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Q&A Can we get a mod page with the most recent comments left on the site?

Right now there really isn't a good way for a mod to delete rude comments before their parent post is flagged, other than looking through profiles of repeat offenders. On sites with imported commen...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A All of my own SE sources questions and answers give me 500 errors

This may overlap with https://meta.codidact.com/questions/74780 but I think this is different. I just signed-up this weekend, took a look around, and tried the Link to Stack Exchange feature. Eve...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by cobaltduck‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Category dropdown list hides behind the modal form when changing a posts category .

When I use the tools to change the category of a question, the drop down list of categories to change to is showing behind the modal form. Steps to reproduce, Click the tools option below the que...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Hot Posts link to Blog leads to 404

Clicking on "Help us help you: please show your support for site proposals" under "Hot Posts" leads to https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277072, a 404, instead of to https://meta.codidact.com/art...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by user53100‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Unable to upvote proposal

I tried to vote (up) for Travel Codidact Site my vote will not take. I randomly tried to vote on a couple other proposal and some would not take my vote either. I was able to vote up for (and lat...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by James Jenkins‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Can notifications have a time stamp in the pull down menu?

In my notifications inbox, notifications have time stamps to show when they've been created. Can time stamps also be included in the notifications pull down menu? This way, it's possible to see qui...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Displaying user tabs in the user profile

When going to my user profile, I see 5 possible tabs: 'Profile', 'Activity', 'Account', 'Edit' and 'Subscriptions' However, when I go to the 'Account', 'Edit' or 'Subscription' tabs, the visible t...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Mithrandir24601‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Answer license defaults to site default, not category default

I just noticed when posting a fourth writing challenge that the answer license there defaults to CC BY-SA 4.0. That's the site default license. Normally that wouldn't be a problem, but the default ...

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

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Q&A "Tour" for new users?

Hi everyone! I'm joining the bandwagon coming from SE. I've been active over there for just over four years, so needless to say that I'm very familiar with that platform. Codidact shares a lot of s...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Make message about voting limits for new users clear

On other Q&A sites it's quite common to newcomers vote on some answer/question that they liked. Moreover user might even join to a community just to express their support. While I understand th...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by FoggyFinder‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Allow moderators to pin posts to that site's sidebar, individually or by seasonal event

Featured Posts One neat feature on SE was that mods could mark posts as [featured], and any such-tagged post would appear in a special sidebar widget. That way meta posts which the per-site mods fe...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Allow mods to pin posts to the sidebar

Currently two sites, Outdoors and Photography are running month-long contests. Currently, both are showing up in the Hot Posts list, but that will only be for a week or so. Could it be possible to ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Deleted posts should be accessible to the creator *or* there should be a warning

I started writing an answer on Scientific Speculation and accidentally submitted it in a very incomplete state. Then my toddler came by and started making it hard to work on the stub. So, using my ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by dmckee‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Pending edit review should highlight changes

There is a pending edit on one of my posts. When I click on Review Changes, I get a page showing two versions of the post side by side. The problem is, there are no obvious changes. It's not even...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Can we see tags changes in the revision history?

I wrote a question which I tagged, only to see a few seconds later that I accidentally tagged the question with the wrong tag. So I revised it. This how the history of my question looks: As you ca...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A List comments on the user profile page.

I'd like to see a history of comments posted (and for moderators, perhaps even including deleted comments) on a user's profile page. Use cases: Allow moderators to look over the totality of a use...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Isaac Moses‭  ·  edited 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Can't upload images (clicking upload button does nothing)

The image uploader seems broken. Clicking on the upload button does nothing. Cross ref: bug report posted over at Photography Meta. Also, I just noticed while making the link above, clicking the "l...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by scottbb‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Notifications drop-down truncated on mobile [duplicate]

On my phone, the notifications list is badly truncated; see attached photo to show how it spills off the right side. I have no way to scroll to legibility. Chrome/Android/Pixel2XL.

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Aliza‭  ·  edited 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A On mobile browser, notification list goes off the screen

Problem On mobile browser, notification list goes off the screen. How we got here Login to codidact.com Click on the Notifications button on the top bar. Screenshot

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Masked Man‭  ·  edited 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Sefaria Linker bug

If I go to: https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276449#comment-1676 the Sefaria links work fine. However, if I click on "Show 3 more comments" below the Question, the Sefaria links all disappear.

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Can we have an error if the to be uploaded image is too large?

I tried to upload an image and wondered why I didn't work. So I tried again and again until I noticed that my images were barely larger than 2 megabytes. Can you please add a warning if images are ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Alt text is broken

If I disable images on Codidact, I get, naturally, a broken image instead. However, instead of the alt text that is supposed to show up instead, I get... nothing. I just added alt text to this answ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Link Feature Cursor

When clicking the link feature while posting, would it be possible to make the cursor automatically focus in the empty textbox for link URL? Unlike on other sites like Gmail, if I select text to li...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by רבות מחשבות‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Can we make the TOS and COC links site-agnostic?

The terms of service and code of conduct linked in the footer of every page on every site point to pages on Writing. That's because Writing was first and a standalone site before we added network ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Can we get a page with the tags listed in hierarchical and then alphabetical order?

The hierarchies of tags are awesome, but its a little hard to see the relationship. Could we get a page where the tags are displayed like this, Animals Antelopes Bears Black Bears Polar Bears ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Bug in Indicator

I was looking at some random questions on Outdoors, and I noticed that some of the "Upvote Downvote indicator"/"Green Red thing" was off on a few questions. Here are 5 examples. (This may have happ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Dani‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Not getting pinged

I noticed that I have been getting pinged for comments and answers to my questions only, but I'm not getting pinged if someone does "@Dani" on a different users' question/answer, for example here. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Dani‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Filtering non SE questions?

Is it possible to filter for non stack exchange questions? On communities that have opted to sync, I've found it quite frustrating that I'll find a question posted "recently" I think is interestin...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Cazadorro‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Comment character count does not reset when posting the comment

Whenever you are typing a comment on a post, there's a live-updating character count that shows how many of the allowed 500 characters you have used so far. However, when you post the comment, the ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Current text selection as input method for link prompt?

Currently on SE, Reddit, and many other sites, if I just select text, and then hit the link button, it will automatically take the link text from the selection. For me currently, the link button f...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Cazadorro‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Comment editor does not automatically get focus

When I click "add a comment", the text area that I can type in appears, but the focus is not on it. I have to tab to or click on the area before I can start typing.

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Dave Tweed‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Edit post should leave window showing edited post

I just edited a post of mine. When I was done, the page refreshed, but the window was positioned at the very top of the page, rather than at the top of the item I had just edited. I had to manually...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Dave Tweed‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Can there be some sort of way to save your progress when asking/answering questions?

I was typing out a question that I was going to answer myself but when I was drafting up an answer, my internet browser decided to crash. It is a minor inconvenience but it did take me a while to t...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by KingDuken‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Signing in should sign you in on all sites

It looks to me like the session cookie that holds one's user session credentials is currently bound to the specific site. The result of this is that you need to sign in separately to, say, Scientif...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Clickable tag buttons only work once

Yesterday I proposed that the required tags beneath questions asked on meta should be clickable so that the tags are prefilled into the tag form. I tried it out now that's it implemented and while ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A New drop down list for comments overextends the site

With the new layout of comments, the drop down list overextends the site, extending the site until all available comments have been displayed.

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Can the buttons for necessary tags be clickable?

Since a few days, there are buttons here on meta right beneath the tags and before entering tags. The buttons kindly ask you to add one of the following tags: [bug], [feature-request], [discussion]...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Using the buttons in the editor moves the cursor to the end of the (editor) form

When I use the editor to write up a question or an answer, sometimes I use the buttons of the editor to add underscores to format my text. But when I use the buttons, it inserts the underscores rig...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Please allow specifying license for answers

While one can specify a license when making a question, when writing an answer there doesn't seem to be any place to specify and it just ends up saying "CC BY-SA 4.0" once posted. While asking a go...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A An alternative approach to the view order of answers

TLDR at the end. One thing I never was quite content with on SE was that if you view a question that by default either the most upvoted or accepted answer is the first one you see. This mechanism a...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A "edit" link below non-Q&A post results in 404 Not Found

I tried to edit a recipe I'd posted, by using the "edit" link below the post text. That gave me a 404 Not Found error. Looking at the URL, I noticed that it says /answers/.../edit, which is wrong b...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A URLs in RSS feeds wrongly assume that all top-level posts are questions

With the recently added article post type (used to share recipes on Cooking), the URL to the post is /articles/nnnnn (where nnnnn is the post ID), or /ar instead of /articles for shorter links. How...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Help page multiple boxes with same name

I made a small edit to one of the help pages on EE. Now there are two help boxes. Previously there was only one, as desired. Here's what it looks like now: I understand you're in the middle of ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Can we have second-factor sign-in authentication via e-mailed one-time codes?

I realize that this might be a bit of a niche use case, but I'm going to put it out here anyway. The availability of 2FA via an authenticator app is a great boost to account security. However, th...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Category RSS feeds should feature a post when an answer is posted

The category RSS feeds (for example https://meta.codidact.com/categories/3/feed.rss) are a nice touch for being able to follow what's going on on a site (or in a favorite category) without having t...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A "Last activity" in question lists appears to ignore new answers

Another thing I've noticed on https://outdoors.codidact.com/categories/19 : the question list currently shows the last activity on "2020 - May - Birds" as "last activity 10 days ago by Isaac Moses"...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Let mail addresses be confirmed

I've successfully signed up for Codidact with a mail address. However, the mail address I used didn't receive a confirmation mail so Codidact can't know if the person operating this account and th...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Typo report: unnecessary "c" in in edit comment field instructions

When one goes to edit a question, the "edit comment" box starts with "Describe—if neccessary". The word "neccessary" is misspelled, having one more "c" than is necessary.

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Deleted answers appear to be counted in question list

Currently https://outdoors.codidact.com/categories/19 lists one question, 2020 - May - Birds, with 12 answers. But if you go into the question, it only lists 11 answers. I'm pretty sure that the di...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A I shouldn't be able to vote on deleted posts.

There is one deleted answer here and given that is has been deleted, I shouldn't be able to either upvote or downvote it, but I can. It looks like up and downvotes on the deleted answer are also ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭