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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 UX changes: dark theme, distinct borders and shortcuts

Horrible hacky dark mode Until there's a real dark mode, here are some quick CSS hacks that you can try out in the developer window of your browser, and add to a userscript or user stylesheet if y...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Improved UI for filtering posts on score

Inspired by the confusion in https://meta.codidact.com/posts/290048 , I'd like to propose a UI enhancement. Using a spinner for this value doesn't make a lot of sense, since the user needs to think...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Michael‭

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Q&A How to import my StackExchange questions into Codidact?

In "Preferences", I found this checkbox, Display import labels Add a Stack Exchange logo marker to imported posts to show that they're imported. but I couldn't figure out yet how to actually...

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

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Q&A How are tabs handled in code blocks?

While this question is of particular interest to the technical sites, and especially to Software, it concerns core site functionality. I figured it would be more polite to ask than to make a "sandb...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Vote counts as ratios?

This is already how it works. Those red/green bars in post lists are driven by a Wilson score for the post based on the numbers of up and downvotes. Post & answer sorting is also based on these...

posted 10mo ago by ArtOfCode‭

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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 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A 404 error produced through "/subscriptions/new"

What is the bug? Found a way to produce a 404 by clicking on the site's own links. How to reproduce Go to the homepage. On the right side you will see a tab like this Now click on "all new...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by meta user‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by meta user‭

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Q&A Links to Codidact posts don’t auto-render with post title [duplicate]

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  closed as duplicate 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Discourse software as helpful example [closed]

I just felt like saying that the Discourse forum software is quite good quality, and it also has some interesting examples of new forum features not commonly seen elsewhere. For example, on the Ope...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  closed 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Guidance when hovering over upvote and downvote buttons

When hovering over the upvote and downvote counts next to a post, the score of the post is displayed, which is helpful: However, the score is also displayed when hovering over the upvote and dow...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Post history only shows 20 edits, with incorrect numbering

In the Post History page for a post that has more than 20 edits, only the most recent 20 are shown, and they are numbered 1 to 20. The most recent edit is numbered 20. If another edit is made, the ...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Why is <small> HTML tag rendered differently in preview?

Explanations for the current behaviour Rendered text is not small after saving The <small> tag is not one of the currently supported HTML tags. Supported tags and attributes are discussed i...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A What should happen with inactive communities?

The level of activity of the communities vary. Some are more active than others, which isn't exactly a problem. However, I'm a bit worried when a community becomes significantly less active than ot...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A How to grow all of our communities?

Here maybe some things that others may have forgotten or may not have emphasized as such: Continue supporting the software development I'm really surprised how well developed and rich of features...

posted 3y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Trilarion‭

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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 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Hide sorting tab when there are 0 answers on a question

Good idea, not just for closed questions I like the idea of hiding the sorting buttons when they serve no purpose. I see no reason to restrict this to closed questions. If the visibility of the so...

posted 9mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Second Iteration of Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel

A thought not really on the content, but on the structure: It might be good to have some way to easily insert new Articles, within Titles, without needing contortions like calling something Article...

posted 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭

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Q&A Can we unclutter Codidact in these six areas? [closed]

This discussion has been split into the following posts: Enlarge font size for number of answers? Streamline the top? Move Meta to the top row? Align Right "last activity" phrase? Move posted...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Meaningful hovertext for voting area

I notice that a number is displayed as the hovertext / tooltip when hovering over the voting buttons and current score of a post. Would it be helpful for the hovertext to include a brief descriptio...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Suggestions for the user profile right pane

I have a few suggestions of how the pane on the right hand side of the user Profile page might be improved. I'd like your thoughts on which changes would be useful. Wording changes The 2 images b...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Total number of search results

At the top of the posts page, the total number of posts shows. At the top of the search results page, there is not a total number of results. I would find the total number useful on the search res...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Can't click notification icon

Clicking on the notification icon: Doesn't do anything. I noticed this just now. It's probably been a month or more since the last time I had a notification. Back then it worked as expected (...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A User id shows instead of user name in comment thread title

When a user is mentioned in a comment thread using @, internally the user is referred to by their user id number. The comment is displayed using their user name, but the user id behind the scenes m...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Indicator of how many posts a user's profile shows and the total

On the user profile page there are some posts showing, with a link to “See all”. After clicking See all, the total number of posts is shown at the top. Would it be useful to have a nu...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What should happen with inactive communities?

What should be done in these cases? Should we just wait and let the site open? Should we train some monkeys to write questions? Should we "freeze" the site and provide the contents for download? Sh...

posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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