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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 Hot Posts curiosity [duplicate]

I'm curious about the list of "Hot Posts" shown in the right hand panel of Codidact pages. So here are some completely unimportant questions that I'm intrigued to know more about: How is the lis...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Translating the project

Hello, I'm new to Codidact and would love to translate QPixel (and the project's homepage as well) to my native language, as I've been doing on other open-source projects :) I looked around and c...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by tmpod‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Codidact QA‭

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Q&A Bug reports: meta.codidact.com or codidact.org?

I have just observed a bug, and I'm not sure what the protocol is. Is bug reporting and tracking done on codidact.org, meta.codidact.com, or both? If both, and I can't find the bug mentioned on eit...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Should tag editing be separate from post editing?

Should tag editing be separate from post editing? By that I mean having a specific workflow to modify the tags of a question, different from the workflow to edit the content. Intuitively, I believe...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Why are comments hidden by default?

Why are comments deprecated to the point that none are visible without having to move away from the page? With page loads and mouse clicks, less is MORE.

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by KalleMP‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by r~~‭

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Q&A Remove "Post" terminology from sites other than META

Why are (outside of META where it makes some sense) Questions and answers called Posts? Is this because the coders are trying hard to show neutrality or are wanting to reuse some code snippet? As...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by KalleMP‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A User based styling

Is there any way to adjust the Styling in user profiles. I struggle to see the hairline borders for edit entry areas before they are selected and also prefer to to have less vertical white space b...

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

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Q&A Add button to select Meta post destination

Add button to select Meta post destination to site META or Global META at the time of posting. More than one of my posts are probably Global META suggestions but have ended up in Site META because...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by KalleMP‭  ·  edited 1y ago by KalleMP‭

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Q&A Downvoting Response Delays

I asked a question to the Software Development Codidact site here. I monitored it closely for several hours in case there was a quick response. A day later I found a couple comments waiting for me ...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Josh Hyatt‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Derek Elkins‭

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Q&A Deficiencies in the Terms of Service

I took a look at our Terms of Service, and it seems like we are missing a provision on modifying them, a severability clause and a clause incorporating the Privacy Policy into the Terms. This can ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by sau226‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A bug after edit suggested [duplicate]

In this post, @FoggyFinder had proposed an edit. He removed flag then, added flag. But, I saw both was showing. So, I had gone to edit page. I saw there's only flags. I think I had read a ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Help wanted: investigating server errors

We've had several bug reports here on Meta about server 500 errors, and we know that these can deter participation. That's bad at any time but especially when we are trying to grow. We want to do...

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

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Q&A Is copying from other sites OK?

I've noticed that some people copy questions from other sites, then they re-post them on Codidact. Is that really OK? Don't other sites have copyright as well? At the very very least, shouldn't peo...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Kevin Shenouda‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A So, is Stack Exchange broken permanently this time? [closed]

A few days ago, Stack Exchange suddenly broke. Again. It literally doesn't let you post any question, because the button does nothing. Like so many other sites, they have either deliberately broken...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by q4q0ht+1jc9kaggmsg9o@sharklasers.com‭  ·  closed 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A General discussion on making votes public

Make vote secrecy a per-community choice, because some communities might prefer voting transparency over voting privacy. Side-question. Why voting is secret in other Q&A platforms? Origins in ...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Andy aka‭

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Q&A What are the bus factors of Codidact?

The purpose of this post is to draw attention to possibly low bus factors and to maybe lead to a more failsafe organization structure by just asking for information. What are the bus factors for t...

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

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Q&A What should we do to facilitate sharing/recognition of Codidact content?

For context, 'sharing' means sharing to an external website, such as Reddit/Twitter/other sites relevant to a community (e.g. for a writing site, a site frequented by writers). Right now, sharing ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by sau226‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Codidact's policy regarding posts, user names and profiles with political content

Does Codidact have any policy against using political content in posts, user names or user profiles? I'm not talking about questions about political content, which should obviously be fine given t...

6 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Is there a Codidact community fitting for this question (or one emerging)?

Is there any Codidact network website in the horizon to accept this question? Perhaps with some edit or conceptual change the question would be a good fit for scientific speculation? Daily life...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 1y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A How do we handle overlap?

When I use SO I see a load of questions that would be better asked on a spin-off site. Eg SQL questions that would be way better answered on DBA.se. But SQL is a programming language and so fits o...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by gbjbaanb‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Why is the main Codidact project named QPixel?

Why is the main Codidact project under development in Ruby is codenamed QPixel? Where does this codename comes from and what does it mean?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Krom‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Should the active category name not be shown twice on the categories header?

One thing one realizes quickly when for example visiting meta.codidact.com is that it's a site about Q&A. The reason is that for example it is written twice: But is this duplication really n...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A How many automatically created users that were never active are there still and what to do about them?

For some communities content from other places has been imported in the past and user profiles have been created, partly to allow users to quickly claim this identity if desired. However, these use...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A What information should be displayed on a network profile?

I want to design a network profile (and then possibly implement it). There was already discussion about that in Community dropdown and profile information, Understanding how posts were possibly rec...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Should we remove closed questions from the question list?

Should we exclude closed questions from the question list? Closed questions (and their answers) would still be linked on the owners' profiles, would be included in search results, and would produc...

5 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by whybecause‭

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Q&A Do SE users have the right to have their SE posts removed from Codidact? If so, how?

I don't know what the etiquette is here for bringing up Stack Exchange, and I don't want anyone thinking I'm trying to start any cross-site drama. In fact, I'm hoping to snuff any such drama out be...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by F1Krazy‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Is gaining rep based on SE content ok?

Is it a problem if specific users harvest highly-voted questions on SE, then self answer, to farm a huge amount of rep? And if so, what can we do to prevent it? I haven't seen it happen, but askin...

5 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by joel‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What is the policy on importing questions by simply quoting the question over here?

Recently, three questions were "imported" from StackOverflow: https://software.codidact.com/q/277934, https://software.codidact.com/q/277930, https://software.codidact.com/q/277932 I put "imported"...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Possibility to re-post answers from external sources? [duplicate]

Is there a standard or acceptable way to include, link or re-post answers from external sources, such as stack exchange networks, quora or others ?

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by 4015.alt‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What happened to codidact / core project in ASP.NET?

Several months ago when I first took a look upon Codidact project, I saw that it is using ASP.NET Core 3.1 and I said to myself that this is a project that I can contribute to. This frameworks seem...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Is it possible to merge Power Users and Linux Systems? Would Codidact benefit from it?

One of the concerns of How can we grow this community posts (see on Power Users and on Linux Systems) is that the sites may not be active enough, resulting in a poor first impression. If my calcul...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Global profile page [duplicate]

A Global profile page, that shows data and statics of the user across all the communities that they participated in, either to the user only, or publicly according to some privacy setting. Feature...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by 4015.alt‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Proposal for Wikipedia article

Encouraged to write about it by the thread. I remember correctly, when I joined Codidact 8-9 months ago I was searching about Codidact in search engine. What is Codidact? When it was launched? And...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 2y ago by deleted user

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Q&A A note on April 1st 2021

Unfortunately, we didn't have the time to build an April fools easter egg this year. We'll build one next year, for sure! Therefore, for your own safety: DO NOT try to enter any secret code on ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by luap42‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A How to grow all of our communities?

As most have noticed, there's been a discussion raised on all the community metas about how to grow that particular community. It's a good question and I do believe they should be answered on commu...

6 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Should we modify the default (front) page for anonymous visitors?

A complaint we've heard a lot is that when a community's front page has many questions that are not well-received, it deters visitors. (It also deters some people who are already here, I know.) T...

5 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Make the license changeable while editing

When I go to edit answer/question, I can edit tags, text and title, but not the license. For example, if I mistakenly select a wrong license and, click Save Post in Q&A, how can I edit the l...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A How to deal with reactor if the reactor is no more or he thinks the post is still bad?

I was thinking of the reaction system for a long time. A question had came to my mind : If an answer is poorly written (or outdated) and a person had reacted to that as Outdated. Later, when the...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Where should we discuss about unhelpful tags?

I have recently seen some tags. a and Ask.. That should ask not Ask since all tags are in lower chars. And mod should delete the a tag. I know that we won't allow every people to create tags. But ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Response to Monica Cellio's cross posts — "How can we grow this community"?

Hi Monica! You cross posted the same question on many Meta's? Or just post here? Anyhow I don't know where answer. Here I respond your crucial questions now. My question to you is: where do we ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How can I decorously promote Codidact on Reddit?

I've stumbled upon links to Codidact questions on answers on SOME subreddits, but because Codidact is still little known and unsung, Redditors balk at clicking links to Codidact. OR other...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 2y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A A few small changes, mostly about moderation and curation

The latest update includes a few small changes of possible general interest: Moderators can now escalate flags to the admin team. If you have a flag that requires our attention, or if you wan...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Threaded comments are here!

From our earliest discussions of what the Codidact platform would be, we've known that we had to tackle comments. Comments are very important for giving feedback and asking for clarifications. So...

15 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Happy Birthday, Codidact!

It feels like we celebrated Codidact’s first birthday only yesterday and that Codidact was founded just a few days ago, but here we are. Codidact is now officially two years old! [1] Two years ago...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A More answer feedback -- Reactions are coming to Codidact

A bit over a year ago, I proposed to add a “reactions” like feature on Codidact, which would allow marking answers as “accepted”, “outdated” or “dangerous”, providing more detailed feedback to user...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Button is disabled without any explanation when title is too short

When I was writing the post. My title was too short for post that. But, I was thinking why button is disabled. Since, I had worked on disabling button that's why I knew my post's title was too shor...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 2y ago by deleted user

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Q&A Should we show question on a thread of answer?

I was reading some comments in answers. I didn't read question. But, I started reading the answer (That question wasn't understandable for me so I just ignored that but later understood). Then, vis...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Why an author of an answer should have ability to react his own post? [duplicate]

Why an answer-er should have ability to react on his own answer. I believe he should have ability to react to his post as Outdated. But why they should have ability to react as Worked for me or hel...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  closed as duplicate 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Should it be possible to "react" to one's own posts?

We now have reactions. However, I notice that there seems to be nothing stopping a user from "reacting" to their own posts. For some reactions, this might make sense. For example, an outdated ans...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Enlarging the chance that clarification-question comments would be modular

Even threaded, asking two or more clarification questions in one comment can be frustrating (and a miscommunication bias) for an OP, especially if the OP doesn't speak English as a native language ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 2y ago by FoggyFinder‭

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