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Posts by Peter Taylor
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
I just handled some "not an answer" flags by converting an answer to a comment on another answer. The "convert to comment" dialog asks for a post ID. The obvious way to supply this was to copy a li...
With respect to the comment thread https://math.codidact.com/comments/thread/9445 I make the following observations: I received notifications for the first three comments. I do not believe that...
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'...
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...
I think this is really a 5th answer: I use chat minimally, but only the moderators' lounge. A chatroom is probably the only sensible mechanism to ask for advice on how to handle specific situations...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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"...
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...
