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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.

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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Suggested edit review result page pulls wrong post revision for comparison

In the view for one of my suggested edits, the comparison between the revisions pulls the wrong revision for that which the edit was based on. I edited revision 1, but the comparison compares my ed...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Would be nice to have a link to chat on the main sites.

Currently, this site and Outdoors have discord servers set up for chatting, supposedly Writing has one as well but I haven't been able to find it. It would be nice to have a link to those servers ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by meta user‭

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Can we get email notifications?

While the current notification system is okay, I'd like to be able to receive email notifications for things such as a new answer to my questions. (Of course, this should be opt-in. Maybe add a che...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Should we directly link to the proposals site for new proposals in the Help Center?

On the Help Center page "How to ask a great question" (This link points to the Codidact Meta version, but this question talks about all the versions of this page in all other communities, too) Und...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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How are site policies decided on Codidact?

This Help page lists some site policies. What governance system is in place to come to decisions about what the site policies are? This picture displays an organisation structure. It does not...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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See user activity across all communities

How do you see a user's activity across all Codidact communities? First and foremost, the goal is to have an overview of my own activity, but it would also be beneficial to view the cross-communit...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by mcp‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Add search to the Help Center

I'm looking for specific information in the Help Center. (In this case, I want to learn more about comments, but I don't think there's an article for them just yet.) One useful tool on many help pa...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Jon Ericson‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by meta user‭

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Grace period for immediately noticed small errors

Sometimes I will compose a lengthy post, submit it, see it in context and immediately notice a typo - no matter how careful I thought I was being. I'm not sure it's desirable that, when I go to fi...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Tag and children missing from tag hierarchy pages

I was on the Software Dev CD tag page, clicking through the pages of the "Hierarchy" sort. I wanted to see if there were git-* tags that are not nested under the git tag.[1] Surprisingly, I discov...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Submit same flag multiple times

I just managed to flag the same post for spam twice. I flagged it, then commented on it, then flagged it again. There are now two separate spam flags on it in my flag history. This is potentiall...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Merge abilities help page with abilities dashboard

Where to find information about the abilities, is currently a bit confusing. There are too many pages. The help page for abilities, as well as the dashboard, present pretty much the exact same inf...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Typo in "Participate" ability page in Abilities Dashboard

Where? On the page "/abilities/everyone" (Link to Codidact Meta version) What? Under "What does this ability allow me to do?" subheading, first line. Erroneous part bolded for sake of this post....

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Unusual button layout on mobile browser

The button layout on mobile browser is ... unusual. Is this by design?

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Masked Man‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by meta user‭

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"show more comments" link not obvious

If a post has a lot of comments, the last ones are hidden behind a "Show more comments" link. For some reason, even though I know it's there, I really have to think about it each time. "I thought I...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by mattdm‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by meta user‭

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Tables break words in first column

On the site, table content is often jammed all together in the first column, where the next column is happily spread out. I have made some of my tables extremely terse to accommodate. This is from ...

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

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"Remove all items" button for tags doesn't work

What? Attached below is a self-explanatory GIF of the bug. The cross button, instead of removing all the tags, just shifts the focus to the input box. Where? New question page (Link to Codi...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by meta user‭

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Tag dropdown appears in front of top nav when scrolling down

Attached below is a self-explanatory GIF of the Edit post page, although the issue exists on the Ask Question page too (please ignore the black bar on the left): When the tag dropdown opens, scr...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by meta user‭

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What is the difference between the subdomain forum.codidact and the rest of the communities?

I just noticed that the account I created for the subdomain forum.codidact.com doesn't work for the rest of the community websites. Given that, I had to create a new account. Is this supposed to ...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by goncaloperes‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Importing new posts from SE

I expect there will be some desire to import new questions from https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/ is there a process for doing this? I also joined https://topanswers.xyz/databases where they hav...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by James Jenkins‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by meta user‭

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Display post titles instead of the URL for internal links

Currently, when pasting a link to somewhere on Codidact, into posts or comments, the link is rendered in the output the same way it's written in the post source; that is, the URL. The parser should...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Filters don't allow negative Min Score

I'm trying to make a filter for "Not that negative" posts, imagining "Net score > -2," but the UI of the filter creator only lets you put in Min Score between 0 and 1, with a step size on the sp...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Can we please stop linkifying random strings that happen to look like domain names?

Currently, strings that look like some subset of fully qualified domain names are automatically turned into links to the corresponding http:// resource. So, for example, example.com becomes a link ...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by meta user‭

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PSA: question tagging UI apparently now depends on JavaScript from codidact.org

I use Noscript, so Javascript is blocked by default for new domains for me. As it happens, prior to today I had codidact.com (and jsdelivr.org) whitelisted, but not codidact.org. When I was writin...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Triggers for cognitive biases for non native English speakers in this site as web-accessibility issues

I dedicate this post to ArtOfCode and Monica; this is my "I welcome myself" post and I wrote it also based on seven years of experience with StackExchange. I admit I was a bit lost with the site...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 9mo ago by meta user‭

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Why do user mentions incorrectly change color after editing comments? [duplicate]

This is an example of a comment thread featuring a user mention. When the comment is edited, the user mention element incorrectly turns red. A reload fixes this. Hovering on it shows which...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by meta user‭  ·  closed as duplicate 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Misleading stats in other user's ability page

When looking at the Abilities dashboard of another user and clicking on any ability, for example the curate ability page of a mod looks like (I replaced the actual mod name with (ModName) for sake ...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Option to sort answers by Age

Currently answers can be sorted by Score or Activity: I'd like to be able to also sort them by Age. Would this be useful to anyone else?

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Some things I observed as I started poking around Codidact

I'm a bit hesitant to write this since it's not generally a good idea to walk into a host's house and immediately criticize the way it's laid out. But there really is only one chance to make first ...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by Jon Ericson‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by meta user‭

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Discourse software as helpful example [closed]

I just felt like saying that the Discourse forum software is quite good quality, and it also has some interesting examples of new forum features not commonly seen elsewhere. For example, on the Ope...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  closed 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Links to Codidact posts don’t auto-render with post title [duplicate]

If I insert a URL to a Codidact post, I would like it to display the title of the post as inline text, hyperlinked to the post, without me manually doing that. For example: https://proposals.codid...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  closed as duplicate 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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...

5 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Mark cross-duplicates with tags until cross-closing is available

I think it would be reasonable to introduce a new tag, "cross-duplicate-candidate" to tag cross-category or cross-community duplicates with until the software is updated to allow closing them. We'r...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Is "voting different on Meta" for Codidact?

Stack Overflow's help section offers the following guidance for its meta site: Voting is different on meta. Like normal Stack Exchange sites, Meta allows members to vote on questions and answer...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Proposals site is not listed on Codidact home page

This site: https://proposals.codidact.com/ is not listed here: https://codidact.com/ and I think it should be.

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Subtle change to hide link to non-existent deleted user profiles [duplicate]

When? When looking at search results, or list of posts in general - for e.g. viewing list of posts tagged [wikipedia]. Here's a screenshot of the mentioned example: What? The text displayed s...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Categorical or criterion-based voting

I am starting to strongly lean towards that votes should pretty much always come with explanations. I wonder if it is not such a radical change in system design to replace the universal or generic ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Canina‭

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Should we have a network-wide policy against AI-generated answers?

We had this discussion over at Software Development: Should we allow answers generated by ChatGPT? The general consensus so far seem to be that such answers shouldn't be allowed. Mostly because th...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Single account or one per community?

I just signed up here on meta because that was my initial point of entry. The underlying reason of interest for me is https://outdoors.codidact.com/. However I just failed to sign up there with my ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by imsodin‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by meta user‭

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Adopt a notifications model supporting toggleable previews

One way I think Codidact could have a big leg up on Stack Exchange would be a more robust notifications system, borrowing from the pre-established template of some other software. For example, on ...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Roadmap or checklist for successfully launching new site?

I’m motivated to see a Philosophy site go live. Here is a post detailing how sites are actually established, from three years ago. I’m wondering if that answer can be updated to be more actionable,...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Some polemics regarding genAIcontent

I wish to open a theoretical conversation on some aspects of the site policies regarding AI. I do this purely out of an inherent interest in deep, rigorous, clear, and self-consistent argumentation...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭

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What web dev tools were used in the making

What web development tools were used to build this site? What tools are used to manage it?

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Julius H.‭

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What is Codidact's policy regarding artificial intelligence-generated content?

Is AI content banned, or allowed if attributed to an AI? Are there further contextual rules regarding AI, for example, how much of a post may consist of AI-composed content? Will the justificatio...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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How much reputation is enough reputation? [duplicate]

I clicked on "edit" on a post, and received the following message: Forbidden You have been denied access to this resource because you lack the necessary privileges to access it. Once you gain e...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Masked Man‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Can the close notice be moved to above the question?

Here is what one of the closed questions looks like, and as you can see one would have to scroll all the way down to find the link to the dupe target. I think it would be much better if the close ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by meta user‭

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Vote counts as ratios? [duplicate]

This is not meant to be a committed advocating or request of the following, but rather a conversation to analyze the possibilities and potential benefits and drawbacks. What if the total score for...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  closed as duplicate 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Modular or “microservices” architecture

I am interested in the idea that an extremely modular software architecture for Codidact could have the kind of general, self-propagating benefits that things like being free open-source have. To m...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by meta user‭

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Broken advertisement templates on Codidact sites

On the advertisement page of Codidact Collab, there are five types of advertisement templates available: Codidact network Community Random posts Specific post Random from Category This sp...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by meta user‭

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MathJax rerenders on movement instead of on change

I've noticed something when using MathJax while preparing/editing a post. Each time a change is made to the raw text, the preview rerenders accordingly. This is the behaviour I expect, which ensure...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by meta user‭

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