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Q&A Allow users to link more than one website in their profile.

As you say: they have no way of doing so (outside of putting it in the info box) Since you can put any links you want within your arbitrary info text, there is no problem to solve here. You can lo...

posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A How to grow all of our communities?

Start Marketing? As I said earlier, I am not a marketer and I don't have relation in huge community. So I don't have any idea how to invite people to X. I didn't have much more idea of internet w...

posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A Restrictions on usernames

I've declined this, for the same reason that I've declined other similar Unicode-related "bugs" before. They're not really bugs, just a product of how easy Unicode is to abuse. The solution: don't...

posted 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A I suggest to better format the title ("summarize your post with a title") area

By some odd mistake I wrote only about half a title to a post in Scientific Speculation yesterday: Post itself: https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/283763 Post history: https://sc...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Show headings in a preview

Currently a user who comes to create a post can only read the post's body in the preview area, but not the post title (it just isn't there). I suggest to show a post's title in the preview because...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Remove the timer before saving a post when an image has no alt text

FR: Remove the timer before saving a post when an image in a post has no alt text. Currently, when one saves a post that has an image with no alt text, one gets this message: It looks like yo...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Giving a fish vs. teaching how to fish

On any Q/A site, or even analogous media like support forums, there is a dichotomy between "asking for a fish"[1] questions and "learning to fish"[2] questions. Teaching how to fish is usually mor...

2 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Why do we have "General comments" threads?

The "General comments" title is a left-over from earlier versions of the software that didn't have comment titles. When the threaded comments were introduced, and thread titles with them, existing...

posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Allow including larger images

Many images and screenshots captured today, are larger than 2 MB, the max allowed size on Codidact. This means users will regularly run into a barrier when attempting to upload images to their post...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A A vote in the meta category for the EE site reflected in my reputation. Is that a bug?

All categories are treated equally; voting in any category affects reputation. This is different to how it works on Stack Exchange, but that's just one of those differences - neither approach is n...

posted 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Is it OK to edit a post in order to bump it?

I was reviewing some post in SE about bumping post which is related to this question. I got a point of his question. Read the question, the user was doing annoying edits to his post only to bump hi...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Remove the timer before saving a post when an image has no alt text

While there are reasons to include alt text, nanny-ware that tries to enforce such things is just annoying and treats people like children. It probably has the opposite effect in that it's more li...

posted 2mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Does Codidact have to be too similar to SE?

Examining Codidact communities, one can easily find out that Codidact is almost a duplicate of SE I know that many Codidact users (or maybe all of them) are current or former SE users, so it was ex...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mithrandir24601‭

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Q&A Add a [status-pending] or similar tag

My other Meta post n the usage of status tags pointed out a pretty big gap to me. Namely, we don't have a tag to signify that something is being actively worked on. While we currently use either [s...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Should tags be written in American or in British English?

A similar question was asked on English language and usage and the answer is that it depends on the audience. However choosing American English might be a better choice since it is more likely for ...

posted 5y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Do we need templates for new posts?

Please no, except perhaps for unusual form-like posts. I have never experience seeded text to be useful. It's actually a negative because it distracts and I have to delete it. Seeded text is neve...

posted 5y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Flag answer as duplicate of another answer

Our recent hot post (Threaded comments are here!). I had wrote some answers in that question. And, there's lot of answers also. Even, currently I don't have much more time to read all of those answ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 4y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A I can do everything after account deletion also.

You only have one Codidact account across all communities. As mentioned in the answers to your other question, it is not possible to delete an account for one community but not another because ther...

posted 4y ago by Derek Elkins‭

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Q&A Why are comments hidden by default?

I agree that it should be easier to see comments than it is, but one difference here from Elsewhere is that we are trying to de-emphasize comments. As Elsewhere has abundantly demonstrated, if you...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Filter to show only positive posts

The advantage is that the casual visitor sees less crap. However, there are also downsides to this: It makes it hard to understand what the norms are. This is especially important for the same c...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Why do we have "General comments" threads?

I'm one of the offenders, and the answer is quite simple: I often don't know what else to name it, even after several minutes of hard thinking. I want commmenting to be a task of ease, not a task o...

posted 1y ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Q&A A refactoring convenience function.

Here is a redraft and elaboration of what this post is about, partially in response to some comments I've received. This post may be about a few different things at once, and may need to be refact...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Julius H.‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Julius H.‭

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Q&A Library of Congress classification: class AND subject tags (including sub-tags)

The library of Congress classification system gives items both a single class, and multiple subject tags. This system has some significant benefits. Also, their subject tag system has sub-tags - f...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Julius H.‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Julius H.‭

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Q&A Vote counts as ratios? [duplicate]

This is not meant to be a committed advocating or request of the following, but rather a conversation to analyze the possibilities and potential benefits and drawbacks. What if the total score for...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Julius H.‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Add a validation checker for website field

Background One may edit their profile and add information about their website, Twitter and Discord profiles. Issue But I also noticed that entering just the word "test" in the website field does...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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