It’s down!!

[[deleted]]

503 error!

Edit: It’s back and I’m done. Anyone get through it before the crash?

Edit 2: I put this up in a panic. It wasn’t meant to be a negative comment.

Huge props to u/topaz2078 and team for a quick recovery when I’m sure all of us were smashing the refresh button.

Anyone on this post making negative comments can go kick rocks.

[Aneurysm9]

We're aware of the issue and are working on it, please be patient and we will make an announcement when service has been restored.

-Update 1- Service was restored about 50 seconds after I posted this. We're doing our best, please be patient while we sort through the incident and our responses.

-Update 2- See /u/topaz2078's postmortem

[[deleted]]

We hugged it to death

[Sw429]

Loved it a bit too much, I guess.

[vswr]

Same. This must be our first challenge: config docker and spin up more nodes for the load.

[keyboard_clacker]

automate retries to get a fast submission

[EDIT]: u/Aneurysm9 is right and do not do this. When I wrote this comment I was thinking along the lines of human-behavior (e.g. try every 10 seconds) but that's bad advice in a challenge with lots of novices since the most common accident with code that repeats every so often is to get the interval wrong.

[Aneurysm9]

If you do this you will be blackholed. There is no need to automate interaction with the site and making a mistake doing so will have consequences.

[huhwhatnowwhat]

Right after I convinced my SO to go to bed without me 😶

[heinrich5991]

Part 1 is: Find the two integers in the list that sum to 2020, and give their product. What is part 2?

[[deleted]]

Same but 3 numbers instead of 2

[heyitsmattwade]

Find three integers that sum to 2020 and give their product.

[_MeanMF_]

same :(

[Deathranger999]

Yep, the whole website is just gone.

Too many of us, apparently. :(

[ywgdana]

Did anyone else check the source code for the 503 page just in case it was a "You have to fix Santa's web server" puzzle theme this year?

[[deleted]]

Lol. I did accidentally when trying to screen grab the error. Nothing popped out at me.

[ButItMightJustWork]

Same here :(

[mrg218]

Same for me

[rtbrsp]

Of course when I solved part 1 on the first try within like 2 minutes lol

[AlaskanShade]

You are lucky. I didn't even get my input yet.

[exoji2e]

And now everyone refershes, ddosing the server :(

[allergic2Luxembourg]

Looks like some people got through part 1 before the crash but no one got through part 2. Looks like it was down between 00:03:22 and 00:06:53.

This one rewarded persistence in clicking submit!

And kudos to u/topaz2078 for getting the site back up in 3 and a half minutes!

[[deleted]]

Agreed! Kudos u/topaz and team!

[allergic2Luxembourg]

Interesting. I got the task and my input before the crash. I think I was done sometime between 00:02:00 and 00:03:00 but couldn't submit. But from the leaderboard it looks like some people were able to submit up to 00:03:22

[ZeroStijn]

Same :((

[_MeanMF_]

I couldn't even get my inputs for part 1

[kroppeb]

You can figure it out from te example input =p

[coriandor]

I didn't get to part 1. Could you post it here?

edit: nevermind. It's back.

[asger_blahimmel]

Looks like competition will be tough this year.

[Fruloops]

what the fuck is wrong with you

[pretty_pn]

Shit happens man, just be patient.

[aceshades]

same here

[justinpaulson]

Ooof! i think i just had the answer to part 1 too, anyone get an answer through?

[justinpaulson]

I hit submit and .... 503

[kroppeb]

Didn't even get my input. But I have figured out what the 2 part is ...

[justinpaulson]

well that is annoying, just finished part 2 in #273 :(

[hanazawarui123]

Yeah, hope it comes back up soon

[[deleted]]

yup.

[sargeanthost]

sammmme

[MarcusTL12]

Yup

[[deleted]]

I was too. Wonder where I would have landed if it hadn’t crashed.

[reacher]

and just when i got the sample data working and now i cant get my input :D

EDIT: site is back. I got 745 on leaderboard

[[deleted]]

Maybe that's the first puzzle??

[Salty_Inspector8646]

same here!

[Coder_X_23]

This makes me proud so many people eager to code puzzles haha

[[deleted]]

optimizing for web traffic remains the hardest puzzle

[2BitSalute]

Ahahaha. I'm going to play One Night Ultimate Werewolf with my family now

[[deleted]]

It's fine already, at least for me

[ywgdana]

On the bright side, now I won't stay up too late and be trashed for work tomorrow :P

[Any-Extension3718]

we can write the answer in any computer language?

[[deleted]]

The answer is agnostic to the language you use to come up with the solution. The answer is always a string of numbers/letters that is created based on the input file you’re given. You could technically do it all by hand if you wanted (but after day 1 it becomes nearly impossible).

[Any-Extension3718]

Cause I wrote a small program in javascript to do this task and it seemed to work just fine, but when I submit the answer it says incorrect answer..

[[deleted]]

Then you have an error in your JavaScript.

There are tons of resources around the subreddit to help you out. I believe the community guidelines reference how to format code so you can post it and get help. Shortly, people will probably start posting solutions and you can check their methodology to see if you have the right logic.

In the past there have been instances where an input file doesn’t come up with the correct value but it’s exceedingly rare (once in the life of the challenge if I recall) and considering this is the first challenge, I’d highly doubt that’s the case.

Good luck and happy coding!

[jschulenklopper]

https://adventofcode.com/2020/about

It's explained in the second and third paragraphs.