Hi everyone, the word is out that the community function of brilliant will be discontinued by July 2. The time brilliant community resumes is currently unknown, yet it is a good function and I still want to stay in contact with you guys.
So is there a substitution website for brilliant community? If not, can anyone create one? Or would Padlet and Email be helpful as well? Comment below if you have any ideas!
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Hi! Fellow members. This is CS. I probably have provided the most solutions in this community. I am from Malaysia. I will be proposing to a local university to host this community. If the proposal get through I would need as many of us to join the new community. Hope that everyone will support then.
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Thank you for your efforts sir, we really appreciate it!
Count on me!
Thank you so much sir!!!
Hope everything goes very well. I'm very glad many people take an initiative to help gather all the data. Let's work together!
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There are also some good problems posted by other users years ago who used to be active. I am not sure how I can reach them without the contact. However, I can try recovering some questions I find interesting. I'm currently browsing. @Michael Mendrin is one of the STEM artists I showed a lot of appreciation to as he is super creative with the questions.
You have served the community better than most of us, respect. 🤙
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Thanks for your appreciation
Thanks a lot sir! Really appreciate it!
Sir I have learnt a lot from your solutions, so I can't thank you enough for what you have done for the community. What I see is that you are the one having the biggest loss due to this. All the best for the proposal!
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Thanks for your appreciation
Im in......
Count on me, CS
How about making a facebook group also?
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A quora space would also be good enough for posting and solving questions
Can someone send the discord link to me?
@Brilliant Mathematics Are the discussions going to be deleted? Or will community members still be able to comment on old discussions? I am really disappointed the community is going away...
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One question though: can you leave the community unmanaged, but it would be still there?
I think that the old discussions will be (unfortunately) deleted or else brilliant would not have given an option to download....
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Yeah, I feel the same way...
I just wrote a note to the Brilliant staff-- I don't expect a change of heart, but I thought I'd share.
Hello Brilliant staff,
I understand that your decision to "sunset" the community features may be necessary, as a business needs to delineate its niche deliberately. I am sure that many will profit from your online courses. You do great work as educators.
Still, I'd like to express my disappointment. Brilliant was also a platform for those who liked to "play" more freely with mathematics, and we had much fun exchanging and challenging each other. The open format attracted several participants who came for this, both learners and some of us more seasoned contributors, who gave you some of the most exciting content for free. We will miss that. While your staff members write great solutions, they sometimes miss out on the truly brilliant ones-- the ones that are real eye-openers and clever out-of-the-box thinking.
As a former participant of various STEM contests and past tutor of gifted students, I am naturally thinking of the "happy few" who really excel in these fields and think truly creatively. From all appearances, you had many of those participating in the community interaction; and I think you will lose this small but exciting group by narrowing to a more organized teaching model. They are losing the platform they had on Brilliant.
Anyway, I suspect that the changes you are (and have been) making are based on a deliberate shift to a broader, more mainstream audience. That is your prerogative; but you will miss out on some of the more exciting and brilliant thoughts and thinkers.
All the best, - Arjen Vreugdenhil
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This is great sir!
Hope the Staff does this.
@Jeff Giff do you have a discord acc? If yes, so please join the brilliant community
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This should be voted up to near the top. I think Discord is the best solution so far.
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Yeah I'm thinking of shifting everyone who has made an Aops acc to discord now :D
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Perhaps we should do a project this month: let people download everything they ever posted, and when brilliant community resumes, they can still be of use :)
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Oh that's an amazingly awesome idea!
Not to be pessimistic, but the tone of the article gives me the feel that they won’t be opening community again unless some miracle were to happen (imagine the amount of information they are losing by doing this which can not be brought back again if my server theory is right), five years minimum before reopening is what I would say
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Yeah. All hope for this community is lost. Without something like a community discord, the community's done.
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@ Fletcher Mattox , @Mark Hennings,@Pi Han Goh,@Saya Suka,@Paul Romero,@Chris Lewis,@Mr.D.H
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@David Stiff,@Omek K,@ill banin,@Karan Chatrath
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This note might be useful to u :)
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@Thanos Petropoulos,@Maria Kozlowska
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here's the link for continuing to be a part of this amazing community.We will come back here if brilliant people change their decision.
Hello sir, I got ur mention id from Mr Tom Engelsman, we have summoned you here because you used to be and still are an avid member of brilliant community and we don't want to miss on the great problems, discussions and most importantly your presence :). So kindly create an AOPS (art of problem solving account)Regards, Agent T
Thank you for pinging me, I'm sad for this decision by Brilliant. I hope the community shall not fade away.
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Btw I would suggest you to make an AOPS account : link for it so that the community survives:)
@Chew-Seong Cheong @David Vreken
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@Atin Gupta @Sundar R
@Talulah Riley,@Steven Chase
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Can someone send the discord link to me?
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Oh mannn but why are they doing soooo :'(
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Community functions must be hard to maintain and Brilliant gets more users for their STEM courses, so they are removing community features. They may add it again later, we don't know.
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Everyone who has made an AoPS account, please give your username as a reply to this comment.
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My username : PercyJacksonFromBrilliant
Aditya_Mittal
Mine is sidd_bourbaki ... and I cant change my avatar :(
Tan_Theta, Zakir-Hussain,Vin_math91
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Vinayak has unsubscribed frm the note so I'm putting his username too
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What is Aops (if it’s written somewhere on top, sry can’t read that much in two minutes)
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Nvm found out
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I created an AoPS account a year ago. It's really a great website.
You guys should check out FTW and Alcumus on the Resources tab from the main page.
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Great, I've sent you a req(I'm Tan_theta)!
Nice, will check. I'm PercyJacksonFromBrilliant.
I've sent a request
Martin2001(my brothers account cuz im too lazy to create a new one)
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Jeff-From-RadMaths :) im commenting through my school's computer
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My username: Omek_K
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Friend Request sent.
Mr.Chew-Seong Cheong: NerdishRooster
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Yayyyyy
I have sent a friend request, accept it :)
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Mahdi: Math-e-minded
Sorry, am a bit late, but here's my username: Ethan_Mandelez
Thanks for organizing 👍
JulieFractal !!! And El-Padre for my padre :)
My username : Mathrilled
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Can someone send the discord link to me?
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👍 Friend request accepted
Me too rn lol
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LU_CA is my AoSP user name
My AOPS username: sky1983
Ash ketchup
I love ketchup… (sad)
There are no more ketchup trees left :(
Nickname: Vesko22 Hopefully I'm not too late :)
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Sir I sent you a friend request. Please accept it.
Guys, i don't want to pour cold water on your efforts but i don't see any of these suggestions working. The community is already thin, going to some obscure chat room will not create any gravity.
The only chance to get something going, is like this: @Chew-Seong Cheong should create a wordpress blog similar to terrytao.wordpress.com. His massive database of solutions alone, can keep the blog going for years with little effort. He just has to printscreen some of his favorite old solutions and upload them as images from time to time.
By subscribing to his blog we keep getting reminded to visit it on a regular basis. It's also easier to share with others. If this gets some traction and because he's a respected figure among other popular users like @David Vreken, @Mark Hennings, @Thanos Petropoulos, @tom engelsman, @Hosam Hajjir, @Arjen Vreugdenhil, @Rocco Dalto, @Michael Huang, @Fletcher Mattox, @Valentin Duringer, if a fraction of these people collaborate maybe sharing the password with each other, the blog i'm talking about would become almost like a Magazine. Now, that's something with mass.
Forget discord or instagram or whatever. A Wordpress blog shared by Brilliant legends is the ONLY way. Well that's my opinion.
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I second this. If someone puts a site together (WordPress) seems the way to go, I will join and participate if it's anything like Brilliant was. Even though my current profession is way outside of STEM, I really enjoy working the math brain, especially if the additional bonus is inspiring others.
Practically, the biggest challenge is maintaining and moderating the site. I would volunteer to help set it up, but I cannot spend much time on maintenance. It is like starting a business in something you're good at: you end up doing all kinds of administrative tasks instead of what you really wanted to do. If I spend time and energy on a site like Brilliant, it would be in writing solutions and designing/editing problems, not in the nitty-gritty of website maintenance. That, I suspect, may also be true for the others you mentioned.
I agree completely! The Discord server and the AoPS community probably have only a few people, around 20-30 as far as I know. Compared to the brilliant community, its users, the number of problems, discussion, and solutions, it will take weeks or even months to create a massive community over there. The problems and discussions of the few, but very active users that you've mentioned, would indeed allow us to create something like a magazine which would be useful.
One of the potential problems I sense here is that after downloading the contributions, I get loads of HTML files that don't open up as intended with proper structure and formatting. Not sure if it works properly for others, but that's a problem for me.
If we are proceeding with a WordPress or something that is impactful, we need more people to create posts and manage it weekly by uploading and all the other nitty-gritty work. I came across one of the blogposts by @David Vreken [here](http://lostmathlessons.blogspot.com) which has around 75 posts and interesting math discussions. If we can do something similar, with many authors and classify posts for large chunks of topics such as Geometry, Algebra, Number Theory, Combinatorics, Calculus, etc. Even Science is welcome, but most posts and contributors I see are for math. Thoughts?
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That would be a good idea if we collaborate in a team for a particular site instead of Discord or similar, but that would mean we will need to reach each other too within some period of time. There were few users here who used to be popular, but no longer active, like @Michael Mendrin . I am currently searching through some popular users' questions that are actually worthy, so that I can save some of them for the future library. I did this for my Twitter account, where I am currently working on geometry problems.
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By the way, I share geometry problems on Twitter too!! @mathymahdi is my ID on twitter
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My Twitter account is very new, so it will take awhile to get some followers.
Yup, you are right. Not many people could join AoPS and Discord.
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Can someone send the discord link to me?
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Here youThat would be great! I agree too.
@Zakir Husain @Mahdi Raza @percy
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Hey Jeff! Yeah I saw the notice too. It wasn't specified whether these discussions will get deleted though, so if we make discussions we can still comment problems and discuss them I guess.
If these discussions are getting deleted though, we have one month to plan a substitution.
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Perhaps we should copy all useful data. Brilliant allows us to download. But I s’pose we should ask @Brilliant Mathematics first :)
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I know at least once (may be not a good one) here is the link
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Sir it is wonderful. Now we have a substitution for the community thingy...
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I have one more to share Art of Problem Solving
How did you get to know that it will be discontinued?
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It was up in the community today.
Click the community button and you will see it.
Never mind, I saw that on the page just now. But it specifies new submissions, does that mean whatever is contributed will stay, or will that be removed as well?
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@Valentin Duringer @Tomislav Franov @Gandoff Tan @Vinayak Srivastava
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Hi!
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Wait... there’s this dude called Páll Márton who has his account removed... he has a very valuable latex guide.
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Oh damn ...that's a really good one
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He provided every single line of code in a code box. Give me an hour or two and I can recreate it.
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@Brilliant Mathematics and the link
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Hmm... I am pretty shocked by this. Can we access the current Community things, or the tab will be deleted as a whole?
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The tab will be deleted, but we don't know if we can access previous discussions. We have mentioned staff and are waiting for reply.
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Ohk, but this means there is no other way to interact on Brilliant now, and that it will become like a website containing only practice courses, like Khan Academy?
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@Percy Jackson Agreed. Honestly, Brilliant was only good because of the community. All the courses are paid anyway, and they're hard to access otherwise, which just sucks.
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The tab will be deleted..
AoPS Community (the one @Zakir Husain mentioned/possible substitution 2) has a user-created forum functionality. Someone should create an "Old Brilliant Community" forum where we can regroup. :)
@Jeff Giff @Percy Jackson @Alice Smith @Zakir Husain @Aryan Sanghi @Valentin Duringer @Nihar Mahajan @Tomislav Franov @Yajat Shamji @Gandoff Tan @Vinayak Srivastava
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Exactly sir! Could you mention all the contributors in RadMaths and tell them this idea?
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Sure thing. I couldn't figure out how to mention Aman Rajput and Chew-Seong Cheong though. Hopefully I got the rest right (if you meant to mention them here and not in RadMaths itself that is...).
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helpful link that won’t last long
@Chew Seong Cheong
First all of us need to sign in/ Register and then wait for 2 weeks SEE HERE
Yeah, good idea.
@Jeff Giff Reddit is an option. A brilliant.org subreddit.
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How about running a forum or something? (with a free hoster, or a paid one, if someone can pull that off?)
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What do you mean?
Will the vibe be the same though? And how do we post all our problems on reddit?
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The vibe won't be the same, but we can post problems where there would usually be memes. Anyway, now it's either AoPS or the proposal CS sir has made gets through and the university hosts Brilliant. Idk man, this whole situation just sucks. Now they've given me free premium as a compensation because I was a member of the community...
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No community = no brilliant.
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Maybe we can make a discord server, and we can create different channels (different sub-chat groups) for example Algebra Channel, Physics Channel, General Talk Channel, etc.
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We started in AoPS. Lot of members joined and forum is going to be made in 2 weeks. The link is possible replacement 2 in the note.
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I came online rn to go offline in two minutes and I see 166 notifs, what am I to do
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Hmm discord is also a nice option ig. Maybe we can connect on both?
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Yea, I will keep adding more channels, anyone who wants to join can join using this link
The website just destroyed itself by stabbing its community in the back. Tens of Thousands of original problems and solutions just deleted for what exactly? I will Never renew a premium membership. What a joke.
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I mean yeah, not being able to maintain the community anymore is understandable but there is still no excuse for deleting these problems.. It's a shame because I spent most of the time doing courses, and only discovered this community fairly recently.
But with the premium membership, you just get access to the Premium courses and download them offline, get additional practice problems, and view the Archived Daily Challenges. Rest all the features including the community ones are available to all users so they aren't taking anything that they offer you in premium so why don't you want to renew it?
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Because brilliant just made itself nearly worthless to users like Valentin. All the time we spent on the community... WASTED. No one can access to this precious data after they delete the tab. Therefore to Valentin (and me) the brilliant website is now completely useless.
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Wait what do you mean that the problems and solutions got deleted?
When I checked, they were still there.
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They will get deleted on July 2 though..
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I agree. The community made Brilliant special. This decision just shows how Brilliant is a for-profit organization and is only interested in expanding and increasing profit by targeting the features that more people use. Truly disappointing.
Valentin, remember to tell me?
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I cant tell you right now, I can give you a clear answer tomorrow maybe.
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Can someone send the discord link to me?
I have made a forum on AoPS
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Nice, I made a comment there. @Jeff Giff can you add this to the note and explain about AoPS please? Thanks a lot.
@Vinayak Srivastava the deed is done!
aops has the worst user interface, i dont think aops would be great to use
I made a forum
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Can someone send the discord link to me?
@Krishna Karthik
Context : Brilliant Community features going away. You'll see a notice every time you view your profile or go to the community tab. Read that. We are trying to move the community somewhere else to keep it alive. We started on AoPS (Art of Problem Solving). There's a Brilliant forum there, and some of us have joined, others are making accounts and joining. I don't know if you're online or not, but if you are, read this, read some of the comments, get some more context of this situation, and make an AoPS account to try and keep the community alive.
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@Percy Jackson Brilliant community features going away? What the hell? Aw man... this is so stupid! I genuinely did some good work over here.
Imagine how regular posters like Steven Chase and Karan Chatrath will feel. What an absolute bummer.
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Yeah, it just sucks.
Can someone send the discord link to me?
@Percy Jackson Also, thanks for letting me know. I probably wouldn't have found out until later. This is so disappointing...
I am not very much active in Brilliant for the last couple of months due to a tight academic schedule. Only today morning I got a mail from brilliant regarding the changes and I came here to check out more things happening. Does anyone get a mail from brilliant like me?
What is the use of downloading all our problems and solutions if we can't view them other than in brilliant?
Can we preview our problems and solutions after downloading and after July 2, 2021?
And what's the actual deadline for downloading the content?
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@Ram Mohith , living legend. If you want to join a new community on AOPS, or Chew's community, go ahead. Otherwise, I'm not returning to Brilliant. It's been a fun run.
Awww sad brilliant finally removed problem searching now now I can't even see wikis ☹️
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Wikis and community are the best parts!
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Yeh, I agreed
Are they removing wikis too?
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Everyone! I have found the downloading button :)
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Really!!!! Say how, then!!!
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Look at the picture in the note(not comments)
Anyone else who’s in the project? Mention more people, the context we need is huge.
I just tried downloading and it says "The preparation work failed. Please Contact support." after a while. Is this happening to anyone else?
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They will provide the downloading feature by 11th June and it will be there till December 31st so don't worry
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You mean JUNE 11? xD
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Will we be able to see previous daily challenges?
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I don't know. The article isn't very clear.
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What about the Problems of the Week? I used to solve some last year, this year I totally forgot about it.
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You mean these?
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Daily Challenges aren't going away. We are continuing to produce new Daily Challenges.
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Ok Sir
@Siddharth Chakravarty @Sarah Alam @Aditya Mittal
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Thanks for mentioning me. Should we spread the word across solutions and problems? More users can find it that way.
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Yeah sure.
I couldn't download all the solutions I have written. Only 38 out of my 79 solutions were bundled in the download option.
@num IC
Creating a AoPS account. Has someone made a forum? If not, I can make one. My username : PercyJacksonFromBrilliant
Edit : I joined...I have to wait two weeks to make a forum.
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Mine is Tan_Theta,I could find only three till now: you,Mr.Zakir Hussain and Tomislav Franov.
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@Jeff Giff ,@Jason Gomez what are ur usernames?
Others also tell, I'm sending requests to all the brilliant community members.
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@Vinayak Srivastava Are you VinMath91?
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Zakir-Husain (username)
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Yes I've already sent you, kindly check and accept
This decision by brillant is just shameful. They should refund the premium accounts.
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Technically the only thing premium members get extra compared to others is the courses and ability to see past DC’s so... yeah, it’s kinda shameful but still not refundable
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Thanks Jason
So I can't be a picky customer with you anymore, so sad
@Siddharth Chakravarty Read everything, get some context.
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Ok I made an account on AoPs now what should I do? I can't read all the messages here.
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ok, now just socialize here. we will make an aops forum later
everyone:
PLEASE CREATE AN AOPS ACCOUNT ASAP. WE MUST RESCUE AS MUCH DATA AS WE CAN.
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Edit: I got to know ur username after some research...it's Jeff-From-Radmaths
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I’m creating...
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I'll do it asap, great reaction from you mate !
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@Valentin Duringer - What is your username on AoPS sir? Mine is PercyJacksonFromBrilliant.
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I have registered an AoPS account -- NerdishRooster. What do I do next?
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Hello, I've sent you a request, kindly accept it.
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Mine is: Math-e-Minded
Just created one:
Ethan_Mandelez
I think i've joined the discussion if I'm not mistaken, just sent a message there 5 mins ago :D
New account... NaZz
Yeah, nice and simple with 4 letters. Also my main alias for other realms, including Discord (if you are interested to add me)
Who is RyanWang
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I don't know, even I got a friend request from them :/
@Steven Chase Have a lot of Physics Problems
How do I type LaTeX on AoPS?
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I have replied there, read my reply.
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Thx
You need to wait for two weeks right?
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@Aryan Sanghi
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Can someone send the discord link to me?
This is what Brilliant Support replied
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Hmm...did Karen speak to the manager lmao
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Quite an unfortunate time to have that name
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Ohhh, I cannot post a problem anymore . . . . . . . . .
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Me neither. It seems they have removed the ability to post problems and discussions.
Shameful!
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Agreed. We were not even informed of this decision. Really shameful.
I just want to ask, what will happen to the contributions page in our profile? Not only that, even the solutions and posts page are unworthy without the community. So are these pages also going to be put down?
I'm not sure that AoPS is the way forward, but I will be there for now as AVrFromBrilliant .
@Agent T and @Jeff Giff I created the account named Math_-Wizard
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Okay.....
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What's yours? Send me a fren request
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Can someone send the discord link to me?