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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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MathJax isn't highlighted when selected

Still a high schooler, I like adding some style on my equations for answering math assignments and I've been using MathJax from Mathematics SE to grab symbols for the better of it. A certain case i...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Move posted dated box to white space to the left of poster information?

Please see point 5 below. Both Codidact and S.E. waste that white space. Why not put the posted date box "posted 3 months ago" in that white space?

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

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Unique favicons for each site

Could each site have its own favicon? When I have too many tabs open and can't read the page titles, it'll help me distinguish the different sites.

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Do we have/should we have community wikis?

Over at Software Development, I've tried to write a self-answered Q&A that addresses the by far most common FAQ of all time in the topics of C and C++ programming. When posting it on SO, I woul...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Migrate users from deprecated Codidact forum

Should user accounts from forum.codidact.org be imported? Since the forum was deprecated, I read the notice and went to this meta. The top of the meta says that all Codidact sites have the same log...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by mbomb007‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Trap tags with spaces earlier in the post submission process

When I type something in the tag box, a list of similarly named tags is produced, along with the actual thing I typed, and I can click to select the tag I want. If I type something with spaces (e.g...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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A clickable X that doesn't work

When accessing Meta - http://meta.codidact.com - not signed in, there's a message. It reads: Welcome to Codidact Meta! Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network ...

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

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Should tags be written in American or in British English?

On Cooking, I sometimes run into comprehension issues as food is labelled differently around the world. One recent example for this is ground beef and minced meat which both essentially mean the sa...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by .                                                .‭

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A floating field for saving some lines for easier reference

When we write an answer we always have to take some lines from questions, comments and, other places. I was thinking if we could add some kind of floating button to the right bottom. When we expand...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user

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Suggest an edit without any changes is possible

I had tried to suggest an edit without making any changes in this answer. When I clicked on Save Post in Q&A. Then, I saw the suggested edit was pending. So, we could suggest an edit without m...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 11mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Notifications don't disappear after reading them

Whenever there is a new comment or answer to one of my posts, I get a notification in my notification bar. However, even though I click on it and read the content in question, the notifications don...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Show User's Vote on List of Posts

Since Codidact shows + and - votes on the list of posts, would it be possible (practical...) to show if the currently logged in User has voted on each post? When displaying an individual post, ther...

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

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Digit followed by dot and space disappears at the beginning of comment.

If I try to start a comment with a digit followed by dot and space afterward, it is missing after I post it. N.B. I hope this is the right place to write this kind of issues.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by artaxerxe‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Always display who asked a question in question lists

Basically, I'd ideally want something like "asked 3 days ago by A, last activity 1 day ago by B". Having just the person without the question creation date would be significantly less useful but...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Derek Elkins‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

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New communities: Music, Physics

We have launched two new communities, Music and Physics. As new communities with no data imports, they are blank or nearly-blank canvases now. We'd like to have some content before we advertise t...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Links go to writing.codidact.com instead of "self"

The Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Code of Conduct links on meta, outdoors and photo are all pointing to the pages on writing.codidact.com. They should always point to "self".

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Add option to hide my self deleted comments?

Currently I still see comments that I deleted, under a post. But I don't need to.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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What does "Codidact" mean?

Is "codidact" some kind of acronym? Or it's a "Co(mpany) Did Act" or something? Or it means something in a language I'm unfamiliar with? Ever since I heard the name of it I've been confused as to w...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  edited 4y ago by luap42‭

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Usernames of only periods and spaces shouldn't be allowed

This username shouldn't be allowed: .                                                .‭ It's hard to even see that it is a username link most of the time, it's probably problematic for @ commenting...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by curiousdannii‭  ·  edited 3y ago by .                                                .‭

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Indicate which posts in the category feed have unread updates

Right now, if a category has new/updated posts, a small dot appears next to the category name. Could this feature be extended to posts within the category as well? While it's not that hard to just ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Draft saved notice disrupts page flow [duplicate]

I love the editor, it is so white and clean. I think the idea of having the title field at the bottom is genius. It lets you collect your thoughts and make a really meaningful title. I have a co...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by KalleMP‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Should we have a grace period of X minutes on edits or a way to mark changes as "minor"?

I normally spend quite a lot of time writing my posts. However, after posting them I read them again and normally find some subtleties that I want to change: some commas, a better title, these kind...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by msh210‭

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Posts are now all under a single umbrella

Ever since we introduced articles to Codidact, posts have been referred to with their post type. The URL to get to a question or answer would be /questions/12345, and to get to an article would be ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Markup documentation?

Where is the documentation for the markdown codes used on these pages? I'm trying to RTFM, but can't find the M. I did look in HELP, but it's not there. Below where I'm typing this, there is a b...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Vote counts broken by the update?

The question What good are herbivores in an animal army? currently shows up- and down-votes as +0/-0, and both vote counts have tooltips saying "0.5" when I hover over them in the question. (I don'...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Allow users to select their own default license per site and category, possibly per post type

Each site and category has a default license that is selected as default for new posts to that category. The license actually assigned to each post is that selected by the user when the post is ini...

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

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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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Community wiki post type [duplicate]

Is it possible to add a type of post corresponding to the community wiki of Stack Exchange? The post should be: Not associated to any one user Editable by anyone without approval (or after a m...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by user8078‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭

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Allow discarding of drafts

Currently, when editing a post the system will automatically save a draft for you after a short period of inactivity. This draft will then be loaded again if you leave the page and return, even if ...

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

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No "go back" option on Articles.

If you go to the post history for articles, there is no option to go back to the post. This is what the post history looks like on a regular Q&A: This is what the post history looks like on...

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

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Posts should have a visible indication whether they've been edited, and when the last edit was made

Currently, each post is visibly tagged with a timestamp that indicates when it was posted, as well as by whom. Also, of course, posts can be edited; both by the original poster, and by other users....

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Should we use the Article type for bug reports?

I've recently been looking through the [bug] tag, and one thing stood out to me. Every bug post either has no answers, or one answer that just says, "The bug has been fixed" (or some variation ther...

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

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Add vertical scrollbar to the community dropdown

It seems like community dropdown has no restriction on a height (or it is too big) so it doesn't look fine on displays with small sizes: It would be great if this list couldn't occupy more than ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by FoggyFinder‭  ·  edited 3y ago by luap42‭

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Arranging footer "other codidact sites" list alphabetically rather than chronologically

In the footer, the sites are currently arranged as: Writing Outdoors Photography Sci Spec Cooking Electrical Engineering Judaism L&L Software Dev Meta With the exclusion of setting Meta apart...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Can we have a button to insert a table in posts?

Since tables are now available (hooray!), it can be helpful to users to include a reference in the format buttons of the post. So from the current set of icons: We can add another one like ...

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

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How should we approach our (non-developer) software community proposals?

We have some software (but not software-development) proposals: "Superuser-like" community for software applications office suites Linux Are these three separate, distinct commu...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Wicket‭

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Pending edit review should highlight changes

There is a pending edit on one of my posts. When I click on Review Changes, I get a page showing two versions of the post side by side. The problem is, there are no obvious changes. It's not even...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Cancelling a comment.

Can there be an option to cancel writing a comment; AFAIK, the only way to do that now is to refresh the page, which is annoying to do (especially when feeling lazy).

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

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Don't show "Initial revision" in user activity [duplicate]

Immediately after the activity entry about posting a question or answer, another entry labeled "Initial revision" is placed. This seems kind of redundant to me, since all it really says is that a p...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Shouldn't the Mobile Sign In also be removed from the profile page when you are on the phone?

Today, I have used the Mobile Sign In and I have signed In and everything is pretty fine, while I am on the phone, I noticed that the Mobile Sign In button has been removed from the navbar. While ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Recent feature changes to the Codidact software

This site runs on the QPixel software, maintained by Codidact. What progress has been made recently? There will be one answer per year. 2024 (current year) 2023 2022 2021 2020

5 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Trying to edit profile gives 500 error

When I try to access /users/edit/profile to edit my profile, I seem to be triggering a 500 server error (ID: d737d104-eea0-45a7-bd81-fda1070c6070). This is what I see in the browser console, if it'...

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

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Markdown does not always seem to work

Recently, I faced some issue with markdown. When I write text in the following way then markdown of ">" isn't working (was working earlier). <hr/> > > hello I faced some pr...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Duplicate links in help centers

I just noticed that any help center on any site has lots of duplicate links below "About Codidact" and "Legal". The same links are listed 2 times in a row. I get this on every single Codidact comm...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Missing image in "Answer scoring and ordering" article of the Help center

In the Help center article Answer scoring and ordering there is an image with a broken URL, so it does not render: As you see, the image linked with https://meta.codidact.com/assets/scoring_...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  edited 3y ago by sau226‭

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Comment editor does not automatically get focus

When I click "add a comment", the text area that I can type in appears, but the focus is not on it. I have to tab to or click on the area before I can start typing.

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Dave Tweed‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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On the site users page can we get a sort by votes?

Being able to see a list of users and how many times they have votes was useful on the old sites to see which users were engaged in the voting. What I would propose is that on the /users page that...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭

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Edit activity shows even when the suggested edit isn't confirmed

Related: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277395 For some reason, edits are showing up on the history of posts (linked above) and on the activity of the user even when the edit hasn't been confi...

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

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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 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Show me the rep!

Now that we are getting some activity on the EE site, I'm discovering features I used more than I realized on SE. On SE, you could go to your activity > reputation and see all the recent votes y...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Canina‭