I'm sadly announcing that a2oj.com (A2 Online Judge) will be retiring by end of 2019, I'll shut it down at midnight on New Year's Eve. It was something I took care of for about 10 years.

I'm really sorry, but I prefer not to explain my reasons, so please don't ask me why I'm doing this, it was hard enough for me to make this decision, and also please don't try to convince me to change my mind.

I'd like to say thank you to everyone who used it, and please accept my sincere apologies for shutting it down.

If you have something good to say about A2OJ (how you used it or how it helped you in any way), I'd love to read that, please send it to the following email (or in a comment here): bye@a2oj.com

Also please feel free to take a copy of any data you can access, and if you need some data in a specific format, please send your request to the following email: bye@a2oj.com (if the data isn't public, make sure to send from your registered and verified email which can access this data). I'll do my best to fulfill all requests.

Please only use the above email, because soon I'll be deactivating my personal Facebook account again, I'll also deactivate A2 Online Judge.

Edit 1: I'll keep a static version of all Ladders & Categories.

Edit 2: Here's how I generated the ladders, in case if anyone wants to implement it: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/47442

Edit 3: A2 Online Judge is shut down now, and a static version of all ladders and categories is available. And here are some final numbers for the record:

Database numbers:

  • 24,012,628 total number of database rows.
  • 99,242 registered users.
  • 33,133 created contests.
  • 1,581,430 submissions collected from other online judges.
  • 937,658 different source codes stored in the database.
  • 261,733 compiled and executed source codes (in 54 different languages).
  • 6,144,545 user solved problem entries (detected that a user solved a problem).
  • 377,580 problems added to contests.

Google Analytics numbers:

  • 30,265,387 page views.
  • 5,252,045 sessions.
  • 1,157,668 users.

Top 10 countries from Google Analytics:

  1. India
  2. Egypt
  3. Brazil
  4. United States
  5. Bangladesh
  6. Peru
  7. Jordan
  8. Syria
  9. Colombia
  10. Bolivia

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