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Recent feature changes to the Codidact software
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This site runs on the QPixel software, maintained by Codidact. What progress has been made recently?
There will be one answer per year.
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December 2020
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19th:
- Added community switcher (right side of the top bar).
- Added link to pending suggested edits to the category nav.
- Added more information to usercards, which are now configurable per community.
- Made search inline instead of having to go to a separate page.
- Added the ability to nominate posts for network-wide promotion (cross-community advertising).
- Added wiki post type.
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16th: Updates to the core logic for posts, which makes it more flexible. URLs change from
/post-type/:id(example: /answer/39540) to/posts/:id(example: /posts/39540); but redirects should apply from the old URLs.
November 2020
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29th:
- New abilities system.
- Improved user profile page.
- Improved flag dialogues.
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23rd:
- Added "mark all as read" to notifications.
- Improvements to signup flow.
- Moderators can now see a list of flags that have been recently handled.
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13th:
- Added table of contents to questions (summary of answers). (Known bug in sorting, being worked on.)
- Added support for Markdown tables.
- Misc small UI improvements (Permalink -> Copy Link, better tooltips in places, etc).
Gap in log
Stuff happened but we fell off the wagon here, sorry. (Feel free to help back-fill.)
August 2020
- 17th: Moderators can now see a list of recent comments.
- 8th: Fixed hot posts links.
- 6th: Added staff indicators.
- 4th: Enabled syntax highlighting.
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3rd:
- Added comment timestamps.
- Added read/unread buttons in notifications.
July 2020
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31st:
- Moderators can now feature posts, events, or other links in their site's sidebar. Global moderators can feature things everywhere.
- New users will be directed to a new tour that will show off the basic mechanics of the site.
- 21st: Added a proper diff view in post histories, and started tracking title and tags changes.
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20th:
- Added more anti-abuse systems (spammers, trolls etc)
- Added public user activity log (example)
- Added audit logs for all admin/mod actions, user annotations, and abuse blocks.
- 16th: New tool to allow mods to disable comments on posts.
- 11th: Added community ad templates for site promotion.
- 6th: Added a reference suggest addition to the Sefaria linker for Judaism.
- 3rd: Post Validations JS API & you'll now be given a warning that images are missing alt text if you try to post without any (you can still post, but alt text is encouraged).
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1st:
- Tags now have a hierarchical view to more easily show how tags are related. Also a bunch of new help center articles thanks to our Docs team.
- Judaism now has the Sefaria linker plugin, to link automatically to sections of scripture.
June 2020
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30th:
- Tags refresh. Proper tags lists, tag information & posts pages, and tag hierarchies are available, with options to see posts from a full hierarchy or only the current tag.
- Spammers and trolls beware. You can now be warned or suspended.
- 26th: Search now has qualifiers for votes as well as score.
- 25th: Categories can now have moderator-only tags that nobody except moderators can use or edit.
- 20th: Posts drafts are saved as you type and restored when you refresh or come back to the same page if you haven't posted them.
- 19th: Sign-in and sign-out are now network-wide; signing in on one site will sign you in everywhere.
- 17th: Post scores are now displayed as up/down and answers are sorted by a calculated score instead of a simple sum.
- 16th: Post "tools" menu available containing moderation tools (convert to comment, change category)
- 11th: It's now possible to suggest edits if you don't have the necessary privileges to edit directly. Users with editing privileges can approve or reject them.
- 8th: Article post type (no answers, but has comments)
- 3rd: Markdown engine changes to make posts align more closely with previews, and to support CommonMark better
- 1st: Bugfixes and feature tweaks
May 2020
- 28th: Email-based two-factor authentication
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23rd:
- Sites can enable MathJax in site settings
- Sites can add an optional Note section at the top of the sidebar
- 19th: Finished customizable data import process is available.
- 17th: Email addresses must now be confirmed before the account is enabled.
- 12th: Sites can now link to a chat platform of their choice in the sidebar.
- 10th: Categories now can have "required tags" (posts must have >= 1 of these) and "topic tags" (which get special markings). The question list now has more prominent notices for answered/unanswered state.
- 7th: The order of categories in the bar at the top is now configurable.
- 5th: Two-factor authentication is now available in users' Account settings. Also added a proper interface for Markdown editing.
- 4th: Post authors can now specify under which license each post they write is available from a set of CC licenses. Categories also have default licenses.
- 3rd: QR code-based mobile login; post close/delete notices are now at the top of posts.
- 1st: Categories subscriptions and new-post indicators (and a bunch more automated tests).
April 2020
Much of April was sunk into figuring out the data import process for a new site, Outdoors, which launched on the 23rd.
- 30th: Categories customization and some display changes to allow for easier display on pages with wider content.
- 28th: Trinkets Tuesday: #40, #42, #43, #44, #45
- 27th: Categories header UI to aid in category discoverability.
- 25th: Base Categories implementation - every post now belongs to a category, and its tag set and other rules are governed by the category. This is a preliminary to some more work around categories to expand the features.
March 2020
- 23rd: Spam-protection measures have been introduced to user signup after spammers started mass-creating accounts.
- 22nd: Main and meta tags have been split by the introduction of "tag sets". Questions may only use tags from one tag set; main and meta have separate tags.
- 16th: Site design has been updated to use the Co-Design framework: Design changes are a-coming!
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July 2021
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Communities can now set rep (up/down) per post type per category (previously it was per post type across all categories)
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Comment improvements: more context for thread pages, auto-follow preference
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More stats on user profile pages
June 2021
- Threaded comments
- Code Golf leaderboard
- (probably more things)
Gap in log
February 2021
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Inline search (instead of having to go to a separate page), search by tag, negation operator.
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Community switcher
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Link for pending suggested edits (but we'd like to make this better)
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Support for new post types; added Wiki type (like articles but with easier editing and without voting), and we can add more on request. Communities get to decide which post types they use.
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More user preferences
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Communities can now nominate posts for network-wide promotion. The goal is to make it easier for Codidact participants to notice other communities or specific questions that might interest them.
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Usercards now show more information, configurable per community.
January 2021
- 7th: better support for new post types, including an admin tool to create or edit post types (example 1, example 2)
- 4th: more user preferences, and better support for them
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2nd:
- Added dashboard link to site switcher.
- License selector now includes short summaries of the options.
- Youtube embeds.
- Many small usability improvements and bug fixes.
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