Goodbye, 2024. Hello, 2025!
Dear Santa Claus,
Please make 2025 a happy year—not just for me, but for everyone. We all need this.
Hello, 2025!
And of course, we have our traditional gifts!
Change Handle Feature
Hurry! Until the 10th of January, you can change your handle (but only once)! Note that you can roll back the changes or request another handle change only after a year. Choose wisely!
You can change your handle to a new one that hasn’t been used by anyone else, or to one that you’ve previously used. Links to your old profile will automatically redirect to your updated profile.
Again this year, if you’ve participated in at least 10 rounds, you can request the handle of an inactive participant. This means the participant must have had a period of activity on Codeforces lasting at most 180 days, and this activity must have occurred in 2020 or earlier. The inactive participant must not have posted comments, messages, or similar content, and they must not have participated in more than 2 contests. In such cases, the handle will be automatically renamed, and the original owner will be notified via email. If the original user requests their handle back, we will roll back the change and restore your previous handle.
If you’re unable to change your handle, it means some of the requirements have not been met. Please do not ask me to intervene manually. I especially dislike requests such as, "This is my second account; I took an interesting handle myself." I'm not Santa Claus!
Speaking of handles, I always reminisce about one particular story. Once, a user sent me this 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 your profile settings. Happy New Year!
nice bro, codeforces go ahead
where is tourist in magic
I think it's exclusive :D. It should be so yeah.
lmao I saw the background and refreshed 5-6 times and thought it was a bug until I looked closely and saw the snowflakes.
Have to change my Dark Reader mode to "Filter" instead of "Dynamic" to make the background less intrusive :(
There you go :)
This is REALLY awesome!
:)
Advance Happy New Year 2025 to the amazing Codeforces community! Wishing you all a year full of high ratings, better problem-solving skills, and exciting learning opportunities. Let’s make 2025 incredible!
Every year codeforces has this gift. But this year it will be more interesting because of the 'tourist'.
well... :(
However, I have tried to do that, But I can't find "tourist"
Tourist's magic was stronger than Santa's magic.
where Tourist
Let's Go! Happy new year to everyone.
How can I change my rank to Tourist?
I guess Tourist Rank has such an aura, that we can't even feel it with Santa's magic...
get 4000+ rating
wanna change to Tourist
I hope at the end of this year i reach expert
i forgot my password, how do i change it
Great news btw.
finally, the only thing that makes Holidays feels like HOlidays has come!
That is a 2 year old meme pal
shit I remember seeing this one last year
fun fact: this meme is half of his comments
Santa is real!
Am I the only one who checked these accounts ?
I_love_Valya
I_love_Sveta
nope, you're not
Let me make a final Legendary comment for this Legendary Title at a Legendary Rating.
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It would be great if you could change handle to the occupied one if the owner of the said handle is blocked
Hope that everything will go well in 2025, and I wanna be a MASTER. Codeforces goes ahead, and hope everyone can be better next year.
But all in all, HAPPY NEW YEAR, bro.
I can't use "reyleigh" even thought the person who is using (reyleigh) this is inactive since 2020 please fix this. Tagging Sir MikeMirzayanov.
EDIT : It's fixed thanks Sir MikeMirzayanov.
My name is omega now >w<
how to change handle?
account -> settings -> handle
It is telling me that I haven't participated in enough contests to change the handle. How much should I take part to change !?
Looks good
Merry Christmas!
Even Tourist can't become Tourist.
suggest any hazardous threatening handle name (innovative)
not even santa can make me turn into a tourist
Excuse me, how to request the handle of an inactive participant.
Happy New Year!!!
No unrated??
Fine , Happy new year to everyone :)
The next contest will be a huge mess
Definitely
It's a huge mess now
Why I can't change my name to "near"? It looks like all the conditions are met. Can you change my nickname to this one, please?
Thank you and love you Mike! Happy New Year!
where is tourist
Thank you I can finally be my true colour! Happy new year
Now, I can comment anything and my comment will gets upvotes.
Урааа волшебство
thx mike
wow!
This is the magic of this magical community.
Happy New Year!
Not everbody
As a -50 rated, I can confidently say I deserve the LGM.
How can you achieve -50 , respect++
Tourist masquerade when
For those who are thinking about user "I_love_Sveta"
Check out that post and comment...
Ура я грос
MikeMirzayanov Can we take username of a disabled user ?
Sorry for tagging MikeMirzayanov, I can't change the name Raven even through that user has inactived for 12 years (~2011,2012)
Me too. I tried to change to the handle "Mosaab", and it is inactive, but it failed.
why no Headquarters in Magic?
Why can't I make it tourist:/
Finally I don't need to study anymore to be a grandmaster
Happy New Year!
Good luck to all users!
I want ....
MikeMirzayanov, How do I request the handle of an inactive user? as it says "This handle is currently in use".
were you able to change?
i tried to change my handle to a handle of inactive user that participated in 2 contests and he didn't open his account since 2014. what is problem??
When the badges for supporting Codeforces(15 years) appears?
merry christmas and happy new year.. and yeah ronaldo is the goat :)
Hello I am trying to take a username that is inactive from 5 years with no contests. But when i try to enter it in the handle section it says "handle currently in use". Why it's happening is it because somebody else has requested for that handle ?
It would be great if you had put feature for changing colour and rank in April's Fool week MikeMirzayanov as it is difficult to trust the comments and blog
I am the lowest rated LGM rated in the last 6 months!
letss gooo !
Taking the expert rank because everyone else is GM now won't make you special.
MikeMirzayanov still having great ideas. Thank you so much, sir.
wow I am legendary grandmaster now with the help of magik ✨
Happy New year !!
As every year: 2022 2023 2024 and 2025:
I'll work hard in 2025!!
low i am a legendary gm at 1000 elo now
I thank some random Bangladeshi guy for saving the username for me!
The santa hat Mike is wearing seems photoshopped
Yes! Thanks for the gift sir, now I can temporarily change my color to match my target for this year.
Also a small change to handle is nice, thanks a lot.
Finally become LGM this 20 days.
Will the color of our rates disappear? ;-;
But why there is no rank of "tourist" in magic?
WHY NO TOURIST RATING HERE?????
How can I change my rank to Tourist?
Send me 1 bitcoin and I'll help u with that!
How can I change my color?I need link
here!
This feature will be available until January 10 (inclusive).
Happy new year! CodeForces will be better!：）
How to request a new handle btw? I don't understand
how can I roll back the original handle?
can I do Tourist?
I like this magic!
I can't use "Prakhs" even thought the person who is using (Prakhs) this is inactive since 2011.All conditions are being met, he has no comments or activity and has participated in 1 contest only. Please fix this. Tagging Sir MikeMirzayanov