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Activity for Alexei
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Searching tags with a string with more than two characters results in a 500 Trying to filter tags with a string bigger than two characters results in an internal server error (500). Example URLs: - https://software.codidact.com/categories/38/tags?q=dat - https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags?q=dat Other details: - it seems to affect multiple communities... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
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A: Assessing the 5 tag limit I think this also depends on the community, so I suggest changing the limit at the community level instead of having a limit across all the Codidact communities. For the specific case of Software Development, the five-tag limit seems to work fine. If we aim to have meaningful tags as shown by Lund... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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January 2023 Newsletter featured link broken on Codidact communities other than Meta I have noticed that the January 2023 Newsletter featured link is pointing to the current page URL instead of the blog post when it is rendered on a site that it is not Meta Codidact. Examples: - https://software.codidact.com/ -> January 2023 Newsletter featured link target is the current page URL ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Move current password field up in the edit account settings Currently, the change password form looks like this: Edit account - change password form Having a form like this might create some problems: - Password - is it the new one or the old one? we find out only by checking the other fields. - it is different from virtually all sites I know which ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Codidact's policy regarding posts, user names and profiles with political content Important note: this is my personal perspective, but it is the basis for my moderation activity on Software Codidact Political content in posts Unless we are talking about Politics Codidact or similar, I consider that political content is offtopic in posts. Political content in the user prof... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Please make dashboard button/link easier to access Until reading this thread I did not know that the dashboard even exists. It took me a little bit to find it, so there is a chance it might be hard to find for other users as well. The upper communities list content is rather strange because its actions are not put together: Sign Out is put next to... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Minimal data explorer for analytics I am wondering if we can have a minimal data explorer for Codidact communities: - mirror the publicly available tables/columns in a separate database (can be done once per day to minimize the impact) - allow logged-in users (maybe have a privilege for this?) to issue read queries with a pretty sm... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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404 Not found after donation success 1. Start browsing at https://software.codidact.com/donate 1. Finalize the donation 1. The browser redirects to https://software.codidact.com/donate/success which displays a 404 Not Found page I have tried this on Software development community only, but I guess it might happen on other communiti... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Should we remove closed questions from the question list? Yes I have been thinking about this for a while, even before Codidact existed and I think the hard reality is that it is almost impossible to have a "one size fits all" (what SE is basically trying) that works fine for everyone involved. Most of the time, it is a huge gap between newbies and exper... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: More answer feedback -- Reactions are coming to Codidact This is not a bug, just a rather funny result as we virtually allow anything as a user name: (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Is it possible to accept an answer? How to accept an answer? As already mentioned it is not possible to accept an answer on Codidact, as opposed to what happens on the Stack Exchange network. Having accepted answers (+ pinning them) might lead to having a bad answer marked as accepted and Stack Overflow is currently spending a lot of time and effort to fix thi... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: How should we make pending edit suggestions more visible? As a user who has to visit the Edits for each of the Software Development community, I can provide some feedback: - unify all edits into a single section. For now, it can be placed as another link next to Help (and Mod for the moderators). There are very few edit suggestions per time frame and I s... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: How should we approach our (non-developer) software community proposals? I would not merge everything together, but rather have the following communities: - leave Software Development as it is - Power User community separate and define a category for Office suites - have a Linux community. Linux OS (installation, configuration etc.) is an entire world that cannot mix... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Is there something like a pending edit review list? I have recently stumbled across a post (cannot seem to find it again) that had a pending edit for about one month. This is very unpleasant for the user making the edit. I am wondering if there is a way for users having this right to approve pending edits to see a list of these items. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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How can I remove a tag? I have just realized that a tag is redundant: angular-2+ since we have one for [angular] (as opposed with the old flavor, [angularjs]). I have removed it from the only question and I want to remove it. How can I do that? P.S. I have just realized that I can merge these two, but a direct removal... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: A "Super user" like community to include Q&As about software applications usage Based on provided feedback I will wrap up the proposal in this answer: The name Power User Codidact Backers / contributors This is the list of users that seem to support this community (did not manage to talk yet, they are deducted by me, feel free to add/remove). - Alexei - Monica Ce... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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How many votes are required for special actions like close, reopen, delete or restore? I am wondering about the number of votes required to perform the following actions: - close - reopen - delete - restore I have found this forum thread, but it is unclear what are the current values. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A "Super user" like community to include Q&As about software applications usage Update: launched We have currently several questions that do not seem to be very welcomed on Software Codidact (example). I think that many of these questions are interesting, but they do not seem to fit within the software (programming) community. However, they will fit in a "Super User" l... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Let us have more relevant tooltips for up/down vote buttons Sometimes when stumbling across a question I wonder if I should upvote / downvote or not. When this happened on SE sites, I hovered over the buttons and read the description. Currently, Codidact seems to inform me about the change in the total score (e.g. 0.666667), but this is not particularly us... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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How to financially support the Codidact project? The main Codidact page tells us that: > Our goal is to build an open-source platform for community-driven Q&A sites. We aim to welcome beginners and experts alike and to empower communities of learners and teachers. We'll fund it by seeking donations, not by paywalls, and work with individual com... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Show tooltip for tag when hovering over it It would be nice if hovering on a question tag, a tooltip containing the whole HTML formatted usage guidance is shown. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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How to make an edit that only changes the tag list by adding a tag that does not exist? I tried to add a tag to an existing post by editing it and it failed because there was no actual post edit: No changes were saved did not edit the post After further tests, I realized that this happens only if the added tag(s) do not already exist (probably the validation sees no difference bec... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Adding a parent to a tag crashes on the server side (500) This was already asked on Software, but it makes sense add Codidact level. If I try to provide a parent to a tag, it crashes with 500. - Error Id = 6bd06f30-539d-4b88-8743-eca32a8465cd - Tag to edit = https://software.codidact.com/categories/38/tags/3338/edit - Added parent = office It see... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Please add tooltips for admins / moderator "icons" (characters) in the user list Just a tiny cosmetic stuff easy to fix. Please add tooltip for the characters used for admins and moderators in the user list. Note: I know these already exist in the actual user profile. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Strange layout issue for a particular Language answer I have noticed that a particular Language & Liquistics answer has formatting issues: Image alt text Since this is the only instance I have noticed this behaviour, I assume it is related to the answer content itself (contains Chinese characters). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Keyboard shortcuts for frequently used editor options It would be nice for the post editor should have keyboard shortcuts for most frequently used commands. My proposal is to use familiar shortcuts like the following: - Bold = Ctrl + B - Italic = Ctrl + I - `Monospace font` = Ctrl + K (I guess this is for code) - Link = Ctrl + L - Block quote = C... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Should tags be written in American or in British English? A similar question was asked on English language and usage and the answer is that it depends on the audience. However choosing American English might be a better choice since it is more likely for the audience to be familiar with it: > (..) many Europeans have spent time in the U.S., or at least... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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What happened to codidact / core project in ASP.NET? Several months ago when I first took a look upon Codidact project, I saw that it is using ASP.NET Core 3.1 and I said to myself that this is a project that I can contribute to. This frameworks seems to be the most loved web framework according to SO survey. Unfortunately, things happened and I onl... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Avatars fail to due to unicornify.pictures outdated Go version This is not a codidact issue per se, but it affects the avatar functionality: Avatar placehoder https://unicornify.pictures/avatar/{id}?s=16 fails because unicornify.pictures has an outdated Go version: > Go 1.9 is no longer available. Please refer to https://goo.gl/aESk5L for more informat... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Why does the title come after the body when writing a question? This might sound silly, but ever since I wrote my first post here, I have noticed that the title comes after the body and I find it quite strange. Since I have some activity using Stack Exchange (both public and private) I am very used to having the title before the body, so I thought I am way to... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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What are the steps between community proposal and the actual spawn of that community? Codidact features a list of communities, but none of them seems to address software development. I have seen Professional coding proposal and I think Monica's proposal makes even more sense since we do not want to copy Stack Overflow and at the beginning, it might be wiser to start with broader sc... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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Clicking outside of notification popup does not close it I know that notifications will be revamped in the future, but this is small and quite a nuisance. If you click on Notifications icon, the notification list pops up. Directly dismissing it by clicking outside of the popup is not possible. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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What is the requirement to be able to vote up a post in Meta? I want to vote up a question in meta and I receive the following error: > Failed: You have used your daily vote limit: 0/0 (403) I assume that I must have a minimum reputation (currently I have 1), but I cannot find out anything of a reasonable size about the matter. Update: I have just... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |