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Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.

Posts by DonielF‭

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Q&A How does voting on site proposals work?

I've seen a pattern of certain users downvoting on site proposals, not because they are against the proposal itself but rather against the concept of launching a new community. Without calling out ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Comments improvements to indicate assent or dissent with previously posted comments

Often I'm looking over a post and feel that I have what to add as a comment. But as soon as I look at the comments, I find that someone's already written exactly what I would have said. At that poi...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A "Tour" for new users?

Hi everyone! I'm joining the bandwagon coming from SE. I've been active over there for just over four years, so needless to say that I'm very familiar with that platform. Codidact shares a lot of s...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A What defines an "interesting" question?

On the sidebar I see the following widget: "New question" is pretty self-explanatory, but what does "interesting question" mean? What are the requirements for a question to be considered "interest...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Request: Headings and footnotes act as link anchors

Inspired by the change log but certainly not limited to that one post. Many times I find myself writing an answer which goes on for quite a bit, and I find it natural to break it up with # Headers....

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Search UI Overhaul

Currently the search function is severely limited. Right now you can: Match all keywords, one of a selection of keywords, or an exact search for a phrase, with wildcards, weighted keywords, and ne...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭

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Q&A Arranging footer "other codidact sites" list alphabetically rather than chronologically

In the footer, the sites are currently arranged as: Writing Outdoors Photography Sci Spec Cooking Electrical Engineering Judaism L&L Software Dev Meta With the exclusion of setting Meta apart...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel

Article 27 requires members to explicitly recuse themselves if they feel they can't be impartial. I suggest explicitly adding a point here that if a member of the panel is the one raising the charg...

posted 4y ago by DonielF‭

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Q&A Post on Stack Exchange and Codidact

I'll post here the same answer I posted for the Judaism.Codidact variant of this question: Codidact and Stack Exchange are two independent sites. They may have similar functionality at a cursory g...

posted 4y ago by DonielF‭

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Q&A Can auto-saving be individually disabled?

It's probably just my Internet connection, but I often find when I'm composing a post that my window freezes for a few moments so that my post can autosave. Sometimes it happens often enough to be ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Notification system improvements

Issue: Consider the scenario where you post a new question, and five people all write comments or answers on it. Your inbox will then have five notifications in it, one for each new response. You c...

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

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Q&A Allow moderators to pin posts to that site's sidebar, individually or by seasonal event

Featured Posts One neat feature on SE was that mods could mark posts as [featured], and any such-tagged post would appear in a special sidebar widget. That way meta posts which the per-site mods fe...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Imported posts which were then edited are considered native

If you go to the “Native” tab on a site, many imported questions show up. It appears to me that any question which was edited on Codidact is treated as a native question.

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭

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Q&A Images are stretched, not scaled, on narrow browsers

This is what my profile page, as of current writing, looks like on a normal width browser: This is what it looks like once the browser window is sufficiently narrow: I'd have thought that the ima...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Announcing featured links

Thank you for the quick turnaround and the intuitive controls! I can’t tell if I just used post ID improperly or if that override doesn’t work, but using a name and link to a post works like a cha...

posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by DonielF‭

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Q&A Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel

Article 30 discusses that substitutes are sworn in if and only if at least 1/3 of the panel is recused. What happens when exactly two members of the panel are absent? 1/3 of 7 is 2 and change, so i...

posted 4y ago by DonielF‭

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Q&A Is there a way to view all subscriptions in one list?

If I navigate to my list of question subscriptions, all I see is my subscriptions for the current community. The user profile syncs across all sites; is there a way to combine all of the question s...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A NSFW Content Filter

According to the Terms of Service, You agree not to use the Service to [...] violate any applicable law or regulation; [...] post content that is hateful, discriminatory, harmful, illegal, or othe...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Suggestion for allowing to mark answers as "accepted", "outdated" or "dangerous"

Proposal: Integrate the voting system into the reactions feature. Let users react with "this is a good post" or "this is a bad post," with the prompt for an optional comment, and continue weighing ...

posted 4y ago by DonielF‭

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Q&A Feature requests for tag filtering and sorting

Issue #1: On the "tags" tab, there's an option to sort by hierarchy. When you have a lot of child tags under the same parent tag, or multiple parents next to each other with lots of children, thing...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by DonielF‭

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Q&A HTML tables are misdisplayed

With this code: <tr> <th>Downvotes</th> <th>Minimum upvotes to stay above 40%</th> </tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td&gt...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Community Ad Templates now available

[status-completed] - This has been completed. Exclusion of some categories (ex. Meta) and requiring a minimum score is now possible. Regarding the third ad template, the one which takes a random u...

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

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Q&A Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel

Article 1 discusses each appointee's vote scores. When trust levels are rolled out, will this clause be affected as well to instead reference the appointees with the lowest trust levels? Additional...

posted 4y ago by DonielF‭  ·  edited 4y ago by DonielF‭

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