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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 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2mo 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 2mo 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 2y ago by Dani‭  ·  edited 3mo 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 3mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 3mo 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 4mo 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 4mo ago by RobertSE‭  ·  edited 4mo 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 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 4mo 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 &lt;support@codidact.org&gt;: host codidact-org.relay1g.spamh.com[63.71.12.97] said: 554...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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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...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by trichoplax‭

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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 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 6mo 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 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Ethan‭

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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 8mo ago by MrHug‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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 11mo ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 11mo 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 1y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 1y 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 2y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 1y 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 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 1y 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 1y 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 1y ago by 4015.alt‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y 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 1y ago by 4015.alt‭  ·  edited 1y 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 1y 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 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 1y 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 1y 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 1y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 1y 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 1y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 1y 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 1y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  last activity 1y 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 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y 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 1y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 1y 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 1y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 1y 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 1y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 1y 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 1y ago by DNB‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by deleted user

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Q&A Will Codidact ever have new favicons? [duplicate]

Somewhere Else has its fair share of favicons on sites. A default bubble with letters for sites without logos, or one with illustrations in it, and the site's logo. We could probably do something ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Can I still comment, without clicking more than twice?

Until June 2021, commenting here requires you to click merely twice. I click on the link to "Add a comment", type my comment, then click the "Add a comment" button. This is exactly like how you com...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

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Q&A What's the limit on the length of a post?

Is there a limit on the length of a post (either question, answer, article, etc) on Codidact sites? The current UI only shows this limit for comments, but not for posts - this is not a feature req...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

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Q&A How can I filter out tags in my search?

What do I input in search for Site Proposals, to pretermit all questions tagged [status-declined]? I tried -[status-declined] but this didn't work.

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

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Q&A What will happen to comments when account is removed?

Today there was a request to remove user's account. This user has some Qs which were transported(converted) to System user. But comments are disappeared. Though there is a possibility that user re...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by FoggyFinder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

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Q&A What's the formula for a hot post? [duplicate]

As a SE user, I think the formula of their HNQs go this way: Has a score of 1+. Has at least 100 views. Has a positive-scored answer/s. I'm not sure about Codidact though since I'm new here...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A What html tags can we use in posts?

So, I finally got around to looking at the second Review Panel draft, and was surprised by the ability to make collapsible sections in posts. From the comments, I wasn't the only one. Whoa, whoa, ...

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

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Q&A Reputation is disappeared from user's card recently

Not sure exactly when but for some time I don't see r in a user's card. From what I can tell it happens only on Meta and, for example, on SD it is still visible. An additional context: Heads up: s...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by FoggyFinder‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A What to do about sock puppets in Site Proposals?

The process for site proposals here seems to be that someone makes a post, then (usually) Monica comes in with an answer asking for anyone interested in the site to comment in order to gauge intere...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by r~~‭  ·  edited 2y ago by r~~‭

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Q&A Is it possible to accept an answer? How to accept an answer? [duplicate]

Is it possible to accept an answer? How can I do that?

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by System‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Understanding how posts were possibly received by the community --- network wide

I would always claim that anonymous upvoting and downvoting are a crappy quality assurance method causing more harm than good in the long run due to unbased (or well based) accumulated hostility an...

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

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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...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 2y ago by deleted user

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Q&A Currently, where should we ask any OS related question?

I was looking at site proposals. I noticed lot of people including me were proposing for a site where we can ask any OS(Linux, Windows) related question. But, currently there's no site in Codidact ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Do we have a public API yet?

I've looked around for information on an existing or planned public API for Codidact but I haven't yet found one. I'm not sure if this means it was decided not to include it in the MVP or if it exi...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A How to ensure that duplicating a post from another website won't cause content duplication that would hurt Codidact's SEO?

I have published this post in Unix and Linux StackExchange. I want to post it here as well (in Software Development Codidact), because it didn't get answers on U&amp;L SE. I cannot delete my post...

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

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Q&A I cannot post PHP on CoDidact software development

I cannot paste some HTML-CSS-PHP code which I have tried and would like to ask a question about in CoDidact Software Development. When I publish my question I just get redirected, time and again t...

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

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Q&A Where can I ask about fixing a Fairphone 3?

I am trying to fix my Fairphone 3, and have run into a problem. I'd like to ask on CoDidact, but I don't know which community is appropriate. Electrical Engineering would seem the logical place, h...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by FractionalRadix‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Can I ask about QPixel here?

I am trying to run QPixel on my local computer. I tried all instruction from readme.md, but unfortunately I got some errors. where can i ask about it? On this meta or Software Development or must o...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Yaskur‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

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