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Welcome to Codidact Meta!

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.

Posts tagged feature-request

Requests for new features or changes to this site.
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To track requests, you can filter on the status tags:

Here is a filter definition that shows all tagged feature requests:

Filter settings; set to include tags "feature-request", and exclude tags "status-completed, status-norepro, status-planned, status-bydesign, status-declined, status-deferred".

Any feature request that our team thinks we should do or are planning to do gets logged as an issue on our GitHub repository (with some delay to allow for discussion on Meta first) — this is what our devs look through for things needing to be done.

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Q&A Add a "log out of all devices" button

I would like a button that lets me log out of Codidact on all devices. This would be helpful if you lost your device, or believed your account to be compromised. Then you could log out on all devi...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by FractionalRadix‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How can I fix or edit comment thread titles?

It happens to me all the time that I write a comment - as the first of a new thread of comments - and then either overlook giving it a title, or expect that the default title will be good enough an...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Shouldn't be able to delete question after any response

This is in response to something that happened on the Math site, but it's really a Codidact-wide issue. A week or two ago, someone posted a poorly written question. Not surprisingly, the question...

3 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How do I close the flag dialog?

When I click flag there is a menu that shows up showing the reasons, like spam, rude, needs author's attention, etc. But how can I close the menu without refreshing the page? I do not see an 'X' wi...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by 90 98‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by r~~‭

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Q&A Probationary shadowban for new accounts

I'd like for communities to be able to opt in to a feature that shadowbans new accounts for a brief period of time. Moderators should be able to release accounts from the shadowban manually; they s...

3 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by r~~‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by 90 98‭

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Q&A Add an explicit Markdown syntax for decorative images

When uploading an image on a Codidact community, users are prompted to add alt text - a text alternative to an image - for that image. If they go to submit a post without doing so, or when submitti...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Proposal: Human-readable profile URLs

Would it be possible to have human-readable profile URLs instead of numbers? e.g. https://meta.codidact.com/users/da5nsy or https://meta.codidact.com/users/@da5nsy rather than https://meta.codid...

2 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by da5nsy‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Indicate change in reputation in voting summary

In the Vote Summary tab of the user page, each of a users posts shows how many votes up and down: This shows voting, but does not make clear how this affects reputation. In this example, the fir...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Notification on edits to voted post

When you vote on a post, and it later gets edited, should you get a notification? Say you upvoted something because you liked it. But then it got edited and you don't like the new version. You mig...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Support larger file sizes by compressing them before transfer to the server

Many images and screenshots captured today, are larger than 2 MB, the max allowed size on Codidact. This means users will regularly run into a barrier when attempting to upload images to their post...

0 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Andreas needs cookies‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Andreas needs cookies‭

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Q&A Communities drop-down/switcher upgrades

The communities "drop-down"/"switcher" menu next to the user profile could do with a few tweaks. The communities appearing there are sorted after order of community creation. That is: Writing, Codi...

0 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Add score tooltip on list pages [duplicate]

Can you add the Wilson Score tooltip from posts onto list pages as well? Either on the vote numbers, on the colored bar, or on both?

0 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Michael‭  ·  closed as duplicate 5mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A Can the homepage become more like the dashboard?

I have been visiting the site for some time now and I am slowly developing a bit of a problem with the landing page for codidact.com: First of all, there is no indication on that page of whether...

0 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Q&A Improved UI for filtering posts on score

Inspired by the confusion in https://meta.codidact.com/posts/290048 , I'd like to propose a UI enhancement. Using a spinner for this value doesn't make a lot of sense, since the user needs to think...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A Where is "user last seen"? [duplicate]

How can I tell when a user last logged in? When I go to their profile's "Activity" tab, it shows me only activity on that site. I don't want to cycle through every site one by one. The global doe...

0 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  closed as duplicate 5mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Referencing Stack Exchange progress on profiles

I invested tremendous resources into producing quality content, and marketing it. Starting from zero to me is excessive. I'd like some way to display my SE progress directly and visibly on my Codi...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by OverLordGoldDragon‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A "Needs author's attention" should not be a flag option

When you click on "Flag" under a post, you get a dropdown asking "Why does this post require moderator attention?" One of the options is needs author's attention This question is off-topic ...

2 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Add an entry for the "Participate" ability to the help center

Currently, the help center has a list of user abilities, with sub-pages for each of the entries, to elaborate on them. The help center should also have an entry for "Participate", the first ability...

2 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Andreas needs cookies‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A How can users submit a GDPR request (e.g. delete account, rectify data, etc) online? [duplicate]

Does Codidact have a Submit a Data Access Request form, like SE? How long shall Codidact take?

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by Tortilla‭  ·  closed as duplicate 6mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Feature request: direct messages

Why ? It would facilitate some misunderstandings and clarification without the need for a public comment. It would open a path to people being "mentored" in their first 5 question or what amount i...

2 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Or4ng3h4t‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Informing community users of new permissible features

It seems that permissible features which are voted up considerably will be added to a community. By "permissible" I mean those features which are not rejected by the community team due to some poli...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Or4ng3h4t‭

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Q&A Notifying each other that a commented-on issue is resolved, to produce fewer comments rather than more

I just made a comment on another Meta post because I wasn't sure whether something in someone else's answer was a typo, or if so what the correct wording should be. It turned out that my best guess...

5 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Bringing bad posts to the attention of curators, not just moderators - flagging vs closure reasons

As things stand, the options for flagging a question seem rather spartan: Image of flagging dialog We have: two options for actual abusive use of the site software an option for dupli...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Could we have a "Close as outdated" close reason?

A sort of a solution to this problem, but would also apply to posts such as moderator elections, one-off proposals (though status-complete also works), and just generally posts which at some point ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Problems i have encountered/seen in the last week

I am a new user to Codidact that just migrated from StackOverflow and there are some things I would like to get across, besides this website being smaller, but we already knew what we were getting ...

3 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Or4ng3h4t‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Or4ng3h4t‭

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Q&A Let's improve how we handle duplicates

Currently, marking a question as a duplicate is part of question closure. Duplicates are a little different from other close reasons, though -- often the question itself is clear, complete, and o...

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

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Q&A Regular deletion (roomba) of content unlikely to ever be useful

I noticed that questions exist on this network and are accessible that are unlikely to ever be very helpful, for example because they were marked as completely off-topic. Examples Are internati...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Could we have an alphabetic sort option for tags?

During my effort at building structure and content in the EE.CD tags pages, I found myself often wanting a way to list all the tags in alphabetic order, regardless of their status or their place in...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How to resize images

I received a comment on my answer to https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289594 about the image size. It is a perfectly valid point. For comparison, in StackExchange it is possible to resize by ad...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Should we be able to tag answers?

On some of our communities, it would be helpful to be able to label answers systematically: On Code Golf, by language. On Software Development, Power Users, or Linux Systems, by specific ...

5 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A UX changes: dark theme, distinct borders and shortcuts

I was asked to spill out what would be my UX changes, so here I go. My personal opinion on UX is in majority about my own discomfort with white background. As person working on computer for 10-12 h...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Prahara‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Improved layout for individual search results

Currently, when I look at search results, or the list of posts on my user profile, I get results that look like: I have two objections. In my view: Answers should show the tags of the corre...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Support shortcut links to Codidact communities / categories

I would like to be able to write e.g. [software.cd] and have it generate a link to https://software.codidact.com with a friendly title. Currently, it becomes a link based on the actual text content...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A [tag:Notifications] should not be a synonym of [tag:email-notifications] [closed]

I just created a bug report post about notifications in the inbox. When applying tags for my post, I typed in "notifications". That resulted in two tags [tag:notification] and [tag:notifications]. ...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Andreas needs cookies‭  ·  closed 7mo ago by Andreas needs cookies‭

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Q&A Hiding "Initial revision" on the Edits section of the Activity tab of the user profile

When viewing a user's Edits on the Activity tab of the user profile, it includes "Initial revision", which seems to me more like a posting than an edit: In the edit history of an individual post...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by sau226‭

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Q&A Consider child tags in required tags

Currently, it is possible to set required tags for a category. For example, here on meta it lists as required tags one of: bug, feature-request, discussion or support. For meta, this works pretty ...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Taeir‭

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Q&A Editor preview for comments [duplicate]

Comments allow some Markdown features such as numbered and bullet point lists, code blocks, and quote blocks. They also allow MathJax in communities for which it is enabled. A rendered comment can ...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  closed as duplicate 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Implementing a technical "dictionary/glossary" for non-English languages.

I think this has come up before, maybe tangentially on some specific site (EE.CD ?), but I lost track of the posts/comments. Anyway, I think it would be useful, at least for EE.CD, but I post here...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Proposal to ease tag maintenance

We should make it easier for trusted users to manage tags. Can we please have some feedback on the following ideas? Creating tags directly (independently of a post): move from mod-only to anyo...

2 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Add safeguards to "mobile sign-in" feature

When you click on the "Mobile Sign-In" button, you are shown a QR code that, when scanned with your phone, opens your browser on the phone and signs you in automatically. Although I can see how th...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by FractionalRadix‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Native sorting button blocks other sorting orders

The sorting buttons at the top of a category's post list include "Activity", "Age", and "Score", which are all orders into which to sort the posts. However, for sites with imported content they als...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Indicate stale reactions based on user activity

Reactions are currently used on CD to: Confirm an answer worked (similar to accepting an answer on SO) Show that an answer is dangerous Indicate interest in participating in a proposed CD site...

3 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A How to edit a post for small modifications without affecting the visibility of other posts?

Related: Could we have a way to edit without bumping posts? Motivation I usually edit my own posts a lot of times in order to improve them. This put the corresponding post on top of the "main p...

3 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by zetyty‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Can we have different favicons for the different communities? [duplicate]

I usually work with dozens of open tabs in my browser and even when using Codidact I have several tabs open pointing maybe at different posts on different communities and/or meta. Having different...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  closed as duplicate 8mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Can I please ask questions from the search page?

After searching for a question, if I don't find it, I often want to ask a new one. But the search page doesn't have any way of doing that, from what I can see. Could the ask questions button be a...

2 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by pureferret ‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Should we display the number of views?

I personally like the idea of knowing how many people have viewed my posts. Even if it's only shown for the person who posted the question

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by dustytrash‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Can we have a "show post source" button?

Often I see a post which uses a formatting that I'd like to learn or to directly "steal". To see how it is done I'm forced to click the edit button, which is prone to mistakes and really doesn't se...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Can we have a preview pane for comments?

I just had to reply to a staff member in a comment about some potentially "illegal" HTML code that can be entered in a post. I had to edit the comment about a dozen times because the code I entere...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Show post preview beside the editing field rather than below

Discourse forum software has a neat feature whereby the post preview appears beside the input field. The post submission form pops up as an overlay to the main view of the current thread, showing t...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A How to send message to mod other than by flag?

Is there a way to send a message to a moderator without raising a flag? If yes, please explain. If no, consider this a feature request. I tried to send a message to a mod about a question that g...

2 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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