blog.codechef.com/2020/01/20/api.
@vijju1231 @ssjgz Can you please close this blog?
Once again thank you everyone for your feedback and support for the predictor. 
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Sad to hear this, but I’m not an Admin and can’t do anything XD
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rating predictor is Not working?
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