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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 the software that runs it.

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Cannot accept suggested edits to my post, because I don't have permission to change moderator-only tags

Shouldn't I be allowed to accept an edit to my own post? Now here I can't, because the suggested edit adds a tag that I am not allowed to add. Other edits are also not possible (because it asks fi...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by H_H‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Add an entry for the "Participate" ability to the help center

Currently, the help center has a list of user abilities, with sub-pages for each of the entries, to elaborate on them. The help center should also have an entry for "Participate", the first ability...

2 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by Mithical‭

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How can users submit a GDPR request (e.g. delete account, rectify data, etc) online? [duplicate]

Does Codidact have a Submit a Data Access Request form, like SE? How long shall Codidact take?

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by Tortilla‭  ·  closed as duplicate 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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What are my options for access to my data being processed by Codidact?

The GDPR requires (article 20 right to data portability, paragraph 1, in part) that: 1. The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she ha...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Moshi‭

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How should we approach non-English content?

It seems almost taken for granted on every Codidact site - even Languages & Linguistics - that questions and answers are supposed to be written in English, although I can't find any official po...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by r~~‭

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I can't "Add reaction". "The integral output port has found a problem." [duplicate]

After I clicked "Add Reaction", this error popped up! Codidact failed to add my reaction. Please fix?

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭  ·  closed as duplicate 7mo ago by Mithical‭

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After clicking "Save Post in Q&A", why does Codidact fail to load post?

On the post edit page, after clicking on the "Save Post in Q&A" button, that button changes color to gray. No page load takes place, and the post does not get submitted.

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭

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Feature request: direct messages

Why ? It would facilitate some misunderstandings and clarification without the need for a public comment. It would open a path to people being "mentored" in their first 5 question or what amount i...

2 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Or4ng3h4t‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Informing community users of new permissible features

It seems that permissible features which are voted up considerably will be added to a community. By "permissible" I mean those features which are not rejected by the community team due to some poli...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Or4ng3h4t‭

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Notifying each other that a commented-on issue is resolved, to produce fewer comments rather than more

I just made a comment on another Meta post because I wasn't sure whether something in someone else's answer was a typo, or if so what the correct wording should be. It turned out that my best guess...

5 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Bringing bad posts to the attention of curators, not just moderators - flagging vs closure reasons

As things stand, the options for flagging a question seem rather spartan: Image of flagging dialog We have: two options for actual abusive use of the site software an option for dupli...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Could we have a "Close as outdated" close reason?

A sort of a solution to this problem, but would also apply to posts such as moderator elections, one-off proposals (though status-complete also works), and just generally posts which at some point ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Problems i have encountered/seen in the last week

I am a new user to Codidact that just migrated from StackOverflow and there are some things I would like to get across, besides this website being smaller, but we already knew what we were getting ...

3 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Or4ng3h4t‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by Or4ng3h4t‭

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Let's improve how we handle duplicates

Currently, marking a question as a duplicate is part of question closure. Duplicates are a little different from other close reasons, though -- often the question itself is clear, complete, and o...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Regular deletion (roomba) of content unlikely to ever be useful

I noticed that questions exist on this network and are accessible that are unlikely to ever be very helpful, for example because they were marked as completely off-topic. Examples Are internati...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Do these comments follow our Code of Conduct?

How is this not easily solved with grade school math? -1 for being a dumb question. I can't tell whether this is trolling or a serious question, since finding the answer only requires sevent...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Mark S.‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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How can we poll a community?

In my effort of giving structure to EE.CD tags pages, I find myself in the need of asking the community for consensus about some debatable choices. Of course the place for this is EE Meta, but I'd...

2 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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Could we have an alphabetic sort option for tags?

During my effort at building structure and content in the EE.CD tags pages, I found myself often wanting a way to list all the tags in alphabetic order, regardless of their status or their place in...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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How to resize images

I received a comment on my answer to https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289594 about the image size. It is a perfectly valid point. For comparison, in StackExchange it is possible to resize by ad...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Moshi‭

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Should we be able to tag answers?

On some of our communities, it would be helpful to be able to label answers systematically: On Code Golf, by language. On Software Development, Power Users, or Linux Systems, by specific ...

5 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Discoverability for the new Proposals site

Now that there is a separate Proposals site with its own Meta and other categories, that would seem to qualify as a separate "Codidact Community" which should be listed among the "Other Codidact Co...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Privacy policy needs meta-variables to be expanded

https://meta.codidact.com/policy/privacy-policy currently begins This Privacy Policy applies to all $EDIT-org-name communities hosted under ​$EDIT-URL. There are a number of other unexpanded ...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Mithical‭

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Users with multiple Codidact accounts

Are there any rules about a user having multiple Codidact accounts (sometimes known as sockpuppet accounts)? What should a user do if they suspect another user has multiple accounts?

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by r~~‭

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Comment flagging broken on mobile portrait mode

From a comment thread page, pressing "flag" on a comment results in a pop up panel with a text input and a "Flag" button. On mobile, in portrait mode, this pop up panel overlaps the left hand edge ...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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UX changes: dark theme, distinct borders and shortcuts

I was asked to spill out what would be my UX changes, so here I go. My personal opinion on UX is in majority about my own discomfort with white background. As person working on computer for 10-12 h...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Prahara‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Improved layout for individual search results

Currently, when I look at search results, or the list of posts on my user profile, I get results that look like: I have two objections. In my view: Answers should show the tags of the corre...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Who should be able to create new tags?

It's been pointed out in a few places that, so long as creating tags is much easier than managing them, we're going to have problems handling typos, duplicates, and tags that otherwise ought not ex...

3 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Support shortcut links to Codidact communities / categories

I would like to be able to write e.g. [software.cd] and have it generate a link to https://software.codidact.com with a friendly title. Currently, it becomes a link based on the actual text content...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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What should happen with inactive communities?

The level of activity of the communities vary. Some are more active than others, which isn't exactly a problem. However, I'm a bit worried when a community becomes significantly less active than ot...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭

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How to avoid triggering mathjax?

Apparently, two dollar signs in a paragraph cause the text between them to be interpreted as mathjax. How can this be avoided so that dollar signs can be written literally? I tried escaping the d...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Moshi‭

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What do we do with suspected AI users?

I have noticed a user that I suspect may be posting AI generated content. What should I do in such a situation? I don't want to go into exactly why I think it's an AI. Suffice to say, I work on LL...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Mithical‭

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[tag:Notifications] should not be a synonym of [tag:email-notifications] [closed]

I just created a bug report post about notifications in the inbox. When applying tags for my post, I typed in "notifications". That resulted in two tags [tag:notification] and [tag:notifications]. ...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭  ·  closed 8mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭

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Notifications for deleted comments in the inbox.

Currently, the inbox retains notifications for comments that have since been deleted. This is unnecessary, and quite a disappointment when you're eager for a discussion, only to find that the comme...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭

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Hiding "Initial revision" on the Edits section of the Activity tab of the user profile

When viewing a user's Edits on the Activity tab of the user profile, it includes "Initial revision", which seems to me more like a posting than an edit: In the edit history of an individual post...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by sau226‭

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Consider child tags in required tags

Currently, it is possible to set required tags for a category. For example, here on meta it lists as required tags one of: bug, feature-request, discussion or support. For meta, this works pretty ...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Taeir‭

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Editor preview for comments [duplicate]

Comments allow some Markdown features such as numbered and bullet point lists, code blocks, and quote blocks. They also allow MathJax in communities for which it is enabled. A rendered comment can ...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  closed as duplicate 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Implementing a technical "dictionary/glossary" for non-English languages.

I think this has come up before, maybe tangentially on some specific site (EE.CD ?), but I lost track of the posts/comments. Anyway, I think it would be useful, at least for EE.CD, but I post here...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Assessing the 5 tag limit

We currently have a limit of 5 tags per question. Should we keep this the same or would any changes be of benefit? For example: Should the limit be higher or lower? Should there be different ...

3 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Which communities have shown interest?

Historical note: When this post was written, we planned to use the QPixel software as a stopgap while building a new Codidact platform from scratch. That's not what we ended up doing. Since early ...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Proposal to ease tag maintenance

We should make it easier for trusted users to manage tags. Can we please have some feedback on the following ideas? Creating tags directly (independently of a post): move from mod-only to anyo...

2 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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A way to prohibit creating certain tags.

On EE.CO we have some tags that are utterly useless, but people keep on using them, for example voltage. For non-experts: voltage is one of the main physical quantity used to describe the behavior...

4 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Add safeguards to "mobile sign-in" feature

When you click on the "Mobile Sign-In" button, you are shown a QR code that, when scanned with your phone, opens your browser on the phone and signs you in automatically. Although I can see how th...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by FractionalRadix‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Native sorting button blocks other sorting orders

The sorting buttons at the top of a category's post list include "Activity", "Age", and "Score", which are all orders into which to sort the posts. However, for sites with imported content they als...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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I can mark my own answer as "Works for me"

The "Works for me" reaction can be added to any answer, even if the reacting user is the author of the answer. For example, here is what an answer looks like if I post the answer and react to it m...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Why is <small> HTML tag rendered differently in preview?

Sometimes I use the <small> HTML tag to reduce the impact of some collateral part of a text, and in the preview this is nice and dandy. Here is an example from this post on EE.CD (red emphasi...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Why do HTML tags reduce my line spacing in Codidact posts?

When I use an HTML tag to alter the appearance of a paragraph in a Codidact post, it works but the line spacing is reduced, which I do not want. Why is this? Is there anything I can do about it? E...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Expanding a comment thread changes the width of some posts

When a comment thread is expanded, the width of the post it is attached to in some cases increases. This seems to be rare (most posts do not change width when their comment threads are expanded), s...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Is there a reason for preventing user profile content being less than 30 characters?

Original GitHub issue: Can't revert to a blank profile GitHub issue raise more recently suggesting greater demand: "Edit Profile" bio must have a minimum of 30 characters When editin...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Taeir‭

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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...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Taeir‭

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Footnotes with the same number in different posts on the same page

If 2 or more posts on a page contain footnotes with the same number, they all link to the footnote that appears earliest on the page. For example, the question How should a Codidact public API wor...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by trichoplax‭