Enhancement: The ability to "pause" the CTF

[ShyftXero]

someone mentioned this as a feature request in the upstream issues.

This would be useful for our event because we have an 8 hour period where the challenges are going to be off-line. At least the scoreboard and the ability to submit flags will be.

Rather than shuffling around the ctf end times, could we implement a "pause" and "unpause" button. under config-> CTF time

I believe this would be easy enough to implement via javascript. we could manipulate the start time to be 100 years in the future for Pause and yesterday (whatever that is ) for Unpause.

Is it worth messing with?

[deckar01]

This was implemented in https://github.com/deckar01/CTFd/commit/9229eec9b65c1ddc1bfecb27f5c0fcdc4442e633.

I added a "paused" config variable and made a button in the admin config that toggles it. I added logic for this flag to the "ctftime" check and added custom messaging where it was needed.

Admin View:

If you try to load the challenges page:

When the challenges page refreshes (automatically):