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Posts by Olin Lathrop
Bad idea. Quoting parts of a question in an answer is useful because: It makes it clear what exactly is being replied to. It protects the answerer from changes to the question. The quotes can a...
Actually Codidact should support rep better than it does now. Most of the dislike of rep seems to come from a misunderstanding of its purpose. It's not to show who is "better" somehow, but a meas...
I just noticed this in EE, but the same symptom appears on other sites too: Note how the user pictures in the right column are larger than the others. On other sites this is more random, so I t...
You have touched on two different topics, neither of which belong here. Scope of the Electrical Engineering site As Monica has already explained, this is up to the users of the site. The right p...
Esc is the usual and obvious way to dismiss a popup like this. Esc for this function is so common and nearly universal that listing it would only add clutter, and not provide any useful informatio...
It is always fine to bring over your own content. After all, it's yours. However, some sites here will not appreciate you bringing over anyone else's content. That would require us to show attri...
There is currently no Codidact site where that question would be on topic.
This is a test with known input. First entry in ordered list. Second ordered list entry. First entry in subordinate list under point 2. Second unordered list entry. Third entry i...
How can we make Codidact more friendly for askers? That's the wrong question. We aren't unfriendly to askers. The real question is: What can we do to encourage people to ask questions here? Th...
Early for the Codidact sites, it seemed like importing content from SE might be a good way to get a new site going quickly. Now with the clarity of hindsight, we can see that this didn't work. Th...
I just tried to edit my question on Outdoors (https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/279707), but the "Edit" button at the bottom of the post is missing. Here is a screen shot: Microsoft Edge W...
There is apparently a bug relating to suggested edits. I've had a pending suggested edit to https://meta.codidact.com/posts/280084 for two weeks now. See the comment from Monica to that question.
Whatever it is called, we still need a nice simple single number that is a rough measure of how much good content someone has contributed, as judged by all others on that site. "Reputation" is a r...
I've noticed this in several cases in the last day or so. The activity shown in the question list does not match the actual activity. Here is one example activity list entry: The actual questi...
I agree that the site proposal and validation process needs a re-do. One of the biggest problems I see right now is that everything about a new site is limited to a single "question" in the Site P...
The question list for Q&A on the Electrical Engineering site shows this entry: However, in the question (https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/279739), there is nothing indicating the qu...
Title before body in post editor There has been much discussion about the fact that the title is put after the body of the post when writing a question. I, and a number of others, find this unint...
I just noticed something strange. In the Q&A category of Scientific Speculation, I see this list entry: However, the question actually does have an answer. See https://scientific-speculati...
For a while, there had been problems inserting images into posts on particular sites. https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277052. Now it seems this has spread to all sites. When I hover over the...
The banner at the top of a question when the question is closed as a duplicate says in part "This question has been answered before" (example). That really should say "This question has been asked...
why don't the admin[s] just create a community for each subject that Stack launched a site for? Because content doesn't create a community. Engaged users do. If sites here are just clones of els...
There is no need since there already is such a link. That link is always available no matter which moderator tool you are in: Maybe this is browser-specific. This screen shot was with Edge on ...
It seems that two things are required for a new site to be successful: A core group of domain experts that commit to being around to answer questions, and initially, to do the housekeeping. Getti...
In the last few days, something has changed so that I now have to sign in again every visit to Codidact. This is using the same browser on the same machine as before (Edge, Win 10) which worked fi...
status-declined I would like a way to disable Markdown by default in posts I write. The HTML formatting is richer, and it's what I use because I don't feel like having to remember yet another set...
