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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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Bug in Indicator

I was looking at some random questions on Outdoors, and I noticed that some of the "Upvote Downvote indicator"/"Green Red thing" was off on a few questions. Here are 5 examples. (This may have happ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Dani‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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What does "Codidact" mean?

Is "codidact" some kind of acronym? Or it's a "Co(mpany) Did Act" or something? Or it means something in a language I'm unfamiliar with? Ever since I heard the name of it I've been confused as to w...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  edited 5y ago by luap42‭

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Not getting pinged

I noticed that I have been getting pinged for comments and answers to my questions only, but I'm not getting pinged if someone does "@Dani" on a different users' question/answer, for example here. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Dani‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Is there a way to view all subscriptions in one list?

If I navigate to my list of question subscriptions, all I see is my subscriptions for the current community. The user profile syncs across all sites; is there a way to combine all of the question s...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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What defines an "interesting" question?

On the sidebar I see the following widget: "New question" is pretty self-explanatory, but what does "interesting question" mean? What are the requirements for a question to be considered "interest...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Filtering non SE questions?

Is it possible to filter for non stack exchange questions? On communities that have opted to sync, I've found it quite frustrating that I'll find a question posted "recently" I think is interestin...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Cazadorro‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Bug in displaying footnote links

Bug in displaying footnote links^[example source]. Displays in preview window, but doesn't display in post on Chrome. What I see when I post:

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Cazadorro‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Cazadorro‭

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Some user avatars are referenced over HTTP when the page is loaded over HTTPS, triggering mixed content handling

I noticed that visiting Using accents while staying legible on Writing triggered a mixed content warning in my browser. Another example is How to train readers in Argot or Slang (full disclosure: I...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Canina‭

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Comment character count does not reset when posting the comment

Whenever you are typing a comment on a post, there's a live-updating character count that shows how many of the allowed 500 characters you have used so far. However, when you post the comment, the ...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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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 5y ago by Cazadorro‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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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 5y ago by Mithical‭

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Show me the rep!

Now that we are getting some activity on the EE site, I'm discovering features I used more than I realized on SE. On SE, you could go to your activity > reputation and see all the recent votes y...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Canina‭

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Self-answered Q&A - posting Q and A at the same time [duplicate]

I'm assuming that self-answered Q&A is fine and on-topic in most communities - if not, open for discussion below. "That other site" got a little check box which you can use upon posting a quest...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by manassehkatz‭

feature-request discussion
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Comment editor does not automatically get focus

When I click "add a comment", the text area that I can type in appears, but the focus is not on it. I have to tab to or click on the area before I can start typing.

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Dave Tweed‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Edit post should leave window showing edited post

I just edited a post of mine. When I was done, the page refreshed, but the window was positioned at the very top of the page, rather than at the top of the item I had just edited. I had to manually...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Dave Tweed‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Echo of typing in posts is *very* slow.

I was just writing an answer on the EE site, and what was shown in the edit window (not even the preview) was way behind my typing. This made it very tedious, to the point of being unusable. I wa...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Network-wide sign in created accounts for me on all sites even though I had no accounts there beforehand

A few day ago, @aCVn proposed that there should be a network-wide sign in to avoid signing in into each sub-site individually. I upvoted the proposal because I like the idea. As of yesterday (19.06...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

feature-request discussion privacy
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Problem with adding images to answer

I was writing an answer, which included two images. Something seems to be broken with the markup text generated by clicking the image icon. I clicked the icon, and entered the pathname of the imag...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Can there be some sort of way to save your progress when asking/answering questions?

I was typing out a question that I was going to answer myself but when I was drafting up an answer, my internet browser decided to crash. It is a minor inconvenience but it did take me a while to t...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by KingDuken‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Signing in should sign you in on all sites

It looks to me like the session cookie that holds one's user session credentials is currently bound to the specific site. The result of this is that you need to sign in separately to, say, Scientif...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

feature-request status-completed sign-in
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Clickable tag buttons only work once

Yesterday I proposed that the required tags beneath questions asked on meta should be clickable so that the tags are prefilled into the tag form. I tried it out now that's it implemented and while ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

bug status-completed tags editor
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New drop down list for comments overextends the site

With the new layout of comments, the drop down list overextends the site, extending the site until all available comments have been displayed.

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

bug status-completed comments
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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 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Using the buttons in the editor moves the cursor to the end of the (editor) form

When I use the editor to write up a question or an answer, sometimes I use the buttons of the editor to add underscores to format my text. But when I use the buttons, it inserts the underscores rig...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Please allow specifying license for answers

While one can specify a license when making a question, when writing an answer there doesn't seem to be any place to specify and it just ends up saying "CC BY-SA 4.0" once posted. While asking a go...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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An alternative approach to the view order of answers

TLDR at the end. One thing I never was quite content with on SE was that if you view a question that by default either the most upvoted or accepted answer is the first one you see. This mechanism a...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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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 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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How do I notify users with a space in their username via comments?

I know that I can notify users that I wrote something regarding their comment by adding them by using @Username, for example "@Username That's a nice idea!". How do I notify users who have a space ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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"edit" link below non-Q&A post results in 404 Not Found

I tried to edit a recipe I'd posted, by using the "edit" link below the post text. That gave me a 404 Not Found error. Looking at the URL, I noticed that it says /answers/.../edit, which is wrong b...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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URLs in RSS feeds wrongly assume that all top-level posts are questions

With the recently added article post type (used to share recipes on Cooking), the URL to the post is /articles/nnnnn (where nnnnn is the post ID), or /ar instead of /articles for shorter links. How...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Help page multiple boxes with same name

I made a small edit to one of the help pages on EE. Now there are two help boxes. Previously there was only one, as desired. Here's what it looks like now: I understand you're in the middle of ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Help --> Site Information?

Just now I noticed that when clicking on Help, there is a new box called "Site Information". What the …? This seems to have infested all sites, and doesn't provide much real information. It's abo...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭

documentation
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More control over Help page

I've been writing help topics in the process of getting the new Electrical Engineering site ready for the public. I'm finding that organizing and presenting the various help pages could be better....

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Error viewing recently deleted questions on Outdoors

When I navigate to https://outdoors.codidact.com/mod/deleted/questions it throws a 500 error. The error id is 9d42606a-432e-4fed-9596-606d2ce1af89

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭

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Notifications don't disappear after reading them

Whenever there is a new comment or answer to one of my posts, I get a notification in my notification bar. However, even though I click on it and read the content in question, the notifications don...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭

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Help pages display order?

Can the display order of help pages for a site be explicitly set somehow? I'm starting to create help pages for a new site, and would like to set the order they are shown in. For example, I'd like...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

documentation
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Markup documentation?

Where is the documentation for the markdown codes used on these pages? I'm trying to RTFM, but can't find the M. I did look in HELP, but it's not there. Below where I'm typing this, there is a b...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

documentation
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New site setup process?

I proposed the new site Electrical Engineering, and I see that the basic framework has been created. Thanks. However, there is a difference between the basic mechanics of a site, and a fully up-a...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

new-communities
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Details on creating a Help page?

I'm trying to create Help pages for a new site. One of the things I have to enter is "URL slug:". What is that exactly? I looked to see how help was organized on another site. For example, on t...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

documentation
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How to do superscript markup?

I wrote an answer where I needed to say "square meters". I wanted to write this as "m" followed by a superscript "2". I tried writing "m<sup>2</sup>". That worked in the preview, so ...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭

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How does rep work here?

I see there is a number next to each users' name, which in some places is even called "rep". That makes sense. What is mysterious is how it's calculated. My rep makes no sense. I started out wr...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Sigma‭

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Trying to edit an answer results in internal server error; edit gets recorded, but not promoted to current revision

This is a bit weird. I spotted a typo in an answer of mine, and figured I'd fix it. I was able to edit the answer, but when I tried to save the edit, I got a page telling me there had been an int...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Can we have second-factor sign-in authentication via e-mailed one-time codes?

I realize that this might be a bit of a niche use case, but I'm going to put it out here anyway. The availability of 2FA via an authenticator app is a great boost to account security. However, th...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Category RSS feeds should feature a post when an answer is posted

The category RSS feeds (for example https://meta.codidact.com/categories/3/feed.rss) are a nice touch for being able to follow what's going on on a site (or in a favorite category) without having t...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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More social media/online communities to link to profile.

As of right now (date of posting), you can only link one website and a Twitter account. I have a few ideas of accounts you can link to your profile here on Codidact: LinkedIn More website slots f...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by KingDuken‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Canina‭

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Body preview of writing a question can appear differently than when posted...

There was some strange behavior when I typed in my last post. I noticed that there is different behavior when you type something inside a preview of a body versus when you make a post (or save the ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by KingDuken‭  ·  edited 5y ago by KingDuken‭

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"Last activity" in question lists appears to ignore new answers

Another thing I've noticed on https://outdoors.codidact.com/categories/19 : the question list currently shows the last activity on "2020 - May - Birds" as "last activity 10 days ago by Isaac Moses"...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

bug status-completed
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Let mail addresses be confirmed

I've successfully signed up for Codidact with a mail address. However, the mail address I used didn't receive a confirmation mail so Codidact can't know if the person operating this account and th...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Typo report: unnecessary "c" in in edit comment field instructions

When one goes to edit a question, the "edit comment" box starts with "Describe—if neccessary". The word "neccessary" is misspelled, having one more "c" than is necessary.

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Deleted answers appear to be counted in question list

Currently https://outdoors.codidact.com/categories/19 lists one question, 2020 - May - Birds, with 12 answers. But if you go into the question, it only lists 11 answers. I'm pretty sure that the di...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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