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Q&A Handling too short comments padded with spaces

When starting a new comment thread, the "Create thread" button is disabled until the content of the "Your comment" text box has at least 15 characters. This character count includes leading and tra...

0 answers  ·  posted 15h ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 15h ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Error 500 on Tags page

We installed QPixel and when going to Tags we receive a 500 error: The exact error is: NoMethodError: undefined method `tags' for nil:NilClass The installed version is: Version 6ba3d0ad (...

1 answer  ·  posted 7d ago by PacoAbato‭  ·  last activity 5d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Suggested edit review result page pulls wrong post revision for comparison

In the view for one of my suggested edits, the comparison between the revisions pulls the wrong revision for that which the edit was based on. I edited revision 1, but the comparison compares my ed...

0 answers  ·  posted 6d ago by Andreas needs cookies‭  ·  edited 6d ago by Andreas needs cookies‭

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Q&A Tag and children missing from tag hierarchy pages

I was on the Software Dev CD tag page, clicking through the pages of the "Hierarchy" sort. I wanted to see if there were git-* tags that are not nested under the git tag.[1] Surprisingly, I discov...

2 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 9d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Submit same flag multiple times

I just managed to flag the same post for spam twice. I flagged it, then commented on it, then flagged it again. There are now two separate spam flags on it in my flag history. This is potentiall...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Andreas needs cookies‭  ·  last activity 9d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Typo in "Participate" ability page in Abilities Dashboard

Where? On the page "/abilities/everyone" (Link to Codidact Meta version) What? Under "What does this ability allow me to do?" subheading, first line. Erroneous part bolded for sake of this post....

0 answers  ·  posted 14d ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 9d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Unusual button layout on mobile browser

The button layout on mobile browser is ... unusual. Is this by design?

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Masked Man‭  ·  edited 12d ago by meta user‭

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Q&A Tables break words in first column

On the site, table content is often jammed all together in the first column, where the next column is happily spread out. I have made some of my tables extremely terse to accommodate. This is from ...

1 answer  ·  posted 14d ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 12d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A "Remove all items" button for tags doesn't work

What? Attached below is a self-explanatory GIF of the bug. The cross button, instead of removing all the tags, just shifts the focus to the input box. Where? New question page (Link to Codi...

0 answers  ·  posted 30d ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 14d ago by meta user‭

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Q&A Tag dropdown appears in front of top nav when scrolling down

Attached below is a self-explanatory GIF of the Edit post page, although the issue exists on the Ask Question page too (please ignore the black bar on the left): When the tag dropdown opens, scr...

0 answers  ·  posted 15d ago by meta user‭

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Q&A Why do user mentions incorrectly change color after editing comments? [duplicate]

This is an example of a comment thread featuring a user mention. When the comment is edited, the user mention element incorrectly turns red. A reload fixes this. Hovering on it shows which...

0 answers  ·  posted 27d ago by meta user‭  ·  closed as duplicate 20d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Misleading stats in other user's ability page

When looking at the Abilities dashboard of another user and clicking on any ability, for example the curate ability page of a mod looks like (I replaced the actual mod name with (ModName) for sake ...

0 answers  ·  posted 29d ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 20d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Links to Codidact posts don’t auto-render with post title [duplicate]

If I insert a URL to a Codidact post, I would like it to display the title of the post as inline text, hyperlinked to the post, without me manually doing that. For example: https://proposals.codid...

0 answers  ·  posted 22d ago by Julius H.‭  ·  closed as duplicate 21d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Subtle change to hide link to non-existent deleted user profiles [duplicate]

When? When looking at search results, or list of posts in general - for e.g. viewing list of posts tagged [wikipedia]. Here's a screenshot of the mentioned example: What? The text displayed s...

0 answers  ·  posted 22d ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 22d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Broken advertisement templates on Codidact sites

On the advertisement page of Codidact Collab, there are five types of advertisement templates available: Codidact network Community Random posts Specific post Random from Category This sp...

0 answers  ·  posted 28d ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 28d ago by meta user‭

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Q&A The body of this post is empty

1 answer  ·  posted 30d ago by meta user‭  ·  last activity 29d ago by meta user‭

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Q&A Pluralization typo in Help Center page "Guidelines for referencing and quoting"

What? Typo in a Help Center page "Guidelines for referencing and quoting" Where? In the first paragraph (the erroneous part has been bolded for the sake of this post): When you're writing a p...

1 answer  ·  posted 30d ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 30d ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Minor typo in Help Center page of "Participate Everywhere" ability

Location Go to this link or any of the links mentioned under the "Communities" subheading below. You will see two paragraphs under their respective subheadings. Under "How do I earn this ability...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by meta user‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Is there a reason to keep the normal logo instead of the community one?

On any page of the Codidact network, one can click on the top-right dropdown button to, well, reveal a dropdown. This dropdown includes a button to sign out and a list of communities. Scrolling d...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by meta user‭

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Q&A 404 error produced through "/subscriptions/new"

What is the bug? Found a way to produce a 404 by clicking on the site's own links. How to reproduce Go to the homepage. On the right side you will see a tab like this Now click on "all new...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by meta user‭

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Q&A Buggy text in Cooking site's help center

Where? The bug appears to be there at a specific help center page of the Cooking site of Codidact: https://cooking.codidact.com/help/how-to-ask What? There are two occurences of this bug. U...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Andreas needs cookies‭

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Q&A Category activity indicator is lit for one's own activity

When new posts are submitted to a category, a small circle is displayed next to the category's name, within its tab in the category bar. This activity indicator is displayed even when the only new...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Andreas needs cookies‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Andreas needs cookies‭

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Q&A Markdown table alignment only renders correctly in preview

Codidact posts support Markdown tables. For example, the following raw text: Column 1 | Column 2 -------- | -------- Data A | Data B Data C | Data D renders as: Column 1 Column ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A I can close my own question by myself, but not reopen it

I was surprised to find that ordinary user privileges allow me to close my own posts unilaterally. It does seem useful; just now I posted something on Linux Systems and realized it needed some fixe...

2 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Inconsistent tagged question counts

I am looking for existing questions in Power User with the virtual-reality tag. The tag-search page says there are 4 questions, but clicking through to the tag page itself shows none.

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A User preferences behaviour inconsistent with advice

A preferences problem highlighted in an answer on Software Development Meta appears to have been somewhat fixed, but leaving an inconsistency with the guidance on the preferences page. At the top ...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A The posts list for a tag suggests each post has only that tag

Clicking on a tag takes you to a page showing the details of the tag, followed by a list of posts bearing that tag. However, each of these posts is shown with only that tag. All other tags on each ...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A New activity grey circle indicators confusingly triggered on Dashboard

It's basically this post, but for the indicator discs on the Dashboard. I click on an "updated" community of interest, but most recent post showing updates was changed months ago. I can't tell if ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Trying to use Markdown formatting on detail-section labels causes unexpected centered alignment in preview

I knew that blank lines are needed in certain places when mixing HTML markup with Markdown so that the Markdown will actually be processed. For example: <details> <summary> Gory deta...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Proposal descriptions show "Suggest edit" instead of "Edit"

In the Descriptions category of the Codidact Proposals community, anyone can edit any proposal description. This is in contrast to other categories where suggested edits require approval before bei...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Tag search breaks if a space is added

In the Q&A category of Meta a tag search for "proposal" shows 4 results, but a tag search for "proposal " (with a trailing space, as is commonly automatically inserted when typing on mobile) sh...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Post owner should always be able to approve or reject edits

Apparently the owner of a post cannot approve a pending suggested edit on that post. I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request, but either way, I propose that the post owner should...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A QPixel goes to the "new post" page when I press Ctrl+N to open a new browser window

If I am on some web page (such as on Codidact), and want to check out some detail elsewhere on the web, my usual first step is to press Ctrl+N to open a new browser window, then navigate to do what...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Post score in title text of vote counts does not update when voting

When adding or removing an upvote or downvote, the user interface is updated without reloading the page. This changes the upvote and downvote buttons to be the appropriate colour based on whether t...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Input box is not on screen after pressing "Start new comment thread" with expanded comments

If comment threads below a post are already expanded, then the input box that appears after pressing the "Start new comment thread" button is too far down the page to be visible. This makes it look...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A No title text on edges of buttons away from icons

The "Dashboard", "Notifications", and "Mobile Sign In" buttons in the page header at the top right of the page have title text which displays those names. However, the title text is on the icon rat...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Although div tag is not allowed, it's rendered in the preview

tl;dr According to this post, the div tag is not allowed, thus it's removed from posts. But it's not removed from the preview, and I believe both (the preview and the final saved post) should be c...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Cannot view with no filter when a category has a default filter

This is the filter section above a post list: In a category where I have set a default filter, I can temporarily view the post list using a different filter by selecting it from the "Predefined ...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 9mo ago by tripleee‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 5mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A 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 6mo ago by PSTH‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A 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 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 6mo ago by Nick Alexeev‭

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Q&A 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 6mo ago by H_H‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A 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 6mo ago by PSTH‭  ·  closed as duplicate 6mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A 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 6mo ago by PSTH‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Andreas needs cookies‭

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