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{"managingGroups":{},"author":"imranziad","updateTime":1532533063000,"title":"Bug in Contest Openness Settings","dislikeCnt":0,"content":"Recently I have come across a somewhat well known(is it?) case where the contest openness settings in Vjudge doesn\u0027t work as expected. Updating the privacy settings of a contest doesn\u0027t really **update** the user\u0027s end until they logout (refreshing the page doesn\u0027t work). I don\u0027t know if it\u0027s intentional and in my opinion it shouldn\u0027t be. Whatever the reason is I think contest managers should be aware of the situation.\n\nFor contests those are initially set to **private**, if we update the settings to anything else and someone has already opened the contest page, he/she needs to relogin in order to propagate the changes. This is not that big of a deal as we can always do some extra work.\n\nBut updating a contest from **public** to **private** is kind of a serious matter. Once users load the contest page (even before the contest begins) while it\u0027s still public, regardless of a change in settings they are able to see the problems and even submit solutions as long as they don\u0027t logout.\n\nIf it\u0027s a bug, I hope it will be fixed soon. In the mean time, be aware of the openness settings at the time of creating a contest.","threadId":32161,"likeCnt":9,"createTime":1532533063000,"isWorkbook":false,"viewCnt":1895,"openness":2,"fav":false,"id":536,"trustable":false}