Erdős: Search, Activity, πrates, etc.
Erdős is now an year old and has come a long way from when it was launched back in October 2013. As it continues to gain popularity among math geeks the world over, we have been silently working super hard to make it even better. Today, we’re unveiling lots of big improvements to Erdős!
Search
Tucked away neatly in the topbar, the search bar is accessible from everywhere and helps you discover users, problems, tags easily. This includes full-text search within problem statements as well as searching for a particular tag using square brackets, like this.
Searching for a user by name or username would return links to relevant user profiles as well as problems created by that user.
Searching for a tag would list all problems with that tag. For example, here we search for combinatorics.
It works just like you’d expect it to. Go give it a try.
Activity
In addition to activity across all problems on Erdős, you can also view recent submissions by a particular user or for a particular problem.
User Profiles
Lists were taking up too much space. Green highlights save space and look delicious.
Public profile information is now editable in profile settings.
Newsletter
We’re starting a newsletter service for Erdős. This will have upcoming competition details, new problems, feature additions and more. No spam of course. You can subscribe to it here.
Logo
Yes, we have a shiny new logo as well.
πrates
We are hosting πrates this weekend. It’s a 24-hour online contest with problems set by PAG and ₹7000 hard cash up for grabs, sponsored by Thomso!
Technical Details
- We’ve shifted to a custom Opauth-based multi authentication framework which enables us to support Single Sign-On across all our internet applications.
- Our newsletter service is powered by TinyLetter.
- We’re using Monolog to log all actions made through our robust admin panel.
That’s all for now. Head over to Erdős and give it a try if you haven’t already. More updates soon. Cheers!