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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 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 4y 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 3y 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 3y 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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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 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2y 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 2y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 2y 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 2y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  last activity 2y 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 3y ago by PSTH‭  ·  edited 2y 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 3y ago by FoggyFinder‭  ·  last activity 3y 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 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Mithical‭

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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 3y ago by FoggyFinder‭  ·  last activity 3y 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 3y ago by r~~‭  ·  edited 3y 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 3y ago by System‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y 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 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y 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 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y 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 3y 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&L SE. I cannot delete my post...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y 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 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y 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 3y ago by FractionalRadix‭  ·  last activity 3y 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 3y ago by Yaskur‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Is it intended to have negative reputation? [duplicate]

I don't know if this is status-bydesign, but this looks like a bug to me: Is this intended behavior? Seems a bit weird to me if it is.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by 10 Rep‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What is the 'lottery' button for?

While browsing through different sites I notices the 'Lottery' button in the header of the Posts pages. It shows next to 'Activity', 'Age', and 'Score', so it is indeed a way to order the questions...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Where can I find the discussions over the general approach of Codidact?

I am visiting Codidact regularly and enjoying to see the creation of this set of communities. When in Somewhere Else, I used to browse through old discussion threads, as well as a podcast or blog, ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A How to edit tags? [duplicate]

I want to edit some tag information, but I don't see an option to edit it on the tag page. I understand that I don't have the Edit Tags Ability, but I think I should be able to suggest edits (how e...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by ploni‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Is there something like a pending edit review list? [duplicate]

I have recently stumbled across a post (cannot seem to find it again) that had a pending edit for about one month. This is very unpleasant for the user making the edit. I am wondering if there is ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Notification directs to me to 403 error page

Just got a notification about a comment in my inbox. It leads to a 403 forbidden error page, so I believe I might either be lacking some privilege to view it, or maybe the post got deleted within m...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Claiming posts sourced from StackExchange

I have recently opened an account here and I find that have already posted. There are posts attributed to me on Writing, marked as having been sourced from StackExchange. A (pseudo)user has been ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Chenmunka‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A With abilities here, where did my Software Development question (posted Saturday 13:58 UTC) go?

I recently posted a question on Software Development, How can I write an egrep (grep -E) regexp that matches lines containing two stanzas in arbitrary order? (Internet Archive copy). (Addendum: it'...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A How can I change the default license on my posts? [duplicate]

During creation of a post, you are presented with a license option: It has two options; site default, and category default. Are these configurable by the user, and if they aren't: can they be? I...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Corsaka‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A "Are you sure?" popup when closing a page

When I close a window while writing an answer, it closes immediately without any popup. This has resulted in me losing a few answers while writing them midway. The feature I'm asking for is an "A...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Razetime‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭

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Q&A Relevance of search results

The search function seems not to turn up good search results when sorted by relevance (the default sort). For example: Searching for community wiki on Meta Codidact turns up 12 pages of results, b...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by user8078‭

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Q&A Display accurate post or comment time when hovering

I would like to see the date and time in UTC or my own time zone if set when I hover over the vague about 12 days ago to be able to compare when two events actually happened or any other reason. I...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by KalleMP‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Why do tags URL contain the ID of the site?

I have been browsing through the tags on different sites and found out its URL contains the ID of the site they belong to: In Linguistics (id 36 as a site): Spanish is https://languages.codid...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Tag contents don't reflect merge after 24 hours

On Judaism.Codidact, I merged two tags (parashat-vayeishev and vayeshev), each containing one question, into the parshat-vayeishev tag, which also contained one question. I didn't check, but I'm p...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Isaac Moses‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How to financially support the Codidact project?

The main Codidact page tells us that: Our goal is to build an open-source platform for community-driven Q&A sites. We aim to welcome beginners and experts alike and to empower communities of l...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Is there an RSS-feed for updates on individual questions?

I'd like to subscribe to updates on specific questions that I'm interested in. Is there an RSS-feed, or some kind of a "follow" feature that I can use to subscribe to updates — new answers, mainly,...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by The Amplitwist‭  ·  reopened 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A What languages have syntax highlighting support?

Users can specify the language of a code block by adding it after the first set of triple backticks. For example, this question over on Software Dev uses it for C. What programming languages are su...

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

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Q&A Why was this answer to the volunteer-discussion removed?

For what reasons post (answer or question) might be removed by moderator / staff ? I do not ask about obvious reasons like spam, off-topic, base rule violations, etc here. Context: history. Obviou...

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