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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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New post type: a recap table

Motivation I often want to use a table to: Compare different solutions (for example, solutions addressing a new feature-request). List related posts and duplicates (some topics can be extremel...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by zetyty‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Link associated with a deleted username, in a comment thread, redirects to the top of the current page. #1089

Describe the bug The name of a deleted user in a comment thread appears with a clickable link. This link redirect to the top of the current page (tested in "main" view and in comment thread view) ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by zetyty‭

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The tag description in the tags list does not link to the specific tag page

On the Tags tab, clicking on a tag in the list follows a link to the specific tag page. However, this only works if you click on the tag itself. The tags in the list each have a snippet of their de...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Tag search breaks if a space is added

In the Q&A category of Meta a tag search for "proposal" shows 4 results, but a tag search for "proposal " (with a trailing space, as is commonly automatically inserted when typing on mobile) sh...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Update tag descriptions to reflect new home of proposals

Here on Meta the tags "community-proposal" and "new-communities" both have descriptions referring to the Site Proposals category. Can these be updated to refer to (and possibly link to) the new Cod...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Proposal descriptions show "Suggest edit" instead of "Edit"

In the Descriptions category of the Codidact Proposals community, anyone can edit any proposal description. This is in contrast to other categories where suggested edits require approval before bei...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Indicate change in reputation in voting summary

In the Vote Summary tab of the user page, each of a users posts shows how many votes up and down: This shows voting, but does not make clear how this affects reputation. In this example, the fir...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Automatically added redundant markdown when editing

After making an edit that only adds tags, some redundant markdown is added to the beginning of the body of the post. This does not show up in the rendered post but it gives an inaccurate edit histo...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Prevent creation of tag which is singular form of an existing tag in the plural

I noticed informally when exploring the site that many tags appear to exist in both singular and plural forms. For example, here on Meta, there is both comment and comments as well as notification ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by tripleee‭

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Feature request: Ability to edit title of comment thread [duplicate]

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by tripleee‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3mo ago by Mithical‭

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Editing Thread Titles

(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...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Are the [post] and [posts] tags synonyms?

I noticed that here on Meta, there is both a post tag (2 questions[1], no usage guidelines) and a posts tag (43 questions, with usage guidelines). The questions tagged post look like the would well...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by AdminBee‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Creating tags is much easier than adding description

It is probably not controversial to say that if you're creating a tag, you should add a description for it. Otherwise, how will anyone else know what you intended the tag to be used for? Unfortuna...

2 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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How does "@username" work in comment threads?

In a comment thread, I can notify someone by including "@username". I also get notified of replies, even if they do not include my username in this way. What determines who is notified of a comment...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Bulleted lists don't work on IOS Firefox

I tried to post an answer with a bulleted list, but it renders without bullets. I can't repro here, but I have submitted multiple edits to the answer above, and none of them allow me to get the po...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by tripleee‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by tripleee‭

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Text entry field for answer stays open (once) after submitting

When posting an answer to this question, I experienced a strange glitch in the submission process. The text entry view remained open after submission, and was still showing the draft. This misled ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by AdminBee‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Disambiguate [vote] and [voting]

Meta has vote x 4 and voting x 11. None of them have tag usage guidance. I'm not familiar yet with how tag naming is handled here but it looks clear to me that both tags are too similar and only o...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Tag-only edits only sometimes have a tag diff

I noticed that the edit to the tags in this edit history does not have a tag diff section. It makes it appear that the second version of this post has no changes: For comparison, here is tag-onl...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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MathJax in comments requires a refresh after editing [duplicate]

After editing a comment, any MathJax in the comment is not rendered (instead displaying as raw text) until the page is refreshed. If a user does not know to refresh the page, they may be led to be...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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Comment threads remain active even if all comments are deleted

Issue raised on GitHub In this answer there's a "General comments" thread, but all the comments are deleted. This is related to - but IMO not the same as - this other post, in which it's discus...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Suggest an edit without any changes is possible

I had tried to suggest an edit without making any changes in this answer. When I clicked on Save Post in Q&A. Then, I saw the suggested edit was pending. So, we could suggest an edit without m...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Mobile browser cannot open older Codidact images

Difference between older images and recent images Following a link to the url of an image uploaded to Codidact redirects to an AWS link for recently uploaded images. For older images, following th...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Move keyboard focus into the search term box when search is clicked

GitHub issue: Automatically focus search bar after clicking search (search-slide) When I click the dark grey search button at the top of a Codidact page a new panel opens containing a search ter...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Can't edit a question just to add tags.

One can apparently not make an edit to a post just to change the tags. There is a message that nothing was changed because I didn't edit the post. Well, I didn't edit the body of the post, just the...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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"Proposals" does not show up in the bottom navbar

Seems like every Codidact section appears as a link in the footer, so I was expecting the new https://proposals.codidact.com/ to appear there as well. However, it looks like it doesn't. Is this an...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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I cannot understand the meaning of some downvotes

In my opinion, downvoting some kinds of posts is meaningless. For example, why should anyone downvote a bug report, like this post? If someone has the same problem, they can upvote the bug report;...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Wicket‭

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How should we approach our (non-developer) software community proposals?

We have some software (but not software-development) proposals: "Superuser-like" community for software applications office suites Linux Are these three separate, distinct commu...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Wicket‭

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Should the Discord guidance be updated as discriminators are being removed?

In my profile, it includes this guidance: Discord Your Discord user tag, in the format username#1234. Discord is in the process of removing discriminators (a discriminator is the #1234). Whi...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by cocomac‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Quasímodo‭

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How discussions work in Codidact?

Stack Overflow was created on the premise of having questions and answers without the chitchat and other common problems well-known in Internet discussion forums. The founders learned they still ne...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by Wicket‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Use filters across devices

If I save filters for the question list, I can use them at a later date, which is very useful. However, they are only available on the device I saved them on. It would be useful to have the saved ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by trichoplax‭

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MathJax breaks in edit history

I noticed this in a post on Code Golf Codidact where MathJax is enabled. The raw text of the post can be seen by pressing "Edit" or "Suggest edit" below the post: When viewing the edit history,...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Missing translation for English for suggested edits rate limit

I'm guessing that the following message means that I have been rate limited for suggested edits, but this error is showing instead of the intended message: I received this after pressing save on...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Images fail to load when previewed or saved

While drafting or editing a post images do not show in the rendered post preview. Instead the alt text is displayed: (For me this now shows correctly as an image, so it looks like this is fixed....

2 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Input box is not on screen after pressing "Start new comment thread" with expanded comments

If comment threads below a post are already expanded, then the input box that appears after pressing the "Start new comment thread" button is too far down the page to be visible. This makes it look...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Let's improve how we manage proposals for new communities

Related: Incubator (takes all questions that aren't ontopic anywhere else) community We currently use posts in the Site Proposals category to organize proposals for new communities on our networ...

3 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Quicker replacement of image alt text placeholder

After adding an image to a Codidact post, the automatically entered markdown looks like this: ![Image alt text](https...) The Image alt text part is to be replaced with a meaningful description...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Post score in title text of vote counts does not update when voting

When adding or removing an upvote or downvote, the user interface is updated without reloading the page. This changes the upvote and downvote buttons to be the appropriate colour based on whether t...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by trichoplax‭

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We need to talk about Abilities

The problem Almost three years ago we introduced Abilities to Codidact as an improved system for granting activity-based permissions, such as allowing users who have made consistently great edit s...

3 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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What's happened to Codidact Collab?

For a while today, I got DNS resolution failures for collab.codidact.org. Now I'm getting a certificate hostname mismatch error; the certificate presented is for catchall-server-default.s449.sures...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Consistent borders on the inputs when asking a question.

I'm getting used to the UI here where the the title comes after the body when when writing a question. I'm finding it a bit annoying because I write my titles first and I have to scroll down to do...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Moshi‭

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QPixel goes to the "new post" page when I press Ctrl+N to open a new browser window

If I am on some web page (such as on Codidact), and want to check out some detail elsewhere on the web, my usual first step is to press Ctrl+N to open a new browser window, then navigate to do what...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Canina‭

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Digit followed by dot and space disappears at the beginning of comment.

If I try to start a comment with a digit followed by dot and space afterward, it is missing after I post it. N.B. I hope this is the right place to write this kind of issues.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by artaxerxe‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Potentially misleading plus symbol with "follow new" link

I like the new "follow new" feature that allows being notified of any new comment threads on a post. However, I think that using a plus symbol (+) next to it could be confusing, as this is often as...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Support lists (bullets and numbers) in comment markdown

I understand that comments are intended for brief queries about the post content, but in the Meta sites I sometimes find it useful to be able to quote part of a post in a comment. Block quotes alre...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Are downvotes needed?

Being on the receiving end of a downvote is not a good experience 99.9% of the time. The countless flavors of downvote abuse are notorious. Even for a third party, there is little value in the sati...

2 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Support subjective scoring

Codidact, like many other sites, relies on the wisdom of the majority. The approach has some well known flaws. One is "tyranny of the majority" which is really just a special case of "what if the m...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by trichoplax‭

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How does displaying users in the "users" tab work?

Hi I'm a new user and just checking out the website interface, please let me know if this is not the right place to ask this question I have a two part question actually How does joining diff...

2 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by cddtacct‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Moshi‭

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"Could you answer this question?" in sidebar does not display Thai characters correctly

Related: Community ad replaces characters with question marks Shared GitHub issue: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/453 On software.codidact.com, I got a "Could you answer this questio...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by Emily‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Moshi‭

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How can we improve community proposals?

Now that we've seen several community proposals, some of which succeeded and some of which have run into hurdles, I want to look at how we're managing and tracking proposals. While there will alwa...

13 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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How should we approach a programming site or sites?

We have a suggestion for a site for professional coding, and software engineering and computer science also have some interest, and there are overlapping suggestions for cloud technologies and sin...

10 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭