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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 Cannot accept suggested edits to my post, because I don't have permission to change moderator-only tags

Shouldn't I be allowed to accept an edit to my own post? Now here I can't, because the suggested edit adds a tag that I am not allowed to add. Other edits are also not possible (because it asks fi...

1 answer  ·  posted 4d ago by [Object object]‭  ·  edited 4d ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A What are my options for access to my data being processed by Codidact?

The GDPR requires (article 20 right to data portability, paragraph 1, in part) that: 1. The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she ha...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 7d ago by Moshi‭

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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 1mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 16d ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Users with multiple Codidact accounts

Are there any rules about a user having multiple Codidact accounts (sometimes known as sockpuppet accounts)? What should a user do if they suspect another user has multiple accounts?

1 answer  ·  posted 27d ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 27d ago by r~~‭

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Q&A How to avoid triggering mathjax?

Apparently, two dollar signs in a paragraph cause the text between them to be interpreted as mathjax. How can this be avoided so that dollar signs can be written literally? I tried escaping the d...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Why is <small> HTML tag rendered differently in preview?

Sometimes I use the <small> HTML tag to reduce the impact of some collateral part of a text, and in the preview this is nice and dandy. Here is an example from this post on EE.CD (red emphasi...

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

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Q&A Why do HTML tags reduce my line spacing in Codidact posts?

When I use an HTML tag to alter the appearance of a paragraph in a Codidact post, it works but the line spacing is reduced, which I do not want. Why is this? Is there anything I can do about it? E...

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

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Q&A Once filled out, the user profile cannot be reverted to empty

For a long time I had no content in my user profile, then today I added something to see how it would look. I then changed my mind and decided to go back to having nothing. However, there is a mini...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Taeir‭

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Q&A What class attributes can we (usefully) use in HTML tags?

Following up on Markup documentation? and What html tags can we use in posts?: I see that the site supports <section> tags in posts, and that these can have a class attribute. Recently I sa...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A What should I do when I come across PII in a post?

Sometimes, posts can accidentally contain personal information that shouldn't be out on the internet, such as real names, real IP addresses, home addresses, or other pieces of PII (Personally Ident...

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

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Q&A 1. Outline Codidact's complaints process? 2. What public bodies oversee Codidact?

I ask as general reference. I compare with UK corporations, as Codidact are "incorporated in the United Kingdom as a Community Interest Company (CIC), with plans to become a Charitable Incorporated...

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

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Q&A Tagging @username in a question/answer/comment

Is it possible to tag users by their handle. E.g. Oh hey @da5nsy do you have an answer for this question? It doesn't look like it does, because names are not hyperlinked but then I saw @manass...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by da5nsy‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Moshi‭

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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 Is Single Sign On possible with Codidact?

For an on-premise (or Cloud) hosted instance of Codidact, is there existing functionality that provides Single Sign On (SSO) in conjunction with Active Directory (AD)?

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

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Q&A Can I use @Username to notify users from within my question or answer?

If I write a question or an answer, sometimes I want to notify specific users because of the context of my question or answer (for example if I post a follow-up question to an answer from another q...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by zetyty‭

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Q&A Update tag descriptions to reflect new home of proposals

Here on Meta the tags "community-proposal" and "new-communities" both have descriptions referring to the Site Proposals category. Can these be updated to refer to (and possibly link to) the new Cod...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How does "@username" work in comment threads?

In a comment thread, I can notify someone by including "@username". I also get notified of replies, even if they do not include my username in this way. What determines who is notified of a comment...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A "Proposals" does not show up in the bottom navbar

Seems like every Codidact section appears as a link in the footer, so I was expecting the new https://proposals.codidact.com/ to appear there as well. However, it looks like it doesn't. Is this an...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A How discussions work in Codidact?

Stack Overflow was created on the premise of having questions and answers without the chitchat and other common problems well-known in Internet discussion forums. The founders learned they still ne...

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

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Q&A Using QPixel in education

Two years ago I asked this question on Meta Stack Exchange about using SO in education. Having used SO for Teams actively for two years, my university now takes issue with the pricing model used by...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by MrHug‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What is clicking the inbox icon in the top bar actually supposed to do?

I'm starting to wonder if my earlier bug report was based on a misunderstanding. If it is, though, I think the UI needs to be clarified. Anyway... Just what is expected behavior when the inbox ico...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What customizations are available on Codidact?

On Codidact, lots of things can be customized for individual communities. Generally these changes need to be made by admins, but we'll make them on request. But what are all these things? What c...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Impolite comments

What should be done about comments that don't meet the CoC requirements?[1] As of now, there is no way to flag them, and AFAIK only mods and the author can delete comments ↩︎

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Dani‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Where do meta questions about the Codidact Collab site belong?

Should I ask questions about the Codidact Collab site here on Codidact Meta, or over on the Collab site itself? I notice that Collab doesn't have its own Meta section, unlike most Codidact communit...

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

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Q&A Codidact vs SO?

How is Codidact different from SO in terms of posting, commenting, and moderating? Not asking about financial structure of the organization.

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by johnywhy‭

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Q&A Any self-hosting devs here?

I searched for free community software ("open source" what I mean is GPL or similar). I know Stack Overflow and would like to run the software on my own server just to have full control over the da...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by RobertSE‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A How do I suggest edits to the tag wiki?

On the page for the Edit Tags ability, it lists a part of the requirement as To earn this ability, you need to have roughly a 97.5% approval rate for suggested edits to either the detailed tag w...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Undelivered mail returned to sender

When I send a message to someone @codidact.com, I get back undelivered mail returned to sender, which says <support@codidact.org>: host codidact-org.relay1g.spamh.com[63.71.12.97] said: 554...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Process for fixing a typo on codidact.org

Is there a preferred process for making minor fixes such as typos on codidact.org? I've made a commit to a fork but I didn't want to raise a GitHub issue and make a pull request without checking t...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A How to make an edit that only changes the tag list by adding a tag that does not exist?

I tried to add a tag to an existing post by editing it and it failed because there was no actual post edit: After further tests, I realized that this happens only if the added tag(s) do not alre...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Ethan‭

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Q&A How can I curb my search to the Main site, not Meta?

If https://math.codidact.com/help/search does not explain this, please edit it to. To wit, I am pining to see merely search results from the Main. Here if you search on a main site, the search en...

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

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Q&A How can I see a list of all my deleted questions?

Particularly when I didn't delete these questions that were deleted by other users or moderators? I hanker to see, here on Codidact, all my questions deleted here on Codidact. I don't want to visi...

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

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Q&A Does Codidact render MathJAX more slowly than StackExchange?

Apology if the issue is my Internet connection. Does MathJAX render more sluggishly here than on Stack Ex for anyone else?

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

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Q&A Warn people rather than sending notification for inappropriate link/texts in profile

We should warn people rather than sending notification to them for inappropriate links in profile. I had set a link in my profile long day ago. I usually "bought" that domain (in free). So recently...

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

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Q&A How can I conveniently opt out of Codidact analytics?

Since a few days, my Firefox add-on Privacy Badger shows me a new tracker originating from analytics.codidact.org. I read the privacy policy and it states that there is analytics going on to improv...

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

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Q&A What does "post positive reception" mean in the context of abilities?

There is reference to "positive reception rate" for posts in the discussion on how to earn some abilities, for example the Vote on Holds ability. What exactly does "positive reception" mean in thi...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Is there a privacy policy for Codidact?

Is there a privacy policy for Codidact? As I'm a resident within the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation pretty much dictates how websites have to present their activities around...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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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 Filtering questions with "no answer" and/or "no accepted answer" ?

Is there a way to filter questions of a community that has no answer and/or no accepted answer ? Edit (clarification): by "accepted answer" I mean answer marked with the green "Works for me" tag...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by 4015.alt‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A How can I do a search across all of Codidact?

I can't find a way to do a platform-wide search (all communities at once). Is there such a feature and I'm missing it?

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

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Q&A What gets on Hot Posts?

What actually gets a post on the Hot Posts list? Is it views? Votes? Answers? Comments? Most likely a combination of them, but what exactly?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A What does the round silver circle in the dashboard mean?

I had visited the dashboard. In it I saw some meta sites containing silver circles. Others do not. What does the silver circle represent? Is it a bug? There's a hover text on the silver butto...

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

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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 Permanently delete duplicated questions and answers?

I accidentally posted my neighbor's answer to my same question twice. Obviously, it's irksome and wasteful to see the two duplicated answers! How can such duplications be lastingly forever removed?

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

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Q&A How can tags be deleted?

I started heading into the rabbit-hole of organising tags on the mathematics site, and there are some which are obvious typos and have no questions associated (because the questions have been retag...

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

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Q&A How can I remove a tag? [duplicate]

I have just realized that a tag is redundant: angular-2+ since we have one for [angular] (as opposed with the old flavor, [angularjs]). I have removed it from the only question and I want to remov...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Encoding error when accessing https://codidact.com/

When trying to access https://codidact.com/ Firefox (93.0) gives me "encoding error, contact the site owners". This appears to have happened just now, as I could use that address fine for less than...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Where can I report private issues

Sometimes, there are issues that should not be made public (for instance, issues relating to security or privacy) and as such should not be posted here on Meta. Given the potential severity of thos...

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

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Q&A Implement reactions for top level posts

Reiterating my request on the original reactions proposal, please allow the ability to set up reactions for top level posts as well. Quoting from that request, If reactions are able to be added ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Why do quotation boxes split themselves?

This snag doesn't happen on Stack Exchange. Each time I use >, the quotation box severs itself. How can I combine the quotation boxes? I screenshot https://math.codidact.com/posts/282889.

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

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