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Q&A Make swapping between sites easier

Right now the sites are all hidden away down at the bottom of the site, and the questions are forced to be 50 per page. I would like a way to swap between sites I am logged in on more easily.

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

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Q&A Suggested Edit comment isn't in post history

I recently had one of my suggested edits approved. However, the edit comment doesn't appear on the post history for that post. Other examples of the bug are this suggestion and this suggestion; nei...

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

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Q&A No button to edit or suggest edits on articles

It seems that there is no longer a button to suggest edits on article-type posts (e.g. posts in Resources of Languages & Linguistics, or Sandbox of Code Golf.) For example, this post is missin...

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

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Q&A URLs in category feed should match URLs on category front page

The category questions list page (including each site's front page) uses the shorter URL paths, such as /q/1234, to link to posts (usually questions, but sometimes articles). However, the category ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Featured link doesn't appear in the mod tools

So, I featured a link on Languages & Linguistics. However, I made it appear globally by accident (I expected it to be local, and it didn't prompt me whether I wanted it to be local or not so I ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What is the "tools" button for? Is it meant to do anything?

I was just looking at one answer of mine, and I noticed a "tools" button with a spanner next to it. When I tried clicking it, however, nothing seems to happen. I've looked through the abilities pag...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by 10 Rep‭  ·  edited 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Move posts between different categories through edits?

I think it would be very handy if users with edit privileges, or at the very least the OP themselves, could move posts between different categories on the same site. This would be particularly han...

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

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Q&A Table of contents shows deleted answers

Basically, the title. See the table of contents on https://meta.codidact.com/questions/278967.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Missing image in "Answer scoring and ordering" article of the Help center

In the Help center article Answer scoring and ordering there is an image with a broken URL, so it does not render: As you see, the image linked with https://meta.codidact.com/assets/scoring_...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  edited 3y ago by sau226‭

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Q&A Cannot close question as a duplicate: need to improve user experience

Update You can only close a question when you have 250 rep. Hence, the user experience needs to be improved. My suggestion: hide close button until user has 250 rep. Original question I tried to...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Wikis‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Most reputations dropped by 1 (maybe the "starter" 1 rep disappeared for people who had more)

The recent database update included a reputation recalculation. Reputation doesn't mean as much as it used to (it doesn't govern abilities any more), but it's still present and visible. In the re...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Looking at own flags gives a 500 server error

When attempting to look at my own flags by clicking the link under "Flags" on my profile, it gives a 500 server error.

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

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Q&A Mismatch between number of answers listed and actual number

I just noticed something strange. In the Q&A category of Scientific Speculation, I see this list entry: However, the question actually does have an answer. See https://scientific-speculati...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Vote counts broken by the update?

The question What good are herbivores in an animal army? currently shows up- and down-votes as +0/-0, and both vote counts have tooltips saying "0.5" when I hover over them in the question. (I don'...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Can we have a button to insert a table in posts?

Since tables are now available (hooray!), it can be helpful to users to include a reference in the format buttons of the post. So from the current set of icons: We can add another one like ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 403 error when voting to close

I'm getting this error pop up when I try to close vote a question.

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by curiousdannii‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Replenish votes statistic with "Other" block to make it complete

Currently votes for blog posts are counted in total but there are no rows for this type in additional, expanded grid ("on Question", "on Answer") This may confuse new users since usually one exp...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by FoggyFinder‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A With abilities here, where did my Software Development question (posted Saturday 13:58 UTC) go?

I recently posted a question on Software Development, How can I write an egrep (grep -E) regexp that matches lines containing two stanzas in arbitrary order? (Internet Archive copy). (Addendum: it'...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Possible Markdown rendering issue

I identified a possible Markdown rendering error. In this post, I hyperlinked the last few words. This renders correctly in the preview but not in the actual post. I’ve tested in a few browsers wi...

7 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by qohelet‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by elgonzo‭

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Q&A Preview keeps jumping up and down

In the last day or so, the preview when writing a post keeps jumping up and down. Even just typing a few characters causes this over the next few seconds. I think I see what's going on. Whenever...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Tables in posts

Can we have the ability to create tables? Right now, according to this answer tables are not on the list of things allowed in posts, which is a shame because I can see many uses for them, such as t...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by fedorqui‭

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Q&A No "go back" option on Articles.

If you go to the post history for articles, there is no option to go back to the post. This is what the post history looks like on a regular Q&A: This is what the post history looks like on...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Dani‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A "last activity" on the post history of questions is misleading.

On answers, the "last activity" notice tells the time when the answer was edited and the user who edited it. For example, https://meta.codidact.com/posts/278908/history correctly states who edited ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Have permalink button show a popup instead of redirecting

Currently, when I click the "permalink" button on a post, it just sends me to the permalink URL, which is kind of unintuitive - it took me a couple seconds to realize that the page hadn't just relo...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Misalignment in post history

In the post history, the "by..." and edit reason are misaligned from the "Post edited" (more obvious when there is an edit reason) E.g. https://meta.codidact.com/posts/278406/history

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Tables have no borders

Basically, the title. Tables, such as this example table One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Image for posterity Look... less than appealing withou...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Horizontal scroll bar is out of view in some code blocks

If a code block has longer lines than will fit within the width of the code block, there is no indication that this is the case, nor any obvious way to scroll horizontally. For an example, see dig ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A HTML tables are misdisplayed

With this code: <tr> <th>Downvotes</th> <th>Minimum upvotes to stay above 40%</th> </tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td&gt...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Searching why on Judaism

Searching for why on https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/search gives a 500 server error 28844d1b-bbf5-43e3-b93a-6c001af0767e.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Dani‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Can't open hamburger menu on this Meta when signed out

Title is self-explanatory; on mobile (or when I just resize the browser window so it appears), the hamburger menu doesn't work on meta.codidact.com when not signed in. It works as expected on every...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by sau226‭

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Q&A Strange dead "communities" link from the main site

From https://codidact.com/ there is a link "communities", leading to https://codidact.com/community-assets/. Clicking on it gives 403 forbidden. I'm assuming it's just some minor cosmetic hiccup an...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Extraneous pair of sign in/sign up buttons in menu

Not really a bug, but something that I noticed. Opening the menu will give a second set of [sign up] [sign in] buttons, even though there are already a pair on the navbar. Since it is redundant, it...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Character tracker doesn't react on insertion via ContextMenu

This is a small one: "Ctrl+V" itself is handled correctly (first part of gif above).

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by FoggyFinder‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Extra brackets for footnotes

When making footnotes by using [^1], the preview1 shows the "1" with an extra set of brackets: Note: As you can tell, it doesn't actually make a difference in the real appearance, just in the p...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Dani‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Cancelling a comment.

Can there be an option to cancel writing a comment; AFAIK, the only way to do that now is to refresh the page, which is annoying to do (especially when feeling lazy).

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Dani‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A A clickable X that doesn't work

When accessing Meta - http://meta.codidact.com - not signed in, there's a message. It reads: Welcome to Codidact Meta! Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A PNG files cannot be uploaded (file extension in upper case) [duplicate]

When I try to upload a file with a PNG extension, I get: If I relabel it as png (lower case) then I can upload it. So it appears to be a problem uploading images with an upper case file extension....

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Wikis‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A File extension bug when uploading pics

I just noticed a bug related to file extension when uploading pictures to the site. If you have named your file *.JPG the site complains about invalid file extension since it only knows *.jpg. Rena...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Please make the "Insert image" tool's extension-checker case-insensitive. [duplicate]

Could you please make the "Insert image" tool treat file extensions as case-insensitive when checking for validity? When I post here on Meta, I frequently insert screenshots taken from MS Windows' ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Isaac Moses‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A "Forbidden" ("403") page actually uses HTTP status 401 Unauthorized instead of 403 Forbidden for deleted posts without permission

There's a variety of actions which results in a display page saying "403 FORBIDDEN"; for example, accessing a deleted question without sufficient reputation to view deleted questions, including whe...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by sau226‭

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Q&A Mod-warning a user results in suspension, even when "No" is selected for suspension

When I try to send a moderator warning to a user with no suspension, the user gets suspended. Here's me about to warn a test account with no suspension: Here's what I get after I click the "Warn (...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Isaac Moses‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Incorrect link to my website on my Speculative Science page: is this affecting others?

On my Speculative Science page there's an incorrect link to my website: https://https//https://https://https://sites.google.com/site/rebeccajstones/. It looks like it didn't import properly, as it...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by becky82‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Trying to edit profile gives 500 error

When I try to access /users/edit/profile to edit my profile, I seem to be triggering a 500 server error (ID: d737d104-eea0-45a7-bd81-fda1070c6070). This is what I see in the browser console, if it'...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A How do I turn off keyboard shortcuts?

I'm sure there are people who love the keyboard shortcuts. However, I find them to (a) be somewhat overzealous (just now, I was somehow redirected to the "ask question" page while I was writing an ...

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

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Q&A Tag bar over keyboard shortcuts menu

When You have the keyboard shortcuts menu open while asking a question1, the "tag" bar is on top of it Since this is only a problem in this uncommon situation, it doesn't have to take priority ...

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

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Q&A Only send one notification per comment

In my notifications box, I had two notifications: You were mentioned in a comment mark unread and New comment on Should we show tags before the body, to provide context for reading the question...

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

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Q&A Mathematics isn't listed in the site footer or on codidact.com

Mathematics Codidact was launched almost two weeks ago now, but it still isn't listed on the Codidact front page or in the page footer. Could it be added?

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

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Q&A Links go to writing.codidact.com instead of "self"

The Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Code of Conduct links on meta, outdoors and photo are all pointing to the pages on writing.codidact.com. They should always point to "self".

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Migrate users from deprecated Codidact forum

Should user accounts from forum.codidact.org be imported? Since the forum was deprecated, I read the notice and went to this meta. The top of the meta says that all Codidact sites have the same log...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by mbomb007‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Why isn't Judaism on list of communities?

Is there any specific reason why the Judaism community isn't displayed on the Codidact community page?

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Dani‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭