I don’t usually write rants, but today pushed me to the edge. I was giving it my all in today’s Codeforces contest, grinding through the problems, one by one. After a solid struggle, I finally reached Problem 6—and managed to solve it just 1.5 minutes before the contest ended. Yes, you read that right. After all that mental effort, debugging, and optimizing, I had the code ready to go. The moment I clicked the problem to submit, then—nothing. The page refused to load.

I kept waiting, refreshing, trying different tabs, praying something would happen—but the site was completely frozen. With the timer ticking down, I sat there helpless, watching my hard work slip away not because of a bug, not because I was late—but because the servers couldn’t handle the load. After the contest ended, around 3 minutes later, the page finally responded—and guess what? My solution passed. It was accepted.(submission : 326975397)

The code was right. The logic was perfect. Everything was in place. But because of the server overload, that accepted solution won’t count in the standings. And that’s the part that stings the most. This isn’t the first time Codeforces has struggled during the final moments of a contest, but when it’s this costly—when you've done everything you possibly could—it's infuriating. Dear Codeforces team, we love this platform. We thrive on it. But this persistent server lag in the last minutes is crushing the motivation of so many participants. Please, take this seriously. Optimize the infrastructure, add load balancing—whatever it takes. Because we are doing our part. It’s time the platform holds up its end too.

I solved 6 problems today. But the scoreboard won’t show it. And that hurts more than any WA ever could.