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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 Alexei‭

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Q&A 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://electrica...

1 answer  ·  posted 28d ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 6d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 9mo ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A 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: ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Move current password field up in the edit account settings

Currently, the change password form looks like this: 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 fi...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 si...

posted 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A 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 commun...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A 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 impa...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A 404 Not found after donation success

Start browsing at https://software.codidact.com/donate Finalize the donation The browser redirects to https://software.codidact.com/donate/success which displays a 404 Not Found page I have ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 tryin...

posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&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:

posted 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&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 ba...

posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&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...

posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&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...

posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Is there something like a pending edit review list? [duplicate]

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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A How can I remove a tag? [duplicate]

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 remov...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A 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.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A 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 se...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A 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 l...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A 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.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A 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: After further tests, I realized that this happens only if the added tag(s) do not alre...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Ethan‭

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Q&A 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 ed...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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.

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Strange layout issue for a particular Language answer [duplicate]

I have noticed that a particular Language & Liquistics answer has formatting issues: Since this is the only instance I have noticed this behaviour, I assume it is related to the answer content...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A 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 = Ctr...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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