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As the list of communities gets longer, it becomes more difficult to find any particular one in the various places they are listed. Sorting Would it be helpful to have sorting buttons, similar to...
After searching from the search box at the top of each page, you are taken to a search results page. This has the search box with the current search term prepopulated, ready to modify and search ag...
Searching for votes:-8 does not give results with net votes -8. Instead it returns all posts, regardless of votes. Upvotes and downvotes break in exactly the same way for negative numbers, but for...
There is some inconsistency between the guidance and the behaviour when searching by votes or by score. Searching by votes In-page search guidance votes:4 votes with 4+ votes Search help pa...
From the search help: You can use m for minute, h for hour, d for day, w for week, mo for month, and y for year. It seems likely that users would want to use months more often than minutes in...
Searching for post_type:3 (PolicyDoc) gives no results. Similarly for post_type:4 (HelpDoc). Should these post types be excluded from the options presented when the user types post_type:, or shoul...
Searching for post_type:2 (answer) and a tag gives no results, as answers do not have tags. Intuitively, I would expect this to return results which are answers to a question with that tag. Is ...
When entering a search term, there is some guidance showing above the text box: The guidance is only shown before the initial search. Could it also be shown above the text box of the search resu...
After suggesting an edit to a post, it is displayed differently to indicate that the edit is pending. This difference is in 2 places. The top of the post shows a message in a box: Below the pos...
There is a dashboard available from the top right of the screen: This shows the categories for each Codidact community, along with an indicator for any categories that have new activity: Howe...
In search results the title is shown followed by a preview of the post, consisting of the first few lines. I would find it more useful to see the section of the post that contains the search term,...
When signing in with two-factor authentication enabled, a code is requested on the next page after entering email and password: The "Code" field is not active (does not contain the text cursor) ...
When signing in with two-factor authentication enabled, a code is requested on the next page after entering email and password: However, before the code is entered, a green banner at the top of ...
I am currently unable to post to Codidact Collab. When pressing "Save Post to Q&A" I am taken to the following page: The small print at the bottom says: Cloudflare Ray ID: 7b7c1ee0bdc8776...
When clicking on the thread title ("Welcome!" in this example) of a comment thread below a post: I see the following error in the Firefox developer window (click image for a larger version): ...
What should be the behaviour when a user posts a reply to a comment in a thread on a post, and then deletes the post? For example, the post may be a question which requires editing before it will b...
In the Suggested Edits list page, the time suggested shows as a duration since suggested, such as "2 days ago", but hovering the mouse cursor over it displays the exact datetime: However, in the...
From the Review Suggested Edit page there is a button to "Return to post" which links back to the post on which the edit is being suggested: This makes sense, as one of the places a reviewer may...
When viewing the Suggested Edits page, there is a notice for users that have not yet earned the Edit Posts ability: You can't approve or reject suggested edits because you haven't yet earned the...
Related: Post revisions are displayed without rendered Markdown but with rendered MathJax When reviewing a suggested edit, any MathJax is presented in its rendered form, making it difficult to s...
In the edit history for a post, the initial version is labelled "Initial revision" even though it is not a revision. What would make more sense here? Initial post? Initial version? Initial wor...
When viewing a user's Edits on the Activity tab of the user profile, it includes "Initial revision", which seems to me more like a posting than an edit: In the edit history of an individual post...
Related: Confusing percentage on Edit Posts Ability page Currently, the best place I can find to track my progress towards the Edit ability (30 approved suggested edits with at least 95% ap...
When an edit is made to a Blog post, the new activity indicator circle appears on the Blog tab: This is useful when there is a new Blog post, but less useful when there is a minor typo fixed. W...
Reaction types can currently be switched on and off for a community (by a moderator) so different communities can have different reactions (including custom reactions). However, each reaction th...
