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By PurpleThinker, 3 years ago, In English

An interesting milestone was achieved: 100000 blog entries on Codeforces! Codeforces has come a long way and 100000 blogs is yet another reminder of the international CP community that Codeforces helped to create. It's a good opportunity to thank MikeMirzayanov (and the other CF admins) for this amazing platform, which is not just a contest & problem archive, but also a means for people to gather from all around the world to discuss about CP. I hope that Codeforces will last for the years and decades to come (and thus also get to the millionth blog post :) ).

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A fun game I invented is replacing the digits at the end of the blog url with some random ones and seeing what they lead me to.

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    When you write an essay of at least 20000 words on codeforces

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Great milestone, just shows the importance of Codeforces in bringing together people to discuss competitive programming.

However, I wonder how many of those are just blogs asking for trivial advice (for which you can almost always find a blog in recent actions already) or some spam blog, or stuff titled "a question" that just copy-pastes question from some hiring test without any context/formatting, or some cheating blog in more recent times.

Just because there's a lot of data doesn't mean there's a lot of useful information in it.

Edit: for people like me who can't count, this is the $$$10^5$$$-th blog on Codeforces. Don't ask me how I counted the zeros.

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Congratulations!

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meanwhile polygon have more than $$$200\,000$$$ problems