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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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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 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Remove parent tags from a post where a child tag is present

With the hierarchical tags, it would be possible to have both a tag and its parent on the same post which is means that the parent tag is unneeded. An example would be a post with both an animal an...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

feature-request status-declined
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Unable to upload a picture to answers, questions, etc.

I'm using Mozilla Firefox. When I try to upload a picture to a question or answer, I get the following error: error: "Images must be one of png, jpeg, jpg, gif" However, it would be easy to verify...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by KingDuken‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Community Rules

Was reading this Post and I certainly agree with the general differences like open source and non-profit that differentiate Codidact. But the Community vs Repo point leaves some questions. Sure eac...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Culyx‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Lundin‭

discussion
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Tools button doesn't do anything when clicked

Here on Meta, I see beneath a question a "🔧 Tools" button. It looks clickable (my mouse turns into a hand and the background changes onhover) but nothing happens when I click it. On Electrical Eng...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Serve images with file extensions

I've noticed that images uploaded to Codidact don't retain any meta information. That is, they don't keep either the name of the image or the image extension. While the former isn't that bad (alt t...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭

feature-request images
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Should we show tags before the body, to provide context for reading the question?

Today I saw the following question on Software Dev (this is the beginning): (rest of post...) The title, "connect with SLOT/SIGNAL:QPushButton clicked signal not received by main window" sounds li...

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

discussion design tags posts
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Automatically clean up tags with zero posts

There are currently seven tags with zero posts associated with them in the Meta Q&A category1 (excluding tags like TibetLhasatourpackage which have deleted posts associated with them.) These ta...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by msh210‭

feature-request tags
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Feature requests for tag filtering and sorting

Issue #1: On the "tags" tab, there's an option to sort by hierarchy. When you have a lot of child tags under the same parent tag, or multiple parents next to each other with lots of children, thing...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by DonielF‭

feature-request tags accessibility
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Why are my comments deleted?

Why are my comments deleted? I asked for instance that the comment box should be enlarged to fit 500 letters, so one could see all of them while typing instead of using a word type program and then...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by interested‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Why does the title come after the body when writing a question?

This might sound silly, but ever since I wrote my first post here, I have noticed that the title comes after the body and I find it quite strange. Since I have some activity using Stack Exchange (b...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Overflowing text in answer

On this answer to my question over on Languages, you can see how it ended up overflowing the post area and how part of it is hidden underneath the side widget. This is because of the long string o...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by luap42‭

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Suggested edits don't show meaningful diff

When a suggested edit review appears for your post, it isn't possible to see what was changed. Someone made an edit to my post here https://software.codidact.com/posts/suggested-edit/86 and the dif...

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

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Should we use the Article type for bug reports?

I've recently been looking through the [bug] tag, and one thing stood out to me. Every bug post either has no answers, or one answer that just says, "The bug has been fixed" (or some variation ther...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Please add tooltips for admins / moderator "icons" (characters) in the user list

Just a tiny cosmetic stuff easy to fix. Please add tooltip for the characters used for admins and moderators in the user list. Note: I know these already exist in the actual user profile.

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

feature-request status-completed
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NSFW Content Filter

According to the Terms of Service, You agree not to use the Service to [...] violate any applicable law or regulation; [...] post content that is hateful, discriminatory, harmful, illegal, or othe...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

feature-request images posts
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Add a [status-pending] or similar tag

My other Meta post n the usage of status tags pointed out a pretty big gap to me. Namely, we don't have a tag to signify that something is being actively worked on. While we currently use either [s...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

feature-request tags
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Imported posts which were then edited are considered native

If you go to the “Native” tab on a site, many imported questions show up. It appears to me that any question which was edited on Codidact is treated as a native question.

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭

bug data-import
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Should [status-completed] be used before the changes are live?

As of the time of writing, this request has the [status-completed] tag despite the change not being live yet. It is completely developed, sure, but since it is not yet deployed, should the request ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Sigma‭

discussion policies
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Add the staff badge to the user list

Currently, the user list displays the Administrator (☗) and Moderator (☖) badges on users, but not the staff badge that displays when you go to the user's profile. For consistency, could you have t...

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

feature-request status-completed design
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Posts should have a visible indication whether they've been edited, and when the last edit was made

Currently, each post is visibly tagged with a timestamp that indicates when it was posted, as well as by whom. Also, of course, posts can be edited; both by the original poster, and by other users....

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mithical‭

feature-request status-completed editing-posts
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FR: Meta categories

I notice that all the other Codidact sites have Meta categories, places to ask about the site itself, but this one doesn't. I think this site should have a Meta category where people can ask questi...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Mithical‭

feature-request status-declined meta just-for-fun
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Should we have "Last seen" times?

Tracking when each user last logged in or last was active may be onerous but such information can be helpful in various ways, such as in deciding when to return to a post. Edit At least for the tim...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by pnuts‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Does Codidact have to be too similar to SE?

Examining Codidact communities, one can easily find out that Codidact is almost a duplicate of SE I know that many Codidact users (or maybe all of them) are current or former SE users, so it was ex...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mithrandir24601‭

discussion policies
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A proposal for keyboard shortcuts

(This may not be the simplest feature request. It's also not extremely high priority. It's a nice-to-have, not imperative, and may not be possible at the moment - which is fine.) Everyone loves ke...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mithical‭

feature-request status-completed accessibility
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The site claims I made edits to post while I was offline

The site claims I edited this post 6 hours ago: https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/276256 6 hours ago I was very much asleep since that's around 4am here. I don't remember editing this post ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Does Codidact want to silence its users as SE does?

After joining Codidact and then reading many posts, I concluded that Codidact is a place allowing people to express their opposing ideas freely, unlike SE. But, something happened that I had to dou...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by FoggyFinder‭

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Please postpone launching new communities.

I know that Codidact is a new website developed by volunteers, so I do not expect it to be as well-appointed as an experienced website like Stack Exchange. However, although I have joined Codidact ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  reopened 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Strange layout issue for a particular Language answer [duplicate]

I have noticed that a particular Language & Liquistics answer has formatting issues: Since this is the only instance I have noticed this behaviour, I assume it is related to the answer content...

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

bug layout
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Arranging footer "other codidact sites" list alphabetically rather than chronologically

In the footer, the sites are currently arranged as: Writing Outdoors Photography Sci Spec Cooking Electrical Engineering Judaism L&L Software Dev Meta With the exclusion of setting Meta apart...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

feature-request design
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Personalized feeds

I keep track of new posts via RSS feeds. I would like to have a feed associated with my account that contains only tags/categories/sites I've asked it to watch. That way, I see only the posts I am ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by ajv‭

feature-request rss-feeds
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Randomize order of answers with same score

Answers are shown in order according to their score derived from their votes. However, for answers with the same score, they seem to be shown in chronological order of creation time. This tends t...

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

feature-request status-completed
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Launching a new community with enough contributors even though disagreements exist

Suppose that I have suggested a community idea which has been heavily downvoted. Now, if I can gather enough people interested in contributing to the community regularly, then will this idea be pla...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

support new-communities policies
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Add the ability to customize suspended user profile blurb

There are currently only two choices available to add a "user is suspended" header on a profile. The two reasons are "for being rude" and "to cool down." Sometimes neither of these may be accurate....

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Sigma‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Indicate which posts in the category feed have unread updates

Right now, if a category has new/updated posts, a small dot appears next to the category name. Could this feature be extended to posts within the category as well? While it's not that hard to just ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭

feature-request posts
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Allowing arbitrary image links causes security warnings

This question's page shows up as not secure on my computer. I believe it is due to this answer. When I look in the console, it warns that the images on it were loaded insecurely (since the image l...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

feature-request images security
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Was score system changed?

Noticed that score (reputation) is different than I would expect. Bigger. Why is it changed? How is it calculated now? 10 for Q and 15 for A?

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by FoggyFinder‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by luap42‭

bug support status-completed reputation
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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 4y ago by ploni‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

feature-request status-completed sign-in user-experience
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Voting while not signed in

(Persistent irrelevant comment: I jumped down to the title field and entered that first and then went back up here to enter the actual question.) I tried to vote on an answer and nothing happened. ...

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

feature-request status-completed
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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 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

bug status-completed mod-tools
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auto re licensing

If this had a feature where one could set triggers for stuff, I'd use it to set up a trigger that re licenses all and each of my CC BY NC SA stuff to CC BY SA1 after each hits 50th year age. The go...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Canina‭

discussion license
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Should we allow capitalized tags?

So this has been bugging me for a while now. Recently, the tags Chinese, Cantonese, and Mandarin were changed to lowercase. When asking why on the discord, I was told that it was because "tags are ...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

discussion policies tags
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indicate when a comment has been moderator-edited

I don't like the idea that someone's signature can appear on a piece of text that he didn't write or approve. I'm guessing moderators can edit comments. If so, can a moderator-edited comment please...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

feature-request moderators design comments
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RSS feed for entire site

Currently, each category of a site has its own individual RSS feed. While it's useful, could we have an RSS feed for the entire site? (like how Subscriptions work, but as an RSS feed)

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

feature-request rss-feeds
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"User Profile" should be more informative.

I think the current information in a user profile is very limited . In my opinion, the following information should be added: Visible to all users The number of questions and answers The number...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  edited 4y ago by MathPhysics‭

feature-request user-profiles
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Should tags be written in American or in British English?

On Cooking, I sometimes run into comprehension issues as food is labelled differently around the world. One recent example for this is ground beef and minced meat which both essentially mean the sa...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by .                                                .‭

discussion tags
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Can we add in a Location to user profiles?

Similar to Stack Exchange and other forums and social platforms. I think it would be nice to be able include a location in my profile.

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Welz‭

feature-request user-profiles
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"Edit" and "delete" options are disappeared after tapping "show more comments"

I have been informed of the following bug about comments. I am using iPad Safari browser. When I tap "show more comments" to see hidden comments, the "edit" and "delete" options are disappeared fro...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  edited 4y ago by MathPhysics‭

bug comments
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Change the primary font from Roboto

I have nothing against Roboto, I think it's a lovely font and has it's use case. I find it challenging to read when you have anything more than a sentence or two. I don't have a perfect alternative...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Welz‭

feature-request discussion font