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I think I just detected a wonderful loophole in this scoring method.

1) Mandatory gender and country? Seriously, why? Even e-mail shouldn't be mandatory IMO. Hitting 'Enter' on register/login forms doesn't work as submit, I need to grab the mouse for that (especially annoying on a programming-related site)

2) The "How are programs run" section is completely useless. It's never mentioned how is my code actually invoked, just how it is compiled (when applicable). Let's take C for example, it says 'gcc contestx.c -o contestx.c'. Assuming the argument to '-o' is a typo, this way of compilation includes linking... so it seems I'll need `int main()` to avoid linker errors, but what's to be in `main`, I'm never told. I'm just assuming .c code is just `-c` and `dlopen`ed, but I'm not sure, since 15 minutes after submitting a solution, there's still no feedback.

Other nitpickery includes email validation code that's not clickable (okay, this is arguably a good thing) and other stupid memes implemented on the site like asking for the email twice or showing me my local time in the upper-right corner even though all other times on the site are displayed in the server's time zone (e.g. upper-right corner shows 16:45, but the solution I just sent is shown as submitted at 7:45)

I created www.amebopost.com. I am extremely sorry if I annoyed anyone. If I had known that I'd be getting this many users, I would have endeavored to make it more professional and thoroughly fix the bugs before making the site online.

My original goal was to create an avenue where Nigerian programmers could convene and share programming ideas and code.

The About Page was just me being Silly. It will be taken down.

On a different note, in the longest palindrome problem, the C++ function header doesn't pass (or return) references, which seems to be amateurish.

It sounds like Project Euler except code size, code speed, and code submission time matter. Neat idea but how's this significantly different? Project Euler already has a huge number of challenges, a leader board, and a vibrant community. What differentiates amebopost?

The problem details aren't shown, only a brief description. User clicks a button "accept challenge", is given problem details, and the server starts recording time until a solution is submitted. Base points on that time difference.

Sure, there are loopholes (such as someone else posting the question on another website so you can create a solution before accepting the challenge). I think it's better than checking for new problems and get lucky by noticing a new challenge came out very recently and there are no submissions.