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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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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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Don't show the option to create a tag unless no existing tags match the search.

When tagging a question, as you type in Tags field its shows the option to create a new tag at the top. So if there are tags like, Anchovies Anchors Alphabet, and you type a a will be the top o...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 4y ago by pnuts‭

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Is there a way to subscribe to a single question?

I would like to get notifications about post which I participate in. Is there a way for me to subscribe to a specific question (or to all I have participated in)?

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by staticvoid‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Moshi‭

feature-request subscriptions notifications
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Can we have an error if the to be uploaded image is too large?

I tried to upload an image and wondered why I didn't work. So I tried again and again until I noticed that my images were barely larger than 2 megabytes. Can you please add a warning if images are ...

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

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Subscriptions graph doesn't make sense

On the EE site, Moderator Tools > Reports > Users yields the following graph: This can't be right, because it shows users joining before 7 June, the day the site was launched. It's also not...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4y 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 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4y 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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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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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 5y ago by scottbb‭  ·  last activity 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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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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Should we start displaying the score of a post instead of the raw votes?

Currently, when viewing a post, Codidact will show you the raw votes on a post, with the breakdown into upvotes and downvotes: There's been some feedback that this is a bit too much to show, espec...

8 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by celtschk‭

discussion
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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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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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Codidact Meta is missing its logo.

Yay, first bug report about the site! The meta-logo page is returning a 404: https://meta.codidact.com/assets/meta-logo.png

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Bhargav Rao‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

bug status-completed
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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 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 4y ago by 10 Rep‭

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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 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by .                                                .‭

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How is Codidact financed?

With the network constantly but surely growing, I wondered how Codidact is financed. I think that this question is highly relevant as it's emphasised that Codidact is run for the community from the...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mithical‭

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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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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

bug
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Allow mods to pin posts to the sidebar

Currently two sites, Outdoors and Photography are running month-long contests. Currently, both are showing up in the Hot Posts list, but that will only be for a week or so. Could it be possible to ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by luap42‭

feature-request status-completed
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Category subscription emits an error "must provide a valid category ID"

From the Meta category on Writing I clicked the "subscribe" button, filled out the form, submitted, and got this error: Following the instructions there, I am reporting it here.

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

bug status-completed subscriptions categories
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How should Codidact "advertise" and gain community members?

This came up a bit in my post to try to get a TRPG site going, but I think it's really a broader issue, not just to starting new communities but also to the ones that are already launched. Just ho...

6 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Logician‭

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I shouldn't be able to vote on deleted posts.

There is one deleted answer here and given that is has been deleted, I shouldn't be able to either upvote or downvote it, but I can. It looks like up and downvotes on the deleted answer are also ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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How does Codidact avoid repeating Stack Exchange's mistakes?

I received an important question in private email, and I'm bringing it here so we can improve on the answer I sent. This won't be the last time we get this question; let's develop a clear, effecti...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by meta user‭

discussion policies
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What kinds of data import can QPixel support?

How granular can data-import be for QPixel (I realize the answer might be different later for Codidact), and can it be done more than once? We know it's possible to import "everything", but which ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 1y ago by meta user‭

support qpixel data-import