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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 using the software that runs it. For questions about setting up your own instance of the software or questions about the code, see Codidact Collab.

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No visible response when searching on mobile

After searching from the search box at the top of each page, you are taken to a search results page. This has the search box with the current search term prepopulated, ready to modify and search ag...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

feature-request status-completed mobile-browser search
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Link to a specific edit in the history

I can link to the edit history of a post, for example, the edit history of the meta question you are reading, but I can't see a way to link to a specific edit in the history. Is there currently an...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

feature-request status-completed post-history
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Some symbols are displayed as HTML encoding in question description

In the posts page of each site, the symbols & < > are not rendered as such; Instead they are replaced by their HTML encodings: &amp; &lt; &gt; You can see that in the pr...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

bug status-completed html rendering
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No indication of zero results in tag search

When searching the Tags section, a search string that gives no results gives an empty results section, rather than a message saying there were no results. This makes it unclear whether there is a p...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

bug status-completed tags searching user-experience
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Secret Code missing from 2FA Screen

The secret text is a string of characters that is embedded into the QR code. All 2FA apps then deserialise this QR code into a URI, which contains the secret text and other information regarding t...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by slick‭  ·  edited 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

feature-request status-completed
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Should be allowed to vote on answer to own question

I wrote a question on a site I hadn't been to before, and got an answer. I tried to upvote the answer, but was shown: I only have 1 rep (should start at 0, but that's another matter), so I can un...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lux‭

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Show tags in posts

I'm proposing to be able to show tags in posts like writing [tag:status-bydesign] should show status-bydesign [1]. This would make referencing tags in posts easier and nicer. This is a pure...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lux‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Lux‭

feature-request tags posts
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Searching then sorting on users page doesn't work as expected

On the users page, I've noticed that searching for a specific name and then sorting by either "reputation" or "age" doesn't work as expected. Here is a gif that explains better:

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lux‭  ·  edited 2y ago by trichoplax‭

bug users filters
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Single line summary of currently applied filters

When no filters are applied to a post list it shows "Filters (None)". When there are filters applied to a post list it shows "Filters ()". Would it be useful for there to be a 1 line summary of t...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

feature-request filters
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Community sort order

As the list of communities gets longer, it becomes more difficult to find any particular one in the various places they are listed. Sorting Would it be helpful to have sorting buttons, similar to...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

feature-request communities
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Cannot search for net negative votes

Searching for votes:-8 does not give results with net votes -8. Instead it returns all posts, regardless of votes. Upvotes and downvotes break in exactly the same way for negative numbers, but for...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Reconsidering the shorthand for month in search

From the search help: You can use m for minute, h for hour, d for day, w for week, mo for month, and y for year. It seems likely that users would want to use months more often than minutes in...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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PolicyDoc and HelpDoc hidden from search

Searching for post_type:3 (PolicyDoc) gives no results. Similarly for post_type:4 (HelpDoc). Should these post types be excluded from the options presented when the user types post_type:, or shoul...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

bug help-center search
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Searching for answers by tag

Searching for post_type:2 (answer) and a tag gives no results, as answers do not have tags. Intuitively, I would expect this to return results which are answers to a question with that tag. Is ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

feature-request tags answers search
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Unclickable suggested edit button below post

After suggesting an edit to a post, it is displayed differently to indicate that the edit is pending. This difference is in 2 places. The top of the post shows a message in a box: Below the pos...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

bug editing-posts suggested-edits
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Preview text for answers should be the answer's text

When searching, not only questions but also answers come up in the results. However, the information on it is mixed between the question that the answer is on and the answer itself: Title: Que...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

feature-request discussion status-norepro searching
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Confusing reuse of styling between button and tab header

At the top of the page there are sections for the community's Categories, which are displayed as tabs that can be switched between. For example, here on Meta Codidact there are "Q&A", "Site Pro...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Proposal: filters for post lists

Several discussions have touched on the idea of being able to filter the contents of the post list. Whether your goal is to find unanswered questions, hide closed questions, hide ignored tags, or ...

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

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Tailored previews in search results to show the relevant parts of each post

In search results the title is shown followed by a preview of the post, consisting of the first few lines. I would find it more useful to see the section of the post that contains the search term,...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

feature-request user-experience search
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Notifications and Communities buttons not responding to icon clicks

Previously, clicking on the icon for Notifications or Communities at the top right of the page resulted in the appropriate drop down panel appearing. Today, the panel only opens if the square area ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

bug status-completed button notifications
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Can't click notification icon

Clicking on the notification icon: Doesn't do anything. I noticed this just now. It's probably been a month or more since the last time I had a notification. Back then it worked as expected (...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Notification popup does not close when link target is on the current page

When a Notification is selected for a comment that's on the current page, the service automatically forwards the user to the location of the comment — but it doesn't automatically close the notific...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by JBH‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

bug status-completed user-interface inbox notifications
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Edit activity show, but not allowed to approve

Now having a dot next to the "Edits" button to indicate pending edits brings up a new issue. It seems everyone is notified of all pending edits, whether they have the ability to approve them or no...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Premature confirmation of successful sign in with 2FA

When signing in with two-factor authentication enabled, a code is requested on the next page after entering email and password: However, before the code is entered, a green banner at the top of ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Blocked from posting to Collab by script tag inside code block

I am currently unable to post to Codidact Collab. When pressing "Save Post to Q&A" I am taken to the following page: The small print at the bottom says: Cloudflare Ray ID: 7b7c1ee0bdc8776...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Translation support on Weblate [duplicate]

Love all the work that's being put into this! I would love to translate Codidact's software (QPixel) to another language so that it's accessible to more people who want to deploy their communities...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by FlaxSeed‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2y ago by FlaxSeed‭

feature-request internationalization
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No response when clicking on the title of a thread on a recently deleted post

When clicking on the thread title ("Welcome!" in this example) of a comment thread below a post: I see the following error in the Firefox developer window (click image for a larger version): ...

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

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Notification about a thread on a deleted post

What should be the behaviour when a user posts a reply to a comment in a thread on a post, and then deletes the post? For example, the post may be a question which requires editing before it will b...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

discussion deleted-posts threads
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Show raw MathJax in suggested edit diffs and edit histories

Related: Post revisions are displayed without rendered Markdown but with rendered MathJax When reviewing a suggested edit, any MathJax is presented in its rendered form, making it difficult to s...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Don't show "Initial revision" in user activity [duplicate]

Immediately after the activity entry about posting a question or answer, another entry labeled "Initial revision" is placed. This seems kind of redundant to me, since all it really says is that a p...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

feature-request design user-profiles activity
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Misleading edit history label "Initial revision"

In the edit history for a post, the initial version is labelled "Initial revision" even though it is not a revision. What would make more sense here? Initial post? Initial version? Initial wor...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Minor typo fixes on Blog posts activate the activity indicator circle

When an edit is made to a Blog post, the new activity indicator circle appears on the Blog tab: This is useful when there is a new Blog post, but less useful when there is a minor typo fixed. W...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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A place to ask legal questions?

I have a question regarding clarifications on what does and doesn't constitute "price fixing" (in the US), and, while I read the FTC definitions, there're some areas I wanted to ask about. Unfortu...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Moshi‭

discussion new-communities legal law
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Should we have category specific reactions?

Reaction types can currently be switched on and off for a community (by a moderator) so different communities can have different reactions (including custom reactions). However, each reaction th...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

feature-request categories reactions
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Large reputation on phones shrinks the community logo

As a user's reputation increases, it takes up more horizontal space on the header bar of each page. On desktop there is plenty of empty space so this makes little difference. However, on a phone sc...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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No escape from reactions dialogue box

I clicked on "react" on an answer on Codidact Meta and found that the only available reaction is "Outdated", which I don't want to use. There doesn't appear to be any way to close the dialogue box ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Ability to sort individual user Posts page by Activity

There is a Posts page showing all the posts by a given user. At the top it has sorting buttons: The sorting buttons at the top of the questions list on the front page has more sorting buttons: ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

feature-request sorting
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Does "site" mean "community" or "Codidact" on License field?

Above the drop down list for license when making a new post, it mentions "site default". As people use the word "site" to mean different things, this could be ambiguous, particularly for a new user...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by sau226‭

feature-request status-completed license user-experience
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Long list of posts comes first in the user profile

Looking at the user profile on mobile, I noticed that what could be considered the user summary (the avatar, earned abilities, and statistics like number of posts) is all the way at the bottom of t...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

feature-request discussion user-profiles user-interface
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Move current password field up in the edit account settings

Currently, the change password form looks like this: Having a form like this might create some problems: Password - is it the new one or the old one? we find out only by checking the other fi...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

discussion status-completed account
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Adding a parent to a tag crashes on the server side (500)

This was already asked on Software, but it makes sense add Codidact level. If I try to provide a parent to a tag, it crashes with 500. Error Id = 6bd06f30-539d-4b88-8743-eca32a8465cd Tag to ed...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

bug status-completed tags
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Double brackets in footnotes

While typing the initial draft of a post, or editing an existing post, footnotes appear in the preview in superscript in square brackets, like this: However, after saving the post, the footnotes...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

bug status-completed footnote
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Extra brackets for footnotes (but this time in post)

I noticed that this answer has two pairs of brackets: However, in the preview, it shows as only a single pair of brackets, Also here is an example in this post[1]. Weirdly it seems to only a...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

bug status-completed posts footnote
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Total number of search results

At the top of the posts page, the total number of posts shows. At the top of the search results page, there is not a total number of results. I would find the total number useful on the search res...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

feature-request status-completed user-experience search
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Can "last activity" provide more context on what it was that happened?

Currently (November 2020), the list of questions displays a "last activity" under each one of them. It refers, obviously, to when and who made the last action in the Q&A thread and links to the...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  edited 2y ago by trichoplax‭

feature-request design activity user-interface category-post-list
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Attempting to restore an answer deleted by a moderator gives no visible feedback

After a moderator has deleted an answer, it looks like this to the poster of the answer: If the poster of the answer clicks on "Restore", the action is prevented, and a message is shown at the t...

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

bug accessibility deleted-posts
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Inconsistent badge alignment on Vote Summary tab of user profile

On the Vote Summary tab of the user profile page, the post type and category show as badges on the same line as the question title and aligned to the right. However, if the question title is too lo...

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

bug user-profiles reputation consistency
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License CC BY-SA 3.0 only available on Writing and Outdoors

For 2 communities (Writing and Outdoors) the License drop down list when making a new post shows an option of CC BY-SA 3.0: For all of the other Codidact communities this option is not present. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Mithical‭

discussion status-completed license communities
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Incorrect description for CC BY-SA 3.0 in license drop down list [duplicate]

This will become irrelevant if License CC BY-SA 3.0 only available on Writing and Outdoors results in CC BY-SA 3.0 no longer being available For those communities where it is present, CC BY-SA 3...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2y ago by Mithical‭

bug license
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Very narrow blank option in Default license drop down list

The drop down list of options for "Default license" in the "Community Preferences" section of the "Preferences" tab on the user profile page does not appear to have the option of returning to blank...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

bug license user-experience preferences