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Codidact Meta is the "town hall" (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.

Posts by wjandrea‭

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Q&A Stack Exchange equivalent sites

For someone coming from Stack Exchange (SE), what are the equivalent Codidact communities? For example, I'm interested in: Stack Overflow (coding problems) Unix & Linux (using *Nix tools a...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by wjandrea‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by wjandrea‭

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Q&A Stack Exchange equivalent sites

Firstly, for reference, the full list of Codidact communities is available on the homepage or in the Dashboard. I'm new here, so I'm just going to start an incomplete list based on what I can tell...

posted 9mo ago by wjandrea‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by wjandrea‭

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Q&A Sign In fails silently if you put your username instead of your email

I just went to sign in but the "Sign in" button didn't do anything. There was no error or nothing. Then I realized I put my username instead of my email address. Once I put in my email, it worked. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by wjandrea‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by ArtOfCode‭

Question bug sign-in
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Q&A Why can I downvote before I can comment?

As a "new user", I'm able to downvote, but not comment. Shouldn't it be the other way around? I should be able to explain the problem with a post before I'm able to affect another user's score, no?...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by wjandrea‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

Question bug discussion status-completed new-user abilities
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Q&A Pressing Enter in the Edit Comment box inserts a link instead of submitting

I'm used to pressing Enter in the edit summary box to submit an edit, as it works on Wikipedia and Stack Exchange, however, here, when I edit a post, pressing Enter in the Edit Comment box doesn't ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by wjandrea‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

Question bug status-completed editor
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Q&A Add a "Discard draft" button

If I want to discard a draft question/edit and start anew, I have to click Cancel then find my way back to the ask/edit page, or navigate back and refresh. I'd like to have a Discard draft button t...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by wjandrea‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by trichoplax‭

Question feature-request editor drafts
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Q&A Allow discarding of drafts

As of January 3, 2021, clicking Cancel will discard the draft. (I'm posting for posterity since the user who marked this as completed didn't post anything. They also didn't explicitly state the fu...

posted 6mo ago by wjandrea‭

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Q&A Code blocks need to be at least 80 characters wide

80 characters is a standard width in programming, so lots of code is written to that size, e.g. Python and Shell according to Google's style guides. However, Codidact code blocks are only about 72...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by wjandrea‭  ·  edited 27d ago by wjandrea‭

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Q&A Long text overflows in post history

This was marked as completed as of 2025-04-06. (The fixer didn't post anything, so I'm posting this for visibility.)

posted 9mo ago by wjandrea‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by wjandrea‭

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