adityachk2002's blog

By adityachk2002, history, 7 months ago, In English

Instagram and Reddit both have it. Many a times we may forget to mark as favourite, many a times, we may not want to clutter our most important bookmarks with mildly helpful blogs but there may be times where we want to refer back to it. Currently there is not way to view upvoted posts. This feature must be added.

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By adityachk2002, history, 7 months ago, In English

... especially the newbies, who need it the most.

There should be a way to directly link a problem from a problemset to the status of that particular contest so that people can learn from other people's solutions.

Currently, when you click on standings or status, you see a global one. Similarly, there is no easy way to navigate via the contests or problemset tab. The only way to do the above is to first submit a solution, click on your solution UID and then click on status or standing to view that particular contest details. Otherwise, you may have to click on the contest on the right to do the same.

For example, from a ladder you may be redirected to the problem

https://mirror.codeforces.com/problemset/problem/199/A

When you click on status it takes you here: https://mirror.codeforces.com/problemset/status

Instead it should take you here which is far more useful. https://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/199/status

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By adityachk2002, history, 8 months ago, In English

Hi Mike and team,

I wanted to request a feature to show the percentile on codeforces. Other elo-based platforms like chess.com already have this feature. This is another feature that adds to the motivation of participants.

We already have the RATING tab but it is unusable as there is no option to jump to any page with the rating range you want to see. You would need to manually click past through thousands of pages to find your rank and calculate your percentile.

I think it will be helpful for me to know if I am in the top 10% coders and eventually in the top 1 or 2% coders on this platform.

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By adityachk2002, 8 months ago, In English

and that is the most recent blogs. I did some digging and I found some third party resources that compile them using the blog IDs. But there must be a better way on codeforces itself.

  • You can see important announcements on the home page

  • You can search for any topic using search.

  • You can view the top posts in the TOP tab.

  • You can view the latest comments in the recent actions bar.

But you CANNOT view the most recent blog posts. Is this a deliberate measure to avoid distractions? I wonder how the top posts get all those upvotes to begin with. If a good coder wants to publish some educational resources or reading material but is a first time poster, how do they get visibility?

Can someone please help and please Mike if you are reading this, please implement this much needed feature!

There are clear BENEFITS:

  • This will encourage more people to write blogs and even necroposting won't be an issue kinda like reddit. Right now only the og users or the ones who's blogs make their way to announcements get traction.
  • There should be an entire history of all blogs ever published by time stamp. This makes searching also easier of the more recent blogs and is very helpful.
  • Extremely good blogs that did not make it to CATALOG will not disappear into the ether after getting taken off from the recent actions or TOP tab.
  • A lot of people do not learn about a topic by searching for it but by randomly stumbling upon it and this will facilitate this discovery for a long time to come

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