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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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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...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Confusing percentage on Edit Posts Ability page

Related: Tracking progress towards the Edit ability The Activity tab of my user profile, filtered to Edits shows 20 helpful suggested edits, and 1 declined. The Edit Posts Ability page sho...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Bulleted lists don't work on IOS Firefox and MacOS Safari

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 1y ago by tripleee‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Notification on edits to voted post

When you vote on a post, and it later gets edited, should you get a notification? Say you upvoted something because you liked it. But then it got edited and you don't like the new version. You mig...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Mithical‭

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How to grow all of our communities?

As most have noticed, there's been a discussion raised on all the community metas about how to grow that particular community. It's a good question and I do believe they should be answered on commu...

7 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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How to import my StackExchange questions into Codidact?

In "Preferences", I found this checkbox, Display import labels Add a Stack Exchange logo marker to imported posts to show that they're imported. but I couldn't figure out yet how to actually...

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

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Communities drop-down/switcher upgrades

The communities "drop-down"/"switcher" menu next to the user profile could do with a few tweaks. The communities appearing there are sorted after order of community creation. That is: Writing, Codi...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Lundin‭

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Add score tooltip on list pages [duplicate]

Can you add the Wilson Score tooltip from posts onto list pages as well? Either on the vote numbers, on the colored bar, or on both?

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by Michael‭

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Can the homepage become more like the dashboard?

I have been visiting the site for some time now and I am slowly developing a bit of a problem with the landing page for codidact.com: First of all, there is no indication on that page of whether...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Dealing with questions "settled on" Stack Overflow

We are a late starter QA site, so we are disadvantaged vs. competitors like Stack Overflow. Namely, a lot of basic questions are already asked and answered there, and people are less likely to orga...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Improved UI for filtering posts on score

Inspired by the confusion in https://meta.codidact.com/posts/290048 , I'd like to propose a UI enhancement. Using a spinner for this value doesn't make a lot of sense, since the user needs to think...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Michael‭

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Missing "Participate" ability on one community

My Outdoors profile is bugged. I don't have any Abilities awarded—not even Participate—although I have been able to make posts and suggest edits. I finally decided it was actually bugged when I tr...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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What fluff (and what level of fluff) is acceptable in posts?

There is this question, revision 1. It contains several fragments I call "fluff": Opening phrase, greeting: Hello fellow community Cliché: Your help would be greatly appreciated ...

4 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Kamil Maciorowski‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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How do I suggest edits to the tag wiki?

On the page for the Edit Tags ability, it lists a part of the requirement as To earn this ability, you need to have roughly a 97.5% approval rate for suggested edits to either the detailed tag w...

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

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How do I suggest edits to tags? [duplicate]

The Edit Tags ability says How do I earn this ability? To earn this ability, you need to have roughly a 97.5% approval rate for suggested edits to either the detailed tag wiki or the usage guid...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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What is the appropriate tone for feedback on questions and answers?

When giving feedback (comments, edits, reactions) what is the appropriate tone? In other words, how should you phrase your feedback? Should you assume knowledge of all site rules? Should you a...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Canina‭

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Is it okay to ask a question because you're too lazy/bored to figure it out yourself?

It is generally considered good practice to try and do your own research to find the answer to a question before you post it. There are some questions where the asker is just not capable of findin...

5 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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What is "clutter" in the context of Codidact?

It's common to hear comments about QA sites being "cluttered", "clogged", "spammed" etc. with types of questions that the commenter doesn't want. What does this actually mean? Is there a definitio...

4 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Where is "user last seen"? [duplicate]

How can I tell when a user last logged in? When I go to their profile's "Activity" tab, it shows me only activity on that site. I don't want to cycle through every site one by one. The global doe...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Outline of what makes a high quality question

For a QA site to be good, it's important to have high-quality questions. The community is a great resource for guiding askers with the technical tools that CD provides. However, it is helpful for t...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y 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 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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After I logged in, 418 STAT ERROR. "Please re-enable the encryption protocol."

Forthwith after logging in, this error popped up. Please repair?

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by PSTH‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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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 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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 1y ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Referencing Stack Exchange progress on profiles

I invested tremendous resources into producing quality content, and marketing it. Starting from zero to me is excessive. I'd like some way to display my SE progress directly and visibly on my Codi...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by OverLordGoldDragon‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Cannot remove Discord username from user profile once added

After editing my user profile to add a Discord username as part of testing how it works, I am unable to remove the username. Deleting the username and pressing save results in an apparently success...

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

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"Needs author's attention" should not be a flag option

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 ...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Tags don't match between display mode and edit mode

I noticed an anomaly when I went to edit a question. The tags in the display mode don't match the tags in the edit mode. I didn't change the tags, that's how they initialized when I opened the ed...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Nick Alexeev‭

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Cannot accept suggested edits to my post, because I don't have permission to change moderator-only tags

Shouldn't I be allowed to accept an edit to my own post? Now here I can't, because the suggested edit adds a tag that I am not allowed to add. Other edits are also not possible (because it asks fi...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by H_H‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Add an entry for the "Participate" ability to the help center

Currently, the help center has a list of user abilities, with sub-pages for each of the entries, to elaborate on them. The help center should also have an entry for "Participate", the first ability...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Mithical‭

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How can users submit a GDPR request (e.g. delete account, rectify data, etc) online? [duplicate]

Does Codidact have a Submit a Data Access Request form, like SE? How long shall Codidact take?

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Tortilla‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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What are my options for access to my data being processed by Codidact?

The GDPR requires (article 20 right to data portability, paragraph 1, in part) that: 1. The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she ha...

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

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How should we approach non-English content?

It seems almost taken for granted on every Codidact site - even Languages & Linguistics - that questions and answers are supposed to be written in English, although I can't find any official po...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by r~~‭

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I can't "Add reaction". "The integral output port has found a problem." [duplicate]

After I clicked "Add Reaction", this error popped up! Codidact failed to add my reaction. Please fix?

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by PSTH‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by Mithical‭

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After clicking "Save Post in Q&A", why does Codidact fail to load post?

On the post edit page, after clicking on the "Save Post in Q&A" button, that button changes color to gray. No page load takes place, and the post does not get submitted.

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by PSTH‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Feature request: direct messages

Why ? It would facilitate some misunderstandings and clarification without the need for a public comment. It would open a path to people being "mentored" in their first 5 question or what amount i...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Or4ng3h4t‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Informing community users of new permissible features

It seems that permissible features which are voted up considerably will be added to a community. By "permissible" I mean those features which are not rejected by the community team due to some poli...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Or4ng3h4t‭

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Notifying each other that a commented-on issue is resolved, to produce fewer comments rather than more

I just made a comment on another Meta post because I wasn't sure whether something in someone else's answer was a typo, or if so what the correct wording should be. It turned out that my best guess...

5 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Bringing bad posts to the attention of curators, not just moderators - flagging vs closure reasons

As things stand, the options for flagging a question seem rather spartan: Image of flagging dialog We have: two options for actual abusive use of the site software an option for dupli...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Could we have a "Close as outdated" close reason?

A sort of a solution to this problem, but would also apply to posts such as moderator elections, one-off proposals (though status-complete also works), and just generally posts which at some point ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Problems i have encountered/seen in the last week

I am a new user to Codidact that just migrated from StackOverflow and there are some things I would like to get across, besides this website being smaller, but we already knew what we were getting ...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Or4ng3h4t‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Or4ng3h4t‭

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Let's improve how we handle duplicates

Currently, marking a question as a duplicate is part of question closure. Duplicates are a little different from other close reasons, though -- often the question itself is clear, complete, and o...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Regular deletion (roomba) of content unlikely to ever be useful

I noticed that questions exist on this network and are accessible that are unlikely to ever be very helpful, for example because they were marked as completely off-topic. Examples Are internati...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Do these comments follow our Code of Conduct?

How is this not easily solved with grade school math? -1 for being a dumb question. I can't tell whether this is trolling or a serious question, since finding the answer only requires sevent...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Mark S.‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Could we have an alphabetic sort option for tags?

During my effort at building structure and content in the EE.CD tags pages, I found myself often wanting a way to list all the tags in alphabetic order, regardless of their status or their place in...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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How to resize images

I received a comment on my answer to https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289594 about the image size. It is a perfectly valid point. For comparison, in StackExchange it is possible to resize by ad...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Moshi‭

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Should we be able to tag answers?

On some of our communities, it would be helpful to be able to label answers systematically: On Code Golf, by language. On Software Development, Power Users, or Linux Systems, by specific ...

5 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Discoverability for the new Proposals site

Now that there is a separate Proposals site with its own Meta and other categories, that would seem to qualify as a separate "Codidact Community" which should be listed among the "Other Codidact Co...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Privacy policy needs meta-variables to be expanded

https://meta.codidact.com/policy/privacy-policy currently begins This Privacy Policy applies to all $EDIT-org-name communities hosted under ​$EDIT-URL. There are a number of other unexpanded ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Mithical‭