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Yup, a disappointment
Hallooo, Can't we get back the old format?

The link to the solver's AuthorInfo is useful in the new format. We can easily go for "The Name of the Solver" along with the link to his/her "AuthorInfo".

Suppose some 1000 people solved a problem. You're ranked around 500. Now if you want to know all the people with a better timing than you, You'll have to click all those 500 links, what a terrible thing to do. Which was just the matter of a glance in the old format. & obviously you could see the detailed author info by searching the author's name if necessary in that format.

I was refering to some thing like this :

<a href="link to AuthorInfo">Name of the Solver</a>

In this case we can have the positives of both the older version and the current version. But offcourse this should not be my headache, and there are good people thinking about what is best for this wonderful site. Just consider it as a suggestion.

Check this out:
http://www.duleba.net/uva_ranking.html

Sample dynamic output:
http://www.duleba.net/cgi/top100.cgi?prob=10834

Hope you like it.

Nice job.

This is just great! Thank you!

Its just ... GREAT

Glad to hear that.

Now the site is mirrored on a much faster host, it should definitely improve load balance.

I agree with the previous people.
The old format is better than new one.

why are you, the administrators, are callous to the voice of us demanding the old format?

Ferdous wrote:why are you, the administrators, are callous to the voice of us demanding the old format?

When you make a request, you ask very, very politely
You're probably ruining any chances of getting what you want.

Ferdous wrote:why are you, the administrators, are callous to the voice of us demanding the old format?

AFAIK the problem with the old format is that the current UVa servers were not able to handle the load of the additional queries necessary to make it.

And while I think that this could be handled (e.g., caching, query optimizations, etc.), the maintainers of the UVa judge probably lack the necessary time and manpower to do it.

My site handles id -> name mapping with no additional load for UVA server, so it can be done.

I don't understand these things well but it seems that the extra load requred is handeled by your site. If your program was located on UVa server the load would have been on UVa setver.

The submission history only contains user ID so some load should be required to map it with original names although those can be optimized, I don't know how as I know nothing about how UVa works (As I told before I am not actually an admin). Also abednego has sme nice tools on UVa. It is possible to put a link to all of them on UVa site provided they don't dramatically increase load.

Krzysztof Duleba wrote:My site handles id -> name mapping with no additional load for UVA server, so it can be done.