Hi, I'd like to share some problems with the new UI that I found during the qualification round and the round 1A:
1. The panel with questions and answers is too narrow. During the qualification round, an answer that was posted for everyone included an URL that was not displayed properly because is was longer than the width of the panel. 2. The editor is supposed to store its content separately for each problem, and switch between codes when switching between problems. However, at one point during the qualification round, I switched between problems, but my code for the previous problem remained in the editor. This happened only once, and I was unable to reproduce this later, but it still raises questions about the editor's reliability. This is not an issue for me, since I use a real IDE and have all my codes stored in files, but the UI encourages typing the code directly into the editor, so some participants may rely on it and then suddenly have their code lost in the middle of a round. In general, it would be great if the editor could save the code to the server and also keep the entire edit history, like a Google Docs document. 3. It was already reported before that it is not possible to scroll problem statements using arrow keys, and this has yet to be fixed. Another related issue is that scrolling the editor using a mouse wheel doesn't work properly as well. If you turn the mouse wheel slowly, the editor will scroll, but if you turn it quickly, the editor will scroll a bit and then stop. 4. There is almost no margin below the problem statement. Even if the problem statement is scrolled as much to the bottom as possible, the last line is just near the edge of the browser window. 5. During a round, the scoreboard auto-refreshes once in a while. When this happens, it switches to page 1 by itself, and the number of rows per page resets to 10. 6. When I open the scoreboard, sometimes the problems are shown in the wrong order (for round 1A: Alien Rhyme, Golf Gophers, then Pylons) for a short amount of time. This can be reliably reproduced by clearing the browser's local storage and then reloading the page. So, the new UI still has lots of bugs. I hope that they will be eventually fixed, and that the last year's UI (at https://codejam.withgoogle.com/2018/) will keep working in the meantime. For some reason, that UI didn't have that many bugs (but the UI that was used in 2017 and earlier is even better). -- 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/73f9d1c9-a8e7-46d6-9ee0-df6420c5ad8c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
