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Activity for Olin Lathrop
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| Comment | Post #276214 |
@Art: One issue is that I might not want my name associated with a particular site. It also pollutes the site statistics. As someone managing a site, I can't tell how many "real" users we have. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276227 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Preview keeps jumping up and down In the last day or so, the preview when writing a post keeps jumping up and down. Even just typing a few characters causes this over the next few seconds. I think I see what's going on. Whenever you make a change, something saves the new version as a draft after a short timeout. So far so good.... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276226 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: General Engineering Codidact Website I was active on the SE Engineering site (still #2 all time, although I haven't been there for 1½ years). My perception as to why it never really took off is: Too broad. The site was not so much about anything in particular, as any engineering that didn't fit on a more specific site, l... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276220 |
@Art: Maybe the image button should produce HTML instead of markdown? Unfortunately, the image button seems to be the only way to get an image stored on the server, and then for me to get the URL. Is there some other way I'm missing? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276220 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Problem with adding images to answer Here is a example. In the preview I'm seeing the markup text instead of the picture. Now I'll post it and see what it looks like then. Image alt text After the picture. I did some more experimenting, and if I just type and add a picture it works. I ran into this problem originally afte... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276218 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Problem with adding images to answer I was writing an answer, which included two images. Something seems to be broken with the markup text generated by clicking the image icon. I clicked the icon, and entered the pathname of the image file. Some markup got inserted, as expected. However, the preview window showed the markup text, ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276214 |
Seems like we're conflating validation with signing up to a particular site. Validating the user (getting and checking user ID and password) should only be required once across all sites. However, getting on the list of "users" of a site should be a deliberate action, if only once. No need to veri... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276168 |
Closing and making the OP repost is a little tedius. That's good. There needs to be some cost to posting in the wrong place. And, the question shouldn't just be copied exactly to the new site. It should be looked over and edited for the different target audience. Most likely, something should be... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276162 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: An alternative approach to the view order of answers You only consider the case of an old but good answer losing value over time. That's relatively unusual compared to time hasn't changed anything, and the voting reflects the quality of the answers. If you want to fix a corner case, you first have to make sure it doesn't break the normal case. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276140 |
Even embedded programming is split into two broad categories. 1 - You're on a general purpose computer with a mainstream operating system. It's only embedded because the end user can't run their own programs on it. 2 - You're on a microcontroller, maybe with a real-time kernel but no real OS. Iss... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275969 |
@King: It's a minor "nice to have". I wouldn't want to see it compete with the many more important things the devs have to do. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276111 |
@Art: Did you get pinged by this? You would have on SE. The first three letters was enough there, and I almost always follow with a colon to delineate the name from the text. With some names, it can appear they are part of the text unless you see the @ sign and mentally parse what is really going ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275972 |
@Peter: I already did it using HTML. It worked fine. As far as I can tell, there is nothing markdown can do that the HTML support in posts can't. The only issue is grabbing an image file and putting it in the appropriate place on this server. As far as I can tell, that can only be done by clickin... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275972 |
I guess that's what I'll have to do. Good thing we have HTML formatting to allow previewing post off-line in a browser. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #275969 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Answer own question before anyone else can? I want to write a few canonical questions. I'll ask these questions, then also write a detailed answer. On SE there was a feature where you could write an answer to your own question before releasing both onto the site. In effect, you could post the question and answer simultaneously. I used ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #275947 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Help page multiple boxes with same name I made a small edit to one of the help pages on EE. Now there are two help boxes. Previously there was only one, as desired. Here's what it looks like now: Image alt text I understand you're in the middle of working on this. I'm not complaining, only trying to make sure you know about it. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275943 |
Ah, OK. No problem. I notice that "Site Information" is already gone. I'll wait for the other changes to be rolled out, and then see what I can do to make the site help easy, intuitive, and uncluttered. By the way, you're welcome to copy anything we have. Some of it is not EE specific, but appli... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #275935 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Help --> Site Information? Just now I noticed that when clicking on Help, there is a new box called "Site Information". What the …? This seems to have infested all sites, and doesn't provide much real information. It's about a made-up site, so doesn't actually help anyone. Maybe it's work in progress, but then it shouldn... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275916 |
OK, I have no idea about the implementation side of things. The reason for not linking everything is that when documents are in a tree structure, some may be so far down as to be too much detail at the lop level. They would of course be linked from other help pages, just not at the top. Not a huge... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #275912 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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More control over Help page I've been writing help topics in the process of getting the new Electrical Engineering site ready for the public. I'm finding that organizing and presenting the various help pages could be better. For context, here is what you get when clicking Help on EE: Image The problem is that I have n... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275881 |
@Art: OK, thanks. I'll use the numbering approach for now. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #275881 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Help pages display order? Can the display order of help pages for a site be explicitly set somehow? I'm starting to create help pages for a new site, and would like to set the order they are shown in. For example, I'd like the "Introduction to the site" to be at top. It seems the order is alphabetical, at least by defa... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275863 |
Thanks for this, and for adding support for sup, sub, ol, ul, and the like. It looks like there is little need for markdown now, and we can write more portable and interchangeable documents. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275864 |
OK, thanks. --- (more) |
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| Edit | Post #275861 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Details on creating a Help page? I'm trying to create Help pages for a new site. One of the things I have to enter is "URL slug:". What is that exactly? I looked to see how help was organized on another site. For example, on the Outdoors site, Help gets you to "https://outdoors.codidact.com/help". Clicking on the topic "List ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #275860 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Markup documentation? Where is the documentation for the markdown codes used on these pages? I'm trying to RTFM, but can't find the M. I did look in HELP, but it's not there. Below where I'm typing this, there is a brief description of bold, italics, and "code" (Mono-space font? Not sure, haven't tried it). In the ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275857 |
Apparently I said this in the wrong place before. Please make me, Dave Tweed, and Nick Alexeev moderators on the new site. Then we'll see what we can do and try to take it from there. Nick hasn't signed in yet, but I just sent him a message. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275857 |
Ah, sorry for misunderstanding. I probably will put some effort into a few canonical questions, but I'm not sure how much *other* questions really matter to someone that has *their* problem. I've also never liked artificially seeded questions on SE. Traffic will largely come when the masses figure... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275857 |
Thanks for the explanation. I disagree with your last paragraph a little. You only get one chance to make a first impression. I'd like to set up the obvious basics before inviting the inquisitive hordes. A site introduction is essential. You can't expect people to follow the rules if you haven't... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #275856 |
Thanks for your thorough answer. It sounds like most of what I want to do can be done with moderator privileges. So please make me a mod. I see that of the core group of 5, so far only Dave Tweed and myself have signed in to the new site. Dave should also be a mod, and so should Nick Alexeev when... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #275852 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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New site setup process? I proposed the new site Electrical Engineering, and I see that the basic framework has been created. Thanks. However, there is a difference between the basic mechanics of a site, and a fully up-and-running site. Now that the dev team has worked behind the scenes to create the site, how can we no... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275776 |
@Monica: See addition to question. (more) |
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