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Activity for samcarter
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| Edit | Post #292606 |
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— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292606 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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A: What are duplicate questions? I don't think it is necessary to define what a duplicate is for the whole network. Each community might have its own view and criteria when it comes to identifying duplicates and I think Codidact should give each community this freedom. For example, some communities are more focused on solving pro... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292455 |
"to the point where the stuff at the bottom actually adds confusion to the question." Although the stuff at the bottom contains the only clue that it is probably a cotoletta alla milanese. If the OP would spend a bit of effort on their question and add such information to the question, the image migh... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292005 |
To throw in some alternatives which I found more pleasant to use than zulip:
- matrix: has the advantage that there are many different clients and web interfaces available, so everyone can pick one which suites them
- Rocket.chat https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291860 |
Flag `other reason` and say something with "reopen" in the text field (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291860 |
"can be improved with a few simple edits": if it just needs a few simple edits, you could edit the question and flag for reopening. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291544 |
@#53890 This would be a great compromise! Maybe you make a feature request? (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291544 |
@#53890 The disadvantage of markdown links is that users can't immediately see where the link will lead them and they have to mouse hover first to see if it is a link within the same community or to an external site.
If integrated into a sentence, markdown links can also be hard to notice. Especial... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291544 |
related: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/291474 (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291107 |
Grave consequences? Worst case the user loses some imaginary internet points, creates a new account and can subscribe their previous posts to get notifications about new comments/answers. Not much harm done, so I wouldn't call the consequences grave. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291107 |
TopAnswers has a similar mechanism. Instead of storing PI, the user gets a pin on sign-up. This works reasonable well. Most users seem perfectly capable to store their pin. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290962 |
While sorting by creation date (?) might not be the most useful sorting, it is at least consistent across the site, e.g. the community switcher at the top right has the exact same order. It would be very inconvenient having to learn a new layout without real gain. Also what happens for users with sm... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290957 |
> Quoting content, and providing necessary attribution, is of course not something I’d ban.
How will you differentiate if a user mentions somebody to provide attribution or for other reasons?
I very much agree that notifying specific users in posts is not a good idea, but mentioning is imho c... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290957 |
Being able to mention (not pinging) users is absolute necessary in questions and answers. Everything else would make it unnecessarily difficult to comply with CC-by licenses of many posts all around the internet. Being able to mention user names also helps to differentiate between different approache... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288747 |
Not being able to use `@username` at all will make it very unnecessarily complicate to comply with the CC-by license of man code examples all around the internet. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290848 |
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| Edit | Post #290848 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: How should we approach large numbers of edits made all at once? New information or critical edits Adding new information or making edits which need to be done as soon as possible (maybe to remove dangerous information or something). -> go for it! Useful, but not critical edits Like adding tags, fixing typos in title or in other important words which w... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290756 |
Having each community on a different domain would probably also cause a lot of headaches for a common login for all communities... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290733 |
Please don't edit your question in a way which invalidates existing answers (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290738 |
"This system has some significant benefits." Can you explain which benefits it would have for codidact? (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290738 |
Codidact already has a tag hierarchy with parent tags and child tags. For example the `macOS` tag on powerusers is a parent tag for `macOS14` etc. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290647 |
@#36396 already covered that in his answer :) (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290647 |
When codidact switched from "normal comments" to threads, all the existing comments where converted to threads with the title "General comments"
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— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290623 |
There are 4 deleted questions with this tag (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289730 |
Maybe focus your question only on one thing? Do you ask about direct messages or about mentoring? (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289587 |
@#65260 "i dont and will never capitalize a random word becuase its norm, its dumb." -> using standard English makes it much easier for non-fluent speakers to understand you. In particular leaving out apostrophes is quite confusing. A fluent speaker might just accept it as some quirk of yours and kee... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #275838 |
Not a native dark mode, but codidact works well with [Darkreader](https://darkreader.org/): https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/adlycbnwxkb4ew6dcdssjrol9sev (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289113 |
@qwr They both do more. They are not just simple copies of SO/SE, they both provide improved approaches to Q&A sites. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289113 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: What is the relationship between Codidact and TopAnswers? Codidact and TopAnswers are independent projects, which share much of the same sentiment: a free and open source platform for Q&A with focus on the communities. I think their relationship can best described as being friends. While the overall goals of the platforms are similar, the exact approache... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #282538 |
A modified proposal can now be found in the incubator: https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/288459 (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288160 |
Thanks a lot! Sounds like a well thought-through plan! I'm looking forward to see the incubator in action! (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288160 |
A hidden archive sounds like a great solution! (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288160 |
@#8046 I very much hope that you are right and this won't be a problem in the incubator! I'm looking forward to a couple of more topics being given a chance to form a community! (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288160 |
One would assume that this is far fetched, but take for example this answer https://meta.codidact.com/posts/279809/280164#answer-280164 At least 5 of the 6 users who made their interests known are very likely the same user (based on their cross-posts under the same account on reddit and SE) I don't u... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288160 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: Let's improve how we manage proposals for new communities I love the idea and hope this new approach gets implemented very soon! Some concerns: - I suppose that if a proposal does not take off immediately, most of them can just sit around and wait until a community forms. However there might be cases where it becomes clear that the type of questions m... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288071 |
yes, it focusses on both - that's the problem. It should focus on the proposal. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288071 |
It would be nice if your proposal could focus on the community you'd like to propose and not your back story somewhere else. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286583 |
Contributor Spotlights are a brilliant idea! I very much enjoyed reading this and am looking forward to future ones! Thanks for posting! (is there some place to suggest users which I would like to see featured in future spotlights?) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286465 |
There are more sites which have non-Q&A content. Take for example the recipes on cooking or the photo contests on outdors (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286443 |
Flag as "needs author's attention" -- if the author adds additional information, the post can then be reopened
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286303 |
Please don't (or at least make it optional)! It is really a pain to use SO on a small laptop screen, because the top bar takes away valuable screen estate, and given the voting on https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/368973/237989 I'm certainly not the only one who dislikes fixed top bars. Notifications ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |