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Q&A Change not listed in question

The question list for Q&A on the Electrical Engineering site shows this entry: However, in the question (https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/279739), there is nothing indicating the qu...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A The I in the font of the top bar isn't great

Some confusion between I and L. I keep forcing myself to recognize that it doesn't say Edlt or Actlvlty on the profile page. Sign Out has the same issue: From a distance, this looks like Slgn. ...

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

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Q&A Notification directs to me to 403 error page

Just got a notification about a comment in my inbox. It leads to a 403 forbidden error page, so I believe I might either be lacking some privilege to view it, or maybe the post got deleted within m...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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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 Arrow color on mobile remains blue after rescinding a vote

On mobile if I unupvote a question the score goes down but the blue color on the arrow remains. I think it would be less confusing if the color changed back to grey after removing the upvote.

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

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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 Missing history

This is possibly a more extreme case of a bug reported by fedorqui: a Software Development question on regexes shows as having been edited, but its history contains neither the edit nor the origina...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A Discrepancy between abilities and privilege page

On the abilities page for a moderator/admin (ex. Monica Cellio), there is a differnce between the abilities list which shows all privileges with a check mark and "yes" under "Earned", and the indiv...

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

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Q&A Initial revision of a question missing in its history

I noticed that the initial version of a question is missing in its history. The post Can we have a button to insert a table in posts? was asked on November 25, and on November 29 marked as [tag:st...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭

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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 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 Cloudflare breaks typing tag names (results in HTTP 403, ultimately preventing posting questions) when accessing Codidact over Tor

Someone at Cloudflare doesn't particularly like Tor. And because Codidact is apparently hosted behind Cloudflare, that means that by extension, Codidact is at least moderately anti-Tor in practice,...

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

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Q&A Featured link title doesn't update across the network

The featured Meta post UPDATE on: Abilities update coming today (some downtime, update beginning 2020-11-24 20:00 UTC) was recently retitled, and the Meta featured posts widget reflects this update...

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

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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 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Insert Image button now totally broken

For a while, there had been problems inserting images into posts on particular sites. https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277052. Now it seems this has spread to all sites. When I hover over the...

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

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Q&A Clicking on a previously read notification marks it as unread [duplicate]

To replicate, In my notification on the top left of the page, click on a previously read comment. Go to the comment and read it. That comment is now marked as unread. Click mark unread to aga...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Brackets around link text in the table of contents

See the table of contents on this post, as an example. For answers with links formatted as [text](example.com) the table of contents displays text. However, for answers with links formatted a...

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

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Q&A Need wording fix in dup close banner [duplicate]

The banner at the top of a question when the question is closed as a duplicate says in part "This question has been answered before" (example). That really should say "This question has been asked...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Moshi‭

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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 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 A vote in the meta category for the EE site reflected in my reputation. Is that a bug?

We've got a category for meta posts on the electrical engineering (EE) vsite. I've noticed that votes on my posts in the meta reflect in my reputation on the EE site. The votes on a local meta-EE...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Nick Alexeev‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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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 Unable to Sign In from Mobile Firefox Browser in Android

Observations Last night, I tried to sign in from my mobile browser (Firefox in Android phone), but, after having entered my credentials, clicking the blue Sign In button in the page did not allow ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Usernames of only periods and spaces shouldn't be allowed

This username shouldn't be allowed: .                                                .‭ It's hard to even see that it is a username link most of the time, it's probably problematic for @ commenting...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by curiousdannii‭  ·  edited 3y ago by .                                                .‭

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Q&A Codidactyl tour for new questions on mobile gets harder and harder to read

I have been testing de Codidactyl Tour and it looks pretty promising, congratulations for the idea and its implementation. In comments to its announcement I see references about the problems with ...

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

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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 Images cannot be uploaded in posts

I have been informed of the following bug. I am using iPad Safari browser. When I add an image to a post, the system only says "uploading, please wait ...". After waiting for a long time, the image...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  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 Tag contents don't reflect merge after 24 hours

On Judaism.Codidact, I merged two tags (parashat-vayeishev and vayeshev), each containing one question, into the parshat-vayeishev tag, which also contained one question. I didn't check, but I'm p...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Isaac Moses‭  ·  last activity 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 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 Close reason doesn't appear in post history

See the history of this post, the reason for closure (closed as duplicate) doesn't appear in it; when I reopened the question the close reason and duplicate target were completely lost since it was...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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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 "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 Suddenly need to sign in every visit

In the last few days, something has changed so that I now have to sign in again every visit to Codidact. This is using the same browser on the same machine as before (Edge, Win 10) which worked fi...

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

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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 3y ago by becky82‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A No notification about too long comments during edit [duplicate]

If you write a long comment close to 500 characters, then edit it and go beyond 500, you get no notification that the comment is now too long. The letter counter isn't present during edit and when ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  closed as duplicate 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 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 Stuck in tour: cannot add tags to first question

I'm trying the tour at https://meta.codidact.com/tour/ask . I really like how people are given first-hand experience with writing a question! However, it is not currently loading tags. Above the li...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by FractionalRadix‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by FractionalRadix‭

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