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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.

Posts by Peter Cooper Jr.‭

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Q&A How should Codidact "advertise" and gain community members?

This came up a bit in my post to try to get a TRPG site going, but I think it's really a broader issue, not just to starting new communities but also to the ones that are already launched. Just ho...

6 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Logician‭

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Q&A What criteria are used to determine to launch a new community?

Codidact currently has several communities (with varying levels of activity), and several more proposals for new communities. There seems to be an effort in many of these proposals to collect users...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A What does "Codidact" mean?

Is "codidact" some kind of acronym? Or it's a "Co(mpany) Did Act" or something? Or it means something in a language I'm unfamiliar with? Ever since I heard the name of it I've been confused as to w...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  edited 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Markdown preview of bulleted list with leading text

If I put leading text into the post body textbox immediately before a bulleted list, like this: Leading text: * First item * Second item In the preview below the box it shows up correctly, with ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Sigma‭

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Q&A What should we do about tagging in Site Proposals?

It's a little awkward using a Q&A engine for site proposals at all, really, at least not without some more guidance, as not only the tagging is unclear, but what exactly goes in the "questions"...

posted 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭

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Q&A Typo report: unnecessary "c" in in edit comment field instructions

When one goes to edit a question, the "edit comment" box starts with "Describe—if neccessary". The word "neccessary" is misspelled, having one more "c" than is necessary.

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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

status-completed Be able to not have default licenses This is related to being able to pick a default per category, but what I'd actually like is the option to not have the License filled-in at a...

posted 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What order should the sites be in? [duplicate]

So if one looks at the list of Codidact communities, either on the main https://codidact.com/ page or in the footer at the bottom of every community's page, the list doesn't seem to be in a useful ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  closed as duplicate 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A How can we make Codidact more friendly for askers?

This is very half-baked and just brainstorming at the moment, but it'd be good if askers received some sort of feedback that people were working on responding to them. Right now, some questions sit...

posted 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭

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Q&A How to do superscript markup?

As a workaround until the markdown language uses here supports it, you could use the Unicode subscript and superscript characters, which cover a lot of mathematical and scientific uses. I drank a...

posted 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭

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Q&A Please allow specifying license for answers

While one can specify a license when making a question, when writing an answer there doesn't seem to be any place to specify and it just ends up saying "CC BY-SA 4.0" once posted. While asking a go...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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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 allow answerers to see if asker upvoted them?

When someone takes the time to answer a question, it's nice for that person to feel recognized and that they were helpful. While seeing upvotes is a good indication that the answer was helpful to t...

5 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by JBH‭