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Q&A Grace period for immediately noticed small errors

Sometimes I will compose a lengthy post, submit it, see it in context and immediately notice a typo - no matter how careful I thought I was being. I'm not sure it's desirable that, when I go to fi...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 9d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Merge abilities help page with abilities dashboard

Where to find information about the abilities, is currently a bit confusing. There are too many pages. The help page for abilities, as well as the dashboard, present pretty much the exact same inf...

2 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Andreas needs cookies‭  ·  edited 9d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Modular or “microservices” architecture

I am interested in the idea that an extremely modular software architecture for Codidact could have the kind of general, self-propagating benefits that things like being free open-source have. To m...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  edited 28d ago by meta user‭

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Q&A Could we adopt the domain “.cd”?

How would people feel about a network-wide convention of abbreviated URLs having the form, https://<topic>.cd? For example, a shortened URL for a philosophy site would be https://philosophy....

2 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by meta user‭

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Q&A Shouldn't be able to delete question after any response

This is in response to something that happened on the Math site, but it's really a Codidact-wide issue. A week or two ago, someone posted a poorly written question. Not surprisingly, the question...

3 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Proposal: Human-readable profile URLs

Would it be possible to have human-readable profile URLs instead of numbers? e.g. https://meta.codidact.com/users/da5nsy or https://meta.codidact.com/users/@da5nsy rather than https://meta.codid...

2 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by da5nsy‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Rendering bug of HTML entity in hover text for tags guidance.

There is a problem with HTML entities in the tag guidance text. As you can see here I used an HTML entity (greek lowercase phi φ) to denote a technical quantity, and it shows nicely: However in...

2 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A If a user is not able to directly edit the post, allow the edit to be suggested

I attempted to edit this post, but couldn't because I was attempting to change "moderator-only" tags. The following errors prevented this post from being saved: You don't have permission to chang...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Renaming a tag rewrites history

I proposed an edit to a post to add the then-existing proposal tag. The edit was approved, and the post currently shows as most recently edited by me. Both the suggested edit page and the post its...

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

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Q&A Restrictions on usernames

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

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by user‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A "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 2y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A A letter didn't bold in suggested edit page

Okay, you're probably confused. Let me explain. I use the web browser Chrome to use Codidact and would find something off about the letter "M" in the formatting box. In other words, it looks like i...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  edited 2y ago by deleted user

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Q&A MathJax isn't highlighted when selected

Still a high schooler, I like adding some style on my equations for answering math assignments and I've been using MathJax from Mathematics SE to grab symbols for the better of it. A certain case i...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A "Copy link" does not work in Safari 12.1

I am using Safari Version 12.1 (14607.1.40.1.4). Whenever I want to copy a link using the "Copy Link" button, it does not work and throws this error in the console: TypeError: undefined is not an...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Streamline the top? Move Meta to the top row?

Please see point 1 below. The top of S.E. is much sprucer — just the logo. But Codidact has two additional rows — at least merge these rows? Moshi retorted #1 The first row is categories, which...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A 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 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by 10 Rep‭

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Q&A Duplicate "Sign out" buttons on mobile

On the mobile version of Codidact, there are two "Sign out" buttons present, one in the right menu and one in the site switcher. One of them should be removed as having two isn't necessary. Right ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Why don't we just make communities for every launched stack?

Rather than reinvent each community, why don't the admins just create a community for each subject that Stack launched a site for? Such as statistics, interpersonal skills, workplace, law, philoso...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by accounting, identify this location‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Voluntariness vs. Responsibility, which of them should be considered as a priority for the community team?

Before starting the concern, I want to appreciate and acknowledge the community team for their volunteer efforts to run Codidact and handle its issues as far as they can. When I sometimes talk to s...

6 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  edited 3y ago by MathPhysics‭

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Q&A Allow users to link more than one website in their profile. [duplicate]

Currently, users can only add their twitter handle and one other website to their profile. I find this kind of limiting since someone might want to add more to their profile. Say for instance they ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Bug Reports category

Meta should have a dedicated category for bug reports, to increase the chance that users will pile onto an existing bug report rather than create new ones. Even people who can't be bothered to sear...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Aliza‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Please ensure cross-site uniformity for the basics of tagging

I've noticed that the photography.codidact meta tagging system differs from what seems more conventional. For example, it appears that there no tags are mandatory (here at least one of [bug] [featu...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by pnuts‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A 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 3y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Remove parent tags from a post where a child tag is present

With the hierarchical tags, it would be possible to have both a tag and its parent on the same post which is means that the parent tag is unneeded. An example would be a post with both an animal an...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A FR: Meta categories

I notice that all the other Codidact sites have Meta categories, places to ask about the site itself, but this one doesn't. I think this site should have a Meta category where people can ask questi...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A More control over Help page

I've been writing help topics in the process of getting the new Electrical Engineering site ready for the public. I'm finding that organizing and presenting the various help pages could be better....

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭