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Activity for Olin Lathropâ€
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #293862 | Initial revision | — | 15 days ago |
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A: Flagging spam with existing notices Personally I flag as I see fit regardless of what others have previously done or not. Perhaps the additional flag does nothing as the system is currently set up. Even if so, some time in the future multiple agreeing flags could (and probably should) mean something. For example, enough spam flags... (more) |
— | 15 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293786 |
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— | 27 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293786 | Initial revision | — | 27 days ago |
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A: Do not close the notification menu when a notification's item is opened in another tab I disagree. If the menu were left open, then it would be annoying and get in the way. It's trivial to click on the inbox icon again if/when you want the notifications menu again. But then there's no way to open all the notifications quickly Sure there is. A single click on the in-tray icon i... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293648 |
Allowing MathJax and Markdown to be switched on/off in the editor, with defaults per user would be great. I have been tripped up both by MathJax and Markdown triggering when not intended. Not knowing the MathJax syntax, I didn't know how to not trigger it in a post that was discussing prices. I en... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293709 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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A: Remove the timer before saving a post when an image has no alt text While there are reasons to include alt text, nanny-ware that tries to enforce such things is just annoying and treats people like children. It probably has the opposite effect in that it's more likely to foster a "screw you" attitude than the compliance it seeks. Lose the timeout. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #293699 |
Your post only says it "fails", which fails to tell you what *does* happen. Does it show up in the wrong place? At a different resolution? Nothing happens at all as if you never did the paste? Something else?
Also, how exactly is the "paste" done when this symptom is triggered? Is there a spe... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #293648 |
Nothing in this post says that we should stop supporting MathJax for communities that want it.
I agree that MathJax is like Markdown (when <math> is enabled), which is one reason I don't like it. The HTML that Markdown generates is really not that hard to type, and Markdown is too easily tr... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #293699 |
That doesn't really solve the problem, since now we don't have enough information to understand the question.
The point is that there is no need for an animation to show the situation. Animations are distracting when you're not trying to watch them, and difficult to get the information from when ... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #293699 |
-1 for the really annoying animation. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #293646 |
I just took a quick look at the MathML tutorial you linked to. It doesn't look bad at all. Granted, I haven't tried to write a fancy equation with it yet, but the basic concept seem straight forward and reasonably well thought out.
One thing that bothered me in that writeup is how they say you h... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #293646 |
I never did learn MathJax, so figure I'd just learn to use the HTML math features directly, assuming they aren't too difficult. I don't use Markup either. The HTML it replaces is hardly more complicated than Markup, and I can then use it in any HTML document. Since MS Word has gotten ever harder t... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #293646 |
Is there a good description somewhere of HTML equation writing and how to use it? I'm no HTML whiz, and the problem I usually run into is that the standard only defines things in a way that is ultimately correct and definitive, but really hard to parse. Other places give you small snippets at a tim... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293648 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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A: MathML and the math tag - MathJax without JavaScript Yes, the <math> tag should be enabled across all Codidact. I didn't know such a tag existed until now, but that is clearly the "right" way to show equations when writing in HTML. The reasons to enable it across all of Codidact are: Unlike MathJax, it doesn't get in the way of ordinary ... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293619 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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A: Should comments have unsupported tags warnings like posts? Yes, this is a good idea. I have run into this. Only last week I tried to use something like the <sup> tag, and I only found out it didn't work in a comment after the comment was posted. Even better would be to support all the same "small" tags that main posts do. <sup> and the like... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #293615 |
Code blocks don't belong in comments. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #293596 |
Your question makes no sense since there is no concept of "accepting" an answer in Codidact. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293566 |
I don't know what a "list page" is supposed to be. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289816 |
On the question you newly linked to, I see the additional "c" tag in the editor that is not shown when viewing the post normally. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293486 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Link to moderator help pages is presented to non-moderators Here's a different take. Let everyone see the moderator help pages. Having ordinary users understand the view of moderators and what they can and can't do doesn't sound like a bad thing, and fosters a feeling of openess. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288790 |
@#98866 Also note that the question currently has four answers, and this answer has the *least* positive vote of all of them. The vote tally seems high for Codidact, until you compare it to the other answers. Put another way, it only seems high due to high overall volume, but not in a relative sens... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288790 |
@#98866 Apparently this (now deleted) user doesn't like something that he perceives to be the culture of "Silicon Valley". He is expressing satisfaction that the Code of Conduct does NOT try to push whatever he thinks a "Silicon Valley ideological agenda" is. That means he thinks said agenda is bad... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293279 |
In that case those links used directly by the software should be settable. Hard-coding constants into software is bad practice anyway. If links, like those to context-sensitive help about formatting posts, are settable per site, then they can be pointed to site-specific help pages, which can refer ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293277 |
@#53890 Help pages should definitely be in a separate directory, not necessarily related to links from the top level help. Let me create a pile of pages, then have them link to each other as I like.
As for showing tree structure, I'd want something that uses different font characteristics for dee... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293279 |
All the pages that are assumed by the software should not be site-specific anyway. They should be stored someplace centrally, where the help of each site can link to. Codidact could still retain control over editing those pages, but how/when they are presented within the broader overall help can be... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293276 |
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— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293277 |
Ah, sorry, it's been a while since I wrote help topics. I forgot about sequence number and that they are hidden. I remember now that one of the problems is that there is no way to show hierarchy. The best I could find was putting a leading dash in a title name to sortof show it is subordinate to t... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293276 |
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— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293277 |
Sequence numbers are a distraction to readers. The titles are already in a sequence, so the numbers are not useful to the reader. We need a mechanism of ordering topics that doesn't show the dirty laundry to the user. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293215 |
I am using Microsoft Edge, which Microsoft automatically updates when they feel like it. Right now it says "Version 131.0.2903.146 (Official build) (64-bit)". (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293276 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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A: Help page: call for improvement suggestions The presentation you show is not optimized for what people should be coming to Help for. The help topics are also in a rather arbitrary hierarchy, and not showing the relative importance or order that things should be read by a new user. For example, most of the Policy stuff should be reference a... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293215 |
I have also noticed this. It's happened to me maybe four times in the last year. It doesn't happen most of the time, and I haven't noticed any pattern that might trigger it. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293200 |
Deletion isn't for putting posts aside until they are improved. That's what closing a question is for. Even then, authors rarely make the requested improvements, and closed questions are rarely re-opened. Deletion is for post that simply don't belong, like spam, vulgarity, or otherwise outright no... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292992 |
Questions about the software itself, how to use it, how to set up and instance and the like go on the Collab forum, https://collab.codidact.org/categories/56. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292886 |
So it does a page reload. You haven't explained why that's supposed to be bad. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292840 |
I was notified of the new post by the gray dot in the sites overview page. There is no need to be part of chat to see new posts. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292847 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Poll for number of chat users and preferences about chat platform I don't use the chat associated with Codidact for three reasons: It's a waste of time. If there is something to talk about that would be content in one of the Q&A sites, then that's where it should be. If it's related but not thought out well enough to be a proper Q&A question, then it's not rea... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292808 |
You need to think thru what happens as the actions that granted an ability decay over time. Old actions decaying by becoming less relevant to current calculations makes sense, but what should happen when a user becomes less active? At the least, enabling abilities needs to have some hysteresis. An... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292612 |
Another possibility is instead of forcing all the experimental sites into one site so that the whole thing is easier to monitor, create a mechanism to easily monitor multiple sites.
This would be useful for ordinary users too. I'd like to be able to create a list of sites to "monitor", then have ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292612 |
It seems you are jumping thru hoops to make the single incubator site look and feel like separate sites. I'm assuming the software is there to create the separate sites rather easily. The only difference is that these sites would be down one level.
I see your point about the admin burden, but yo... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292601 |
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— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292601 |
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— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292601 |
Post edited: Fixed name of proposed sites to "experimental". |
— | 8 months ago |