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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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Text length should be shown while editing comment [duplicate]

. I was editing a comment. It became very big(more than 500 letters). And, I didn't know. I was clicking on Post button multiple although it wasn't updating. I thought it may be bug. Then, I r...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by luap42‭

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How to ensure that duplicating a post from another website won't cause content duplication that would hurt Codidact's SEO?

I have published this post in Unix and Linux StackExchange. I want to post it here as well (in Software Development Codidact), because it didn't get answers on U&L SE. I cannot delete my post...

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

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Please, don't kill Olin Elthrop‭!

I just found this user Olin Elthrop‭ and read the profile description. I felt like I had to report it, since it may be considered trolling or insulting against another user Olin Lathrop (a high-re...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Search via clicking by a tag displays incorrect category of an item [duplicate]

If one searches / filters result by a tag (by clicking on one of them) the all items in a list have a badge that indicates current category instead of correct one. For example, when I click on mvv...

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

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What does "post positive reception" mean in the context of abilities?

There is reference to "positive reception rate" for posts in the discussion on how to earn some abilities, for example the Vote on Holds ability. What exactly does "positive reception" mean in thi...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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A floating field for saving some lines for easier reference

When we write an answer we always have to take some lines from questions, comments and, other places. I was thinking if we could add some kind of floating button to the right bottom. When we expand...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user

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Abilities update is here!

U P D A T E: It looks like some changes have gone missing after the rollout; we're working on adding them back right now. See this answer for more information. We have deployed the new abilit...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by luap42‭

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Show reactions in your profile

I'm not entirely sure where they would go, but I think reactions should be in your profile activity in some way. I think reactions are most similar to votes so I would treat them the same. So do no...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 2y ago by luap42‭

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Make closing dropdown menus easier

I've noticed this both on mobile and on desktop, that in order to close a dropdown menu, you must click on the button that opened it. I think it would make for a much better user experience to be a...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by ploni‭  ·  edited 3y ago by FoggyFinder‭

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Add an option to retract a flag before it's handled

I was reviewing a post when mistakenly, I flagged the post. I wanted to remove that flag, since I know that moderators would decline it. Since the flag was raised by mistake, it would be great if ...

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

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Implement reactions for top level posts

Reiterating my request on the original reactions proposal, please allow the ability to set up reactions for top level posts as well. Quoting from that request, If reactions are able to be added ...

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

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What are the pros and cons of gamifying Codidact.org?

https://meta.codidact.com/posts/281235 - A post about easter eggs that promises to build one for April 1st of next year. Is this site interested in gamification or a serious Q&A Platform? Is th...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by System‭  ·  edited 3y ago by System‭

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Comment Changes

Popup vs. Inline The box that pops up when starting a new Comment Thread is in the middle of the page and it is not movable. When writing a comment, unless it is very short, I often want to be...

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

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Accessibility: What can we do better?

As part of our mission to be a place where communities are fully supported, one of our goals is to make sure our site is accessible for everyone. With that in mind... what can we do better, access...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by deleted user

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Draft saved notice disrupts page flow [duplicate]

I love the editor, it is so white and clean. I think the idea of having the title field at the bottom is genius. It lets you collect your thoughts and make a really meaningful title. I have a co...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by KalleMP‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Do we have a public API yet?

I've looked around for information on an existing or planned public API for Codidact but I haven't yet found one. I'm not sure if this means it was decided not to include it in the MVP or if it exi...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by trichoplax‭

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community ad has incorrect padding, or something [duplicate]

Seen at https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/279737; it links to https://photography.codidact.com/posts/74994.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Wrong category is pulled in when searching by tag on a different category that shares the tag family

On Outdoors there is blue icon that says what category a question is in when searching by tag. However when categories share the same tag set it will say that Q&A posts are in the Gear Recommen...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Where can I report private issues

Sometimes, there are issues that should not be made public (for instance, issues relating to security or privacy) and as such should not be posted here on Meta. Given the potential severity of thos...

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

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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 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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More answer feedback -- Reactions are coming to Codidact

A bit over a year ago, I proposed to add a “reactions” like feature on Codidact, which would allow marking answers as “accepted”, “outdated” or “dangerous”, providing more detailed feedback to user...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Meaningful hovertext for voting area

I notice that a number is displayed as the hovertext / tooltip when hovering over the voting buttons and current score of a post. Would it be helpful for the hovertext to include a brief descriptio...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Voting fraud on posts

In the reference, Monica had said If you suspect voting fraud, please flag or use the "contact us" link. Moderators can't see who voted on what (even I can't), but there are people on the team w...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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404 Not found after donation success

Start browsing at https://software.codidact.com/donate Finalize the donation The browser redirects to https://software.codidact.com/donate/success which displays a 404 Not Found page I have ...

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

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Once someone's been added to the roster, can you please delete your comment?

I'm referring to posts for logging interest like https://meta.codidact.com/posts/276997#answer-276997 and https://meta.codidact.com/posts/280161#answer-280161. Once your comment has been added to ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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Heads up: small design changes, a better user card and some long-expected features

Update: The reputation number in the header has been added back again for the time being, until we have found a suitable solution. This is just a quick heads up, that you are, indeed, not crazy ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 3y ago by luap42‭

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My opinion about why there should be two medical sciences websites in the network

Modular approach is generally good in the long run and I think that there are two "modules" to modern medicine: Non-invasive (doesn't include surgery) Invasive (includes surgery) I believe t...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭

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How can I effortlessly spawn new, unused URLs to the same question on Codidact?

I'd like to submit links to unanswered Codidact questions, to Reddit, in order to try to get them answered and popularize Codidact. Although some SubReddits forbid submitting a link already publis...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 2y ago by TextKit‭

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Post history diff shows apparently double-escaped HTML entities

As Exhibit A, I present revision 2 of Switching to an admin user within Powershell SSH session on Power Users, and specifically its diff view against revision 1 of Stated Post. The post itself con...

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

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"Vote on Holds Ability" page contains unrendered Markdown

The page describing the Vote on Holds ability, under "What does this ability allow me to do?", has what appears to be unrendered Markdown: The reasons for placing a post on hold vary from site t...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by sau226‭

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Initial revision of a question missing in its history

I noticed that the initial version of a question is missing in its history. The post Can we have a button to insert a table in posts? was asked on November 25, and on November 29 marked as [tag:st...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭

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Streamline the top? Move Meta to the top row?

Please see point 1 below. The top of S.E. is much sprucer — just the logo. But Codidact has two additional rows — at least merge these rows? Moshi retorted #1 The first row is categories, which...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 3y ago by luap42‭

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Limit of flag comment

What's the limit of flag comment? I was testing by flagging in Dev server. I had flagged a comment using more than 30000 characters. I think it should be limited (maybe, 500 characters)

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 2y ago by deleted user

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A few small changes, mostly about moderation and curation

The latest update includes a few small changes of possible general interest: Moderators can now escalate flags to the admin team. If you have a flag that requires our attention, or if you wan...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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How can we make Codidact more friendly for askers?

Most of the sites are struggling to get questions and while it seems to me at least that more effort has been put into optimizing for the answerers than for the askers. To put it another way, ther...

8 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by TextKit‭

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Why should site proposals require groups?

It was written in Codidact Site Proposals page: If you've got a group or community looking for a site, we can host it for you. Post here to let us know and we'll discuss the details. Please read...

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

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Advertise Codidact.com on your vehicle?

Has anyone like our founders thought of advertising Codidact.com on your vehicle, free of charge and voluntarily? Like on the side and on the back? I don't expect Codidact to pay you for this, but...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Codidact turns one; let's party (email for prizes sent)

Update (2020-12-29): I've sent emails to everyone who is eligible to get a t-shirt or stickers. I'm sorry that it took a while, but you know, life happens. It's been an interesting year so far and ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Enabled-state of the "Add reply" button, character count in comment thread view does not update on pasting into comment input field

This looks similar to my previous bug report "Body is too short" error when posting middle-click-pasted answer with no changes, and I wouldn't be surprised if the fix is the same. When on the thre...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by deleted user

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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 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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How can I decorously promote Codidact on Reddit?

I've stumbled upon links to Codidact questions on answers on SOME subreddits, but because Codidact is still little known and unsung, Redditors balk at clicking links to Codidact. OR other...

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

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Rollback Feature for Questions and Answers

In the buttons below a Question/Answer, there is one for viewing its history: This is a feature request for adding a rollback feature to the history page of a question/answer, since the edits to...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Razetime‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Allow users to select their own default license per site and category, possibly per post type

Each site and category has a default license that is selected as default for new posts to that category. The license actually assigned to each post is that selected by the user when the post is ini...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Brackets around link text in the table of contents

See the table of contents on this post, as an example. For answers with links formatted as [text](example.com) the table of contents displays text. However, for answers with links formatted a...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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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 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭

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Confusing behavior of tags shared between categories

Over on Software, Q&A and Code Review share the same tags. While this is really helpful since it makes tag parity easy, it also produces some weird behavior. For instance, at the moment the sit...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Keyboard shortcut for image upload prevents me from entering Unicode characters by number

When posting my last question here, I noticed that I can't directly input Unicode characters in the text box due to a keyboard shortcut. For many Linux application (in particular, the web browsers...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Allow posting without logging in at least in some communities

I ran the search queries "anonymous", "register" and "unregistered" in the search box but didn't find a thread about why isn't anonymous/unregistered contribution allowed here. I recall one or two...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 2y ago by Kevin Shenouda‭

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Do I need to conceal or blur brand names?

S.E. has wrongfully deleted questions and/or suspended people for posting pictures with brand names, because by default they think all brand names are advertising and spam. I confirm I don't work f...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Relevance of search results

The search function seems not to turn up good search results when sorted by relevance (the default sort). For example: Searching for community wiki on Meta Codidact turns up 12 pages of results, b...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by user8078‭