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Posts by Zerotime‭

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Q&A Answering own questions triggers notifications

Just now, I was notified that a post was added to one of my questions and coincidentally, the person adding that post was me. Nevertheless, I was notified about that event which seems a bit redunda...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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

Elaborating on the thoughts of @PeterCooperJr.‭, it might be sensible to provide some meta statistics on each site on the main and / or "Ask Question" page. For example, it might be viable to disp...

posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A Let community ads have a customisable header text [duplicate]

There should be the option to customise the heading in the community-promoted network posts as "Could you answer this question?" isn't always applicable. Example: The post in question is an imag...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Duplicate "Sign out" buttons on mobile

On the mobile version of Codidact, there are two "Sign out" buttons present, one in the right menu and one in the site switcher. One of them should be removed as having two isn't necessary. Right ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Can we have description of tags when we hover over / click them?

With the re-tagging of the site proposal, new tags were introduced. I didn't know the meaning of those, so I hovered over them to see a short description just as I was / am used to doing in the Sta...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Where is the site switcher on mobile?

I noticed the new side switcher and really like this feature. Oftentimes, I browse Codidact and read up on posts while I'm on the go and naturally I would like to switch sites as easily as with the...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 3y ago by fedorqui‭

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Q&A What will become of reputation?

For a while now, the reputation topic has (re-)surfaced repeatedly with the the Codidact team taking a slight stance to remove reputation in the long run. Everytime this was mentioned, there were a...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Why don't we just make communities for every launched stack?

Because Codidact doesn't want to be a clone of SE but rather be its own thing, and that for good reasons. Of course, every launched community over at Stack Exchange could be copied and transferred...

posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A Show last user names if users change their user names

Recently, some users who are here for a longer time changed their usernames. It often happened that I saw a well-written question or answer from a user I supposedly have never seen before with a hi...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ShowMeBillyJo‭

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Q&A A badge! A badge for completing the Codidactyl Tour. Or even several badges!! And points!!

I'm little bit unsure about badges. They are a tool you can use for gamification (so to speak: participate in that or that way to gain that or that badge) but also a tool to show what someone has a...

posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A Post history is incomplete and misses some parts at random

I posted the following question on Software Development: When I go to the history, only half of the history is showing: This is also true for my answer where some bits are missing and everyth...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A To be constructive, or not to be constructive, that is the question.

I'm all in for using constructive in the Code of Conduct. In a comment to a previous answer, you wrote: Although I still believe that using the word "constructive" in the code of conduct is not co...

posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A Second Iteration of Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel

What will happen if there are not enough persons to reach the desired size of seven persons? I propose the following change (additions in bold): The Panel consists of at most 7 members of the Codi...

posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A Should there be a forum-like place for the Codidact network?

I would like to propose a place on the Codidact network where one can informally talk with other members of the network in a slower paced setting about off-topic stuff (for example movie recommenda...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Please postpone launching new communities.

Besides the technical stuff, I think that postponing launching new communities would actually hinder the Codidact project altogether. The thing is that this network of sites is built to curate know...

posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A Can comment input fields be vertically scalable?

Everytime I write longer comments and exceed a certain amount of characters, the input field for comments becomes scrollable. However, the scrolling makes it very hard for me to find specific passa...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How can I conveniently opt out of Codidact analytics?

Since a few days, my Firefox add-on Privacy Badger shows me a new tracker originating from analytics.codidact.org. I read the privacy policy and it states that there is analytics going on to improv...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A What are the steps between community idea and community proposal?

Inspired from this post asking what steps there are between proposal and launching a community, I would like to know what steps there are between an idea and a proposal. Right now, we have at least...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Should tags be written in American or in British English?

On Cooking, I sometimes run into comprehension issues as food is labelled differently around the world. One recent example for this is ground beef and minced meat which both essentially mean the sa...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by .                                                .‭

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Q&A Is gaining rep based on SE content ok?

I think that each sub community has to decide this independently. Codidact's vision was created with the bad experiences on SE so naturally there are a lot of users who were (or are) regulars there...

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A Can notifications have a time stamp in the pull down menu?

In my notifications inbox, notifications have time stamps to show when they've been created. Can time stamps also be included in the notifications pull down menu? This way, it's possible to see qui...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Community Ad Templates now available

I like the idea. Is it possible to add the functionality that the image is clickable and links to the post in question by expanding the HTML snippet with the relevant additions? I find it a bit cum...

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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Q&A Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel

Note: The comments indented as list items have been added by luap42 as a reply. Articles 7, 13 and 20 could be replaced by a single article stating that each case which is handled by the panel is a...

posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  edited 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Can I use @Username to notify users from within my question or answer?

If I write a question or an answer, sometimes I want to notify specific users because of the context of my question or answer (for example if I post a follow-up question to an answer from another q...

5 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭

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Q&A How is Codidact financed?

With the network constantly but surely growing, I wondered how Codidact is financed. I think that this question is highly relevant as it's emphasised that Codidact is run for the community from the...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Zerotime‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Mithical‭

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