Hi,
> I favor the idea to make a better competition platform. I'm concerned a > little that major changes are made without any public announcement and > discussion; I'd like Code Jam team to publish information about new and > upcoming changes, so that it would be possible to learn about them before > participating in a round. > Publishing the new system and UI before competitive rounds is exactly what we did, so people could practice on them before the actual rounds. That's how we are discussing these several weeks before Code Jam's first round. I haven't checked every one, but I'm pretty sure most, if not all, of our promotional materials do tell people to go and do practice problems before rounds. I'm sorry can't go into point by point discussion on design decisions again. As I said before, I personally agree/disagree with your comments to varying degrees depending on the specific comment, but what I personally think is only one among several inputs that go into the decision making process for the UI design. As I said in the previous email, there are competing priorities which means sometimes a specific user will get a version of feature X that is not their favorite. We'll also sometimes get things wrong or sub-optimally in our first try, and we look forward to improve over the years. > For some reason, the warning message is shown in Chromium but not in > Firefox. An orange triangle next to Sign In button appears in both > browsers. (It was fixed for some time, but not anymore). > I just tried it and it works as expected on Firefox on my computer (I see both the warning sign in the sign in button and the banner below with the spelled out explanation and instructions to allow the necessary cookies). Would you mind sending some details (screenshot, URL, the JS console output if you can, exact OS and browser) to [email protected], so we can track it down? Thanks! > * The text "Finalized" or "In review" is shown in such a place that it > looks like a column heading. > * The numbers in the scoreboard (total attempts and penalty attempts for > each problem) are not explained, so most people who look at the scoreboard > would not understand their meaning. > * It is possible to view a user's submissions by clicking a nick name, but > most people don't know this because the interface doesn't indicate that it > is possible. I think that either each nick name should be made look like a > hyperlink, or there should be a separate "View submissions" button in every > row. Or open the list of submissions when the user clicks anywhere in the > row, not just on the nick name. > > I'll add your comment about finalized/in review to our list. The other two were already there, hopefully they'll get better soon enough. Sorry I can't make specific promises about when those will be tackled. > That's all for now. I hope to see more people discussing this. There were > a couple of replies recently, but I think that the number of people > concerned about this is much higher (my Codeforces post about this > currently has 451 upvotes). > Just so you and everyone else is aware, we have the policy of not monitoring CJ feedback on any external (to Google) forum. If you or someone you know has feedback that can/should be actioned, please ask them to either use this list or contact us privately at [email protected]. They can also use our social channels, but it's a less efficient form of communication for system-type feedback. Best, Pablo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/CANa5jcCEWF1wBWCGv7s5DveNwyHKFxqBjLVGxznZO0W3n0BEMg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
