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Goodbye 2023. Hello 2024!
By MikeMirzayanov, 12 months ago, In English

Dear Santa Claus. Please make 2024 a happy year, not just that. Please, we all need this.

Hello, 2024!

And we have traditional gifts!

Change Handle Feature

Hurry! Only until the 10th of January, you can change your handle (but only once)! Note that it will be possible to roll back the changes or change the handle again only after a year. Be careful what you wish for.

You can change your handle to the new one that wasn't used before by anybody or which was used by you before. The links to a profile page with an old handle would automatically redirect to the actual profile.

Again, this year if you took part in at least 10 rounds you can request a handle of an inactive participant. It means that the participant should have a period of activity on Codeforces of at most 180 days, this period should be in 2020 or earlier. The inactive participant can't have posted comments, messages, and so on. It can't take part in more than 2 contests. It will be automatically renamed and informed by email. A user has the opportunity to request back his/her handle: in this case, we will roll back the change and return your previous handle to you. If you can't change your handle to another, it means that some requirements don't meet. Please do not ask me to do something with it. Especially, I do not like requests like "this is my second account, I took an interesting handle myself". I'm not Santa Claus.

Talking about handles I always
reminisce the following story. Once a user wrote me the message: "Please change my handle from I_love_Valya to I_love_Sveta, as I no longer love Valya ..."

New Year's Masquerade of Colors and Ranks

The traditional magical tab has appeared in the profile setting. Happy New Year!

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12 months ago, # |
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Yey, finally update!!! Happy holidays and New Year everyone who is celebrating!

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Was waiting for this blog keenly past few days :)

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Happy New Year!

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12 months ago, # |
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What happens if 2 people request username of same inactive participant?

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    12 months ago, # ^ |
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    How can I make a request?

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      12 months ago, # ^ |
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      Profile -> Magic -> Handle

      If the account you are requesting is eligible, you will get the handle

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        12 months ago, # ^ |
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        It is, but says -> This handle is currently in use

        I don't know what is the problem with Hassan

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          12 months ago, # ^ |
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          Yeah I also tried to get handles such as speed, quick they look completely eligible for inactivity according to this blog but I guess you can't have them for some reason, I had to settle with 619 finally (my new handle).

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    12 months ago, # ^ |
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    Ever heard of "first come, first served"? Technically, 2 people can't send requests simultaneously.

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Happy New Year!

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12 months ago, # |
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finally I can have the same handle color as tourist

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I'm waiting for LGM pretend pupil 🤣

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Happy New Year !

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12 months ago, # |
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I messaged you about needing to delete my account, why isn't this feature available, even if i change handle the old one redirects :/

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profile chat why is this this need fix lol jk ik this is feature

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12 months ago, # |
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Colors sorted (from best to worst):

  • Yellow
  • Red
  • Cyan
  • Blue
  • Purple
  • Green
  • Gray

Change my mind.

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    12 months ago, # ^ |
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    Yellow is the color of piss, Red is the color of blood, Blue is the color of water
    Thus, Red > Blue > Yellow

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    12 months ago, # ^ |
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    it's orange, go have an eye exam or at least check the hex in the graph section.

    now seriously, why do people call the normal master yellow? I can see light orange/orange but that's in no way yellow lol.

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      12 months ago, # ^ |
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      I call both master and international master yellow, just like i call grandmaster, international grandmaster and legendary grandmaster red.

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        12 months ago, # ^ |
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        the GM colors are indeed red, but please check the hex colors because calling the master colors yellow is stupid unless your screen is broken. if that's the case, you can buy a new screen

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          12 months ago, # ^ |
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          Yes and I couldn't care less lol, they're similar enough to be called the same thing

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! :)

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Happy New Year!

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why no stars?

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Happy new year all coders

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it's that time of the year!!

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User anas made his account 12 years ago used it for a maximum of one year and quit

Can't see why his name can't be taken since he has been inactive for 12 years

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Magic exists!

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This year through magic we can't turn into $$$unrated$$$ participants unlike previous years

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12 months ago, # |
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Happy New Year (in advance by 10 days)!

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I appreciate the new theme, but is it possible to go back to the old theme? I cant use dark mode on this and im not used to it

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I wanted to become unrated :(

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If they did this on "April Fools Day" for 1 day. And had a contest then. The contest standing having mismatching colours would add to the fun of April fools day contest.

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Merry holidays, everyone! May the new year bring joy and warmth with progress in competitive programming to all of us!

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4 years ago Mike!

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if i use gmail to login, how do i change my handle/colour? my gmail password is listed as incorrect

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    12 months ago, # ^ |
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    I had the same issue, get onto an incognito tab and try to login. Then click on forgot password, and you’ll be able to reset it with a link sent to your email.

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Everyone is a LGM now haha!!

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add headquarters pls :((((((((((

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Happy Holidays ! and Hope very Good luck for all of you guys in the coming year!

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Not Sure but I don't think the name change feature is working as mentioned above. I tried to take name from a few dead accounts but wasn't able to do so. Anyone else facing similar issue ??

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i want to change my handle to an inactive handle : Solyman

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    12 months ago, # ^ |
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    Go to your profile, then click on "Magic", then click on "Handle". Then you will be able to change your handle. Be careful, you can only change your handle once!

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Wishing everyone a happy new year!

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There is an OJ (Online Judge) in China called Luogu. There was a post about the rules for changing usernames, as Luogu only allows one change per year, which the poster deemed insufficient. I agreed with this viewpoint and jokingly replied, "If someone's nickname is 'love xxx forever' but they break up, they'll need to change their username." Yesterday, I suddenly remembered this comment when I read the last sentence on Codeforces.

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Pls add Black color to the Magic

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Congrats XCPCLoser_Messywind for being the lowest rated LGM.

ORZ

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Hello Codeforces, Lot of people are asking me how I have changed the colour/rank on your profile so I am writing this post.

To change your color — Go to your profile and click magic.
To change the handle — Go to your profile and click on settings then click on handle.

I am also providing direct link for the following steps.

Direct Links:
To change handle
To change color

Please upvote if found helpful.

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Happy New Year Codeforces!

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we should mention the legendary joke I_love_Valya

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Spoiler
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“Took part in atleast 10 rounds”. Do said rounds have to be rated?

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Can someone please help me why am I not able to change my handle from Ashrayy to Ashray? the link to his profile is https://mirror.codeforces.com/profile/ashray and the account satisfies all the requirements listed in the post!

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Happy New Year!

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Happppppppyyy newww yearr!!

I am legendary grandmaster nowwwww !!!

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Happy New Year! And, Merry Christmas!

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Yo thanks for the update! BTW, Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year 2024!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hope for some gifts in India as well :)

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Are they rated?

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Everyone is a LGM now haha!!

Happy New Year!

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Happy New year

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One Problem, I log in using Oauth, and so I haven't set a password, and it asks for a Password while doing MAGIC. And I can't even change the password, and for that also it needs an old password.

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Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year 2024 !!!

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my friends are sending pictures of them becoming lgm right now

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Yay! A very cool update + Happy new year :D

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Happy New Year, CodeForces! :)

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Everything comes to an end. We say goodbye to the magic of the New Year. Santa Claus is already actively casting spells to roll back the masquerade. Here are some statistics for you.

A total of 70712 magic masquerades were applied.

rank count
legendary grandmaster 17590
newbie 11895
candidate master 7461
expert 6669
specialist 5600
master 5461
pupil 5193
grandmaster 4159
international master 3433
international grandmaster 3251

Or by color:

color count
legendary 17590
gray 11895
orange 8894
violet 7461
red 7410
blue 6669
cyan 5600
green 5193
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    Awesome statistics. I don't know how hard it would be, but I would also find really interesting from which to which rank were the masquerades applied.

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