Dear Santa Claus. Please make 2023 a happy year, not just that. Please, we all need this.
Hello, 2023!
And we have traditional gifts!
Change Handle Feature
Hurry! Only until the 10th of January, you can change your handle (but only once)! Note that it will be possible to roll back the changes or change the handle again only after a year. Be careful what you wish for.
You can change your handle to the new one which wasn't used before by anybody or which was used by you before. The links to a profile page with an old handle would automatically redirect to the actual profile.
Again, this year if you took part in at least 10 rounds you can request a handle of an inactive participant. It means that the participant should have a period of activity on Codeforces of at most 180 days, this period should be in 2020 or earlier. The inactive participant can't have posted comments, messages, and so on. It can't take part in more than 2 contests. It will be automatically renamed and informed by email. A user has the opportunity to request back his/her handle: in this case, we will roll back the change and return your previous handle to you. If you can't change your handle to another, it means that some requirements don't meet. Please do not ask me to do something with it. Especially, I do not like requests like "this is my second account, I took an interesting handle myself". I'm not Santa Claus.
Talking about handles I always
reminisce the following story. Once a user wrote me the message: "Please change my handle from I_love_Valya to I_love_Sveta, as I no longer love Valya ..."
New Year's Masquerade of Colors and Ranks
The traditional magical tab has appeared in the profile setting. Happy New Year!
Goodbye 2021, hello 2022? Mike, you slept so long, that you missed 2022)
2021 was badguy ,so no goodbye:)
please turn negative contribution to zero as a new year gift. MikeMirzayanov
we don't do that here!
It will soon be 2023. I wish everyone success and happiness. Happy New Year 2023!
Don't comment for contribut
Happy New year!
3 Years Ago, Mike!
Merry Christmas to All!
Wishing for a great year ahead for everyone!!
Thank you Mike!
Dude, why it is showing International Master on your profile? BTW wishing you a great year ahead!
Christmas Magic ✨✨!!
But it's still showing specialist on mine. No Christmas for me? :')
Oh I just found out how to do it
how ?
There's a magic tab on your profile, and it literally works magic.
hehe
interesting
in sha Allah this year will be greatest year for us brothers
go and bomb somewhere else
you're just saying how stupid you are
bro look at his profile picture
So racist dude >:(
https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/bundesliga/bayern-munich-star-rafinha-issues-apology-after-dressing-up-as-arab-bomber-for-halloween/news-story/f806f10a94abfa73e0f2265ed1c2dc92
source of photo
What does this photo have to do with this peacful dude here? He is saying that from behind a screen. You can't actually know if he is the real guy in the photo or not.
cmon guys this is a joke lets go cool ourselves and do something else, ok?
Yeah, you right. Let's just enjoy christmas time :)
zuus, your profile picture contains gun. So you are the violent one here visibly and verbally. Don't spread toxicity in this beautiful platform with your toxic mind.
with magic!
Marry ChristMas :)
Among us
History repeats itself xD
merry christmas
Merry Christmas to you too ❤️.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Codeforces:)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year :)
happy new year
Happy New Year! Hope everyone become Legendary Grandmaster!
Colorforces
Merry Christmas yall!
merry christmas and happy new year to all!
Merry Christmas, everyone!
A very Happy New year
Fake newbies, pupils, ......, igm, lgms are everywhere. Like me (I'm a pupil, but I changed to specialist)
Can MikeMirzayanov change his handle's rank (to lgm) ?
how to chnage ?
Place: CF/Your Profile/Magic Enter Password and choose rank
Can we keep these snowflakes on the background forever they are soooo pretty
So , you can be grandmaster without being grandmaster ;lol
Happy New Year!!!
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Many of us desire to change the username. Well done CodeForces!
Hope next year will be awesome! Merry Christmas!
Finally red, thanks MikeMirzayanov now I can stop CP
LGM Everywhere!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR and Merry Christmas To all coders out there !!
where's december's div 4 :?
Can anyone explain why I can't change my handle to "ClHg2"? I think I satisfy all the conditions.
There's no way for you to verify if a user has send PM and that's blocking already
this one is lit;);)
It was an awesome year, Damascus cpc brought me back to competitive programming and to this amazing community, thanks for every problemsetter and every tester, you made my year guys!! ❤️
How to request the handle of an inactive participant?
mina has been inactive for 7 years and I want this handle xD
Merry Christmas!
Today, I become Newbie again. So interesting magic!
how everyone is changing their rating colour?
In your profile, you can see "magic".
Le* LGMforces
MikeMirzayanov and the entire CodeForces Army wish you a Merry Christmas.
Next year can be your best year, and I hope we can achieve "Red" (LGM everywhere) or at least Purple.
___________________ ___________________
as a tester! I would say Hocus Pocus Abrakadabra is real.
MikeMirzayanov
How can i get this handle from this user barkat ?
Merry Christmas!!!
I'm back for the 3rd year in a row to ask about getting the handle of a broken account back... here's what I wrote about it last year:
Last year, about when the account I want to steal the handle from should have its latest activity, the announcement said it "should be in 2019 or earlier". But I suspected this was a typo and it was supposed to actually say 2018, which was why I wasn't able take it.
Now the announcement says the latest activity should be in 2020, which is probably wrong again, it should say 2019. But, although emorgan has its latest activity on 2019-11-11, I still can't take the handle! I still get the same error message! Does this feature even work at all?
did you do any texting from that account?
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Happy new year.Hope you all achieve LGM.
After Argentina's world cup victory, everyone in my friend list changing their profile picture to "Lionel Messi's trophy carrying photo" , I don't know who is who because everybody's profile is looking the same..... So, this " MAGIC " feature on codeforces will do the same I think, now everybody is a Legendary Grandmaster and everyone's profile is looking the same.
Yellow suits me the most
so how to request an inactive user's handle?
()
I have been waiting the whole year for this day to request a specific name from an inactive account.. Ummm.. Should I capitalize the "m" of mortal now :\
Happy New Year everyone <3
Hey dude, you should not publicly tell your proposed username, or else some really sick person(obviously not me) might take it before you.
Jesus Christ was a prophet of God and not his son. God is one, he was not born, nor he begets. God is not a human that he gets a son. Human are just his creation. He is way above that. He has no comparison. God has blessed you all coders with such intelligence so why you don't reflect on the above? Don't lie to yourself, use reason and accept the truth, so you may succeed in the hereafter.
May Allah bless you.
I think there are people that celebrate christmas without really thinking about jesus
what the hell bro. Why you gotta bring your god damn allah in everything. What muslims know other than marrying 5 women(3 of which are their own sister) and having 5 children with each of them and just keep on increasing the illetrate population around the globe
Muslims don't marry 5, the limit is 4. It is one's choice whether he marries one or four. Except countries like India, most other countries like US have more female population than man, and in the past, man population was significantly less than women since man mostly die in wars and by other causes. So it's logical that polygamy should be allowed. No Muslim marries his/her siblings. Islam permits one to marry his or her cousin and there is nothing wrong if they wish to marry. Islam is inclusive religion, it is for all, it is for poors, it is for rich, it is for illiterates, it is for educated. All are equal in front of Allah. May Allah bless you and guide you. Happy new year.
Happy Holidays!!
Hello Codeforces, Lot of people are asking me how you have changed the colour/rank on your profile so I am writing this post.
I am also providing direct link for the following steps.
To change handle: https://codeforces.me/settings/handle and To change color: https://codeforces.me/settings/rank
Please upvote if found helpful.
I'm unable to change my profile handle to Ashray from Ashrayy, Link to his inactive profile (0 comments, 0 constests, 0 submissions, 0 contributions) https://codeforces.me/profile/ashray Help :/
afaik magic happens
how to make a request to get a used handle ?
Real CPers don't crush. We don't do that here
Amen brother.
Merry Christmas and happy new year to all!
If I change my Handle this time before 10 January. Will I be able to change it again after a year in January 2024?
yes
Merry Christmas and happy new year!
so cool!
I wish 2023 allows everyone to reach their goals that they are so passionate about! Happy New Year Codeforces Community!
Ah! I'm glad I registered before most people with my name. At least I got a good handle. Happy new Year Codeforces!
Merry Christmas! :)
Wish everyone a 2023 full of positive rating delta !
merry xmas
Goodbye 2022, hello 2023 I wish this new year is a good year for me and all
happy new year
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL
After I submitted a solution, it showed me "Accepted" instead of "Happy New Year!"
Please fix it!
MikeMirzayanov I want to change my user handle to Andalus, which is currently with an inactive user Andalus. However, I suspect that the only reason why I'm unable to do so is because I myself sent a message to this user a few months ago, requesting their handle. The message is still unread now.
I understand the reasoning for why we can't claim the handle of someone who has any private messages, but can an exception please be considered if the user's only private messages are unread incoming messages from the user who is requesting their handle?
Just use capital i "I" instead of small l in the handle ,why bother MikeMirzayanov for that ?
Hocus Pocus, Abrakadabra!
hahaha
Happy New year!
Merry Christmas to all!
Merry Christmas!
Expect the round with hundreds of Legendary Grandmasters!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
how do i take an inactive user handle? I want to take
flecart handle, but it doesn't let me. but i think it's clear that it is an inactive user.
Hey Mike,
Is there any chance to make the NY event background togglable? I can't use dark mode anymore and it's incredibly hard for me to watch the white screen.
Install stylus extension and add user style for codeforces.com
body { background: none !important; }
Where do I add that line? in Opera GX
Goto stylus settings, select 'Write new style on the left', paste the CSS above to the big area, and add rule for domain to the bottom of that area by clicking + next to 'Everything'
Thanks, but I guess this doesn't work in OperaGX tho, sadly.
EDIT: I guess I did something wrong, can't get it working in Chrome either.
If you use dark reader, open the dev tools, search for codeforces and under CSS, write body { background: none !important; }
OperaGX has built-in 'Force Dark Pages' so I don't use any external extensions, ty tho
What a masquerade!
Where is No.12345 Floating Island?
This is a rated contest or not??
This is not a rated contest.
Finally I become red handle in this special timing.
You can change your handle to the new one which wasn't used before by anybody or which was used by you before. The links to a profile page with an old handle would automatically redirect to the actual profile
Does this mean that if I used to have a handle
abc
and changed toxyz
, thenabc
cannot be reclaimed by anyone including myself ever again?If I have an account with username
abc
and rating 1700(not real) and another account with usernamexyz
and rating 0. And If I change myabc
account username intoxyz
, is all my rating will be 0 (according to my xyz account rating)?Can I change my username to a username that belongs to a banned account?
Where do we request for a username that belongs to an inactive user?
Till when will Magic colors and ranks be available? MikeMirzayanov
Well, I thought that the "magic" feature is till 10th. Why is it still available?