Hello Codeforces,

I do not recall the last time this topic was brought into discussion. After a quick scan, I noticed there are no blogs on recent actions mentioning this issue, so then I felt the need to make a blog about it.

I notice a (worrying) statistic that for plenty of recent contests (at least starting since Codeforces Round #901), problem ratings have not been updated. As such, I wanted to make a call for questioning as to ask whether anyone knows what the development of this process looks behind the scenes (i.e. why does it take so long). Or at least, how can discord bots predict the difficulty of each problem in any given contest (that had its system testing finalized) in less than 1 minute yet for codeforces the equivalent system takes more than a month to update (i.e. what do they do different).

I hope this blog reaches you well, dear reader, and it is in the least coherent,

Francisc