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A Blog Post criticizing the new topcoder website

By StoneCold_, 9 years ago, In English

A Blog Post by Mimino . I hope the topcoder admins read this and do something about it.

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I read it some days ago, and totally agree with it!

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I'm sure they will. I'm working with TC admins to make sure points 2 (email notifications) and 4 (Marathons) are fixed — especially the Marathons! :-) 1 and 3 are harder to fix but we've discussed these issues at CAB meetings as well, so they won't be left unnoticed.

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    Can you shed some light on (4)? I'm curious because I talked several times with Ivan (first time was around 2 years ago) about that and he said that TC have plans to revive MMs. I just wonder where is (was?) the actual problem. AFAIK, there was several people that wanted to do some problem setting for MMs (including me) so I can rule this one out :)

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      Here is one bit of it — MM 86 has just started. The official announcement with more information should be coming soon.

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    Whoa, are you recruited as a TC admin now? :D

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      Nope. In that case I'd say "we did" and "we're working" :-)

      I'm just part of CAB, and my job is pretty much voicing the wants/needs of the community.

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We the community should let TC admins know that this post echoes all of our sentiments! Please at least offer the option to revert to the old theme (even if only for nostalgic purposes)

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I know about TopCoder for about 4 years from my programming friends, but I've never participate there, because I tried once to find competition but haven't found the URL of mainpage of competition, later once I have found, but they ask to write classes, but I didn't use to write classes, and didn't use C, C++ and Java, so I didn't proceed...

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So true...

By the way anyone received TCO2014 T-shirt yet?

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    Yes, I did and it was long ago (at least 2 months, probably even earlier)

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      Thanks, that means TC are still alive :)

      Perhaps just marathon T-shirts are slower? :)

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