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November 6th, 2009

Your Contest Feedback

At the risk of over-taxing our ancient database, we’ve enabled live updating of the “Queue and Top 20” pages. Hopefully this will reduce confusion about missing entries and improve the interactivity of the contest.

The contest runs on a set of old Perl (frontend) and MATLAB (backend) code, most of which is about 10 years old now. Fortunately, this spring we’re planning to rewrite the contest to use the same modern web architecture that runs the rest of MATLAB Central. This is an opportunity to make some significant improvements, or at least create a better platform for doing so in the future.

We have our own wishlist, sculpted by all the feedback we’ve received over the years, but we’d like to try an experiment. We’ve set up a forum to collect your feedback about the MATLAB Contest on UserVoice. We encourage you to login and contribute a new idea, or just vote up the ones you like. Obviously, we won’t be able to act on all the feedback we receive, but your input will help us prioritize.

By Matthew Simoneau

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One Response to “Your Contest Feedback”

  1. Nick Howe replied on November 7th, 2009 at 01:48 UTC :

    As Alan noted, the Twitter feeds seem broken. Perhaps the change to the queue update timing was responsible?

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