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Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.

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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 2mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭

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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 4mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A New activity grey circle indicators confusingly triggered by question deletion

Related: Make "last activity" notices on question lists more useful (GitHub) Can "last activity" provide more context on what was that happened? (Meta) Posts list shows luap42 instead of actua...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Confusing behavior of tags shared between categories

Over on Software, Q&A and Code Review share the same tags. While this is really helpful since it makes tag parity easy, it also produces some weird behavior. For instance, at the moment the sit...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Wrong category is pulled in when searching by tag on a different category that shares the tag family

On Outdoors there is blue icon that says what category a question is in when searching by tag. However when categories share the same tag set it will say that Q&A posts are in the Gear Recommen...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Should we have category specific reactions?

Reaction types can currently be switched on and off for a community (by a moderator) so different communities can have different reactions (including custom reactions). However, each reaction th...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Category new activity indicators reset after release

Thanks very much for the recent release of bug fixes and features. It's also highlighted another potential improvement: I notice that since the release the grey circles indicating that a Category ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Search by category

I think a search mechanism that allows filtering by category would be useful. For example, if I want to find a recipe for a specific food or with a specific ingredient on the cooking pages, I could...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What about having a category in Meta for documentation about the platform?

I keep learning about the hard work that has been done in Codidact over time. There are many little things that are known by the veterans, but may not be easy to understand for the newcomers like m...

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

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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 Order of categories in top bar and categories page differs

I think it would be a good idea if the categories page would list the categories in the same order as the bar on the top. Currently it apparently lists them alphabetically, which makes the Blog ca...

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

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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 Categories should support a "closed by default" question setting

I propose that a category should be possible to set such that questions are closed by default (with a specific, selectable close reason that applies to all questions posted to that category) immedi...

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

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Q&A Category subscription emits an error "must provide a valid category ID"

From the Meta category on Writing I clicked the "subscribe" button, filled out the form, submitted, and got this error: Following the instructions there, I am reporting it here.

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭