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Codidact Collab - should it be listed?
The drop down menu at the top right of each Codidact page shows a list of all the communities in the network. The list is also linked to from the page footer, and from codidact.com.
There is also a community for people who work on the QPixel software that Codidact runs on, called Codidact Collab. However, this one is not included in the list of Codidact communities. Is this an intentional omission or would it be useful to include it, so that interested people can be more aware that there is support for contributing to QPixel?
I understand that not all Codidact users will be interested in this particular community, but the same is true of all the Codidact communities - very few people will be interested in everything on the list.
What are the reasons for and against including Collab in the list?
Presumably Collab would automatically become included if it were hosted on the same domain as the other communities, as suggested in Is there an argument for having Collab under codidact.com?
Personally, I am not currently looking to learn Ruby and contribute to QPixel, but I am interested in occasionally brows …
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Another mention of Codidact Collab - While the user is taking the tour, in the last steps Codidactyl shows a list of a …
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For people looking for a route from here to there For now, while Codidact Collab is not in the drop down list of comm …
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That's a good question. We kept it separate because we didn't want to distract people from their primary focus, which w …
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An example in favour of listing Need Help Setting Up Email Verification in Codidact is a question that was posted to …
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That's a good question. We kept it separate because we didn't want to distract people from their primary focus, which we assumed would be on the communities here rather than the underpinnings. Collab is linked from the GitHub repository and we expected that to be the primary path in.
I don't have a strong opinion; it seemed like a good idea at the time, and I don't know of a reason we couldn't change it (though I don't know everything :-) ). We could also leave it the way it is and link it more prominently here, perhaps in the same part of the right column (on desktops) where we have the links for ads and donations.
Personally, I am not currently looking to learn Ruby and contribute to QPixel, but I am interested in occasionally browsing Codidact Collab to see what's happening.
I only discovered it through a link I happened to stumble upon, and was completely unaware of it before that. If it was included in the list of communities I would have started browsing it much sooner.
If there isn't any harm in including it in the list, I wonder if more people browsing it might eventually lead to more people becoming contributors, even if they were initially only browsing out of interest. (Update: as anecdotal evidence, after a period of just browsing I have ended up making contributions...)
If browsing leads to trying out setting up the software locally, and that leads to questions about how to do so and common obstacles, then that provides more info for future contributors, even if the person asking the question is only setting it up out of curiosity (and doesn't become a contributor themselves).
I'd like to see Collab included in the list for this reason. It also wouldn't hurt that it would then be easier for me to get to the site from Codidact when I feel like browsing...
Consistency
Also, from a consistency perspective, I can use the Communities drop down list to get here (Codidact Meta) from Collab, so it seems strange that the same method can't take me back to Collab afterwards.
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For people looking for a route from here to there
For now, while Codidact Collab is not in the drop down list of communities, I've realised that Collab is included in the dashboard, which is available from the button at the top right of the page, between the help button and the notifications button, which looks like a 3 by 3 grid of squares.
The dashboard page shows which Categories of which communities have new content, including Collab. It also provides a link to each category.
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Another mention of Codidact Collab
While the user is taking the tour, in the last steps Codidactyl shows a list of all communities, in which Codidact Collab is included (marked in a red rectangle for the sake of this post):
My reply to Monica Cellio's answer
If the way it is intended to be found is through Github, then is there is a reason to show in the tour?
Personal opinion
I'd say there's no harm in keeping it. I agree with this comment.
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An example in favour of listing
Need Help Setting Up Email Verification in Codidact is a question that was posted to Codidact Meta, because this is the closest match of the communities in the drop down list. Including Collab in the list would have helped the question author avoid having to repost their question.
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