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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.

General Q&A about the Codidact instance hosted at codidact.com or the software that runs it.

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Code of Conduct has a variable in its text

The Code of Conduct text on all the sites [communities] has some default text that is either supposed to be replaced by string templating or maybe customized. Emphasis in quote block below. This...

1 answer  ·  posted 16d ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 2d ago by mattrife‭

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Sorting answers without a page reload

Below a question are buttons for sorting the answers: Pressing one of these buttons results in a page reload, with the answers now sorted according to the chosen criterion. For cases where ...

0 answers  ·  posted 11d ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 5d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Need Help Setting Up Email Verification in Codidact [closed]

I’m a learner exploring Q&A tools, and after researching, I came across Codidact. I’m impressed with its features and have successfully set it up on my local machine. However, I encountered an ...

0 answers  ·  posted 11d ago by anurag3221@‭  ·  closed 11d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Codidact Collab - should it be listed?

The drop down menu at the top right of each Codidact page shows a list of all the communities in the network. The list is also linked to from the page footer, and from codidact.com. There is also ...

5 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 11d ago by trichoplax‭

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Site design: Why use different fonts for edit window and code windows?

When I type in the edit window, Codidact seems to use my default monospaced font (Iosevka SS08). But when a code block is displayed, why doesn't it use the same? I feel like it makes more sense to...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Razetime‭  ·  last activity 14d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Poll for chat users and non-chat users

There is a link in the right hand panel (or bottom of the page on mobile) to "join us in chat". Chat is an entirely optional extra, but I'm curious about one thing, so this question is intended as...

3 answers  ·  posted 19d ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 16d ago by Michael‭

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Use quotation marks for thread titles in notifications

When a notification refers to new comments in a comment thread that I am following, the title of the comment thread is in single quotes, and the title of the post is also in single quotes, making i...

0 answers  ·  posted 17d ago by trichoplax‭

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Vertical jump when switching between tabs on the user page

The first tab on the user page, "Profile", has the username above the row of tabs: All of the other tabs on the user page have the title below the row of tabs: This means that when sw...

0 answers  ·  posted 18d ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 18d ago by trichoplax‭

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Personalised links using "me" are useful. I'd like to see more

This is a link to my user page. The URL is: https://meta.codidact.com/users/53890 This is a link to your user page. The URL is: https://meta.codidact.com/users/me Note that the URL ends wit...

0 answers  ·  posted 18d ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 18d ago by trichoplax‭

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Shortcut links from All Communities

I love the new "All Communities" section of the user profile page. I've already found it useful several times. I have an idea for an additional feature: The numbers in the columns could be links. ...

0 answers  ·  posted 18d ago by trichoplax‭

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We need to talk about Abilities

The problem Almost three years ago we introduced Abilities to Codidact as an improved system for granting activity-based permissions, such as allowing users who have made consistently great edit s...

6 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 19d ago by trichoplax‭

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Link to moderator help pages is presented to non-moderators

In the Abilities page for the Moderator ability, it says: Moderators also have access to special moderator-specific help pages. Since only moderators have access to these, the link goes to a ...

0 answers  ·  posted 21d ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 21d ago by trichoplax‭

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Do we need templates for new posts?

We have some posting tips on the "ask question" (or "create post" etc) pages, and we plan to add better contextual help in the future. Another way to guide people would be with templates, a "proto...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 28d ago by trichoplax‭

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How do I request Codidact to adjust for disabilities, under the Equality Act 2010?

The reasonable adjustment duty on service providers and public authorities (unlike that on employers) is “anticipatory”. Service providers etc need to consider in advance what people with differe...

1 answer  ·  posted 28d ago by HP27 ‭  ·  last activity 28d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Recent feature changes to the Codidact software

This site runs on the QPixel software, maintained by Codidact. What progress has been made recently? There will be one answer per year. 2024 (current year) 2023 2022 2021 2020

5 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  last activity 28d ago by Mithical‭

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Lack of a link to chat on Outdoors and Proposals

Most Codidact communities have a link to chat (currently Discord) in the right hand panel under "Codidact": However, 2 communities do not have the link to chat: These communities are:...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Mithical‭

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Community dropdown and profile information

I was looking for a way to see what communities I have posted in, or am a "member" of, and I didn't find it. It would be really helpful to have a dropdown like SE does, where I can click a button ...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by mbomb007‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Observations on close messages

I would like to address close messages on Q&A, especially on Codidact and even more special to the community-to-be of Worldbuilding. I approach this from a psychological point of view from a n...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Antares‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Drafts only save the post body

For quite a few months now, every single time I have loaded up a draft that I was working on, only the post body has been loaded in. The tag list and title never appear. They are either not saved, ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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"Proposals" does not show up in the bottom navbar

Seems like every Codidact section appears as a link in the footer, so I was expecting the new https://proposals.codidact.com/ to appear there as well. However, it looks like it doesn't. Is this an...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Should we change the footer layout?

Context The footer of all pages on the Codidact network looks something like this: Pros Looks neat Cons As more and more communities emerge and the network grows, this list of "Other C...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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What information should be displayed on a network profile?

I want to design a network profile (and then possibly implement it). There was already discussion about that in Community dropdown and profile information, Understanding how posts were possibly rec...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Misleading button wording "Return to post"

Main suggested change In a suggested edit page there is a “Return to post” button at the top right. This only makes sense when the previous page was the post. When the previous page was the...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Highlighting for tag diffs

In the diff for tags (as seen in a suggested edit, or in the edit history), the tags before editing are shown on the left, and the tags after editing are shown on the right. However, unlike the tex...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Filters for a user's posts

A user's profile page shows their top 15 posts, with a button to see all. This page showing all of a user's posts is just like the questions list or search results, with pagination if there are too...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Message hidden at top of screen: You cannot restore this post deleted by a moderator

If a moderator deletes an answer, and the author of the answer tries to restore it, a notice is added to the top of the page saying "You cannot restore this post deleted by a moderator", but the UR...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Misplaced user card below answer

In an answer on Software Development there is a layout inconsistency in the metadata below the answer. Usually the user card is to the right of the date posted, licence, and date edited. However, i...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by trichoplax‭

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All footnotes lead to the question. [duplicate]

If there is a proper footnote (using the links) in the question of the post and in any of the answers1, and you click on a footnote in the answer, it will lead to the footnote that is part of the q...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Dani‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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It should be more clear what comment an attribution belongs to

Consider the following screenshot from the middle of a longer comment thread: So which text was written by Monica Cellio, the one above or the one below the attribution line? There is no visual ...

3 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by celtschk‭

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Authors and curators cannot find deleted posts

When searching, deleted posts are excluded from the results for most users. The exception is that moderators and admins see deleted posts in search results. This is as expected, as moderators and a...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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How can I private chat with moderators here?

How do I start confidential chat room with moderators? Do I request moderator to start one here? Chat is easier to follow, than emails back and forth. I have disability, cannot keep track of email...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Nen‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Nen‭

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Our site incubator concept needs a re-think

Background Starting new sites here at Codidact has evolved over time, mostly as we got experience and realized we needed to do something different. Originally, new sites would be proposed here on...

4 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by John C‭

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What are duplicate questions?

What does Codidact consider a duplicate question? What practical consequences does that have?

3 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Searching tags with a string with more than two characters results in a 500

Trying to filter tags with a string bigger than two characters results in an internal server error (500). Example URLs: https://software.codidact.com/categories/38/tags?q=dat https://electrica...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by riQQ‭

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Separate upvotes and downvotes in the vote summary daily totals

In the vote summary page the votes received for each day are listed (both upvotes and downvotes), and there is also a total next to the date. This allows seeing at a glance how many votes were rece...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Error 500 when search for tags has no results

Error 500 when search for tags has no results Error id 419190fb-29fa-4464-9d96-e9f7f6d6c4d9 Example link: https://software.codidact.com/categories/38/tags?q=windows-installer

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by riQQ‭

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Copy Link pop up can be completely off screen

The “Copy Link” button below each post has been changed so that it now has a pop up offering either a raw link or a Markdown link: This always appears just below the button, even when the le...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Voting on a closed question

Currently, when a question is closed, it is still possible to add an upvote or downvote. One possible reason for closing a question is to allow editing to improve, before re-opening. Would it be b...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by celtschk‭

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Button to return to Suggested Edits page [duplicate]

From the Review Suggested Edit page there is a button to "Return to post" which links back to the post on which the edit is being suggested: This makes sense, as one of the places a reviewer may...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Suggested edit hidden from mods and admins for deleted posts

If a suggested edit is made on a question that has been deleted, the suggested edit is created successfully but does not show in the suggested edits list, even to users with the Curate ability (who...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Deleted post hidden from everyone in the question list

When a user deletes a question they posted, it shows with a notice which includes the following wording: The author of this post decided to delete it. It can only be seen by users with the Curat...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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500, internal server error, as I try to create a tag

Unfortunately, the system won't let me create the tag I wish to make, over at Proposals. Codidact's soul must not be seeing the quality in this tag. Creating it did work when I navigated back to t...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Is it really like this?

Well, I had hopes. But it seems Codidact is in no way "better" than StackExchange in terms of ideas to test out new things. https://meta.codidact.com/comments/thread/10096 If this community also...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Antares‭  ·  reopened 2mo ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Add post type and title to the URL

This would make zero functional change to URLs. It's purely cosmetic. A link to a post on Codidact often contains no user-readable information about what awaits at the destination. When I find lin...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Observations about the Incubator "emergence-effect" and deadlocking

Why the Incubator does not produce what it is intended for Example Persona Experience: Newbie-new-user comes to the Incubator as a fan of Movies, Worldbuilding - or ANY other non-existing com...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Antares‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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What do "YOU" need to realize those improvements?

I have finally noticed why there is sometimes a "How can we grow this community" in the Featured box and why it is missing on Meta... There are separate pages for each community! Which I think is ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Antares‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Mithical‭

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Allow including larger images

Many images and screenshots captured today, are larger than 2 MB, the max allowed size on Codidact. This means users will regularly run into a barrier when attempting to upload images to their post...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Customizable personal Dashboard

As I commented about the concerns expressed in this post, I realized that there is a way to provide a more "cross-community" view and navigation. My idea is to improve the Dashboard idea for this....

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Antares‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Antares‭

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Observations on Codidact's presentation to the outside world

I put some thoughts into the problem of attracting more people and the Incubator concept. I have ideas and suggestions I'd like to share. Maybe it gets something going. If not, also fine. Current ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Antares‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Antares‭

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Where can I ask about a matter of diminishing health as a result of crime on the Internet?

More specifically, I'd like to ask if ransomware has ever resulted in a suicide; we know that ransomware has led to deaths in hospitals, and that internet blackmailing has caused suicide, but I'm n...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭