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Difficulties with mentioning non-ASCII usernames

I realize that some usernames are very difficult to mention due to the way that the current system works. Currently, you have to type in at least three characters after the @ before the list of men...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Moshi‭

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Restrictions on usernames

This post asks to disallow usernames with only periods and spaces. I would like to propose disallowing any឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵឵...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by user‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Will Codidact ever have new favicons? [duplicate]

Somewhere Else has its fair share of favicons on sites. A default bubble with letters for sites without logos, or one with illustrations in it, and the site's logo. We could probably do something ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by luap42‭

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Accessing scientific-speculation.codidact.com over HTTPS is serving a certificate for collab.codidact.org, triggering browser security warnings

When I try to go to https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/, I get a certificate warning. Looking at the certificate details, it turns out that the server is actually providing a certificate ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Canina‭

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Proposal for reorganizing the Help Center

Is it possible to reorganize the Help Center? I recognize that this might be very low on the priority list, but my first experience with it was less efficient than I'd hoped. What I'd propose is th...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by JBH‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

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500 Internal Server Error

I've had a couple of 500 Internal Server Errors now when posting comments on the maths site. The most recent one has error ID e0788383-0163-4b45-8b4f-85ff84c2751a . This has only happened since I b...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Reaction system for comments

When we see someone comments we just ignore if someone wrote a helpful answer (If we don't have anything to say without beautiful comment or something else). SO has upvote system for comments. Inst...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 1y ago by Lundin‭

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Clicking on notification item makes that unread and, increase item count number

In notification, click on mark as unread. Then, mark all as read. Then, click on that notification. Until you move to that page your notification popup icon(inbox-count) will show 0. When you visit...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by deleted user

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Enabled-state of the "Add reply" button, character count in comment thread view does not update on pasting into comment input field

This looks similar to my previous bug report "Body is too short" error when posting middle-click-pasted answer with no changes, and I wouldn't be surprised if the fix is the same. When on the thre...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by deleted user

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Number of comments not updated

I added some comments to a post, and the number of current comments wasn't updated until I refreshed the page.

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by robev‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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"posted <time> ago by <user>" doesn't appear on Articles

Basically the title. In category feeds containing Articles (e.g. Meta Blog or the Code Golf Sandbox), Articles don't have the "posted <time> ago by <user>" as with Q&A posts.

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

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Don't put "last activity" on new posts

When a new post appears in the category, it has both "posted ..." and "last activity ..." on it. It's a minor annoyance, but I feel like there shouldn't be a duplicate notice.

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

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Tag wiki too prominent when sorting posts by tag

When sorting posts by tag, the tag usage part pops up as expected, but also the whole tag wiki. So when you actually start writing a proper tag wiki for a tag, anyone who wants to see posts under t...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Cannot start new comment thread on the dev server

I tried creating new comment threads here and here, but I was met by this message: Now, I can totally understand that everyone feels down from time to time, but I would like to know why the serv...

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

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Comments that contain math are not re-rendered after editing

Comments can contain math code that is rendered by Mathjax, just as posts can. (On sites where Mathjax is enabled, such as Physics and Scientific Speculation.) However, if a comment is edited and ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Canina‭

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Does downvoting someone else lower your own reputation?

On Stack Exchange, downvoting a question or answer —2 your reputation. What about here?

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by DNB‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

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Can't edit comment title. [duplicate]

I wrote a comment and forgot to give it a title (It doesn't help that the title is entered below the comment, but that's another issue). The title shown is then just the start of the comment, whic...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Avatars fail to due to unicornify.pictures outdated Go version

This is not a codidact issue per se, but it affects the avatar functionality: https://unicornify.pictures/avatar/{id}?s=16 fails because unicornify.pictures has an outdated Go version: Go 1.9 is ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Canina‭

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Delete the [<i>test</i>] tag.

While checking Codidact Meta tags, I saw this &lt;i&gt;test&lt;/i&gt; tag . The tag doesn't have usage information or detailed wiki. Likely, it is made for testing purposes or made accidently and I...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Can we allow answerers to see if asker upvoted them?

When someone takes the time to answer a question, it's nice for that person to feel recognized and that they were helpful. While seeing upvotes is a good indication that the answer was helpful to t...

5 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by JBH‭

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collab.codidact.org is serving an expired TLS certificate for HTTPS

I noticed that https://collab.codidact.org/ is serving an expired certificate; it has a validity not-after of Aug 9 2021 21:15 UTC. Even though it lists a bunch of other Codidact sites as Subject ...

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

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"forgot email address" system

Usually, I was logging out for some reason. Whenever I try to login I get a message "Invalid email or password". Usually, I forgot my email address or password. There's a way to change password if ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 1y ago by Canina‭

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Always display who asked a question in question lists

Basically, I'd ideally want something like "asked 3 days ago by A, last activity 1 day ago by B". Having just the person without the question creation date would be significantly less useful but...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Derek Elkins‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

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Should we show length of character for each "things"?

Usually, maximum length of post body is 30,000 characters. And, maximum length of post title is 250 characters. Reported here. Length of thread title is also 250 characters. I was thinking, "Should...

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

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Allow comment thread owner to delete comment threads when only comments from the comment thread owner remain undeleted

I realize that there's a handful of trickier cases, for example anything involving multiple users, but this particular case should be relatively straight-forward. I propose that if the only undele...

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

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"Body is too short" error when posting middle-click-pasted answer with no changes

Something caused posting an answer to fail for me (the web interface just sat there, the "Save Post" button disabled, but nothing further happened). To recover, I copied the text of the answer into...

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

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Sort by activity actually sorts by age instead

Basically the title. When sorting answers by "Active" (what the button says), it actually sorts by age. (It even puts ?sort=age in the URL.) For example, this post has an answer that was edited rec...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Multiple permalink links in comments

I noticed that there are now suddenly two permalink-target links in comments. From a question page (on a comment posted by another user): From a comment thread page (this particular comment hap...

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

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Close inbox and site list after clicking anywhere [duplicate]

When one clicks the inbox or the arrow that makes a list of sites show up, clicking elsewhere doesn't close them - you need to click on the inbox or arrow icon again to make their respective dropdo...

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

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A floating field for saving some lines for easier reference

When we write an answer we always have to take some lines from questions, comments and, other places. I was thinking if we could add some kind of floating button to the right bottom. When we expand...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by deleted user

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Couldn't we make `last activity ...... ` more clearer? [duplicate]

Currently, list shows last activity about @time hour ago by @name. Instead of last activity couldn't we write @name edited a post @time hour ago. And, @name had answered on the question. And, ano...

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

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Suggestion for allowing to mark answers as "accepted", "outdated" or "dangerous"

Currently, it is possible to upvote and downvote answers. That's likely enough in most situations, but there are some cases where you might want to have more than one way to react to a post. For ex...

8 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by deleted user

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Add an icon for verification (for mods)

Context for images: I know that Monica is a staff member of Codidact, which also makes her a mod, so if there's a question you have about the images, here's the context. I have recently learne...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Canina‭

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What will become of reputation?

For a while now, the reputation topic has (re-)surfaced repeatedly with the the Codidact team taking a slight stance to remove reputation in the long run. Everytime this was mentioned, there were a...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Questions Displaying in more than one community?

Related to the idea of splitting up various CD communities, we seem to be assuming that questions have to belong to one community. Just thinking on the idea that Questions could have another set o...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Culyx‭

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Is there any disadvantages of getting Quora-like community which might affect Codidact

I was going to proposing a Quora-like community. But, I have seen the proposal now. I have some reason why we need Quora-like community (not completely Quora). Is there any disadvantages for Quora-...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 1y ago by deleted user

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How to refer members of community B to a question in community A which suits both communities?

I have asked this question in in CD LL; although it is about linguistics, it also significantly deals with software development (databases organization). If I would just link to it from a session ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 1y ago by Canina‭

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Let SVG give a try for MathJax

In this feature-request, Mark Giraffe‭ said that MathJax isn't highlighted. if you change the renderer to SVG, it renders characters with paths not text elements. ~ @ArtOfCode said But, I not...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 1y ago by deleted user

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I can do everything after account deletion also.

I had requested to delete my account. My account was deleted in the following communities. Software Poweruser Linux No one can visit my profile also (excluding moderator ~ I guess). In the ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 1y ago by deleted user

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Allow block quotes in comments

When commenting on a post, sometimes I want to comment on a specific paragraph, or similar section. The most natural way to me is to block quote it, however using Markdown to do it doesn't work (it...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Keyboard shortcuts for comment mentions & search dropdowns

When writing a comment, you can type @so-and-so and a little popup will show you the mentionable people that match so-and-so. The new search options seem to use the same dropdown. However, for both...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Moshi‭

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Unable to create paragraphs in comments

In comments, neither line one line two nor line one line two (with two spaces after line one) work to create a new line, the comment ends up being line one line two. This has messed ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Don't add duplicate notifications if an unread notification for the same event type and parent post already exists

I was away from Codidact for a few hours and, coming back, saw that I had ⑨ unread notifications. Practically as I was watching it, the number grew to ⑩. This wouldn't be so bad, but it turned ou...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Comments don't like multi-line code :/

I was in the middle of doing something in Software Development CD and I've decided to make a comment thread regarding something from the answerer's quote. I went writing a comment and added a mult...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  edited 1y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Preview post diff before saving

It's possible to view the differences between two adjacent, existing revisions of a post through the History feature. Post owners can, of course, make arbitrary edits to posts, save those, and see...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Canina‭

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How important reference is?

I am human not robot. I forget everything (I am dumb) but, human. It's OK to forget everything. Usually, a person said in one of my comment that most of the time I don't add reference link. But, I...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Can I still comment, without clicking more than twice?

Until June 2021, commenting here requires you to click merely twice. I click on the link to "Add a comment", type my comment, then click the "Add a comment" button. This is exactly like how you com...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

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Import image from web link?

I a recent post https://outdoors.codidact.com/questions/74859#answer-74867 I wanted to include a photo from Wikipedia. I would like an option to load images from the a weblink, preferably that incl...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by James Jenkins‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by deleted user

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Questions titles don't have a limited number of characters

While questions body have a limit of 30000 characters, questions titles don't have a limited number of characters. For example, I tried up to 200 character in title and it worked. My proposal is ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by deleted user

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How can I effortlessly spawn new, unused URLs to the same question on Codidact?

I'd like to submit links to unanswered Codidact questions, to Reddit, in order to try to get them answered and popularize Codidact. Although some SubReddits forbid submitting a link already publis...

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

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