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Q&A Bug in notification [duplicate]

I had mark all of them as read. But, when I click any notification. That notification is automatically marking as unread. This may not be annoying but, this is obviously a bug.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Marking notifications as "read" one by one = empty blue circle.

Marking notifications as "read" one by one ends with an empty blue circle with no number. Refreshing the page will make the circle go away. This was seen in a Chromium-based browser.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by mbomb007‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Deleting a question that has answers that were deleted by System, transfers the answer deletion to the question deleter

This was definitely unexpected, and possibly a bug. A question was flagged over on Scientific Speculation that hadn't been acted on in any way on Codidcat and had no non-deleted answers (they were ...

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

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Q&A Promoted posts image renders Hebrew ℵ as "?", but Greek "Α" correctly [duplicate]

In this case, an image really is worth a thousand words: That links to the question What sound did the letter ℵ encode in ancient Hebrew, and why did it morph into the greek vowel Α? The origin...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Why do we have the "Participate Everywhere" ability when we haven't yet done anything?

We just made an account, and haven't done anything at all yet. No questions, no answers. So why do we have "Participate Everywhere"? According to the ability page, it looks like we would need a mi...

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

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Q&A CC BY-SA 3.0 license doesn't show

Why CC BY-SA 3.0 license don't show for me? I had asked a question in Physics Codidact. I had answered the question but, it was taken from someone else's answer(from Physics SE). So, I had deci...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A UI isn't looking well in Android

When the title becomes bigger than as expected than UI in android don't look good. So, UI should updated for Android. I have faced the problem for User list also. Screen width is 480 and heig...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A Bug on Random from category (https://meta.codidact.com/ca)

In the page, there's a ad type which is "Random from category". The image link look like this : https://meta.codidact.com/ca/category/X.png Replace X with the category ID Category ID of Q&am...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A clearing draft after clicking "Save Post in Q&A" [duplicate]

When I write an answer and click on Save Post in Q&A . Then, the answer doesn't remove from draft. After reloading the page the answer is saved in draft also. But, when I click on Cancel. The...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A I can't post a comment to an answer ; jquery errors appear in (Chrome) browser console

I can't post a comment to this answer. I tried to paste the markdown of this comment here as a quote or inside <pre> tags but if I publish this bug report then I get a "Sorry you have been b...

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

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Q&A Notification time error

As you can see I joined 4 hours ago. But, I recently get some notification where I am getting that it sent 10 hours ago. This is obviously a bug. I think something wrong is happening with timing....

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Mismatch between tags list and number of posts for a given tag

Sometimes the number of posts indicated in the tags list does not match the number of posts displayed for that tag. This appears to be due to the inclusion of deleted posts in the displayed number....

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A User avatar image is stretched (image aspect ratio not maintained) in the top bar

User avatar images get stretched in the top bar because they are resized to a 1:1 aspect ratio (specifically 40x40 px) regardless of the image's actual aspect ratio. This isn't a problem for square...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by luap42‭

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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 responsiveness 

Load codidact: Open menu: Grow window, menu opener disappears, but menu persists:

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Ad templates can refer to a question that you are on now.

When the ad on the sidebar that says "could you answer this question?" is clicked on, it takes you to the question, but the ad for that question can still be there. The ad for the question being...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Dani‭

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Q&A Long text overflows in post history

In this post history, a very long link greatly overflows the width of the diff box. You can see there is a tail peeking out from the right side, and a horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the p...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Ad templates don't work with Articles

Ad templates (which community ads use) don't give an image for Article type posts. For example, for this promoted post, the image url that is used in the sidebar is https://languages.codidact.com/...

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

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Q&A The history diff does not highlight tags being added

When a post is edited to just include a tag such as [tag:status-completed], the diff rendered in its history does not show any difference. See for example in the question https://meta.codidact.com...

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

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Q&A closure-as-duplicate post notice is inaccurate

The question post "Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel" is closed as a duplicate of the later "Second Iteration of Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel" and has a n...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Inconsistant picture sizes in users list

I just noticed this in EE, but the same symptom appears on other sites too: Note how the user pictures in the right column are larger than the others. On other sites this is more random, so I t...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Initial tour fails at tagging the initial question [duplicate]

One just signed up (in Languages & Linguistics) and received a notification to take an initial "tour to find out how this site works". A friendly Codidactyl invites one to create a question but...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by viäränlaenen‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A I cannot post PHP on CoDidact software development

I cannot paste some HTML-CSS-PHP code which I have tried and would like to ask a question about in CoDidact Software Development. When I publish my question I just get redirected, time and again t...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Edit comment dialog does not have character count [duplicate]

When I add a comment, the character count is displayed below the text box: However, when I edit it, there is no character count visible: It still seems to check for the character limit(500 ch...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Razetime‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Answering own questions triggers notifications

Just now, I was notified that a post was added to one of my questions and coincidentally, the person adding that post was me. Nevertheless, I was notified about that event which seems a bit redunda...

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

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Q&A Add 'close this help' to Codidact keyboard shortcuts list

The Codidact keyboard shortcuts list (triggered when ? is pressed) looks like this: I wanted to close it, but pressing the same key again didn't work, and it wasn't specified in the popup. I rea...

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

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Q&A Cancelling / discarding a comment edit

See also the related question about canceling writing a comment: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277948 When editing a comment, there is no option to cancel the edit without refreshing the p...

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

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Q&A Community ad replaces characters with question marks

Recently, I saw this community ad: The actual title is 'Caution' and 'cautious' with ʃ or ʒ? The IPA characters seem to be unknown to whatever is rendering the ad, and so they were replaced by q...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Unable to nominate post for promotion

When trying to nominate this post for promotion, it didn't work. Clicking the nomination button did nothing. Checking the console, I believe this is likely a client script error rather than a serv...

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

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Q&A Numbering Display Bug

I think there is a bug with a final text numbering not matching the numbering in the preview. I recently posted this answeron meta. When I edit the question the preview of the text displays correc...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by 1muflon1‭  ·  edited 3y ago by 10 Rep‭

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Q&A Search via clicking by a tag displays incorrect category of an item [duplicate]

If one searches / filters result by a tag (by clicking on one of them) the all items in a list have a badge that indicates current category instead of correct one. For example, when I click on mvv...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by FoggyFinder‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A ‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​‎​"Empty" posts can be created with invisible Unicode characters

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3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by 10 Rep‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A Can't post images on Outdoors

I can't post images in answers on the Outdoors site, like for example here. When I click on the image button, nothing happens, or a little text pops up above the button too quickly to read. Howev...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by 10 Rep‭

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Q&A Can we have customised text in the "Posting Tips" banner for each post type?

I suggested an edit to an answer here on Meta, but the banner at the top titled "Posting Tips" is the same as the one that appears when asking a question: The text of the banner starts out by sa...

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

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Q&A It is possible to close a question as duplicate to itself.

I wanted to close one of my own meta posts as duplicate, but accidentally pasted the URL to the question I was closing. The site accepted that the post got closed as duplicate to itself. In my opi...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Is it intended to have negative reputation? [duplicate]

I don't know if this is status-bydesign, but this looks like a bug to me: Is this intended behavior? Seems a bit weird to me if it is.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by 10 Rep‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Remember me function not working when 2FA is enabled

When I have 2FA (two-factor authentification) activated, I'm kicked out of my session way more often than if I haven't. That's annoying, because I need to go to my password manager and find my pass...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Can't edit my own post.

I just tried to edit my question on Outdoors (https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/279707), but the "Edit" button at the bottom of the post is missing. Here is a screen shot: Microsoft Edge W...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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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 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by 10 Rep‭

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Q&A Browser-Specific Image Problems

There have been some "images don't display in all browsers" problems. This is a test of that. Each image is "Test Image" in magenta/pink letters on a white background. PNG JPG TIF BMP ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by 10 Rep‭

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Q&A Where’s my suggested edit?

I made an edit to a post on Software.codidact, and because I don’t have the Ability to edit, it says it’s pending a review. However, I was a bit surprised to see that it was still pending after mor...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by ploni‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Seeing deleted posts

I was browsing around Judaism.codidact, and I came across the System user. Looking at it’s profile, I noticed that I can see it has some deleted posts, but when I click on them I get a 404. Is this...

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

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Q&A Comment link from activity page uses both answer and comment id in link

After commenting on an answer, the "more" link to the comment from the activity page on the user profile uses both the answer id and the comment id. For example, this link: https://meta.codidact.c...

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

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Q&A Overflowing text in community ad

A picture is worth a thousand words, but don't put too many words in a picture As you can see, the title of the post is long enough that it extends past the edges of the image.

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

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Q&A community ad has incorrect padding, or something [duplicate]

Seen at https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/279737; it links to https://photography.codidact.com/posts/74994.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Shortcuts for individual categories don't seem to work

After discovering keyboard shortcuts, I noticed a problem: The keyboard shortcuts for going to individual categories (like g c 1) don't do anything for me. Note that the shortcut for the category...

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

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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 Answer edited, shows as activity on the front page, but not on the answer

This answer on Writing Codidact has been edited. The question currently shows on the category front page as "last activity 1 day ago". However, on the question page, there is no indication that t...

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

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Q&A Notifications dropdown overflows slightly outside page height

When I open the notifications menu, I get the following: I think it would be good for UX if the "mark all as read" button was not obscured partially.

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

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Q&A Posting a comment automatically opens another comment box after submission

When I click on "Add a comment" at the end of a post, a box appears where I can type my comment, along with the buttons "Post" and "Discard" below it. But, after I type my comment and click on "Pos...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by The Amplitwist‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭