> 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.
What promotional materials? The only official promotion that I know about is via Code Jam Facebook page, Twitter and YouTube channel, and I don't remember any of those actually encouraging users to practice. Also, there was no announcement telling that there is a new UI this year, and how it is different from previous years. The only way to test the new UI is by participating in a different competition (such as Kick Start), and I think that many Code Jam users don't care about Kick Start, so the first time they try the new UI would be during the qualification round. Some other competitions solve this by holding "test" or "warm up" rounds that come before other rounds and are optional. This way, participants get to test the new system. Kick Start had such a round, but Code Jam hadn't, and, as I said before, many Code Jam users don't care about Kick Start, so maybe Code Jam needs a practice round of its own. By the way, there is a lot of important information that IMO should be present on the main Code Jam page: * About the new UI, as I just said. * That the finals will be held in San Francisco (this information is posted all over social media channels, but for some reason completely missing from the Code Jam website itself). * That there will be no Distributed Code Jam this year (this was previously on the main page, but now this is only mentioned in the FAQ. By the way, I would love to see DCJ return next year). > > 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! After further investigation, I found that the message was hidden by an ad blocker, because of having cookies-message class. > 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. Why? There are much more users posting about their Code Jam experience on Codeforces than on this list. Frankly speaking, Codeforces is a much better discussion medium than this list because it doesn't have premoderation, supports formatting and images and has a better UI. Also, there is a Codeforces account under the name Bartosz Kostka which posts some announcements for Code Jam and Kick Start. In some of them, he uses links with UTM parameters specifically indicating that the link is from a Codeforces post, like this: https://codingcompetitions.withgoogle.com/kickstart?utm_medium=post&utm_source=codeforces&utm_campaign=reg_promo&src=Online/TOPs/KS. It seems unlikely that someone outside of Google would do this, so I have a question: were those links posted by a Google employee? -- 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/6314e67f-e604-4832-a2f9-12fa63ae03e8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
