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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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Why don't we just make communities for every launched stack?

Rather than reinvent each community, why don't the admins just create a community for each subject that Stack launched a site for? Such as statistics, interpersonal skills, workplace, law, philoso...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by accounting, identify this location‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Add keyboard shortcuts to navigate between pages of multipage lists

It would be nice if on pages with several subpages (like the posts page, with the previous/next and page number bar on bottom), there would be a shortcut to go to the previous/next page in the list...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 3y ago by weegee‭

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Display accurate post or comment time when hovering

I would like to see the date and time in UTC or my own time zone if set when I hover over the vague about 12 days ago to be able to compare when two events actually happened or any other reason. I...

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

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A small tool area to navigate through answers on a question page

I like the idea of a small tool zone for each answer that lets you skip quickly to the previous or next one. A navigation button or keyboard short-cut or gesture to skip one post at a time (Next/p...

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

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Implement duplicate up-down vote buttons

I would like to have a smaller pair of duplicate UP and Down vote buttons at the end of a answer or question so I can vote after I have read it. I do not want to scroll up to vote especially if th...

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

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Separate Languages from Linguistics? [closed]

Stack exchange separates languages from linguistics for good reasons. they're not the same thing. linguistics is an academic subject. and why combine all the languages on one post? like stack, why...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by accounting, identify this location‭  ·  closed 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Is S.E. website layout more clear cut and user friendly? [closed]

No offense! I want to make Codidact better and friendlier than SE! I don't know why — I don't design website or user experience — but SE's websites looks better and makes my eyes and eyesight easie...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  closed 3y ago by msh210‭

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Can we get a link back to the moderator dashboard from the individual mod pages?

Right now the moderator dashboard has a bunch of links to different moderator tools like Flag Queue and Featured Links. However from those tools, there is not a link back to the dashboard, you eith...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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How does voting on site proposals work?

I've seen a pattern of certain users downvoting on site proposals, not because they are against the proposal itself but rather against the concept of launching a new community. Without calling out ...

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

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Questionable button label when editing comment.

Posting new comment is by selecting the function, writing the comment, hitting 'Post'. Editing existing comment is by selecting the function, making the amends, then hitting 'Post'. Having the sa...

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

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Why do tags URL contain the ID of the site?

I have been browsing through the tags on different sites and found out its URL contains the ID of the site they belong to: In Linguistics (id 36 as a site): Spanish is https://languages.codid...

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

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Tables have no borders

Basically, the title. Tables, such as this example table One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Image for posterity Look... less than appealing withou...

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

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A vote in the meta category for the EE site reflected in my reputation. Is that a bug?

We've got a category for meta posts on the electrical engineering (EE) vsite. I've noticed that votes on my posts in the meta reflect in my reputation on the EE site. The votes on a local meta-EE...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Nick Alexeev‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Can we get an optional featured image for the home pages?

Both Outdoors and Photography are running photo contests and it would be nice to display the winning image from the last contest in the sidebar. My idea of how this would look, It would also be...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Horizontal scroll bar is out of view in some code blocks

If a code block has longer lines than will fit within the width of the code block, there is no indication that this is the case, nor any obvious way to scroll horizontally. For an example, see dig ...

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

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Unable to Sign In from Mobile Firefox Browser in Android

Observations Last night, I tried to sign in from my mobile browser (Firefox in Android phone), but, after having entered my credentials, clicking the blue Sign In button in the page did not allow ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Usernames of only periods and spaces shouldn't be allowed

This username shouldn't be allowed: .                                                .‭ It's hard to even see that it is a username link most of the time, it's probably problematic for @ commenting...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by curiousdannii‭  ·  edited 3y ago by .                                                .‭

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What criteria are used to determine to launch a new community?

Codidact currently has several communities (with varying levels of activity), and several more proposals for new communities. There seems to be an effort in many of these proposals to collect users...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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HTML tables are misdisplayed

With this code: <tr> <th>Downvotes</th> <th>Minimum upvotes to stay above 40%</th> </tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td&gt...

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

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Searching why on Judaism

Searching for why on https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/search gives a 500 server error 28844d1b-bbf5-43e3-b93a-6c001af0767e.

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

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How many votes are required for special actions like close, reopen, delete or restore?

I am wondering about the number of votes required to perform the following actions: close reopen delete restore I have found this forum thread, but it is unclear what are the current values.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Images cannot be uploaded in posts

I have been informed of the following bug. I am using iPad Safari browser. When I add an image to a post, the system only says "uploading, please wait ...". After waiting for a long time, the image...

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

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Search UI Overhaul

Currently the search function is severely limited. Right now you can: Match all keywords, one of a selection of keywords, or an exact search for a phrase, with wildcards, weighted keywords, and ne...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DonielF‭

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Community Wiki Posts [duplicate]

Also see the more active discussion on https://meta.codidact.com/questions/278386 Will there ever be something akin to StackExchange Community Wikis? While I'm not sure of the specifics (I've neve...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Can't open hamburger menu on this Meta when signed out

Title is self-explanatory; on mobile (or when I just resize the browser window so it appears), the hamburger menu doesn't work on meta.codidact.com when not signed in. It works as expected on every...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by sau226‭

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Sign up to answer this question but no sign in

When signed out and viewing a question, there is a "Sign up to answer this question" button. However, there is no "Sign in to answer this question" button, which I think should be added for parity.

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by msh210‭

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Reset button for drafts [duplicate]

I was recently editing someone else's answer, but I didn't like my changes and decided to redo them. However, there was no way to reset the edit (revert to the state before I started editing). The ...

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

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Strange dead "communities" link from the main site

From https://codidact.com/ there is a link "communities", leading to https://codidact.com/community-assets/. Clicking on it gives 403 forbidden. I'm assuming it's just some minor cosmetic hiccup an...

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

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Tag contents don't reflect merge after 24 hours

On Judaism.Codidact, I merged two tags (parashat-vayeishev and vayeshev), each containing one question, into the parshat-vayeishev tag, which also contained one question. I didn't check, but I'm p...

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

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Extraneous pair of sign in/sign up buttons in menu

Not really a bug, but something that I noticed. Opening the menu will give a second set of [sign up] [sign in] buttons, even though there are already a pair on the navbar. Since it is redundant, it...

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

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Character tracker doesn't react on insertion via ContextMenu

This is a small one: "Ctrl+V" itself is handled correctly (first part of gif above).

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

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Extra brackets for footnotes

When making footnotes by using [^1], the preview1 shows the "1" with an extra set of brackets: Note: As you can tell, it doesn't actually make a difference in the real appearance, just in the p...

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

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Cancelling a comment.

Can there be an option to cancel writing a comment; AFAIK, the only way to do that now is to refresh the page, which is annoying to do (especially when feeling lazy).

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

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A clickable X that doesn't work

When accessing Meta - http://meta.codidact.com - not signed in, there's a message. It reads: Welcome to Codidact Meta! Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network ...

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

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Importing StackExchange dumps

Users of StackExchange use the platform with the understanding that questions and answers are available under a CC licence and SE makes a dump of its content available under https://archive.org/det...

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

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How to financially support the Codidact project?

The main Codidact page tells us that: Our goal is to build an open-source platform for community-driven Q&A sites. We aim to welcome beginners and experts alike and to empower communities of l...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Trap tags with spaces earlier in the post submission process

When I type something in the tag box, a list of similarly named tags is produced, along with the actual thing I typed, and I can click to select the tag I want. If I type something with spaces (e.g...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Let us have more relevant tooltips for up/down vote buttons

Sometimes when stumbling across a question I wonder if I should upvote / downvote or not. When this happened on SE sites, I hovered over the buttons and read the description. Currently, Codidact se...

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

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Close reason doesn't appear in post history

See the history of this post, the reason for closure (closed as duplicate) doesn't appear in it; when I reopened the question the close reason and duplicate target were completely lost since it was...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Is there an RSS-feed for updates on individual questions?

I'd like to subscribe to updates on specific questions that I'm interested in. Is there an RSS-feed, or some kind of a "follow" feature that I can use to subscribe to updates — new answers, mainly,...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by The Amplitwist‭  ·  reopened 3y ago by Moshi‭

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A badge! A badge for completing the Codidactyl Tour. Or even several badges!! And points!!

I completed the entire Codidactyl Tour (including filling in question, flagging uncivil answer to mods etc.) and all I got was this... ... well actually I didn't get anything. No points and no badg...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Rounin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Show last user names if users change their user names

Recently, some users who are here for a longer time changed their usernames. It often happened that I saw a well-written question or answer from a user I supposedly have never seen before with a hi...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ShowMeBillyJo‭

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Prevent Featured posts from also being on Hot Posts [duplicate]

Just a small feature request, preventing duplicate links in the widget would let more posts into the Hot Posts section. Image

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

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Categories should support a "closed by default" question setting

I propose that a category should be possible to set such that questions are closed by default (with a specific, selectable close reason that applies to all questions posted to that category) immedi...

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

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PNG files cannot be uploaded (file extension in upper case) [duplicate]

When I try to upload a file with a PNG extension, I get: If I relabel it as png (lower case) then I can upload it. So it appears to be a problem uploading images with an upper case file extension....

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

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File extension bug when uploading pics

I just noticed a bug related to file extension when uploading pictures to the site. If you have named your file *.JPG the site complains about invalid file extension since it only knows *.jpg. Rena...

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

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Please make the "Insert image" tool's extension-checker case-insensitive. [duplicate]

Could you please make the "Insert image" tool treat file extensions as case-insensitive when checking for validity? When I post here on Meta, I frequently insert screenshots taken from MS Windows' ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Isaac Moses‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Show tooltip for tag when hovering over it

It would be nice if hovering on a question tag, a tooltip containing the whole HTML formatted usage guidance is shown.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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"Forbidden" ("403") page actually uses HTTP status 401 Unauthorized instead of 403 Forbidden for deleted posts without permission

There's a variety of actions which results in a display page saying "403 FORBIDDEN"; for example, accessing a deleted question without sufficient reputation to view deleted questions, including whe...

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

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Suddenly need to sign in every visit

In the last few days, something has changed so that I now have to sign in again every visit to Codidact. This is using the same browser on the same machine as before (Edge, Win 10) which worked fi...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭