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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.

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Following the "sign out" into a new tab results in 404 Not Found

I'm honestly not sure what is going on here. Once I'm logged in to a Codidact site, if I click "sign out" in the top right corner of each page, I get signed out -- which is exactly what you'd expec...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Can the buttons for necessary tags be clickable?

Since a few days, there are buttons here on meta right beneath the tags and before entering tags. The buttons kindly ask you to add one of the following tags: [bug], [feature-request], [discussion]...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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First image file name entry line doesn't work

When you click on the icon to insert an image into a post, you get the popup However, there is no way to type the image name there. The cursor isn't put onto the file name entry line, and just...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by 10 Rep‭

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Browser-Specific Image Problems

There have been some "images don't display in all browsers" problems. This is a test of that. Each image is "Test Image" in magenta/pink letters on a white background. PNG JPG TIF BMP ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by 10 Rep‭

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Migrate users from deprecated Codidact forum

Should user accounts from forum.codidact.org be imported? Since the forum was deprecated, I read the notice and went to this meta. The top of the meta says that all Codidact sites have the same log...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by mbomb007‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Meta answers show up as Q&A in search results

In search results, if the result is a meta answer, it incorrectly shows as being in the Q&A category instead of the meta category. Questions appear to show properly. Here's an example from Writ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Current text selection as input method for link prompt?

Currently on SE, Reddit, and many other sites, if I just select text, and then hit the link button, it will automatically take the link text from the selection. For me currently, the link button f...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Cazadorro‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Why isn't Judaism on list of communities?

Is there any specific reason why the Judaism community isn't displayed on the Codidact community page?

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Dani‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Sefaria Linker bug

If I go to: https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276449#comment-1676 the Sefaria links work fine. However, if I click on "Show 3 more comments" below the Question, the Sefaria links all disappear.

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Don't upload images automatically

When I want to upload a picture from my computer, I use the upload button in the editor to upload it directly. For this feature, I would like an extra step to confirm that I really want to upload t...

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

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Alt text is broken

If I disable images on Codidact, I get, naturally, a broken image instead. However, instead of the alt text that is supposed to show up instead, I get... nothing. I just added alt text to this answ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Chat feature for Moderators

I have some questions. Actually, I learned from SE, that "separate questions or, do not ask multiple questions in one", which is why I am not adding multiple questions at once. But, if we can ask m...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 24d ago by meta user‭

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CC BY-SA 3.0 license doesn't show

Why CC BY-SA 3.0 license don't show for me? I had asked a question in Physics Codidact. I had answered the question but, it was taken from someone else's answer(from Physics SE). So, I had deci...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

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UI isn't looking well in Android

When the title becomes bigger than as expected than UI in android don't look good. So, UI should updated for Android. I have faced the problem for User list also. Screen width is 480 and heig...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

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Promoted posts image renders Hebrew ℵ as "?", but Greek "Α" correctly [duplicate]

In this case, an image really is worth a thousand words: That links to the question What sound did the letter ℵ encode in ancient Hebrew, and why did it morph into the greek vowel Α? The origin...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Answer sort order unstable - is it just me and my browser? [duplicate]

The question "Threaded comments are here!" currently has 5 answers. I noticed that the "Score" sort order (the default sort order) does not appear to work reliably. This behavior also occurs when ...

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

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Comments don't like multi-line code :/

I was in the middle of doing something in Software Development CD and I've decided to make a comment thread regarding something from the answerer's quote. I went writing a comment and added a mult...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  edited 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Comment threads remain active even if all comments are deleted

Issue raised on GitHub In this answer there's a "General comments" thread, but all the comments are deleted. This is related to - but IMO not the same as - this other post, in which it's discus...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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The profile photo container is broken in the profile page in mobile view

A picture is worth a thousand words: There is many pixels that are not needed in the right side.

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  edited 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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How important reference is?

I am human not robot. I forget everything (I am dumb) but, human. It's OK to forget everything. Usually, a person said in one of my comment that most of the time I don't add reference link. But, I...

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

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Preview post diff before saving

It's possible to view the differences between two adjacent, existing revisions of a post through the History feature. Post owners can, of course, make arbitrary edits to posts, save those, and see...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭

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Keyboard shortcuts for comment mentions & search dropdowns

When writing a comment, you can type @so-and-so and a little popup will show you the mentionable people that match so-and-so. The new search options seem to use the same dropdown. However, for both...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

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"Body is too short" error when posting middle-click-pasted answer with no changes

Something caused posting an answer to fail for me (the web interface just sat there, the "Save Post" button disabled, but nothing further happened). To recover, I copied the text of the answer into...

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

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Why do quotation boxes split themselves?

This snag doesn't happen on Stack Exchange. Each time I use >, the quotation box severs itself. How can I combine the quotation boxes? I screenshot https://math.codidact.com/posts/282889.

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

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I can flag a post as a duplicate while it is already has been closed as a duplicate

I can flag a post as duplicate while it is already has been closed as duplicate. For example, go to this question, this question has been already closed as duplicate by a moderator but I can still...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

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Adding a comment to an existing thread results in Internal Server Error, but the comment gets added

I added a comment just now to an existing thread to a question on Power Users. Clicking "Add reply", the response was a "500 Server Error" page with the page title "Power Users - Internal Server E...

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

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500 Internal Server Error

I've had a couple of 500 Internal Server Errors now when posting comments on the maths site. The most recent one has error ID e0788383-0163-4b45-8b4f-85ff84c2751a . This has only happened since I b...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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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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Lost Reputation

It looks like the reputation counts on, at least, Code Golf were rolled back overnight. I logged off yesterday with 1011 rep but that's down to 501 this morning. Looking at the user list it looks t...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Shaggy‭  ·  edited 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Typo in "Participate" ability page in Abilities Dashboard

Where? On the page "/abilities/everyone" (Link to Codidact Meta version) What? Under "What does this ability allow me to do?" subheading, first line. Erroneous part bolded for sake of this post....

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Can't upload images (clicking upload button does nothing)

The image uploader seems broken. Clicking on the upload button does nothing. Cross ref: bug report posted over at Photography Meta. Also, I just noticed while making the link above, clicking the "l...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by scottbb‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Should bug reports go on meta.codidact.com or on GitHub? (or both, or either, or neither) [duplicate]

Given that QPixel is open source, shouldn't bug reports go on the GitHub repo instead of as a Q&A on meta? The description on codidact.com says "Our meta site for issues regarding community and...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by pxeger‭  ·  closed as duplicate 4y ago by Canina‭

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What is the requirement to be able to vote up a post in Meta? [duplicate]

I want to vote up a question in meta and I receive the following error: Failed: You have used your daily vote limit: 0/0 (403) I assume that I must have a minimum reputation (currently I have 1),...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  closed as duplicate 4y ago by luap42‭

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Subscriptions settings don't sync between sites (even though everything else does)

I noticed that the email subscriptions settings page doesn't sync between the different sites. It kind of irks me that everything else is exactly the same between the different account pages except...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Show User's Vote on List of Posts

Since Codidact shows + and - votes on the list of posts, would it be possible (practical...) to show if the currently logged in User has voted on each post? When displaying an individual post, ther...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Category dropdown list hides behind the modal form when changing a posts category .

When I use the tools to change the category of a question, the drop down list of categories to change to is showing behind the modal form. Steps to reproduce, Click the tools option below the que...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Edit activity shows even when the suggested edit isn't confirmed

Related: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277395 For some reason, edits are showing up on the history of posts (linked above) and on the activity of the user even when the edit hasn't been confi...

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

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Remember me when logging in with Mobile Sign In

When logging in with a password, there is an option to remain logged in. However, when using the QR code to login on mobile, this option isn't available, making logging in with the QR code more cum...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by ploni‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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"recent deletions" moderator tool produces error

The "recent deletions" link under mod tools is consistently returning a 500 server error for me. One reference: 2ba998b1-84b1-4675-aeb8-bebcf3465b5f I've tried this on two sites. It's been a few ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Block adding answers and editing of question/answers of deleted questions.

A deleted question should: Be viewable only by author, Moderators and appropriate high-TL users. Not allow new comments or editing of comments on question or answers. Not allow new answers. Not al...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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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 7mo ago by Nick Alexeev‭

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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 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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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 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Mithical‭

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What fluff (and what level of fluff) is acceptable in posts?

There is this question, revision 1. It contains several fragments I call "fluff": Opening phrase, greeting: Hello fellow community Cliché: Your help would be greatly appreciated ...

4 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Kamil Maciorowski‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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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 5mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Inconsistent tagged question counts

I am looking for existing questions in Power User with the virtual-reality tag. The tag-search page says there are 4 questions, but clicking through to the tag page itself shows none.

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Email, possible scam

This morning I got an email from a name I don't recognize, saying "Nice to bump into you on Codidact. If you remember, we shared a math class or two at MIT. Do you attend reunions? Love to catch up...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by gmcgath‭

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Minor typo in Help Center page of "Participate Everywhere" ability

Location Go to this link or any of the links mentioned under the "Communities" subheading below. You will see two paragraphs under their respective subheadings. Under "How do I earn this ability...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by meta user‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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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 6mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Hide sorting tab when there are 0 answers on a question

Have a look at this Codidact Meta post. It is closed. Scrolling down we can see a UI like so: When there are 0 answers, then the option to sort them by score/activity doesn't have any use. Als...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by meta user‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by trichoplax‭