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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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Tags don't match between display mode and edit mode

I noticed an anomaly when I went to edit a question. The tags in the display mode don't match the tags in the edit mode. I didn't change the tags, that's how they initialized when I opened the ed...

0 answers  ·  posted 1h ago by Nick Alexeev‭

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I can close my own question by myself, but not reopen it

I was surprised to find that ordinary user privileges allow me to close my own posts unilaterally. It does seem useful; just now I posted something on Linux Systems and realized it needed some fixe...

0 answers  ·  posted 4d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Cannot accept suggested edits to my post, because I don't have permission to change moderator-only tags

Shouldn't I be allowed to accept an edit to my own post? Now here I can't, because the suggested edit adds a tag that I am not allowed to add. Other edits are also not possible (because it asks fi...

1 answer  ·  posted 4d ago by [Object object]‭  ·  edited 4d ago by trichoplax‭

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Add an entry for the "Participate" ability to the help center

Currently, the help center has a list of user abilities, with sub-pages for each of the entries, to elaborate on them. The help center should also have an entry for "Participate", the first ability...

2 answers  ·  posted 7d ago by Andreas‭  ·  edited 6d ago by Mithical‭

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How can users submit a GDPR request (e.g. delete account, rectify data, etc) online? [duplicate]

Does Codidact have a Submit a Data Access Request form, like SE? How long shall Codidact take?

1 answer  ·  posted 7d ago by Tortilla‭  ·  closed as duplicate 6d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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What are my options for access to my data being processed by Codidact?

The GDPR requires (article 20 right to data portability, paragraph 1, in part) that: 1. The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she ha...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 7d ago by Moshi‭

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How should we approach non-English content?

It seems almost taken for granted on every Codidact site - even Languages & Linguistics - that questions and answers are supposed to be written in English, although I can't find any official po...

1 answer  ·  posted 7d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 7d ago by r~~‭

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I can't "Add reaction". "The integral output port has found a problem." [duplicate]

After I clicked "Add Reaction", this error popped up! Codidact failed to add my reaction. Please fix?

0 answers  ·  posted 8d ago by PSTH‭  ·  closed as duplicate 7d ago by Mithical‭

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After I logged in, 418 STAT ERROR. "Please re-enable the encryption protocol."

Forthwith after logging in, this error popped up. Please repair?

1 answer  ·  posted 8d ago by PSTH‭  ·  last activity 7d ago by Mithical‭

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Enhancing community involvement with per-site Help Centers

By my understanding, one of the key features of the Codidact network is that individual communities are more in control of their local policies. In particular, it appears that community moderators ...

0 answers  ·  posted 7d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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After clicking "Save Post in Q&A", why does Codidact fail to load post?

On the post edit page, after clicking on the "Save Post in Q&A" button, that button changes color to gray. No page load takes place, and the post does not get submitted.

0 answers  ·  posted 8d ago by PSTH‭  ·  edited 8d ago by Andreas‭

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Feature request: direct messages

Why ? It would facilitate some misunderstandings and clarification without the need for a public comment. It would open a path to people being "mentored" in their first 5 question or what amount i...

2 answers  ·  posted 9d ago by Or4ng3h4t‭  ·  edited 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Informing community users of new permissible features

It seems that permissible features which are voted up considerably will be added to a community. By "permissible" I mean those features which are not rejected by the community team due to some poli...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  last activity 8d ago by Or4ng3h4t‭

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Notifying each other that a commented-on issue is resolved, to produce fewer comments rather than more

I just made a comment on another Meta post because I wasn't sure whether something in someone else's answer was a typo, or if so what the correct wording should be. It turned out that my best guess...

5 answers  ·  posted 9d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 9d ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Shouldn't be able to delete question after any response

This is in response to something that happened on the Math site, but it's really a Codidact-wide issue. A week or two ago, someone posted a poorly written question. Not surprisingly, the question...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 9d ago by Andreas‭

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Bringing bad posts to the attention of curators, not just moderators - flagging vs closure reasons

As things stand, the options for flagging a question seem rather spartan: Image of flagging dialog We have: two options for actual abusive use of the site software an option for dupli...

1 answer  ·  posted 13d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 10d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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User preferences behaviour inconsistent with advice

A preferences problem highlighted in an answer on Software Development Meta appears to have been somewhat fixed, but leaving an inconsistency with the guidance on the preferences page. At the top ...

1 answer  ·  posted 13d ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 12d ago by CoisasDoRafa‭

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Could we have a "Close as outdated" close reason?

A sort of a solution to this problem, but would also apply to posts such as moderator elections, one-off proposals (though status-complete also works), and just generally posts which at some point ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 13d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Problems i have encountered/seen in the last week

I am a new user to Codidact that just migrated from StackOverflow and there are some things I would like to get across, besides this website being smaller, but we already knew what we were getting ...

3 answers  ·  posted 22d ago by Or4ng3h4t‭  ·  edited 14d ago by Or4ng3h4t‭

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Let's improve how we handle duplicates

Currently, marking a question as a duplicate is part of question closure. Duplicates are a little different from other close reasons, though -- often the question itself is clear, complete, and o...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 15d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Regular deletion (roomba) of content unlikely to ever be useful

I noticed that questions exist on this network and are accessible that are unlikely to ever be very helpful, for example because they were marked as completely off-topic. Examples Are internati...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 15d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Do these comments follow our Code of Conduct?

How is this not easily solved with grade school math? -1 for being a dumb question. I can't tell whether this is trolling or a serious question, since finding the answer only requires sevent...

1 answer  ·  posted 28d ago by Mark S.‭  ·  last activity 16d ago by manassehkatz‭

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How can we poll a community?

In my effort of giving structure to EE.CD tags pages, I find myself in the need of asking the community for consensus about some debatable choices. Of course the place for this is EE Meta, but I'd...

2 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 16d ago by manassehkatz‭

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Could we have an alphabetic sort option for tags?

During my effort at building structure and content in the EE.CD tags pages, I found myself often wanting a way to list all the tags in alphabetic order, regardless of their status or their place in...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 16d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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How to resize images

I received a comment on my answer to https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289594 about the image size. It is a perfectly valid point. For comparison, in StackExchange it is possible to resize by ad...

1 answer  ·  posted 19d ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  last activity 19d ago by Moshi‭

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Should we be able to tag answers?

On some of our communities, it would be helpful to be able to label answers systematically: On Code Golf, by language. On Software Development, Power Users, or Linux Systems, by specific ...

5 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 20d ago by trichoplax‭

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Discoverability for the new Proposals site

Now that there is a separate Proposals site with its own Meta and other categories, that would seem to qualify as a separate "Codidact Community" which should be listed among the "Other Codidact Co...

1 answer  ·  posted 21d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 20d ago by trichoplax‭

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How should we phase out the Site Proposals category?

Currently the old Site Proposals category points to the new Proposals community, presumably as a temporary measure until people get used to the new community. This is not ideal, as described in the...

0 answers  ·  posted 20d ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 20d ago by trichoplax‭

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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 sites in the network. The list is also shown in the page footer, and on codidact.com. There is also a site for peo...

3 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 20d ago by trichoplax‭

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Privacy policy needs meta-variables to be expanded

https://meta.codidact.com/policy/privacy-policy currently begins This Privacy Policy applies to all $EDIT-org-name communities hosted under ​$EDIT-URL. There are a number of other unexpanded ...

1 answer  ·  posted 22d ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  last activity 22d ago by Mithical‭

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Users with multiple Codidact accounts

Are there any rules about a user having multiple Codidact accounts (sometimes known as sockpuppet accounts)? What should a user do if they suspect another user has multiple accounts?

1 answer  ·  posted 27d ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 27d ago by r~~‭

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Comment flagging broken on mobile portrait mode

From a comment thread page, pressing "flag" on a comment results in a pop up panel with a text input and a "Flag" button. On mobile, in portrait mode, this pop up panel overlaps the left hand edge ...

0 answers  ·  posted 27d ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 27d ago by trichoplax‭

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The posts list for a tag suggests each post has only that tag

Clicking on a tag takes you to a page showing the details of the tag, followed by a list of posts bearing that tag. However, each of these posts is shown with only that tag. All other tags on each ...

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

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UX changes: dark theme, distinct borders and shortcuts

I was asked to spill out what would be my UX changes, so here I go. My personal opinion on UX is in majority about my own discomfort with white background. As person working on computer for 10-12 h...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Prahara‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Improved layout for individual search results

Currently, when I look at search results, or the list of posts on my user profile, I get results that look like: I have two objections. In my view: Answers should show the tags of the corre...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Who should be able to create new tags?

It's been pointed out in a few places that, so long as creating tags is much easier than managing them, we're going to have problems handling typos, duplicates, and tags that otherwise ought not ex...

3 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Support shortcut links to Codidact communities / categories

I would like to be able to write e.g. [software.cd] and have it generate a link to https://software.codidact.com with a friendly title. Currently, it becomes a link based on the actual text content...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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What should happen with inactive communities?

The level of activity of the communities vary. Some are more active than others, which isn't exactly a problem. However, I'm a bit worried when a community becomes significantly less active than ot...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Andreas‭

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How to avoid triggering mathjax?

Apparently, two dollar signs in a paragraph cause the text between them to be interpreted as mathjax. How can this be avoided so that dollar signs can be written literally? I tried escaping the d...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Moshi‭

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What do we do with suspected AI users?

I have noticed a user that I suspect may be posting AI generated content. What should I do in such a situation? I don't want to go into exactly why I think it's an AI. Suffice to say, I work on LL...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Mithical‭

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[tag:Notifications] should not be a synonym of [tag:email-notifications] [closed]

I just created a bug report post about notifications in the inbox. When applying tags for my post, I typed in "notifications". That resulted in two tags [tag:notification] and [tag:notifications]. ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Andreas‭  ·  closed 1mo ago by Andreas‭

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Notifications for deleted comments in the inbox.

Currently, the inbox retains notifications for comments that have since been deleted. This is unnecessary, and quite a disappointment when you're eager for a discussion, only to find that the comme...

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

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Hiding "Initial revision" on the Edits section of the Activity tab of the user profile

When viewing a user's Edits on the Activity tab of the user profile, it includes "Initial revision", which seems to me more like a posting than an edit: In the edit history of an individual post...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by sau226‭

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Consider child tags in required tags

Currently, it is possible to set required tags for a category. For example, here on meta it lists as required tags one of: bug, feature-request, discussion or support. For meta, this works pretty ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Taeir‭

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Flag details vs. comments

When flagging a post as "Needs author's attention", the interface provides a single-line text entry field for "Details?", which does not allow for newlines. Input text scrolls without any clear ind...

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

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Editor preview for comments [duplicate]

Comments allow some Markdown features such as numbered and bullet point lists, code blocks, and quote blocks. They also allow MathJax in communities for which it is enabled. A rendered comment can ...

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

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Implementing a technical "dictionary/glossary" for non-English languages.

I think this has come up before, maybe tangentially on some specific site (EE.CD ?), but I lost track of the posts/comments. Anyway, I think it would be useful, at least for EE.CD, but I post here...

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

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Assessing the 5 tag limit

We currently have a limit of 5 tags per question. Should we keep this the same or would any changes be of benefit? For example: Should the limit be higher or lower? Should there be different ...

3 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Which communities have shown interest?

Historical note: When this post was written, we planned to use the QPixel software as a stopgap while building a new Codidact platform from scratch. That's not what we ended up doing. Since early ...

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

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Proposal to ease tag maintenance

We should make it easier for trusted users to manage tags. Can we please have some feedback on the following ideas? Creating tags directly (independently of a post): move from mod-only to anyo...

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