Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Things wrong with Hackerrank w.r.t competitive coding

1. Leader board consists of only scores. Even if I unlocked the solution, I can't search for specific user to see his solution.
You can go to problem-wise leader board, but then that is sorted by submission time and not with total highest score. So, if i wanted to search how a user A, solved problem X, I can't do it easily.


2. Doesn't remember the search key used in filter, nor shows previously searched keys as drop-down. Each time I have to type a college name and few colleges have different entries in their database as student entered it as per their convenience example III H, IIIT Hyderabad and International Institute Of Information Technology. All are same college, but needs to be searched differently. And hence we don't see a common college leaderboard either.

3. You can't rate editorials. Some problems have great editorials but we can't rate them.

4. No comment section on editorials

5. Author and Tester should get back on editorial if people have further questions about their editorial

6. One of the biggest drawback, Hackerrank loves to keep lot of free space in the UI. They should try to shrink it a little bit. Once a page loads, half of the screen is taken up by menu, problem name in very big font, and another big tabbed-menu.

7. They have a irc channel http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=hackerrank, but it's a ghost town. No easy way to give feedback and even if it read sometimes by any mods in discussion forum, you find them less enthusiastic to talk about it.

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