Some Suggestions for Brilliant

I think these features

  • (i) adding a 'Miscellaneous' section for multi-conceptual problems.
  • (ii) ability to search 'Sets'
  • (iii) some means (users create alternative wordings for a problem; so that the problem is more easily searchable) to organize all the available problems (I wonder if there are any checks to avoid duplicate problems...)

can improve Brilliant (are they already present?).

Note by Shubhamkar Ayare
4 years, 6 months ago

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Comments

Hi Shubhamkar,

Thanks for your suggestions.

  1. We prefer to keep the simplicity of having one main topic assigned to a problem, which allows for others to easily find questions that they are interested in. A "Miscellaneous" topic would not get sustained interest, due to the huge variety that is present.

  2. Sets (created by members) are meant for personal use, and hence not ideal for others to search through. If there are particular users whose sets you like, you can mark them down.
    We compile great problems posted by the community and place them into the "Challenge Quizzes" that are searchable. This way, you can get high quality content, instead of seeing all the "For Later" sets.

  3. We will be working on improving the search functionality. Note that there is a quality filter on search results, so not all problems will be searchable.

Calvin Lin Staff - 4 years, 5 months ago
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