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On Sponsored Rounds
By Um_nik, history, 21 month(s) ago, In English

I'm all for companies sponsoring CF rounds and getting PR from it, authors deserve the salary, and CF has to get money for those somehow (paid rounds anyone?). But can we please stick to numbering for rounds instead of putting random words in the name (or keeping the number in the brackets)?

That's what my folders for rounds look like (and I don't like it):

Example from AtCoder

Example from Codeforces, lol, why can't we do it every time?

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21 month(s) ago, # |
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Just use contest id instead of name: it's easy to get contest link from contest id and vice verca. The only disadvantage is that it's not strictly increasing with time

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    21 month(s) ago, # ^ |
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    Migration will be a pain...

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    21 month(s) ago, # ^ |
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    I use contest date, it is usually strictly increasing with time. Sometimes I append _contest_name, like 2022-01-03_hello. However, the suggestion to include contest index in the name still makes sense

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      21 month(s) ago, # ^ |
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      I used that years ago, but then I forget really fast what was the particular contest that I wrote on that day, so it is not very helpful if I want to find my code for a problem from a particular contest afterwards.

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    21 month(s) ago, # ^ |
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    My CF folder is organised exactly like this:

    ...
> 14xx
> 15xx
> 16xx
v 17xx
  ...
  > 175x
  v 176x
    > 1760
    > 1761
    > 1764
    v 1766
      > a.cpp
      > b.cpp
      > c.cpp
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Come on Um_nik!! Make a program for this! XD

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21 month(s) ago, # |
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Your dream has come true! (just once, though)

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