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From the FAQ:

>I have a puzzle idea! Can I send it to you?

>Please don't. Because of legal issues like copyright and attribution, I don't accept puzzle ideas, and I won't even read your email if it looks like one just in case I use parts of it by accident.

It's sad that we live in a world where code snippets sent by others can result in legal issues down the line.

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I suspect the Eric Wastl (AoC developer) wants this project to remain solely his and this is mostly a polite way to wave away all contributions in one go. I believe he has said he has way more problem ideas than time to implement them as-is, so I think that's a very fair position to take.

I had no clue AoC is a one-man-band project. With that in mind, how diversified are these puzzles? Wouldn't it be repetitive for people doing it year over year or is Eric one excessively creative individual?

Let's create an Advent of Community with crowd source puzzle under FOSS license

This is a neat idea. If you're serious, I'd be willing to provide my email and chat through the idea and help out.

Why not. I am not sure if I would have both the level and the time though.

There's a Reddit that has a coding problem every day.

Which one?

https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/ - that's the one I know of. Sadly it's become defunct, but has a large number of problems going back over the years. I used to enjoy it as a kind of warmup at the start of my day.

A bit specialized but I like codegolf on stackexchange. Sure, the problem itself isn't the focus here, the implementation is, but it still does it for puzzling for me. I have finished all the regex crosswords I could find on the net...

This is the same reason production companies burn all unrequested scripts sent to them.

If they open it and accidentally make a movie/tv-show that's too similar, they're liable to get sued. But if they can prove that all unsolicited mail is disposed without opening, they're golden.

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