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I can link to the edit history of a post, for example, the edit history of the meta question you are reading, but I can't see a way to link to a specific edit in the history. Is there currently an...
When I wanted to report comments/thread/11164#comment-27652 as spam, I needed to enter a custom reason: Instead, providing common reasons with labelled check or radio boxes (ideally, with the op...
In a comment, the username of the comment author is a link to that user's user page. However, if the user has been deleted then the link is instead to the thread containing that comment. Is this in...
The context is that: I want to ask a question about whether devices exposing female Universal Serial Bus connectors (especially those that are Type-C, with Power Delivery support) are specific...
I asked meta.codidact.com/posts/294821 on the premise that Codidact adhered to what meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/168104/3 describes. However, in retrospect, an equivalent tag does not exist, an...
Some background: A discussion about deleting/preserving comments and giving user feedback popped up on Software Development meta here: How are we supposed to give feedback for poor questions if su...
Is there any way to see the number of views? It is not only about vanity, but also would give a kind of feedback on the question. As an example, there is a question on math asking if a special th...
A recent question highlights that the dashboard is currently not very accessible as a feature. Currently, this page displays up to three site "boxes" per row, all top-aligned within the row. In the...
As I explained in this post and some community staff confirmed, Codidact is almost a miniature version of SE. In fact, I see no radical difference between them. As we know, almost all (in my opini...
I recently left a comment on a post, but now the comment thread ended up with a fragment of (the first version of) my comment as its title, including some ugly markdown rendered literally. I would...
The title of a comment thread currently defaults to the start of the comment text. That has lead to a lot of partial-sentence comments visible below a post without comments expanded. Those look me...
(Originally brought up at https://meta.codidact.com/comments/thread/3359#comment-11064) Can we allow thread starters to edit the title of a comment? This could be useful in cases like, for example...
From our earliest discussions of what the Codidact platform would be, we've known that we had to tackle comments. Comments are very important for giving feedback and asking for clarifications. So...
The sorting buttons at the top of a category's post list include "Activity", "Age", and "Score", which are all orders into which to sort the posts. However, for sites with imported content they als...
Being able to utilise inline CommonMark inside titles would increase brevity when code needs to be included (like software.codidact.com/posts/294603's "lsusb -v"), because I'd need to utilise quota...
This happens to me in this answer. It is below another answer. Both answers have 2 footnotes. Clicking answer 2's footnote 1 (shorten to a2f1) will jump to a1f1. Clicking a2f2 will jump to a1f2.
What does "Tags cache can't be blank" mean? Example
Yet another question about the difference between the two! This time, I'd like to know the difference in the philosophy or design rationale/raison d'être. One apparent thing that is emphasized many...
This site has low activity. As long as this continues, it would be helpful to have a feature showing all new activities across all communities, so the participants could react more quickly to ques...
I encountered the following error while attempting to post an answer on Codidact: It's not your fault. This error has been logged. We even look at them sometimes. You can also report this on M...
Minor visual bug (no effect on usage). When uploading an image during editing or creating a post, the page is greyed out while the "Image upload" modal is showing (as intended). However, 2 of the ...
The search only appears to look in the body of a post, not in its title. For example, searching Codidact Meta for "determine" finds posts that have "determine" in the body, but does not include th...
An example where an exact search returns no results for the copy and pasted title. "Should we display the number of views?" https://meta.codidact.com/posts/search?utf8=✓&search="Should+we...
I've no criticisms for software.codidact.com/posts/294526/294527, except that it doesn't answer the question. Unfortunately, that sole caveat is significant. Otherwise, it attempts to be useful, is...
It provides significantly quicker authentication processes, and significantly less chance of phishing, since the user cannot be convinced to enter a credential (although TOTP mostly solves that, to...
When writing or editing a post, a draft is automatically saved and reloaded if you close the page and come back to it later. I find this very helpful (particularly when switching between devices). ...
I have the "Draft loaded" message for an answer where I ended up wiping the textarea. You don't need to show that message if the textarea is empty.
A feature that SE has that Qpixel lacks is the related questions in the side bar. It makes it easier to find other similar questions or even duplicates. It also creates more engagement because afte...
When you click on "Flag" under a post, you get a dropdown asking "Why does this post require moderator attention?" One of the options is needs author's attention This question is off-topic ...
As a new user, I can only comment in certain places. But please, I would like to know it right before I start to write the comment. The current behavior of the software is that it swallows my com...
I suggest to support <kbd>KBD</kbd> format in the website. Test KBD It's not working as it is in Stack Exchange, you might want to check this post's source code. It's useful whe...
Clicking "follow new" below an answer results in the page being reloaded with that answer as the highlighted answer at the top of the answer list, with the message "You are accessing this answer wi...
GitHub issue When starting a new comment thread, the "Create thread" button is enabled whenever I type or remove a character in the "Your comment" field, but disabled whenever I type or remove a...
The drop down list of options for "Default license" in the "Community Preferences" section of the "Preferences" tab on the user profile page does not appear to have the option of returning to blank...
Following the recent improvements to comments, there are now more options available inline on a question page, rather than having to view a comment thread in its own page to be able to flag, edit, ...
Accidentally clicking on the blue "bug" tag above the tags box in post edit mode adds the tag "bug" even if it is already present, resulting in it being present twice. Deleting it with the little...
When starting a new comment thread, the "Create thread" button is disabled until the content of the "Your comment" text box has at least 15 characters. This character count includes leading and tra...
I have been testing the Codidactyl Tour and it looks pretty promising, congratulations on the idea and its implementation. In comments to its announcement I see references about the problems with ...
After pressing the "Insert image" button above the "Body" field when creating or editing a post, the tab context is not transferred to the dialogue box that opens, instead remaining on the page beh...
Searching for votes:-8 does not give results with net votes -8. Instead it returns all posts, regardless of votes. Upvotes and downvotes break in exactly the same way for negative numbers, but for...
What is the bug? Found a way to produce a 404 by clicking on the site's own links. How to reproduce Go to the homepage. On the right side you will see a tab like this Now click on "all new...
Pressing “Save Post” during editing a post fails if you have become signed out. However, there is no indication that you have been signed out, the button just does not respond, and then becomes dis...
I received a notification for a comment that includes an @-mention of myself, but instead of rendering my username, it looks like this: Clearly a username would be better than an ID here, right?
On a slow connection the user avatar may not immediately be available. When it has not yet finished loading there is placeholder text displayed instead (the alt text for the image). However, at the...
After suggesting an edit to a post, it is displayed differently to indicate that the edit is pending. This difference is in 2 places. The top of the post shows a message in a box: Below the pos...
FR: start username autocompletion after typing 1 char after @. Current behavior: username autocompletion starts after typing 3 chars after @, e.g.:
The Codidact web site has been really slow often for me over the last week or so. Has anyone else seen this? Is this a known issue with an understood cause? If so, what's going on? During one o...
While the current notification system is okay, I'd like to be able to receive email notifications for things such as a new answer to my questions. (Of course, this should be opt-in. Maybe add a che...
I'm planning to add a public API to Codidact so people can make applications that read Codidact data automatically. Features and purposes I have my own purposes in mind for this[1], but there are...
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...
