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By default all edits should show Every time an edit is made, the post or its parent should move to the top of the question list. This reduces the chance of an edit being missed by the community. ...
Ruby on Rails. The code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel I do not know what cloud provider it is deployed on.
If I insert a URL to a Codidact post, I would like it to display the title of the post as inline text, hyperlinked to the post, without me manually doing that. For example: https://proposals.codid...
When? When looking at search results, or list of posts in general - for e.g. viewing list of posts tagged [wikipedia]. Here's a screenshot of the mentioned example: What? The text displayed s...
More specifically, I'd like to ask if ransomware has ever resulted in a suicide; we know that ransomware has led to deaths in hospitals, and that internet blackmailing has caused suicide, but I'm n...
If a post uses a Markdown footnote, and then another post on the same page also uses a footnote (such as a question and one of its answers, or 2 answers to the same question), the footnote link goe...
This answer is just an example with a footnote so you can see the problem described in the question. Click on the footnote link[1] in this answer and you will be taken to the footnote at the botto...
There is no technical measure that could possibly guarantee that we won't get scraped. It comes down to symbolic gestures and hoping they will comply voluntarily. I do think we should do as many "s...
Codidact posts support a safe subset of HTML. Currently the <svg> tag is not supported. SVG images can still be safely included using the <img> tag[1] (or a Markdown image link, which i...
Varying utility I think you and I have tossed around ideas like this quite a bit already - if not between the two of us, then separately to the crowd. And I think my viewpoint hasn't changed. Per...
Should clicking on the question body preview in the question list take you to the question page, in the same way as clicking on the question title does? I personally would find this more convenien...
When viewing a specific answer, it has a message above it including a link to return to the normal view: If the answer sorting order is changed to "Active", the specific answer stays at the top ...
Correct behaviour At the bottom of the right hand panel of the user profile page (or at the bottom of the page on mobile where there is no right hand panel), the number of flags that the user has ...
Discussion on Introduce a spam reaction? brought up the idea of preventing new users from posting links, so as to create an additional hurdle for spammers (who will rarely make any serious attempt ...
I don't think it should be called spam. Spam, in the strict sense, is large-volume, unwanted commercial advertisement. For example, if I go to every question tagged Python and reply "Click here to ...
I’m a learner exploring Q&A tools, and after researching, I came across Codidact. I’m impressed with its features and have successfully set it up on my local machine. However, I encountered an ...
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...
Below a question are buttons for sorting the answers: Pressing one of these buttons results in a page reload, with the answers now sorted according to the chosen criterion. For cases where ...
I’m a learner exploring Q&A tools, and after researching, I came across Codidact. I’m impressed with its features and have successfully set it up on my local machine. However, I encountered an ...
The maximum size limit should not get in the way of legitimate and properly edited images. A 1920 x 1080 screen has 2.1 MPixels. Just about any compression algorithm should be able to get that do...
I like both of Trichoplax's answers. I further submit that the HTTP response code should be 401 Unauthorized rather than 5xx.
I'm not sure if the underlying cause is related, but I've seen a similar problem for drafting a new post. I just pressed "Ask Question" to post a new Meta question, and the text of this question (t...
Ordering within category Topics can be ordered within a category if you edit them to add sequence numbers. In the absence of explicit sequencing, they appear to be alphabetical by title. For the...
Until the system has a way to distinguish between the different reasons for deletion, we should ensure we consider users who have done nothing wrong, and have a strong reason for concealing that th...
Keep it simple To keep things simple, deleted community users should not show up for anyone on the "All Communities" tab. For global moderators and global admins, separate tools can be made for tr...
