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What happened to binarysearch.com?
By Rohanfizz, history, 2 years ago, In English

The website is down for like 2 days in India now, is it down everywhere? Does someone know what happened?

Edit: According to the sources in comments, binarysearch is shut down now. It's really sad for everyone, hopefully something works out and the website comes back again!

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the site is down and done for good. the developers of the site were not able to keep up with the expenses of the website. it is gone now.

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    Means it will never be up? How do you know? All our practice and questions done will be in vain now?

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      1. ) i'm not sure if it will ever be up again, they were talking about how the site is making them losses for quite some time now.

      2. ) it was all on the binarysearch general page and discussions were going on about how there aren't anymore contests, and about them planning to remove certain features, like removing old chats etc. to be honest, it's not even a surprise that site went down. only thing is all this happened abruptly. Moreover, qiqi_impact and midnight_simon are 2 twitch streamers who solve binarysearch.com problems, the community there confirmed that the site is done and dusted. the community seems large enough to trust this news.

      3. ) and most probably yes, all the practice questions and the streak is now in vain.

      -> they did talk about maintaining a repo for all the questions and even giving away some level of the codebase, but i'm not sure where is all of that.

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    Are there any websites similar to Binary Search where can we make rooms to solve questions with friends?

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      2 years ago, # ^ |
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      Actually there's baekjoon with the "group" feature

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        The room functionality allowed you to live-spectate what other people were coding (assuming they were writing code in the built-in editor.) and this was a big part of why the site was so popular, because no other site really implemented this well.

        BOJ groups seem roughly the same as CF groups, for what that's worth.

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          I do not have a local backup of my editorials posted at BinarySearch. How sad! Can anyone contact the site owner? I really want my data (editorials, solutions...).

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      18 months ago, # ^ |
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      https://leetrooms.com/

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Feeling so sad to hear this news. Have been enjoying it for so long. Hate to say goodbye to my 500+ days streak.

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oh damn, i wanted to solve all the questions.. after finishing leetcode. damn whats wrong?

i miss this website, the interface. pls get it back!

can we somehow migrate it?

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    2 years ago, # ^ |
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    Server costs. If you pay for them, yes I am sure they can migrate it, even under your name.

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www.codebattle.in Check this out

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18 months ago, # |
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leetcode and code interview problems are shit, why not just create mashups in codeforces?

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