My fellow brothers

I, Billy billy_the_dungeon_master Herrington, stand here today, humbled by the task before us, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our Codeforces ancestors.

We are in the midst of a crisis. Codeforces is at war against a far-reaching storm of disturbance and deletion. Codeforces's economy is badly weakened: a consequence of carelessness and irresponsibility on the part of acknowledgement, but also on the collective failure to make hard choices and to prepare for a new, MAD age.

Today, I say to you, that the challenges are real, and they are many. They will not be easily met, or in a short span of time, but know this, Codeforces: they will be met. In reaffirming the greatness of our site, we understand that greatness is never given, our journey has never been one of shortcuts. It has not been for the faint-hearted, or who seek the fleshly pleasures. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the wasted genii, the creators of mad things. For us, they toiled in sweatshops, endured the lash of the spanking. Time and again, these men struggled, and sacrificed, so that we might ... LIVE BETTER.

We remain the most powerful competitive programming site on the Internet, our minds no less inventive, and services no less needed than they were last week, or yesterday, or the day before the day after tomorrow. Starting today, we must pull up our pants, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking Codeforces.

Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest our server system cannot tolerate too many submissions. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what Codeforces already has done, what free men can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose.

And so, to all the people who are reading this blog, from the grandest cities, to the small villages where IKZO was born, know that Codeforces is a friend to every competitive programmer, who seeks the future of love and peace. Now we will begin to responsibly leave authorized common materials to Codeforces people, and forge a hard-earned peace in this mad world.

What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility. This is the price, and the promise, of CF citizenship. Codeforces, in the face of common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words: ASS WE CAN.

Let it be said by our children's children, that when we were tested by DDoS attacks, when we were refused by good problemsetters, that we did not turn back, nor did we falter, and we carried forth that great gift of freedom be delivered, and safely to future generations.

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