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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.

General Q&A about the Codidact instance hosted at codidact.com or using the software that runs it. For questions about setting up your own instance of the software or questions about the code, see Codidact Collab.

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Filter to show only positive posts

In the past and more recently, there's been an issue of many negatively received posts being posted, leading to the front page being primarily negative. This is, of course, rather bad for image. C...

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

feature-request category-post-list filters
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Make user-annotations editable

Basically the title. There's no edit button for annotations in the mod-tools, so if I make a mistake, there's no way to fix it. (I hit the enter key thinking it would insert a newline, but apparent...

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

feature-request mod-tools user-annotations
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Newlines and formatting in user annotations

Another self-explanatory feature-request. Currently user-annotations are one-line and plain-text only, which is a little restrictive. I wanted to add a link to the comment that had prompted the not...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

feature-request mod-tools user-annotations
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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 2y ago by Moshi‭

feature-request discussion editing-posts editing-tags abilities
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Archive to mark as "resolved", without locking the comment?

I've recently come across a situation where I thought archiving the comment thread was appropriate: A user suggested an improvement in the thread, and that improvement was then implemented (by me)....

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

feature-request comments
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Broken link on abilities page.

On the abilities page, I noticed that there is one broken link that leads to a 404 error. It's the edit tags ability. Here is the link markdown: https://meta.codidact.com/abilities/edit_tagd. I t...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by 10 Rep‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by sau226‭

bug status-completed link
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"Vote on Holds Ability" page contains unrendered Markdown

The page describing the Vote on Holds ability, under "What does this ability allow me to do?", has what appears to be unrendered Markdown: The reasons for placing a post on hold vary from site t...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by sau226‭

bug status-completed help-center abilities
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Can we get a page with links to all of the top level posts from across the network as they are created?

Currently in order to check for new posts on the sites I am interested in, I have to visit the sites individually. Since the posts are stored in one DB would it be possible to get a page here that...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

feature-request status-deferred
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Remove separate search page and put a search textbox directly in the top bar

Would it be possible to change the search so that you don't end up on a separate page? It feels a bit clunky to not be able to search directly. Replace the search button with a text box for the que...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by klutt‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by sau226‭

feature-request status-completed searching
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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 3y ago by KalleMP‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by r~~‭

discussion design comments
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Let's have the same icon for moderators across views

Currently the moderator icon is not consistent across views. See for example this post by Jirka Hanika, a moderator in Linguistics: And then see who it looks in his/her profile page: ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭

feature-request moderators design user-card
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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 3y ago by KalleMP‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

feature-request discussion
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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 3y ago by KalleMP‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

feature-request discussion design accessibility
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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 3y ago by KalleMP‭  ·  edited 3y ago by KalleMP‭

feature-request discussion
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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 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

support
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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 3y ago by Josh Hyatt‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Derek Elkins‭

discussion voting
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Comment notifications should render mentioned users' names

I received a notification for a comment that includes an @-mention of myself, but instead of rendering my username, it looks like this: Clearly a username would be better than an ID here, right?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by r~~‭  ·  edited 3y ago by r~~‭

bug mentions notifications
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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 3y ago by sau226‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

discussion
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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 4y ago by deleted user  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Mithical‭

bug discussion tags posts
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Question has phantom tag [duplicate]

Yesterday I edited https://math.codidact.com/posts/282737 to correct the spelling of the tag probability and remove the tag statistics. Now it shows in the question list as having tags probability ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Mithical‭

bug tags
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The letter "ৡ" shows as a "?" in a community generated link to a question [duplicate]

I saw a banner pointing to the question What does the letter do ৡ in Bangla? from the Languages & Linguistics site. The image shows like this: And currently it is hosted exactly in http...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Mithical‭

bug images
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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 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by NateEag‭

discussion
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"You need to select a reaction type." But I see no reaction?

I'm pining to answer my own question. But please see below. GitHub Issue

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by PSTH‭  ·  edited 3y ago by sau226‭

bug status-completed reactions
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Please make dashboard button/link easier to access

Until reading this thread I did not know that the dashboard even exists. It took me a little bit to find it, so there is a chance it might be hard to find for other users as well. The upper commun...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

feature-request status-completed layout dashboard
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Allow using <kbd> in the website

I suggest to support <kbd>KBD</kbd> format in the website. Test KBD It's not working as it is in Stack Exchange, you might want to check this post's source code. It's useful whe...

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

feature-request markdown
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Opening the "Account" tab produces "500 - Internal Server Error"

When I go to my profile page and I click on the "Account" tab: It redirects to "https://meta.codidact.com/users/edit" and I get:

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Kevin Shenouda‭  ·  edited 3y ago by sau226‭

bug status-completed user-profiles
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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 3y ago by Kevin Shenouda‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

discussion
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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 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

support
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Why can't I comment on someone else's post?

I am hankering to comment to this answer, to ask Olin Lathrop if his Lenovo is a ThinkPad. But then this error popped up. But I am not a new user???

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 3y ago by TextKit‭

bug
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Allow posting without logging in at least in some communities

I ran the search queries "anonymous", "register" and "unregistered" in the search box but didn't find a thread about why isn't anonymous/unregistered contribution allowed here. I recall one or two...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by Kevin Shenouda‭

feature-request
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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 3y ago by q4q0ht+1jc9kaggmsg9o@sharklasers.com‭  ·  closed 3y ago by Mithical‭

discussion
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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 4y ago by .                                                .‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Andy aka‭

discussion voting
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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 3y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

discussion platform Codidact-foundation
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Hobbling of users who consistently post low-quality content

There are, unfortunately, a few users on Codidact who relatively consistently make low-quality contributions. These posts often come in bursts and tend to be downvoted fairly quickly, but that does...

5 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Peter Mortensen‭

feature-request
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TT tag works in preview, not in final post. [duplicate]

The html tag <tt> works correctly in the preview window that is shown while editing a post. Text enclosed in such tags is shown in mono-spaced font. However, the TT tag seems to be ignored ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

bug editor html editor-preview
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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 3y ago by sau226‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Canina‭

discussion
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Need to throttle users with consistently bad posts. [duplicate]

Now that Codidact has some experience to look back on, we can see the same thing happening here as in other on-line places and in real life. We are all here for our own personal selfish reasons. ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

feature-request
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Footnote numbers not displayed on mobile

UPDATE: It isn’t just footnotes. It affects bulleted lists also. Footnotes work fine in my desktop browsers.[1] But on mobile, I see this: The footnote numbers are not displayed (the ones with...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by qohelet‭  ·  edited 3y ago by qohelet‭

bug mobile-browser
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Request for a Member Story feature which helps to highlight a Codidact member's topic expertise

I learned today that another Q&A site on the web will soon be ditching its Developer Story feature in which members of that site maintain a chronological log of their skills, achievements, cert...

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

feature-request
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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 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Alexei‭

discussion code-of-conduct
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Post action links that cannot be used should be hidden

When I'm signed in, I see a set of post action links such as the following (this is from a question): Permalink | History | Suggest edit | Close | Delete | Flag The "Suggest edit" changes to ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

feature-request status-completed design
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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 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Trilarion‭

support MathJax
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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 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by Trilarion‭

discussion
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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 5y ago by gbjbaanb‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Trilarion‭

discussion
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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 4y ago by Krom‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Trilarion‭

discussion qpixel
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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 3y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

discussion design
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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 3y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

discussion data-import user-profiles user
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Post history diff shows apparently double-escaped HTML entities

As Exhibit A, I present revision 2 of Switching to an admin user within Powershell SSH session on Power Users, and specifically its diff view against revision 1 of Stated Post. The post itself con...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

bug status-completed post-history
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Minimal data explorer for analytics

I am wondering if we can have a minimal data explorer for Codidact communities: mirror the publicly available tables/columns in a separate database (can be done once per day to minimize the impa...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

feature-request data-explorer
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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 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by whybecause‭

discussion close-question