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Please postpone launching new communities.

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I know that Codidact is a new website developed by volunteers, so I do not expect it to be as well-appointed as an experienced website like Stack Exchange.

However, although I have joined Codidact for a short while, I see that this website lacks some favorite features and has some bugs. I admit that such things are natural for a new community, but an unfortunate thing for this community is that when you report some bug on Meta, you are not usually received any response (For example, this bug or this bug).

Again, I know that this new website is developed by the volunteers such that its developers team may currently less than three people. But such irresponsiveness may put negative impact on community newcomers.

So, I request the community team to postpone launching new communities until a time that the community team have enough time to handle community issues on time.

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pnuts‭ wrote about 4 years ago

Although tagged [discussion] the I request seems more like a [feature-request] to me and I downvoted as I see no reason to delay introduction of new communities because of reports of bugs that many users have been unable to reproduce.

luap42‭ wrote about 4 years ago

"I see that this website lacks some basic features" - which do you mean? You need to keep in mind though that we do not intend to "copy SE", but to develop a next-gen Q&A software. Some features have hence been intentionally omitted. OTOH I don't see, what's missing and really important. You can ask, answer, comment, edit and vote. Flagging and simple curation tools exist. That's what my "shortlist of basic features" would be. Anything missing?

MathPhysics‭ wrote about 4 years ago · edited about 4 years ago

@luap42 For example, related posts are not shown, autocomplete box does not exist in comments, there is not any detailed voting history in users' profiles, a "search bar" is needed in any page, the Help page is still incomplete, ..., comments cannot be flagged, ...

luap42‭ wrote about 4 years ago

@MathPhysics but that’s not “basic functionality” IMO. They are “nice to have”, but they don’t render the site unusable. Searching for example exists, it just could be implemented better as a search bar in the header.

MathPhysics‭ wrote about 4 years ago

@luap42 Yes, they do not render the site unusable, but some existing bugs may do that, as I explained in my post.