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Posts by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A Voluntariness vs. Responsibility, which of them should be considered as a priority for the community team?

Working with volunteers is very different to working with paid staff, and if you try to bring the same expectations then you will cause problems. Paid staff have a contract: the hours and type of w...

posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A Trap tags with spaces earlier in the post submission process

When I type something in the tag box, a list of similarly named tags is produced, along with the actual thing I typed, and I can click to select the tag I want. If I type something with spaces (e.g...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A Bug reports: meta.codidact.com or codidact.org?

I have just observed a bug, and I'm not sure what the protocol is. Is bug reporting and tracking done on codidact.org, meta.codidact.com, or both? If both, and I can't find the bug mentioned on eit...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How can tags be deleted?

I started heading into the rabbit-hole of organising tags on the mathematics site, and there are some which are obvious typos and have no questions associated (because the questions have been retag...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Some suggested edit use cases result in confusing diffs

This suggested edit on a math.codidact.com question appears to only add some tags. However, I had to open and compare the current status of the question to figure that out, because it shows the ent...

0 answers  ·  posted 11d ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A Privacy policy needs meta-variables to be expanded

https://meta.codidact.com/policy/privacy-policy currently begins This Privacy Policy applies to all $EDIT-org-name communities hosted under ​$EDIT-URL. There are a number of other unexpanded ...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Question has phantom tag [duplicate]

Yesterday I edited https://math.codidact.com/posts/282737 to correct the spelling of the tag probability and remove the tag statistics. Now it shows in the question list as having tags probability ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Missing comment notification

Using the mod tools to browse recent comments on math.codidact.com, I just noticed this comment which should ping me. I have no recollection of getting the ping, and my notifications dropdown doesn...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A Taking our design to the next level: feedback wanted

Color is used more sparingly in this design, with the eye drawn to unanswered questions and the "ask" button (which is now in line with the list of questions rather than all the way to the right)...

posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A Threaded comments are here!

Posting comments You can add a comment to an existing thread from the full thread. ... You can create a new thread using the "start a new comment thread" button under the list of threads on th...

posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A How can we improve community proposals?

A factor to consider is that a community needs a decent flow of (quality) questions to entice people to stick around. I'm not sure how we assess that in advance. After reading the introductory...

posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A Missing history

This is possibly a more extreme case of a bug reported by fedorqui: a Software Development question on regexes shows as having been edited, but its history contains neither the edit nor the origina...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A Vote counts broken by the update?

The question What good are herbivores in an animal army? currently shows up- and down-votes as +0/-0, and both vote counts have tooltips saying "0.5" when I hover over them in the question. (I don'...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Deleted answers appear to be counted in question list

Currently https://outdoors.codidact.com/categories/19 lists one question, 2020 - May - Birds, with 12 answers. But if you go into the question, it only lists 11 answers. I'm pretty sure that the di...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A 500 Internal Server Error

I've had a couple of 500 Internal Server Errors now when posting comments on the maths site. The most recent one has error ID e0788383-0163-4b45-8b4f-85ff84c2751a . This has only happened since I b...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A Future planning: what user preferences would be useful?

With respect to licence types per category: the Photography & Video site default is CC BY-SA 4.0, but the Contests/Critique category within it defaults to CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. On the other hand, Ou...

posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A Assets return 404

I saw I had a notification so I clicked for the dropdown, and got nothing. The browser console shows that /assets/community/${community}.css and /assets/community/${community}.js are 404ing (observ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  edited 1y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Let SVG give a try for MathJax

But, I noticed in Wikipedia that they are using MathJax as SVG. Are you sure? As far as I can tell, Wikipedia doesn't use MathJax at all. They appear to have some backend renderer. Whenev...

posted 2y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A "Last activity" in question lists appears to ignore new answers

Another thing I've noticed on https://outdoors.codidact.com/categories/19 : the question list currently shows the last activity on "2020 - May - Birds" as "last activity 10 days ago by Isaac Moses"...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Taylor‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Ability to hide / ignore tags

One approach, asymmetric with respect to the favourites, would be to treat an ignored tag as equivalent to X downvotes for display purposes. I'm assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that questions with a...

posted 2y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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