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Welcome to Codidact Meta!

Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.

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Where’s my suggested edit?

I made an edit to a post on Software.codidact, and because I don’t have the Ability to edit, it says it’s pending a review. However, I was a bit surprised to see that it was still pending after mor...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by ploni‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Is it intended to have negative reputation? [duplicate]

I don't know if this is status-bydesign, but this looks like a bug to me: Is this intended behavior? Seems a bit weird to me if it is.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by 10 Rep‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Where can I ask about fixing a Fairphone 3?

I am trying to fix my Fairphone 3, and have run into a problem. I'd like to ask on CoDidact, but I don't know which community is appropriate. Electrical Engineering would seem the logical place, h...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by FractionalRadix‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Advertise on Stack Exchange?

To my pleasant surprise, I saw an ad for Codidact on English S.E.! Why don't we post similar ads on S.E.? !

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 3y ago by 10 Rep‭

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I cannot post PHP on CoDidact software development

I cannot paste some HTML-CSS-PHP code which I have tried and would like to ask a question about in CoDidact Software Development. When I publish my question I just get redirected, time and again t...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Initial tour fails at tagging the initial question [duplicate]

One just signed up (in Languages & Linguistics) and received a notification to take an initial "tour to find out how this site works". A friendly Codidactyl invites one to create a question but...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by viäränlaenen‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Ad templates can refer to a question that you are on now.

When the ad on the sidebar that says "could you answer this question?" is clicked on, it takes you to the question, but the ad for that question can still be there. The ad for the question being...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Dani‭

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want to work with Codidact as a programmer/idea giver

In some posts staffs said that they are very little community. Does it mean they need more developers? If they don't need than this question is useless. If they need than can we willingly give any ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Notification time error

As you can see I joined 4 hours ago. But, I recently get some notification where I am getting that it sent 10 hours ago. This is obviously a bug. I think something wrong is happening with timing....

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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What does flag represent in profile's statistics?

I have seen above picture in my profile. What does the flag represent? Does it represent for those which I flagged earlier? Or, I have got 4 flags in my post? Or, It is addition of both of them.

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by FoggyFinder‭

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Post edited by a user but no changes visible

This post had been edited by @Lundin. But, there's no visible changes in that post. I don't know what Lundin did to that post. I think Lundin had proposed changes but, author/moderator declined (...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Reputation is disappeared from user's card recently

Not sure exactly when but for some time I don't see r in a user's card. From what I can tell it happens only on Meta and, for example, on SD it is still visible. An additional context: Heads up: s...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by FoggyFinder‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Permanently delete duplicated questions and answers?

I accidentally posted my neighbor's answer to my same question twice. Obviously, it's irksome and wasteful to see the two duplicated answers! How can such duplications be lastingly forever removed?

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Canina‭

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Does the community have any mechanism to tackle serial (emotional) downvoting?

Does the community have any mechanism to tackle serial (emotional) downvoting?

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 2y ago by Canina‭

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Ability to hide / ignore tags

In the community preferences you can set a list of favourite tags, and questions that are tagged with one of them will be highlighted. Is there also a way to hide / ignore tags? Questions with a h...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Keelan‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Possibility to re-post answers from external sources? [duplicate]

Is there a standard or acceptable way to include, link or re-post answers from external sources, such as stack exchange networks, quora or others ?

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by 4015.alt‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Filtering questions with "no answer" and/or "no accepted answer" ?

Is there a way to filter questions of a community that has no answer and/or no accepted answer ? Edit (clarification): by "accepted answer" I mean answer marked with the green "Works for me" tag...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by 4015.alt‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Moshi‭

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What web dev tools were used in the making

What web development tools were used to build this site? What tools are used to manage it?

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Syntax highlighting comments break the unsupported tags warning message

When an HTML tag is used in a post but is not supported by Codidact, a warning message is displayed listing the unsupported tags. However, syntax highlighting hints in the form of HTML comments suc...

1 answer  ·  posted 28d ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 26d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Misleading stats in other user's ability page

When looking at the Abilities dashboard of another user and clicking on any ability, for example the curate ability page of a mod looks like (I replaced the actual mod name with (ModName) for sake ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Why do user mentions incorrectly change color after editing comments? [duplicate]

This is an example of a comment thread featuring a user mention. When the comment is edited, the user mention element incorrectly turns red. A reload fixes this. Hovering on it shows which...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by meta user‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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What mentoring is available for qpixel development?

Codidact uses the open source Qpixel, which is also maintained by CD admins. Sometimes it is mentioned in passing that the devs are open to and interested in help with developing this codebase. I'...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 24d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Should we directly link to the proposals site for new proposals in the Help Center?

On the Help Center page "How to ask a great question" (This link points to the Codidact Meta version, but this question talks about all the versions of this page in all other communities, too) Und...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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What kinds of data import can QPixel support?

How granular can data-import be for QPixel (I realize the answer might be different later for Codidact), and can it be done more than once? We know it's possible to import "everything", but which ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by meta user‭

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Error message contains a bad link for reporting the error

I got an error while subscribing to a category and clicked on the "report on meta" link in the message. The link produced another error: The link in the first error message points to https://wr...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Import image from web link?

I a recent post https://outdoors.codidact.com/questions/74859#answer-74867 I wanted to include a photo from Wikipedia. I would like an option to load images from the a weblink, preferably that incl...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by James Jenkins‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by deleted user

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Unusual button layout on mobile browser

The button layout on mobile browser is ... unusual. Is this by design?

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Masked Man‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by meta user‭

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Requests to improve the contests

There are a couple of things that I think would be nice to improve contests, Hide the score while the contest is ongoing, that way it doesn't influence other people's votes. Sort answers in two w...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Deleted answers appear to be counted in question list

Currently https://outdoors.codidact.com/categories/19 lists one question, 2020 - May - Birds, with 12 answers. But if you go into the question, it only lists 11 answers. I'm pretty sure that the di...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Links go to writing.codidact.com instead of "self"

The Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Code of Conduct links on meta, outdoors and photo are all pointing to the pages on writing.codidact.com. They should always point to "self".

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Trying to edit an answer results in internal server error; edit gets recorded, but not promoted to current revision

This is a bit weird. I spotted a typo in an answer of mine, and figured I'd fix it. I was able to edit the answer, but when I tried to save the edit, I got a page telling me there had been an int...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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An alternative approach to the view order of answers

TLDR at the end. One thing I never was quite content with on SE was that if you view a question that by default either the most upvoted or accepted answer is the first one you see. This mechanism a...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Please allow specifying license for answers

While one can specify a license when making a question, when writing an answer there doesn't seem to be any place to specify and it just ends up saying "CC BY-SA 4.0" once posted. While asking a go...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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New drop down list for comments overextends the site

With the new layout of comments, the drop down list overextends the site, extending the site until all available comments have been displayed.

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Clickable tag buttons only work once

Yesterday I proposed that the required tags beneath questions asked on meta should be clickable so that the tags are prefilled into the tag form. I tried it out now that's it implemented and while ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Can we see tags changes in the revision history?

I wrote a question which I tagged, only to see a few seconds later that I accidentally tagged the question with the wrong tag. So I revised it. This how the history of my question looks: As you ca...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Self-answered Q&A - posting Q and A at the same time [duplicate]

I'm assuming that self-answered Q&A is fine and on-topic in most communities - if not, open for discussion below. "That other site" got a little check box which you can use upon posting a quest...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Is there a way to view all subscriptions in one list?

If I navigate to my list of question subscriptions, all I see is my subscriptions for the current community. The user profile syncs across all sites; is there a way to combine all of the question s...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Not getting pinged

I noticed that I have been getting pinged for comments and answers to my questions only, but I'm not getting pinged if someone does "@Dani" on a different users' question/answer, for example here. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Dani‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Link Feature Cursor

When clicking the link feature while posting, would it be possible to make the cursor automatically focus in the empty textbox for link URL? Unlike on other sites like Gmail, if I select text to li...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by רבות מחשבות‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Pending flags don't show in the mobile view

Currently, the pending flags don't show in the header in the mobile view. Even if moderation from a smartphone isn't ideal, there are going to be times when I will be away from my computer for an e...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭

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Should we start displaying the score of a post instead of the raw votes?

Currently, when viewing a post, Codidact will show you the raw votes on a post, with the breakdown into upvotes and downvotes: There's been some feedback that this is a bit too much to show, espec...

7 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Jon Ericson‭

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Moderation queues for questions and answers

There currently seems to be no concept of "queues" for questions or answers. I also looked at the old discourse forum, and it seems like different kinds of queues are causally mentioned, for differ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Marco13‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Displaying user tabs in the user profile

When going to my user profile, I see 5 possible tabs: 'Profile', 'Activity', 'Account', 'Edit' and 'Subscriptions' However, when I go to the 'Account', 'Edit' or 'Subscription' tabs, the visible t...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Mithrandir24601‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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What are the steps between community idea and community proposal?

Inspired from this post asking what steps there are between proposal and launching a community, I would like to know what steps there are between an idea and a proposal. Right now, we have at least...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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What's a relation between trust levels across various Co-communities?

Initially I thought that "Trust levels" feature is independent for each CoDidact community. But it seems that I was wrong: When I joined to Languages and Linguistics I was able to give an upvote fo...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by FoggyFinder‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Why isn't the text editor in the same font as what posts are?

It's not really an issue, but I'm curious why Codidact chose to use a monospace font for editing/posting while published posts use a normal font.

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Is there a consensus on comment layouts for the MVP and beyond?

I've been looking around Codidact sites, wiki, repos and mission, to be able to determine if this is even a discussable or interesting topic at all. I was about to drop any ideas to ask this questi...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Julio Cezar Silva‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Can we move questions?

This question was accidentally posted in meta instead of language, and ended up being closed. Does the ability to move questions between sites currently exist, or is closing the only way to deal wi...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

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What does ☗ mean?

ArtOfCode's user profile on the Languages & Linguistics site reads, in part: What does the "☗" symbolize?

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by luap42‭