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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.

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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 1d ago by OverLordGoldDragon‭  ·  last activity 24h 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 4mo ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 3d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How should we approach non-English content?

It seems almost taken for granted on every Codidact site - even Languages & Linguistics - that questions and answers are supposed to be written in English, although I can't find any official po...

1 answer  ·  posted 15d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 15d ago by r~~‭

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Q&A Enhancing community involvement with per-site Help Centers

By my understanding, one of the key features of the Codidact network is that individual communities are more in control of their local policies. In particular, it appears that community moderators ...

0 answers  ·  posted 15d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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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 16d ago by Or4ng3h4t‭  ·  edited 16d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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 17d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 16d 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 21d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 17d 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 21d 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 29d ago by Or4ng3h4t‭  ·  edited 22d ago by Or4ng3h4t‭

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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 23d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Do these comments follow our Code of Conduct?

How is this not easily solved with grade school math? -1 for being a dumb question. I can't tell whether this is trolling or a serious question, since finding the answer only requires sevent...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by Mark S.‭  ·  last activity 23d ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A How can we poll a community?

In my effort of giving structure to EE.CD tags pages, I find myself in the need of asking the community for consensus about some debatable choices. Of course the place for this is EE Meta, but I'd...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 23d ago by manassehkatz‭

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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 2mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 24d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How should we phase out the Site Proposals category?

Currently the old Site Proposals category points to the new Proposals community, presumably as a temporary measure until people get used to the new community. This is not ideal, as described in the...

0 answers  ·  posted 27d ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 27d ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Codidact Collab - should it be listed?

The drop down menu at the top right of each Codidact page shows a list of all the sites in the network. The list is also shown in the page footer, and on codidact.com. There is also a site for peo...

3 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 27d ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Who should be able to create new tags?

It's been pointed out in a few places that, so long as creating tags is much easier than managing them, we're going to have problems handling typos, duplicates, and tags that otherwise ought not ex...

3 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A What should happen with inactive communities?

The level of activity of the communities vary. Some are more active than others, which isn't exactly a problem. However, I'm a bit worried when a community becomes significantly less active than ot...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Andreas‭

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Q&A What do we do with suspected AI users?

I have noticed a user that I suspect may be posting AI generated content. What should I do in such a situation? I don't want to go into exactly why I think it's an AI. Suffice to say, I work on LL...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Mithical‭

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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 2mo ago by Taeir‭

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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 2mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Assessing the 5 tag limit

We currently have a limit of 5 tags per question. Should we keep this the same or would any changes be of benefit? For example: Should the limit be higher or lower? Should there be different ...

3 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Which communities have shown interest?

Historical note: When this post was written, we planned to use the QPixel software as a stopgap while building a new Codidact platform from scratch. That's not what we ended up doing. Since early ...

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

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Q&A A way to prohibit creating certain tags.

On EE.CO we have some tags that are utterly useless, but people keep on using them, for example voltage. For non-experts: voltage is one of the main physical quantity used to describe the behavior...

4 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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 2mo ago by FractionalRadix‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Recent feature changes to the Codidact software

This site runs on the QPixel software, maintained by Codidact. What progress has been made recently? There will be one answer per year. 2023 (current year) 2022 2021 2020

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How should a Codidact public API work?

I'm planning to add a public API to Codidact so people can make applications that read Codidact data automatically. Features and purposes I have my own purposes in mind for this[1], but there are...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A I can mark my own answer as "Works for me"

The "Works for me" reaction can be added to any answer, even if the reacting user is the author of the answer. For example, here is what an answer looks like if I post the answer and react to it m...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Is there a reason for preventing user profile content being less than 30 characters?

Original GitHub issue: Can't revert to a blank profile GitHub issue raise more recently suggesting greater demand: "Edit Profile" bio must have a minimum of 30 characters When editin...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Taeir‭

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Q&A Is it okay to scrape Codidact for personal tools?

I'd look to use my own tools for browsing Codidact. Examples include: Summarize activity for a proposal I'm interested in, similar to what's described in https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289288/2...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by ArtOfCode‭

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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 2mo ago by zetyty‭  ·  last activity 2mo 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 2mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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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 2mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A What is the relationship between Codidact and TopAnswers?

(Apologies if this is a dupe. I couldn't find a way to search Meta questions.) I joined Codidact after hearing about it on Programming Puzzles & Code Golf (PPCG) Stack Exchange a few years ago,...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by qwr‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Is there a test community where you can try out Codidact functionality without bothering people?

I'm assessing Codidact Q&A for use by our organisation, so I want to try out features to compare against our list of requirements. I don't want to be posting bogus questions where they're going...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by SuperSheep‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Why is meta reputation linked to Q&A reputation?

Related: A vote in the meta category for the EE site reflected in my reputation. Is that a bug? Suppose I participate in Meta and Q&A Software Codidact, and a Meta answer of mine is downvote...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by qwr‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Hover text on sorting buttons not available on mobile

The sorting buttons at the top of a category's post list have title text which appears on hovering with a mouse, but this is not available on mobile devices. "Activity", "Age", and "Score" are r...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Can we have the ability to create tags without being linked to a question?

As the title says. Rationale: I'm in the process of giving tags on EE.CD some structure and I feel that sometimes a group of tags could be usefully grouped under a parent which doesn't exist yet. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Adding a dummy tag to improve the process of nuking tags with the "merge trick".

Would it be acceptable to create a dummy tag like merge-into-this-for-nuking-another-tag just to ease the usage of the "merge trick" described here to nuke a tag? Of course the usage would spell i...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A How can Codidact be independent from Stack Exchange, when you have same moderators?

Mithical is moderator on AI, Constructed Language, Literature Stack Exchanges. But also Mithical is I'm also part of Codidact’s Community Team, and am on the Board of Directors. Clearly, Mit...

2 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by Mark S.‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Proposal: remove Twitter from profiles

Seeing the option to list a Twitter profile on one's profile leaves a bad taste in my mouth given recent developments on that site. I don't think it deserves to be promoted above other social medi...

3 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by da5nsy‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Miscellaneous Flag modal problems

Flagging an answer After pressing "Flag" under an answer there are 3 radio buttons to choose from: Flagging questions and answers Some changes would benefit both types of post. Changes specifi...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Can I subscribe to new answers to a specific post?

Can I follow/subscribe to a question so that I'm notified when it has new answers? It looks like a can subscribe to new comments using the "Follow new" button below a post, but I'm more interested...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by da5nsy‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A What should I know when coming here from Stack Exchange?

This website seems much like the Stack Exchange family of sites, but I immediately noticed some differences, like being able to comment at once and not being able to vote on this meta (but the abil...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by tommi‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Get rid of minimum character requirements

Various places in Codidact where a user enters text seem to have a minimum character requirement. If you enter fewer characters than that, the system keeps the "submit post" button greyed out, pop...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Should we render double hyphen as an em dash?

Some places render "--" (double hyphen) as "—" (em dash). Currently Codidact does not -- so these are left as double hyphens in both the edit preview and a rendered post (like that). Would it be ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by AdminBee‭

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Q&A Is corporate hosting of private Codidact sites permitted?

I'm reviewing a number of Q&A platforms for use by our internal Software Engineering community. Our implementation of a Q&A platform would ideally be hosted internally or on a private accou...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by SuperSheep‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Let's not allow animated avatars.

The first animated avatar someone has used here (https://cooking.codidact.com/posts/288814) points out that we don't have any rules addressing them. Let's not allow this. This falls into the same...

2 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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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 3mo 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 4mo ago by fausty‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Canina‭

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Q&A UI question: how should the "post" button behave in restricted categories?

Most of the time, any logged-in user can post a new top-level post (question, article, maybe other types). Categories can restrict this posting access, however. For example, on the Meta blog, onl...

3 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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