Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Things perfect with Codeforces

Perfect with codeforces:

1. Robust UI with no fancy css or hanging elements or moving elements.
2. Friends Raning is great
3. Sort solutions to a problem in practice area or contest by execution time, size.
4. Can message some user.
5. You can see friends rating changes.
6. Can easily see test cases that failed (partial test case in case it is very huge)


Things fixed in codeforces that topcoder lacks

1. Easy navigation from problem to rankings, solutions, self-submissions.
2. Easy navigation to editorials.
3. Easy navigation to discussion forum.
All above 3 points are pain-full in TopCoders. And TC doesn't release editorials for many SRMs and which are released are so late, that you forget the problem.
4. Lightweight UI. Any page of codeforces doesn't take more than 45 MB on my ubuntu 32bit machine in firefox. The webarena of TC is not yet fully in working condition. And I think they have just made it even harder to navigate, given the heavy elements in the browser arena.


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