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Welcome to Codidact Meta!

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.

Community Ad Templates now available

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You have a website or a blog where you want to advertise for your favorite Codidact community? Or you got permission to advertise on someone else's website?

Great.

Please spread the word and invite other people to our communities.

Today we have deployed a feature, that makes this even easier: Community ad templates. We'll give you a link, which you can use to advertise Codidact, a specific community, random posts from a community or a specific post.

On every community, you'll find a link in the sidebar in the box with the Codidact logo. For this Meta community for example, the link is meta.codidact.com/ca. There you'll find all information you might need:

Screenshot of an advertisement dashboard

Please note, that we are still fixing some last bugs, but you can already use that page to advertise the amazing sites y'all build.

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[status-completed] - This has been completed. Furthermore, exclusion of some categories (ex. Meta) and requiring a minimum score is now possible.


The more I think about this, the more I think that we need one more variant.

Looking at the screenshot in the question, we've currently got:

  • Codidact network
  • Community
  • Random question from a community
  • A specific question

(The last two are shown as one and the same, but I really think that those should be considered separately.)

What I think we need in addition to those:

  • Random question limited to those in a select category

This would allow us to selectively advertise, say, Scientific Speculation's Rigorous Science category in places where that's appropriate, without having to manually pick out a specific question to advertise.

The mechanics of that would be the same as the random question from a community type of ad, just with the set of possible questions to select from restricted to those in the specified category.

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[status-completed] - This has been completed. Exclusion of some categories (ex. Meta) and requiring a minimum score is now possible.


Regarding the third ad template, the one which takes a random unanswered question – Is there a way to ensure it only picks up questions from the Q&A category, and exclude ones from per-site Metas?

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I like the idea.

Is it possible to add the functionality that the image is clickable and links to the post in question by expanding the HTML snippet with the relevant additions? I find it a bit cumbersome to type in the URL myself and I bet most users expect the image to be clickable.

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