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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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Q&A Alternatives to the news feed taken as a default; the “attention economy”

The front page can already be customised by each user, and more customisation is planned. If you think of specific improvements that could be made (such as being able to choose between the dashboar...

posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar trichoplax‭ · 2024-02-12T16:15:25Z (9 months ago)
The front page can already be customised by each user, and more customisation is planned. If you think of specific improvements that could be made (such as being able to choose between the dashboard or the question list as the default page when you sign in), please raise them.

## Existing customisation
### Filter question list by tag
If you only want to see certain tags you can select them in the filter section near the top of the question list. You can also save filters and set one as your default so you see it every time you sign in.

### Filter by answered/unanswered
You can filter to show only unanswered questions if you are looking for questions to answer. On days when you are only looking to read, not write, you can filter to show only answered questions.

### Highlight favourite tags
The [preferences section of your user page](https://meta.codidact.com/users/me/preferences) allows you to choose favourite tags that will be highlighted in the question list (so for example you could display everything, but have your favourite tags stand out).

### Choose whether header is sticky
The preferences section also allows choosing whether the header bar scrolls off screen when you move down the page.

## Future customisation
Codidact is already designed to let you choose what you see, rather than telling you what to look at.

Like all websites, Codidact is a work in progress. There are still more things that can be made customisable in future. At some point there may be a [dark mode](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/275838), and a [customisable dashboard](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/290079) that you might want to use as your starting point rather than the question page.

As a non profit I suspect Codidact is less susceptible to the pressure to manipulate what users see, but if you see any specific examples that could be improved please raise them.

The software is open source, so anyone can help make these improvements. There is a [roadmap showing what is planned](https://github.com/orgs/codidact/projects/5).