In a memorable scene in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather: Part II”, Michael Corleone visits his dad, Vito Corleone’s room and remembers many things his dad had taught him. One of those many teachings was to “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” That saying of don Corleone is the motivation behind our “Sets” feature, developed by one of our young interns, Kartik Singal. This will help you keep a hawk’s eye on your friends and foes alike. So, in the name of the Godfather, the son, and the legend, Francis F. Coppola, let us give you a brief run on the feature to have you know how things will run in this neighborhood. 🙂
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To assemble your first Set, you need to go to your profile page, and click on the small “People” icon alongside the edit profile button. Yes that is a new addition to your profile page.
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It will open up a new page, where you need to enter your “Set name” and a small description of the set. Because, you know, it’s cool to have a well described set and it helps you remember, what this set is about, as you may want to have different sets for your foes and friends. Your first set gets created.
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Now, you can start populating it by adding members to your set by clicking on the “+” icon.
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This is where it gets interesting. There are various filtering criterias that you can apply before adding a user to your set. You can filter the members you want to add to your set on the basis of:
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His Country
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His Institution
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His default Programming Language
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His Long Contest Rating
- His Short Contest Rating
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Once you have selected your filter and entered value that you want for that filter, you need to “Apply” it before selecting the username to be added to your set. You may get some assistance in adding the value for any filter.
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You can apply multiple filters before moving to the Username field. Try and play around with it to see the power of zeroing on the right list of Usernames.
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Most of the filters have an auto suggest, except for the “Long & Short Ratings Filter”, where you need to manually enter the rating ranges separated by “::” e.g 2000::3000, which means users who have rating points between 2000 and 3000.
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Once you have applied all the filters, you will get a list of the usernames whom all the selected filters apply in the Username field as you type.
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Furthermore, you can do a lot more with your sets, including:
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Deleting one or more members from your set
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Renaming the set
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Delete the entire set
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View the ranks of your set members in our monthly contests
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View their contribution in our discussion forum.
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With this functionality at your disposal, it’s now your time to suit up and watch how your friends, and foes as well, are faring on CodeChef.
In creating his feature, Kartik, in the company with our chefs, has done his part in bringing you closer the people that matter to you the most and now it’s all up to you how you want to play around. The idea behind this feature is to apply these sets on various future features that we are going to build. Possibilities are many.
We hope you will love this and make use of it the most. However, if you have any concerns, or find any bugs write them to us at [email protected].
You can also find Kartik and if you do, feel free to thank him or thrash him for the bugs that may be there. 😛
Or you can just call us at: (022) – 30707709
Till next meeting, farewell everyone.
Regards,
Rudreshwar
Team CodeChef
there seems to be no such icon on my profile… i have not connected with facebook…is it required ?
Try to clear your browser cache and refresh the page. In case you still do not get it, send us a snapshot to [email protected].
there seems to be no such icon on my profile… i have not connected with facebook…is it required ?
even I can’t see such button … I have connected with facebook also
You need to clear your cache.
Open your profile page and press ctrl+F5.
I didn’t get list of username on the basis of filter by institute and country
You have to type the first few characters. The drop down will have the filtered list. If things are still not working, send us a snapshot to [email protected]
can a user’s sets be visible to other users?
can a user’s sets be visible to other users?
No, it’s private.
I didn’t get list of usernames after apply
You wont get a list until you type the first few characters of the user name. The drop down will have the filtered list.
is it possible to get the complete list of an institute?
No.
is it possible to get the complete list of an institute?
Also add the contest-based score of the set members to the contest home page like in the okrdx.com chrome plugin.
You will be able to apply the sets to the contest based rankings soon. We are working on revamping our rankings feature. So will see it soon.
I have made a set, but I am unable to view the performance of members in it.
I was reading this blog and I should say not only boys are coder here. So can you please change ‘his’ to ‘one’.
The UI to add filters,members to set has a very small height.
So small that the username field is not visible without scrolling
I am not able to add friends from my college , The + icon to add members is blocked , it is not click able.
Adding friends in set is more time consuming .
need some simplification for it !!!!!
why dont you have simple features like codeeforces . its so simple to make frineds on codeforces . Thats why people usually do codeforces more as compared to any other competitive sites . you know what i mean .. please make it more simple ..