Hello, Codeforces! I'm very happy to announce that a long-awaited "Push notifications" feature has been implemented and released to all of the Codeforces WatchR users in Google Play and App Store.

Now, once authenticated, you will be getting real-time push notifications on your and your followed users' rating updates. Isn't it amazing? What are you waiting for? Just go to the Google Play and App Store and give it a try!

Backend updates

To get this single feature done in the mobile apps we needed to implement many things on the backend. To be honest, we didn't succeed from the first try or even the second one. It took us a few months and many iterations to ship the stable version.

And in the meantime, some of you could notice certain instability in how the user updates and news were displayed. We do apologize for any inconveniences you experienced. Now it's all fixed and works perfectly well. I'm really proud of what denmen0207 learned and implemented to overcome the difficulties. Great job!

Future plans

Some amazing stuff is coming, so stay tuned. Some spoilers can be found here. Don't hesitate to post feature requests and bug reports on our official GitHub repo.

Dedication

This milestone is dedicated to the great French writer and pilot (did you know he was a pilot?) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, which is the author of probably the most known story in the French (and world) literature — The Little Prince. If you haven't read it yet, you should certainly postpone your next CP task, and read this book instead.

We are now searching for the author to feature in the next milestone, whose surname should start with "F". Please, comment with your suggestions.