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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 Redundant "Posts" heading on every community in the dashboard

There is a dashboard available from the top right of the screen: This shows the categories for each Codidact community, along with an indicator for any categories that have new activity: Howe...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Adding the search guidance hints to the search results page too

When entering a search term, there is some guidance showing above the text box: The guidance is only shown before the initial search. Could it also be shown above the text box of the search resu...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Send notifications if a comment is edited to mention the person

Sometimes, I forget to mention someone when I first make a comment, and I go and edit the mention in. However, I've been told that this doesn't actually send them a notification. Can we get it so t...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A login should be redirect to the page one was on

On Stack Overflow and its sister sites as well as on Wikipedia and its sister sites, if you're on page X and click "Log In", you get to the login page (true here too). If you then log in, you get t...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Show notice that a suggested edit cannot be reviewed without the Edit Posts ability

When viewing the Suggested Edits page, there is a notice for users that have not yet earned the Edit Posts ability: You can't approve or reject suggested edits because you haven't yet earned the...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Show total number of posts on individual user Posts page

There is a Posts page showing all the posts by a given user. Could this have a total number of posts shown at the top, similar to the front page?

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Code block copy button in more places, such as help documents

I find the copy button on code blocks in posts very useful. Could this also be added to code blocks in other places such as help documents? For example, the Template for Proposal Posts would be mu...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Add a global search page

Can we add a global search page to Codidact? This would simply apply the search query site-wide. This feature is useful when you're not sure which section has the question you want. Yes, you can ...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Let moderators grant abilities.

As a moderator on EE, I'd like to be able to grant abilities to specific users. Personally, I think the system is way too restrictive with the edit ability. If someone abuses it, there will be co...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Move featured links to the "inactive" section once their end date has passed

When featuring links on the sidebar, moderators have the option of setting a start and end date for when that link will be featured. This works properly; once the stated date is past, that link wil...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Return to same page after signing in [duplicate]

After signing in the user is taken to the home page of the community from which they signed in (so, the Q&A posts tab here on Codidact Meta). This means that if I am reading a question and dec...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  closed as duplicate 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Tracking progress towards the Edit ability

Related: Confusing percentage on Edit Posts Ability page Currently, the best place I can find to track my progress towards the Edit ability (30 approved suggested edits with at least 95% ap...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Is there a way to subscribe to a single question?

I would like to get notifications about post which I participate in. Is there a way for me to subscribe to a specific question (or to all I have participated in)?

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by staticvoid‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Show question title before community name in browser tab

The title for a specific question page (displayed in the browser tab) shows the community name followed by the question title: This means that only the first word or two of the question title ar...

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

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Q&A Comments improvements to indicate assent or dissent with previously posted comments

Often I'm looking over a post and feel that I have what to add as a comment. But as soon as I look at the comments, I find that someone's already written exactly what I would have said. At that poi...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Activity Pub Support

With Stack Exchange's apparent move towards accepting generative AI in the answers, people might be looking for alternatives. I, personally, recommend Codidact to people regularly. I tried to dete...

2 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by fausty‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Clearer community proposals transition for skim readers

During the transition from having a Site Proposals category on Meta to having a separate Codidact Proposals community, there is a message at the top of the Site Proposals category with a link to th...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A How to keep displayed usernames unique even if the user account is deleted?

Motivation On Stack Exchange (SE) I could have a really hard time following a discussion in comments between multiple users if one of the users deleted their account or changed their username. He...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by zetyty‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by zetyty‭

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Q&A A feature-request status page

Motivation I have the feeling (obviously biased ;) that some feature requests get forgotten over time. I absolutely do not claim that it is anyone's fault but that they naturally become less visib...

3 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by zetyty‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by zetyty‭

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Q&A New post type: a recap table

Motivation I often want to use a table to: Compare different solutions (for example, solutions addressing a new feature-request). List related posts and duplicates (some topics can be extremel...

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

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Q&A Prevent creation of tag which is singular form of an existing tag in the plural

I noticed informally when exploring the site that many tags appear to exist in both singular and plural forms. For example, here on Meta, there is both comment and comments as well as notification ...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by tripleee‭

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Q&A Feature request: Ability to edit title of comment thread [duplicate]

I recently left a comment on a post, but now the comment thread ended up with a fragment of (the first version of) my comment as its title, including some ugly markdown rendered literally. I would...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by tripleee‭  ·  closed as duplicate 9mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Editing Thread Titles

(Originally brought up at https://meta.codidact.com/comments/thread/3359#comment-11064) Can we allow thread starters to edit the title of a comment? This could be useful in cases like, for example...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Quintec‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Creating tags is much easier than adding description

It is probably not controversial to say that if you're creating a tag, you should add a description for it. Otherwise, how will anyone else know what you intended the tag to be used for? Unfortuna...

2 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Move keyboard focus into the search term box when search is clicked

GitHub issue: Automatically focus search bar after clicking search (search-slide) When I click the dark grey search button at the top of a Codidact page a new panel opens containing a search ter...

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

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Q&A Quicker replacement of image alt text placeholder

After adding an image to a Codidact post, the automatically entered markdown looks like this: ![Image alt text](https...) The Image alt text part is to be replaced with a meaningful description...

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

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Q&A We need to talk about Abilities

The problem Almost three years ago we introduced Abilities to Codidact as an improved system for granting activity-based permissions, such as allowing users who have made consistently great edit s...

3 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Consistent borders on the inputs when asking a question.

I'm getting used to the UI here where the the title comes after the body when when writing a question. I'm finding it a bit annoying because I write my titles first and I have to scroll down to do...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Support lists (bullets and numbers) in comment markdown

I understand that comments are intended for brief queries about the post content, but in the Meta sites I sometimes find it useful to be able to quote part of a post in a comment. Block quotes alre...

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

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Q&A Suggestion for allowing to mark answers as "accepted", "outdated" or "dangerous"

Currently, it is possible to upvote and downvote answers. That's likely enough in most situations, but there are some cases where you might want to have more than one way to react to a post. For ex...

9 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Quick copy button for code blocks

Code blocks have a maximum height, after which any extra content scrolls vertically. This can make it tricky to copy the code for testing or adjusting when answering a question, or assessing an ans...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A No visible response when searching on mobile

After searching from the search box at the top of each page, you are taken to a search results page. This has the search box with the current search term prepopulated, ready to modify and search ag...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Link to a specific edit in the history

I can link to the edit history of a post, for example, the edit history of the meta question you are reading, but I can't see a way to link to a specific edit in the history. Is there currently an...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Secret Code missing from 2FA Screen

The secret text is a string of characters that is embedded into the QR code. All 2FA apps then deserialise this QR code into a URI, which contains the secret text and other information regarding t...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by slick‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Should be allowed to vote on answer to own question

I wrote a question on a site I hadn't been to before, and got an answer. I tried to upvote the answer, but was shown: I only have 1 rep (should start at 0, but that's another matter), so I can un...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Lux‭

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Q&A Show tags in posts

I'm proposing to be able to show tags in posts like writing [tag:status-bydesign] should show status-bydesign [1]. This would make referencing tags in posts easier and nicer. This is a pure...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Lux‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Lux‭

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Q&A Single line summary of currently applied filters

When no filters are applied to a post list it shows "Filters (None)". When there are filters applied to a post list it shows "Filters ()". Would it be useful for there to be a 1 line summary of t...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Community sort order

As the list of communities gets longer, it becomes more difficult to find any particular one in the various places they are listed. Sorting Would it be helpful to have sorting buttons, similar to...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Searching for answers by tag

Searching for post_type:2 (answer) and a tag gives no results, as answers do not have tags. Intuitively, I would expect this to return results which are answers to a question with that tag. Is ...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Preview text for answers should be the answer's text

When searching, not only questions but also answers come up in the results. However, the information on it is mixed between the question that the answer is on and the answer itself: Title: Que...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Confusing reuse of styling between button and tab header

At the top of the page there are sections for the community's Categories, which are displayed as tabs that can be switched between. For example, here on Meta Codidact there are "Q&A", "Site Pro...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Tailored previews in search results to show the relevant parts of each post

In search results the title is shown followed by a preview of the post, consisting of the first few lines. I would find it more useful to see the section of the post that contains the search term,...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Edit activity show, but not allowed to approve

Now having a dot next to the "Edits" button to indicate pending edits brings up a new issue. It seems everyone is notified of all pending edits, whether they have the ability to approve them or no...

4 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Make code field active on 2FA sign in page

When signing in with two-factor authentication enabled, a code is requested on the next page after entering email and password: The "Code" field is not active (does not contain the text cursor) ...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Translation support on Weblate [duplicate]

Love all the work that's being put into this! I would love to translate Codidact's software (QPixel) to another language so that it's accessible to more people who want to deploy their communities...

0 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by FlaxSeed‭  ·  closed as duplicate 12mo ago by FlaxSeed‭

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Q&A Show raw MathJax in suggested edit diffs and edit histories

Related: Post revisions are displayed without rendered Markdown but with rendered MathJax When reviewing a suggested edit, any MathJax is presented in its rendered form, making it difficult to s...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Button to return to Suggested Edits page

From the Review Suggested Edit page there is a button to "Return to post" which links back to the post on which the edit is being suggested: This makes sense, as one of the places a reviewer may...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Don't show "Initial revision" in user activity [duplicate]

Immediately after the activity entry about posting a question or answer, another entry labeled "Initial revision" is placed. This seems kind of redundant to me, since all it really says is that a p...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Minor typo fixes on Blog posts activate the activity indicator circle

When an edit is made to a Blog post, the new activity indicator circle appears on the Blog tab: This is useful when there is a new Blog post, but less useful when there is a minor typo fixed. W...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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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