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| Comment | Post #293948 |
It just happened to me again too. In the last week, I think this has happened every time I've written an answer, so I'll stop noting incidents here. If a developer wants me to continue or wants specific information each incident, let me know. (more) |
— | 17 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293948 |
Post edited: Better formatting |
— | 17 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293948 |
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— | 18 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293948 |
I thought there was a better question addressing this problem, but couldn't find it when searching. I think your question should be the official version of this bug report. Mine and possibly others should be closed pointing to yours, but add links to all the questions reporting this bug to your que... (more) |
— | 20 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293948 |
Post edited: |
— | 20 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293948 | Initial revision | — | 20 days ago |
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Saved text not cleared when posted Over the last couple years or so, I've occasionally come back to a question where I posted an answer, and the system popped me into the post editor as if I had unsaved changes. This is now happening pretty much every time. Just a few minutes ago, I posted an answer to https://meta.codidact.com/po... (more) |
— | 20 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293947 | Initial revision | — | 20 days ago |
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A: Modify the bullet list behavior to automatically insert a bullet point at the start of each new line. It's not clear what you mean exactly (not going to watch an annoying animation when a proper description or static screen shots would do), but I wouldn't want bullets being inserted too automatically. You may want to have multiple paragraphs in one bullet. That would necessitate not only starting... (more) |
— | 20 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293862 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month 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) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293786 |
Post edited: |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293786 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months 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) |
— | about 2 months 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 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293709 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293699 |
-1 for the really annoying animation. (more) |
— | about 2 months 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) |
— | 2 months 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) |
— | 2 months 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) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293648 | Initial revision | — | 2 months 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) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293619 | Initial revision | — | 2 months 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) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293615 |
Code blocks don't belong in comments. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293596 |
Your question makes no sense since there is no concept of "accepting" an answer in Codidact. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293566 |
I don't know what a "list page" is supposed to be. (more) |
— | 3 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) |
— | 3 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) |
— | 4 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) |
— | 4 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) |
— | 5 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) |
— | 5 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) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293276 |
Post edited: |
— | 5 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) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293276 |
Post edited: |
— | 5 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) |
— | 5 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) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293276 | Initial revision | — | 5 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) |
— | 5 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) |
— | 5 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) |
— | 5 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) |
— | 7 months ago |