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[Suggestion] Is it possible to create an editorial system like atcoder for codeforces?
By E404_Not_Found, 2 years ago, In English

Hi!

As you all know, atcoder's editorials are ready before the rounds' ends and no one except the admins and the authors have access to it and the authors can't publish it until the contest ends, So is it possible to implement such system for codeforces sir MikeMirzayanov?

Because first of all contestants will have access to the editorial immediately after the contests end, and second is there would be no stress on publishing the editorial by mistake for the authors before the round ends.

Thanks for reading this blog 💮.

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Good idea :)

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I think that it's already like that, sometimes after the round, it says "x" days ago when they publish the editorial.

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    Tbh it's not, the authors have the time to write the editorial and sometimes it takes long time to publish and it's boring, but when it's ready before the contest and it'll be available automatically after the contest, it's good for both contestants and authors.

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    It says x days ago because the post was created at that time, saved as a draft and published after the contest. Codeforces shows the original post/draft creation date as the time when the post was made and not the publishing date.

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all contestants will have access to the editorial immediately after the contests end

ahaha and see Editorial is not published yet x6

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You already write editorials beforehand on Polygon and should publish immediately after the end.

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There is also an advantage in atcoder that minimize the problem statments which is to insert the definitions into spoilers like this problem . It's a better format to define the permutation unlike today contest. I hope that codeforces apply this property.

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I never actually authored a contest on atcoder, but what's the big difference?

When I made my first round, I published the editorial minutes (if not seconds) after the round ended. I think this might be one of the reasons why it was so well received, I got almost +500 on the editorial (which is sorta crazy, considering the latest goodbye and hello rounds got +230 and +340 respectively, mine was just a regular Div. 2 round).

I guess it would make a difference if we had some tag "post automatically after the round ends", because the editorial would simply reach and actually help more people. But I don't think it will solve the problem of accidental posting, though some work might be done for foolproofing.

Voting up 👍

P. S. Feature request. Make Polygon editorials and Codeforces editorials synchronized. I know it's easy to say and hard to do with all the packages and exportability, but it was messed up to manually copy editorials from Polygon to a Codeforces blog and sync them by hand. This would be such a relief.

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