Goodbye, 2024. Hello, 2025!
Dear Santa Claus,
Please make 2025 a happy year—not just for me, but for everyone. We all need this.
Hello, 2025!
And of course, we have our traditional gifts!
Change Handle Feature
Hurry! Until the 10th of January, you can change your handle (but only once)! Note that you can roll back the changes or request another handle change only after a year. Choose wisely!
You can change your handle to a new one that hasn’t been used by anyone else, or to one that you’ve previously used. Links to your old profile will automatically redirect to your updated profile.
Again this year, if you’ve participated in at least 10 rounds, you can request the handle of an inactive participant. This means the participant must have had a period of activity on Codeforces lasting at most 180 days, and this activity must have occurred in 2020 or earlier. The inactive participant must not have posted comments, messages, or similar content, and they must not have participated in more than 2 contests. In such cases, the handle will be automatically renamed, and the original owner will be notified via email. If the original user requests their handle back, we will roll back the change and restore your previous handle.
If you’re unable to change your handle, it means some of the requirements have not been met. Please do not ask me to intervene manually. I especially dislike requests such as, "This is my second account; I took an interesting handle myself." I'm not Santa Claus!
Speaking of handles, I always reminisce about one particular story. Once, a user sent me this 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 your profile settings. Happy New Year!
nice bro, codeforces go ahead
where is tourist in magic
I think it's exclusive :D. It should be so yeah.
lmao I saw the background and refreshed 5-6 times and thought it was a bug until I looked closely and saw the snowflakes.
Have to change my Dark Reader mode to "Filter" instead of "Dynamic" to make the background less intrusive :(
There you go :)
This is REALLY awesome!
does it work for you all the time? as soon as I refresh the page, the snowflakes come back :(
For most of the time. However, I once found out that the per-site rule had disappeared, and I had to add it back again. I wonder if it's a bug in Dark Reader.
You may even include a bit of code in your userscripts (maybe in tapermonkey if you use it).
i added the dark reader extension and changed it to filter for codeforces, got rid of it for me.
:)
Advance Happy New Year 2025 to the amazing Codeforces community! Wishing you all a year full of high ratings, better problem-solving skills, and exciting learning opportunities. Let’s make 2025 incredible!
you too
Every year codeforces has this gift. But this year it will be more interesting because of the 'tourist'.
well... :(
However, I have tried to do that, But I can't find "tourist"
Tourist's magic was stronger than Santa's magic.
where Tourist
Tourist is not actually a rank in Codeforces. You see, Codeforces didn't design a title for ppl who have 4000 or above rating (prob because Mike didn't think anyone would get it).
Let's Go! Happy new year to everyone.
How can I change my rank to Tourist?
I guess Tourist Rank has such an aura, that we can't even feel it with Santa's magic...
get 4000+ rating
wanna change to Tourist
I hope at the end of this year i reach expert
You will bro i believe in you
Thank you
i forgot my password, how do i change it
Great news btw.
finally, the only thing that makes Holidays feels like HOlidays has come!
How do you have a Legendary Grandmaster title when your max rating is 910 lol??
it's "magic"
That is a 2 year old meme pal
shit I remember seeing this one last year
fun fact: this meme is half of his comments
Santa is real!
Am I the only one who checked these accounts ?
I_love_Valya
I_love_Sveta
nope, you're not
Let me make a final Legendary comment for this Legendary Title at a Legendary Rating. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________
:)
It would be great if you could change handle to the occupied one if the owner of the said handle is blocked
Hope that everything will go well in 2025, and I wanna be a MASTER. Codeforces goes ahead, and hope everyone can be better next year.
But all in all, HAPPY NEW YEAR, bro.
All the best :) I hope you work hard and reach master, even if you don't be happy that you got that far and happy new year in advance :))
I can't use "reyleigh" even thought the person who is using (reyleigh) this is inactive since 2020 please fix this. Tagging Sir MikeMirzayanov.
EDIT : It's fixed thanks Sir MikeMirzayanov.
My name is omega now >w<
how to change handle?
account -> settings -> handle
It is telling me that I haven't participated in enough contests to change the handle. How much should I take part to change !?
10
Thanks !!!
thanks
Looks good
Merry Christmas!
Even Tourist can't become Tourist.
suggest any hazardous threatening handle name (innovative)
PookieBear
edit:Bruh it's taken
this thing DESTROYED brawl stars
not even santa can make me turn into a tourist
Excuse me, how to request the handle of an inactive participant.
Happy New Year!!!
The image is cut off. Clearly, that says legendary grandmaster, 8407.
Nah, its just a closing bracket ;(
woooosh
No unrated??
Fine , Happy new year to everyone :)
The next contest will be a huge mess
Definitely
It's a huge mess now
Why I can't change my name to "near"? It looks like all the conditions are met. Can you change my nickname to this one, please?
Thank you and love you Mike! Happy New Year!
where is tourist
Thank you I can finally be my true colour! Happy new year
Now, I can comment anything and my comment will gets upvotes.
thx mike
wow!
This is the magic of this magical community.
Happy New Year!
Not everbody
As a -50 rated, I can confidently say I deserve the LGM.
How can you achieve -50 , respect++
frrr
so i'm pretty sure this wasn't stolen from last year
Tourist masquerade when
For those who are thinking about user "I_love_Sveta"
Check out that post and comment...
1.618034 a 69 again
MikeMirzayanov Can we take username of a disabled user ?
Sorry for tagging MikeMirzayanov, I can't change the name Raven even through that user has inactived for 12 years (~2011,2012)
Me too. I tried to change to the handle "Mosaab", and it is inactive, but it failed.
why no Headquarters in Magic?
why no king in magic?
Why can't I make it tourist:/
Finally I don't need to study anymore to be a grandmaster
Happy New Year!
Good luck to all users!
I want ....
MikeMirzayanov, How do I request the handle of an inactive user Mosaab? as it says "This handle is currently in use".
were you able to change?
No, I do not know why really, and it is not only me, but many users also face the same issue.
i tried to change my handle to a handle of inactive user that participated in 2 contests and he didn't open his account since 2014. what is problem??
When the badges for supporting Codeforces(15 years) appears?
merry christmas and happy new year.. and yeah ronaldo is the goat :)
Hello I am trying to take a username that is inactive from 5 years with no contests. But when i try to enter it in the handle section it says "handle currently in use". Why it's happening is it because somebody else has requested for that handle ?
It would be great if you had put feature for changing colour and rank in April's Fool week MikeMirzayanov as it is difficult to trust the comments and blog
I am the lowest rated LGM rated in the last 6 months!
letss gooo !
Taking the expert rank because everyone else is GM now won't make you special.
MikeMirzayanov still having great ideas. Thank you so much, sir.
wow I am legendary grandmaster now with the help of magik ✨
Happy New year !!
As every year: 2022 2023 2024 and 2025:
I'll work hard in 2025!!
low i am a legendary gm at 1000 elo now
I thank some random Bangladeshi guy for saving the username for me!
The santa hat Mike is wearing seems photoshopped
Yes! Thanks for the gift sir, now I can temporarily change my color to match my target for this year.
Also a small change to handle is nice, thanks a lot.
Finally become LGM this 20 days.
Will the color of our rates disappear? ;-;
But why there is no rank of "tourist" in magic?
No one is more deserving other than tourist himself
WHY NO TOURIST RATING HERE?????
How can I change my rank to Tourist?
Send me 1 bitcoin and I'll help u with that!
How can I change my color?I need link
here!
This feature will be available until January 10 (inclusive).
go to your account and click on magic section, or click here!
Happy new year! CodeForces will be better!:)
How to request a new handle btw? I don't understand
how can I roll back the original handle?
can I do Tourist?
I like this magic!
I can't use "Prakhs" even thought the person who is using (Prakhs) this is inactive since 2011.All conditions are being met, he has no comments or activity and has participated in 1 contest only. Please fix this. Tagging Sir MikeMirzayanov
good feature, sir!
"Please change my handle from I_love_Valya to I_love_Sveta, as I no longer love Valya..." MikeMirzayanov being savage.
Thank you Mike!I finally become Legendary Grandmaster!
I want tourists rank
You must do a special magic to LGM.
happy new year guys :)
i am unable to change my handle to Pluto, even tho the user has been inactive for 10 years. please look into this MikeMirzayanov
Nice
now I have a legendary grandmaster
Could I please have the handle cat? Its owner hasnt logged on for 8 years and I'd really like it :)
Even Santa can't make us TOURIST – we can earn it only through sheer hard work.
letgo!
nice
Happy New Year!
Very good round, very much liked it!
Seem that Santa's magic is not enough for us to become a tourist XD!
Be careful guys, new Legendary Grandmaster is in the town.
why we can't change to unrated
Hello guys, merry Christmas(also the Eve) and the New Year is around the corner. I also hope you can be happy all the year!
merry christmas guys
Nice
testing
you are so prom btw ;)
This 2025 I will be a candidate master !!!
Can someone help me with why am I not able to rename my handle to 'ashray'. I wasnt even able to do it last year T_T. the account with that username is inactive, no comments posted, no blogs, and last visited the platform 6 years ago MikeMirzayanov
happy new year everyone!
I was getting message as
Your handle can't be changed because you haven't participated in enough contests so what's the minimum number of contests you have to participate in order to change the handle?
Is this rated or unrated?
Seems tourist is much stronger than magic.
is Santa makes us tourist
I wish everyone good luck and success
Happy New Year, CodeForces! :)