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By adityachk2002, history, 6 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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why? And what should your blog improve me to?

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Go the respective contest link (in this case https://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/199 ) before clicking on status. This can be done by clicking contest name on top right.

All problems from problemset (https://.../problemset/...) are indistinguisable so status just shows the status of all problems, if you are within a specific contest (https://...contest/2837/) then all problems from that contest will be indistinguisable so status shows all problems of that contest.

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    Maybe disabling the necessary button while calling the API can be done (like disabling save button once pressed when editing comment). There are 3 extra revisions now. :(

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You can simply click on the contest name and proceed further from there!

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Open the problem. Go to the contest (It's written on the right side of the page). Learn from the solutions of grandmasters. it's simple. The common status is important because sometimes there are long queues running (probably due to pending system testing) and you wanna get an idea of how long the queue is, (so that you don't start virtual contests and get completely frustrated why your solutions are not getting accepted)

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