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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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Some things I observed as I started poking around Codidact

I'm a bit hesitant to write this since it's not generally a good idea to walk into a host's house and immediately criticize the way it's laid out. But there really is only one chance to make first ...

0 answers  ·  posted 6d ago by Jon Ericson‭  ·  edited 2h ago by Jon Ericson‭

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How about explicitly inviting new user feedback?

Prompted by comments in this comment thread - I agree that it's often very difficult to get feedback from new users in the meta area of a community, especially one that has custom software on top o...

1 answer  ·  posted 4d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 2h ago by Jon Ericson‭

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Implement inline spoiler text

It was previously noted that Codidact does not support explicit spoiler tags, although it's possible to hide blocks of text in collapsible sections (using <details> and <summary> HTML)....

0 answers  ·  posted 10h ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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How are tabs handled in code blocks?

While this question is of particular interest to the technical sites, and especially to Software, it concerns core site functionality. I figured it would be more polite to ask than to make a "sandb...

1 answer  ·  posted 4d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 4d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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What community would be appropriate to ask a business question about software development?

The title is the question: What community would be appropriate to ask a business question about software development?

2 answers  ·  posted 5d ago by TecBrat‭  ·  last activity 4d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Trying to use Markdown formatting on detail-section labels causes unexpected centered alignment in preview

I knew that blank lines are needed in certain places when mixing HTML markup with Markdown so that the Markdown will actually be processed. For example: <details> <summary> Gory deta...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 4d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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How can Codidact be independent from Stack Exchange, when you have same moderators?

Mithical is moderator on AI, Constructed Language, Literature Stack Exchanges. But also Mithical is I'm also part of Codidact’s Community Team, and am on the Board of Directors. Clearly, Mit...

2 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Mark S.‭  ·  last activity 5d ago by Lundin‭

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Please review a new Accessibility Statement and Accessibility Policy

Here at Codidact, we believe that everyone deserves to have access to information and to be a part of a community. "Everyone" includes people with disabilities, and so that means making our site an...

1 answer  ·  posted 7d ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 6d ago by Lundin‭

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What customizations are available on Codidact?

On Codidact, lots of things can be customized for individual communities. Generally these changes need to be made by admins, but we'll make them on request. But what are all these things? What c...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 7d 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. 2023 (current year) 2022 2021 2020

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  last activity 7d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Can we have the ability to create tags without being linked to a question?

As the title says. Rationale: I'm in the process of giving tags on EE.CD some structure and I feel that sometimes a group of tags could be usefully grouped under a parent which doesn't exist yet. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  edited 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Proposal descriptions show "Suggest edit" instead of "Edit"

In the Descriptions category of the Codidact Proposals community, anyone can edit any proposal description. This is in contrast to other categories where suggested edits require approval before bei...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Easier way to get to the individual user Posts page

There is a Posts page showing all the posts by a given user. However, the only place it is linked to appears to be the bottom of the long list of posts on the user profile. An example of when this...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Tag search breaks if a space is added

In the Q&A category of Meta a tag search for "proposal" shows 4 results, but a tag search for "proposal " (with a trailing space, as is commonly automatically inserted when typing on mobile) sh...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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New and interesting question feeds without email

It appears that Codidact has notification streams for new questions and interesting questions, but currently these are over email. Can you add a search filter, global page, RSS feed or some other ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Post owner should always be able to approve or reject edits

Apparently the owner of a post cannot approve a pending suggested edit on that post. I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request, but either way, I propose that the post owner should...

1 answer  ·  posted 15d ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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QPixel goes to the "new post" page when I press Ctrl+N to open a new browser window

If I am on some web page (such as on Codidact), and want to check out some detail elsewhere on the web, my usual first step is to press Ctrl+N to open a new browser window, then navigate to do what...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Post score in title text of vote counts does not update when voting

When adding or removing an upvote or downvote, the user interface is updated without reloading the page. This changes the upvote and downvote buttons to be the appropriate colour based on whether t...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Input box is not on screen after pressing "Start new comment thread" with expanded comments

If comment threads below a post are already expanded, then the input box that appears after pressing the "Start new comment thread" button is too far down the page to be visible. This makes it look...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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No title text on edges of buttons away from icons

The "Dashboard", "Notifications", and "Mobile Sign In" buttons in the page header at the top right of the page have title text which displays those names. However, the title text is on the icon rat...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Question score on hover in question lists

When viewing an individual question, the score can be seen by hovering over the voting buttons or the upvote and downvote counts: In the question list page, it might be expected that the score c...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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What html tags can we use in posts?

So, I finally got around to looking at the second Review Panel draft, and was surprised by the ability to make collapsible sections in posts. From the comments, I wasn't the only one. Whoa, whoa, ...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Filters don't allow negative Min Score

I'm trying to make a filter for "Not that negative" posts, imagining "Net score > -2," but the UI of the filter creator only lets you put in Min Score between 0 and 1, with a step size on the sp...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Should the Discord guidance be updated as discriminators are being removed?

In my profile, it includes this guidance: Discord Your Discord user tag, in the format username#1234. Discord is in the process of removing discriminators (a discriminator is the #1234). Whi...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by cocomac‭  ·  edited 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Miscellaneous Flag modal problems

Flagging an answer After pressing "Flag" under an answer there are 3 radio buttons to choose from: Flagging questions and answers Some changes would benefit both types of post. Changes specifi...

2 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Although div tag is not allowed, it's rendered in the preview

tl;dr According to this post, the div tag is not allowed, thus it's removed from posts. But it's not removed from the preview, and I believe both (the preview and the final saved post) should be c...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  edited 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Add a "log out of all devices" button

I would like a button that lets me log out of Codidact on all devices. This would be helpful if you lost your device, or believed your account to be compromised. Then you could log out on all devi...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by FractionalRadix‭  ·  edited 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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How can I fix or edit comment thread titles?

It happens to me all the time that I write a comment - as the first of a new thread of comments - and then either overlook giving it a title, or expect that the default title will be good enough an...

1 answer  ·  posted 9d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 9d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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 3y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 11d ago by Jon Ericson‭

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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...

3 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 12d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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How do I "answer" a feature request or a bug report?

Given that a feature request or a bug report is more of a call-to-action to the developers rather than a question seeking an "answer," I am confused as to what an answer to a feature request or bug...

2 answers  ·  posted 14d ago by 90 98‭  ·  last activity 12d ago by Mithical‭

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How do I close the flag dialog?

When I click flag there is a menu that shows up showing the reasons, like spam, rude, needs author's attention, etc. But how can I close the menu without refreshing the page? I do not see an 'X' wi...

1 answer  ·  posted 13d ago by 90 98‭  ·  last activity 13d ago by r~~‭

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Probationary shadowban for new accounts

I'd like for communities to be able to opt in to a feature that shadowbans new accounts for a brief period of time. Moderators should be able to release accounts from the shadowban manually; they s...

3 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by r~~‭  ·  last activity 14d ago by 90 98‭

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Am I allowed to participate here, despite being network banned from Stack Exchange?

In 2020, I received a 10-year network ban from Stack Exchange for really really really bad behavior (Some people from Charcoal might know who I am). I know this website has a lot of the same people...

2 answers  ·  posted 15d ago by 90 98‭  ·  last activity 15d ago by Canina‭

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Add an explicit Markdown syntax for decorative images

When uploading an image on a Codidact community, users are prompted to add alt text - a text alternative to an image - for that image. If they go to submit a post without doing so, or when submitti...

0 answers  ·  posted 15d ago by Mithical‭

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Tagging @username in a question/answer/comment

Is it possible to tag users by their handle. E.g. Oh hey @da5nsy do you have an answer for this question? It doesn't look like it does, because names are not hyperlinked but then I saw @manass...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by da5nsy‭  ·  edited 15d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Proposal: Human-readable profile URLs

Would it be possible to have human-readable profile URLs instead of numbers? e.g. https://meta.codidact.com/users/da5nsy or https://meta.codidact.com/users/@da5nsy rather than https://meta.codid...

2 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by da5nsy‭  ·  edited 15d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Get rid of minimum character requirements

Various places in Codidact where a user enters text seem to have a minimum character requirement. If you enter fewer characters than that, the system keeps the "submit post" button greyed out, pop...

2 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 15d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Cannot view with no filter when a category has a default filter

This is the filter section above a post list: In a category where I have set a default filter, I can temporarily view the post list using a different filter by selecting it from the "Predefined ...

0 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 18d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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How does "@username" work in comment threads?

In a comment thread, I can notify someone by including "@username". I also get notified of replies, even if they do not include my username in this way. What determines who is notified of a comment...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 18d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Indicate change in reputation in voting summary

In the Vote Summary tab of the user page, each of a users posts shows how many votes up and down: This shows voting, but does not make clear how this affects reputation. In this example, the fir...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 19d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Confusing percentage on Edit Posts Ability page

Related: Tracking progress towards the Edit ability The Activity tab of my user profile, filtered to Edits shows 20 helpful suggested edits, and 1 declined. The Edit Posts Ability page sho...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 19d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Bulleted lists don't work on IOS Firefox and MacOS Safari

I tried to post an answer with a bulleted list, but it renders without bullets. I can't repro here, but I have submitted multiple edits to the answer above, and none of them allow me to get the po...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by tripleee‭  ·  edited 19d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Grace period for immediately noticed small errors

Sometimes I will compose a lengthy post, submit it, see it in context and immediately notice a typo - no matter how careful I thought I was being. I'm not sure it's desirable that, when I go to fi...

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

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Tag and children missing from tag hierarchy pages

I was on the Software Dev CD tag page, clicking through the pages of the "Hierarchy" sort. I wanted to see if there were git-* tags that are not nested under the git tag.[1] Surprisingly, I discov...

1 answer  ·  posted 27d ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 26d ago by Michael‭

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Notification on edits to voted post

When you vote on a post, and it later gets edited, should you get a notification? Say you upvoted something because you liked it. But then it got edited and you don't like the new version. You mig...

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

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Submit same flag multiple times

I just managed to flag the same post for spam twice. I flagged it, then commented on it, then flagged it again. There are now two separate spam flags on it in my flag history. This is potentiall...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Andreas‭

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Support larger file sizes by compressing them before transfer to the server

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...

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

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How to grow all of our communities?

As most have noticed, there's been a discussion raised on all the community metas about how to grow that particular community. It's a good question and I do believe they should be answered on commu...

7 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Merge abilities help page with abilities dashboard

Where to find information about the abilities, is currently a bit confusing. There are too many pages. The help page for abilities, as well as the dashboard, present pretty much the exact same inf...

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