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Activity for Moshi
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #287961 |
Post edited: Provided quick link to the Stripe privacy policy |
— | 11 days ago |
| Edit | Post #287909 |
Post edited: Retagged |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #287896 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #283323 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #287889 |
Post edited: Distinguish community questions and general law questions |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #287889 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Answer | — |
A: A place to ask legal questions? There is currently no general law community. However, domain specific questions might be able to be asked on their respective communities. (e.g. perhaps food safety regulations on Cooking) This however would need to be asked individually on each community for them to decide whether it would be on-top... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #287864 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Long list of posts comes first in the user profile Looking at the user profile on mobile, I noticed that what could be considered the user summary (the avatar, earned abilities, and statistics like number of posts) is all the way at the bottom of the page, after scrolling past the list of posts. This is a bit odd to me from a design perspective, s... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287837 |
Post edited: Retagged |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287841 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: UI question: how should the "post" button behave in restricted categories? > Show different text, either replacing the button or as different text on the button. We could put something like a lock icon . This would immediately signal to the user that this is something that requires some kind of access. Button: Create Post (Lock Icon) We could leave the button enabl... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287718 |
They use the same renderer. In actuality, only the client renders the post, then sending it to the server. However, in addition to the client renderer, there is also an HTML scrubber for security purposes on the server side.
Honestly, the way we do post rendering and validation in general has a lo... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #279562 |
Post edited: Retagged |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287712 |
Post edited: |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287692 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Should we have organization accounts? I've seen many times something like "This is just my personal opinion, not of the team" when administrators such as Monica Cellio respond to posts. In my opinion, this is because of a lack of a way to distinguish the two through authorship alone. Therefore, should shared/organization accounts be a... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287691 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Preview text for answers should be the answer's text When searching, not only questions but also answers come up in the results. However, the information on it is mixed between the question that the answer is on and the answer itself: Search result of answer with question text - Title: Question title (answers don't have titles, so this makes sen... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #277238 |
Post edited: |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287638 |
Post edited: Added GitHub link |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287624 |
Threads are not auto-deleted, but auto-archived. It used to be that there was a separate "archived" tab, but it's just put into "older threads" now. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287622 |
> A Discord channel would allow notification of new answers, but I don't know if it's possible to set that up in a Discord thread. Maybe it would be useful to have a way of following new answers on a specific question (I couldn't see a way for new answers, only for new comment threads).
I don't ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287622 |
> However, comment threads don't have the ability to reply to a specific comment (only to a specific user). Long conversations could get confusing. I find comment threads work very well for short targeted queries, but they don't seem well suited to ongoing discussion.
This is a planned feature, th... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287622 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Creating new Discord channels Technical questions > Is it possible for Codidact Communities Discord users to create new channels? Currently there is a channel per community, but I was wondering if there is the option of creating more narrowly defined topic channels. I couldn't see a way to, but I'm not familiar with Discord. ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287550 |
Post edited: Retagged |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #286221 |
Post edited: |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287545 |
Adding to the above,
[Why prefering Codidact to Stack Exchange?](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/278006 )
[Is the Codidact community the same as Stack Overflow?](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/286221)
[What should I know when coming here from Stack exchange?](https://meta.codidact.com/post... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287466 |
https://github.com/codidact/co-design/issues/72 (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287476 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287488 |
Post edited: Fixed some typoes |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287250 |
Codidact isn't a forum; it is a Q&A (question and answer) site. A user should expect that the first thing they see is The Answer - not the first answer, but the best answer, which here is determined by voting. Think StackExchange, Quora, Alternative.to, etc.
Further, many popular forums sort by "B... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287147 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287190 |
It's probably impossible. The previous searches popup is a browser functionality, nothing to do with Codidact itself. I'll defer to the actual tech team though to confirm. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287189 |
See here: https://meta.codidact.com/users/53196/posts
Instead of linking "Total" to the search page, it might be better to link to the above (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286827 |
We have a [dedicated site](https://collab.codidact.org/posts/280447) for questions about hosting your own instance, including setup guides and debugging help. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #286759 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Warnings and suspensions log should include suspended abilities Not sure if this is an oversight or a bug, but suspending a privilege doesn't add a log to the "warnings and suspensions sent to user" moderator tool. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286757 |
Since this would be another filter, I don't think having the view changes is much of an issue: after all, it's natural for the "Positive" tab and the "All" tab to have differences, isn't it?
Also, like I mentioned on my previous answer, "Positive" could be set as the default, making it even more m... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286753 |
Perhaps I was thinking too much of it being *notes* on a user, rather than a *log*. The latter should obviously be immutable, while I was thinking of the former more like a shared space for moderators (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #286750 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Newlines and formatting in user annotations Another self-explanatory feature-request. Currently user-annotations are one-line and plain-text only, which is a little restrictive. I wanted to add a link to the comment that had prompted the note, and it would be nice for it to be clickable. Newlines would also be nice so that I could, e.g. hav... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #286749 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Make user-annotations editable Basically the title. There's no edit button for annotations in the mod-tools, so if I make a mistake, there's no way to fix it. (I hit the enter key thinking it would insert a newline, but apparently annotations are one line only and it just submitted) (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #286747 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Filter to show only positive posts In the past and more recently, there's been an issue of many negatively received posts being posted, leading to the front page being primarily negative. This is, of course, rather bad for image. Could another front-page filter, "Positive", be added which would filter out the negative posts? Perhap... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #286686 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Should tag editing be separate from post editing? Should tag editing be separate from post editing? By that I mean having a specific workflow to modify the tags of a question, different from the workflow to edit the content. Intuitively, I believe that tags are metadata, meaning separating it from the content itself makes sense to me. On a practi... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #286674 |
Post edited: |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286486 |
> In case I don't remember, I have to open the question in a separate page to read it, then go back to the previous page to comment.
I'm a bit confused. Why do you need to go to a separate page to read what you've written? The post is on the thread page as well. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286486 |
> you sometimes (upon following a comment notification) have to view the post and its related comments in separate windows,
I thought that comment threads always have the post they are attached to (and the parent post to that, if applicable) on the page as collapsible sections? If there is a case ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #286468 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #286460 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286445 |
https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277349/285281#answer-285281
(I assume by Main site you mean the Q&A category) (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286438 |
Downvotes on this answer or the question being discussed? Personally, I don't agree with Olin's vote, but I respect that he considers it a valid downvote and overall, I agree with this answer. That's what *votes* are for, after all; they get summed up so that the community as a whole comes to a conse... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286332 |
Probably a dupe of https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277522, but since this one has better answers maybe this one should be the dupe target. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #286303 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286243 |
Well, archiving is there and I feel like this is more or less the idea situation for it. Also, perhaps someone would want to contest the change, and keeping the old thread around can provide more context for why it happened / provide a place to continue discussing the change, if archived and not lock... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #286243 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
Archive to mark as "resolved", without locking the comment? I've recently come across a situation where I thought archiving the comment thread was appropriate: A user suggested an improvement in the thread, and that improvement was then implemented (by me). Then I realized that archiving actually also locks the thread and prevents anyone from responding fu... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #285954 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285845 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285694 |
What would this add in addition to user profiles? You say that it would complement profiles, but what could a user use such a feature for that would be different from just putting it in their profile itself? (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285658 |
@#8046 given that tags are pretty clearly delimited in the editor, I don't think that there would be much confusion.
@#54706 we could technically have that (in fact, we used to before the no-spaces rule was put in place) but for whatever reason that got removed (I forgot why since it was some time... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285658 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Users can suggest tags with spaces (but the suggestion can't be approved) See this suggested edit, where the user suggested adding the tag "American English". Due to it having a space, I am unable to approve the edit, getting the message > Tags may not include spaces or underscores Note: I changed the tag from "American English" to "American-English" to try to get i... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285567 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Incubator (takes all questions that aren't ontopic anywhere else) community I am in favor of such a site. Although, yes, when launching a new community, we should "Ensure that there is high quality, unique content upon launch", this incubator would serve as the place to collect that content in the first place. Once we see that hey, this topic is often asked about, with a ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285287 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Can we please stop linkifying random strings that happen to look like domain names? (Reposting here for visibility) For the time being, there is a relatively simple workaround. It appears that Markdown isn't detected within HTML tags, so you can wrap the URL-like in a span or other tag and it won't turn into a link. `dead.sh` -> dead.sh `dead.sh` -> dead.sh etc. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285281 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Search by category This has been completed. From the help center, > To filter by category, you will need to know the unique numeric id for that category. This can be found by looking at the url shown when you click to view all posts in a particular category. Use the formatting `category:xxxx` to apply this filter. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285280 |
If there exists an acceptable answer to your question elsewhere, it is fine to self-answer with a link and some quotations of that answer. That way, others who find the question on Codidact have a direct link to the answer. If the answer truly does solve the problem effectively and clearly, then it's... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285257 |
Post edited: Tagged, added Github issue link |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285249 |
I can confirm that it's a coincidence. L&L's stats are similarly weird, but are different
Questions 97
Answers 68
Comments 178
**Categories**
Q&A 272
Resources 7
Meta 65 (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285245 |
Post edited: Retagged |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285227 |
What do you mean by "After 2 exists"? If you mean after the feature is implemented, why not just aim for that in the first place? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285202 |
@#54706 there are certain things the make sense to be on global meta since they affect every site, mainly feature requests for, bugs in, and questions about the Codidact software itself (qpixel), and support for questions about the Codidact organization. Those wouldn't make sense to ask about on indi... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #279076 |
@#54706
> Often enough I first write a preliminary title, then the body and finally return to the title and adapt it.
That's actually the kind of thing that we wanted to avoid users doing. As you say, even you go back to the title to adapt it once you write the body; this is just the softwar... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285146 |
Post edited: feature-request and support should be used for Codidact features and questions; changed mentions of "Wiki" to "Wikipedia" |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285128 |
To be fair, we already have the Native filter that is grouped with the sorting tabs. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285128 |
Post edited: Thinking more, "Hot" is kind of a terrible name for it |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285128 |
I'm a fan of descriptive names so I don't really like calling it "default", but I wouldn't be opposed if that's what you want to name it. But yeah, thinking harder about it, I think "Hot" isn't a good name for it, I think I'll just remove it. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285128 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Should we modify the default (front) page for anonymous visitors? How about having another tab (next to "Activity", "Age", "Score", "Random") in the category listing called "Positive", that would be the new default? When listing by that tab, it would show only positively scored posts. Users could have a new setting, "Default category sort", where they can choose... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285076 |
What I'm getting from this is that we need to "beta" our sites, similar to SE. I completely agree, actually, but also for another reason: expectation management. Users who come to a site with low activity feel like asking and sticking around isn't beneficial. Users who come to a *beta* site feel like... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285097 |
Post edited: Added GitHub link |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284971 |
Post edited: English please |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284725 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Where can I report private issues Sometimes, there are issues that should not be made public (for instance, issues relating to security or privacy) and as such should not be posted here on Meta. Given the potential severity of those issues though, it is important to be able to notify Codidact in some way. Where can users privately... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284720 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284494 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Implement reactions for top level posts Reiterating my request on the original reactions proposal, please allow the ability to set up reactions for top level posts as well. Quoting from that request, > If reactions are able to be added to these sort of 'questions', we can have "Reproduced"/"Not Reproduced" for bug reports instead of the... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284332 |
@#53452 Perhaps if that situation occurs, a little notice telling you something like "this question has been answered by a user you have blocked" when starting to write your own answer. That way, it's out of the way until it's actually useful. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284425 |
I see what you're getting at, but we do still want to correctly attribute all changes to posts. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284169 |
Other than the small section at the end, I don't see any mention of it. Say a question was closed as a duplicate. Accordingly, there is a disagree button that people can click on. Is there a threshold amount of disagree votes that need to be cast after which it is reopened? Given it seems like disagr... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284169 |
> The author is given specific editing guidance (or can accept a dupe suggestion). If the author edits in response to the dupe suggestion, and has the Edit ability, we (initially) trust that the edit resolved the issue -- clear the dupe suggestions, record everything in the history, and otherwise res... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284169 |
Can one disagree with a duplicate suggestion while the duplicate suggestion is pending? From the overview, it seems like it should be so, but the functional specification does not say that it is possible - is this an oversight? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284105 |
Post edited: Made a mistake |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284105 |
@#53922 Just saw your answer, you're right, it's on editing, my bad. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284105 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Mention is red when comment is edited I noticed that after you edit a comment mentioning someone, the comment has the mention marked in red, indicating that the mention failed, instead of the proper blue color. Refreshing fixes it, but it's a bit confusing. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284083 |
@#8176 No, I start at the beginning and move as far right (even past the visible end of the title)
What browser are you using? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284083 |
Copy pasting doesn't give a space for me (though inspect element does show a space - odd) (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284005 |
Post edited: Changed the title to the actual question |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #283984 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #283928 |
You say that the only function closing has is preventing a post from being answered, but the duplicate and superceded close reasons help show intent and link to another post. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #283920 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Closing Articles I noticed that there isn't a way to close Article type posts. While some of the close reasons might not be very applicable to Articles, I think that at least the off-topic, outdated, and duplicate closures would be useful. Could the ability to close Articles be added? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #283801 |
Post edited: Editing again since I was sniped |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #283801 |
The minimum length for a title is 15 characters. It could theoretically be raised, but that doesn't really help with the problem of forgetting to finish the title. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #283801 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #283764 |
Reputation was recalculated due to Sandbox posts no longer giving reputation. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #283668 |
Relevant Github Issue: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/619 (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #283632 |
Post edited: Clarify title; retag |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #283572 |
See for example https://meta.codidact.com/posts/283569, and try hovering over the (at time of commenting) "<i class="fa fa-pencil-alt"></i> 2m ago by Istiak"; it doesn't work. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #283528 |
@#54243 The point is that there's nothing to protect against. There's simply no way to harm using just Unicode. After all, it is ultimately just text. At most, they can create funny looking text, but that's the extent of it. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #283545 |
Post edited: Clarity |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #283545 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Difficulties with mentioning non-ASCII usernames I realize that some usernames are very difficult to mention due to the way that the current system works. Currently, you have to type in at least three characters after the `@` before the list of mentionable users shows up. As this user mentions (and demonstrates), users with non-ASCII usernames a... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #283318 |
We don't even have such a thing as an accepted answer here, so I don't think this can apply here. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #283234 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Don't put "last activity" on new posts When a new post appears in the category, it has both "posted ..." and "last activity ..." on it. It's a minor annoyance, but I feel like there shouldn't be a duplicate notice. posted 1m ago by Moshi · last activity 1m ago by Moshi (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #283233 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
"posted <time> ago by <user>" doesn't appear on Articles Basically the title. In category feeds containing Articles (e.g. Meta Blog or the Code Golf Sandbox), Articles don't have the "posted \ ago by \" as with Q&A posts. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #283117 |
Post edited: Retagged as [support][markdown] |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #283119 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Why do quotation boxes split themselves? Connect them with > ``` >first paragraph > >second paragraph ``` >first paragraph > >second paragraph If you split them, the quotations will be split ``` >first quotation >second quotation ``` >first quotation >second quotation (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #283041 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Keyboard shortcuts for comment mentions & search dropdowns When writing a comment, you can type @so-and-so and a little popup will show you the mentionable people that match so-and-so. The new search options seem to use the same dropdown. However, for both, there doesn't seem to be a way to select them without using your mouse and clicking on the one you wan... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #282342 |
@#8045 Thanks! Could you set those two posts to status-completed? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #282885 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #282240 |
@#36396 On the other hand, I consider "computer games" to be synonymous with "PC games," i.e. video games that are specifically played on a computer, not on console. Though doing a quick search on the web, there doesn't seem to be a consensus on where the boundaries are drawn.
If we want to be *re... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #282531 |
While interesting ideas, could you split these requests into separate posts? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #282397 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Threaded comments are here! feature-request status-completed I think it would be useful to display the post above each comment page so that it's easy to reference it when writing your comments. Status completed: screenshot showing "post" expander (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282342 |
Also, I think there was some suggestion somewhere about increasing the character limit for comments, though I can't find it at the moment. I also think it'd be nice if the limit was raised though, since I've seen *a lot* of (1/2), (2/2) style comments recently. I myself have run into it quite often, ... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282342 |
Now that space is less of an issue, could we revisit comment limitations? I'm reminded of some of my older suggestions about allowing [paragraphs](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/278722) and [blockquotes](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277872) in comments. One of the main concerns on the latter sugg... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282367 |
I believe that the Menorah on Judaism is the [Temple menorah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_menorah) (seven holders), not the [Hanukkah menorah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah_menorah) (nine holders) (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282242 |
Post edited: Added myself~ |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282362 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Link in notification for new comments doesn't include the community in url I recently got a notification for a comment on Math. However, when viewing the notification on Meta, the link to the comment was wrong. A quick inspect element shows that it is just pointing towards /comments/thread/3364, which on Meta will go to https://meta.codidact.com/comments/thread/3364 (doe... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282336 |
I have upvoted this because I think it is a good thing to discuss, not because my answer is "yes" (clarifying just in case) (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278748 |
Post edited: Example is no longer relevant |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282240 |
Post edited: Reworded the double-negative regarding piracy |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282185 |
"Taking over vertical space with headers..." Actually, on my display, the new site has a *shorter* header - the main space issue is because of the larger font size used for post titles and such. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282165 |
Post edited: |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282165 |
@MonicaCellio Thanks :) It's still happening. I also hard refreshed, so I don't think it's a cache issue with my browser. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282165 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Edit button is still "Suggest Edit" I recently got the ability to directly edit posts. However, the button to edit the posts still is still labeled as "Suggest Edit" instead of simply "Edit". toolbar This is purely a visual bug; I am still able to directly edit posts. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282163 |
Post edited: tag -> tags |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282159 |
Post edited: Retagged |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282148 |
Post edited: Hid away the massive image in collapsible section |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #282148 |
Suggested edit: Hid away the massive image in collapsible section (more) |
helpful | almost 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #282159 |
Suggested edit: Retagged (more) |
helpful | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282157 |
Related: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/281824 (drafts do not automatically clear on submission) (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282101 |
@Istiak You can visit the mockup on your phone and see if it looks right. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282104 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Taking our design to the next level: feedback wanted Add exclude options for the tag filter Perhaps add a section below the tag include filter so we can quickly and easily exclude specific tags from our searches. (Typing out a full tag:bug -tag:status-completed is both cumbersome and requires knowledge of search syntax) (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282103 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Taking our design to the next level: feedback wanted Keep the bidirectional score bar I personally prefer the current bidirectional score bar over the proposed one. It allows unscored (0-0) and neutral posts to have zero color, making it more visually neutral to my eye. It also makes negatively scored posts more visually negative, since it goes in t... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282102 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Taking our design to the next level: feedback wanted Keep special styling for top level and moderator tags (Top level being the blue discussion, feature-request, bug, and support tags, and moderator being the red status tags) Since those tags are special, I'd like them to have special styling in the updated design as well. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282101 |
I'm not really a fan of the change in the post score bar, though that's just my opinion. I prefer the current directional bar (-100 to 100, bar goes left for negative, right for positive, and no color for neutral) instead of having it on a 0 to 100 scale. On separate note, what does the "Review Answe... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282101 |
Filter looks good, but I'm a bit confused as to how it works, particularly the "Exclude questions with downvotes" toggle - does it exclude questions with *any* downvotes, or just those that have a net negative score?
Also, the tag filter is a bit weird. It seems like to remove a tag from the fil... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282101 |
Some random comments:
Generally looks good, but could we retain the special formatting of the discussion, bug, feature-request, etc. tags? Right now on the mockup they look the same as every other tag.
Also, minor sticking point, but it looks like avatars are going to be changed to a circle shape... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281909 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #281909 |
Suggested edit: Tagged (more) |
helpful | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282035 |
Post edited: Retagged |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #282035 |
Suggested edit: Retagged (more) |
helpful | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282001 |
Post edited: Made title more specific & retagged |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #282001 |
Suggested edit: Made title more specific & retagged (more) |
helpful | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281137 |
@MonicaCellio Could you link the reopened issue? (btw, adding the semicolon after my name prevented it from notifying me.) (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281137 |
There is a new case of this on this post: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/280367/history (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281799 |
Post edited: Tagged as "marketing" (for the sake of organizing SEO/marketing/general outreach discussion posts) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #281799 |
Suggested edit: Tagged as "marketing" (for the sake of organizing SEO/marketing/general outreach discussion posts) (more) |
helpful | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281825 |
Post edited: Retagged as support; capitalized title |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #281825 |
Suggested edit: Retagged as support; capitalized title (more) |
helpful | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281610 |
Post edited: Update |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281615 |
"The most obvious example is the issue with status tags added to bug reports here on meta." Actually, status tags *should* bump posts. Since there's currently no way to follow a specific post, having the post bumped is the easiest way for users to be notified that the issue/request they have has been... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281610 |
Post edited: Addressing some of the responses |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281610 |
If its really such an issue, the easy solution is just to make so that "minor edits" are restricted to those with the Edit privilege, who we already trust not to make bad edits @Sigma (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281610 |
@OlinLathrop Well, the edit approval process exists for a reason... (if they are editng their own post with bad intent, well, they're only sabotaging themselves). (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281610 |
@Sigma To answer your question, it would be a human marking it. I don't think it's feasible for there to be a system for it. As for the good faith thing... I'm sorry, I still don't understand what the concern is. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281610 |
@OlinLathrop I'm not sure what you mean by that. How exactly could one abuse this feature? The only difference between a "minor" edit and a non-minor one would be whether it bumps the post. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281610 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Could we have a way to edit without bumping posts? Whenever a post is edited, the question is automatically bumped to the top of the category post list. This is useful for major changes to posts because people can see that something has changed. However, it is a slight annoyance when the edit is extremely minor, such as changing the tags of a ques... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281577 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #281577 |
Suggested edit: Tagged (more) |
helpful | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281507 |
Tags aren't used in isolation. If something is tagged both "feature-request" and "planned", and further, is on the Meta for that site, I think people can reasonable infer that yes, it means that the feature is planned, not that the feature is *about* "planned".
Somewhat of an aside, but you don't di... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281505 |
Post edited: Deleted extra 'usually' |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281507 |
"The "status-" is part of the name to avoid having only one type of "encoding"; somebody who can't see the colors can still tell the difference" Is there some reason there needs to be a difference? The colors, IMO, are decorative, not informative. If the tag was just named "completed", its still obvi... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281505 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Let's revamp our status tags I'm all for changing the colors - usually, red is a negative indicator, which IMO doesn't fit with [status-completed] or [status-planned] or even [status-deferred] Purple would be a nice color, but it's unfortunately not on the official Co-design color list, which is used to style everything on Co... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277424 |
Post edited: Updated list of allowed tags and attributes |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281410 |
"perhaps the totals include deleted posts that are not displayed" Yes, the prime example is probably the ever-humorous [TibetLhasatourpackage](https://meta.codidact.com/categories/3/tags/3030) (In the tag list, it shows there exists one (deleted) post). @FoggyFinder is also correct, though even in th... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #277424 |
Suggested edit: Updated list of allowed tags and attributes (more) |
helpful | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281146 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Long text overflows in post history In this post history, a very long link greatly overflows the width of the diff box. Overflowing text in post history You can see there is a tail peeking out from the right side, and a horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the page. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280993 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Do I need to conceal or blur brand names? Tl;dr, as long as you state any affiliation, you're fine Refer to the promotional content guidelines Reproduced here: > - You must explicitly state your affiliation. If you're linking your dragon-riding place, please just include a disclaimer that clearly states how you're connected with it.... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280973 |
Post edited: |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280973 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Ad templates don't work with Articles Ad templates (which community ads use) don't give an image for Article type posts. For example, for this promoted post, the image url that is used in the sidebar is https://languages.codidact.com/ca/posts/277380.png which gives a 500 server error and so appears as a dead image icon. This also a... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280962 |
I'm not sure if you're asking Codidact to start a new "Engineering" community (in which case this should be moved to Site Proposals) or if you want the current EE community to broaden (in which case it should be brought up on EE Meta, not here) (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280874 |
Authors already are notified about suggested edits, so that's one thing checked off (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280879 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Community ad replaces characters with question marks Recently, I saw this community ad: Question marks replace unknown characters in community ad The actual title is 'Caution' and 'cautious' with ʃ or ʒ? The IPA characters seem to be unknown to whatever is rendering the ad, and so they were replaced by question marks. This is bad for obvious reas... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280861 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Cancelation prompt is unintuitive After hitting the "Cancel" button when writing or editing a post, a prompt shows up that says > Any unsaved changes will be lost. Are you sure? > > [Okay] [Cancel] Hitting [Okay] will kick you out of the editor (as expected). However, hitting [Cancel] will also kick you out of the editor, ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280846 |
Post edited: Edited error with exact text |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280846 |
@MonicaCellio I've updated the post (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280846 |
Post edited: Updated to clarify some things |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280846 |
@MonicaCellio I've successfully nominated other articles, so that's not the problem (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280846 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Unable to nominate post for promotion When trying to nominate this post for promotion, it didn't work. Clicking the nomination button did nothing. Checking the console, I believe this is likely a client script error rather than a server error, as the following TypeError appears on the page for that post but not on other posts (where I... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280689 |
Can't reproduce, maybe it's been changed? (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280779 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280779 |
Suggested edit: Tagged (more) |
helpful | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280789 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Add a way to change the flag reasons for a community In the mod tools, we can change the close reasons. This is helpful when a community possibly needs more or less than normal. However, there isn't a way to change the flags, which means that we might close reasons that don't have a relevant flag to them. Of course, the "other" flag exists, but it w... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280723 |
Is there a way to change the flag reasons? (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280723 |
Is there a way to change the maximum number of tags per post? (Either per category or community-wide) (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280722 |
Post edited: Retagged |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280722 |
Suggested edit: Retagged (more) |
helpful | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280631 |
Post edited: Retagged |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280632 |
As for the fourth point, that comment was in the context of lacking underlining capabilities. We can totally underline stuff here, so there's no reason to resort to coloring (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280632 |
The main concern here would be accessibility, I think. I for one already have some difficulty with some links here since they aren't visually distinct from the surrounding text other than a slightly different color. (As an aside, could you reformat your post to add context to your points? E.g. point ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280631 |
Suggested edit: Retagged (more) |
helpful | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280602 |
Post edited: Retagged (technically this would apply to any type of post, so removed the specific question tag) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280602 |
Suggested edit: Retagged (technically this would apply to any type of post, so removed the specific question tag) (more) |
helpful | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280584 |
Post edited: Retagged |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280584 |
Suggested edit: Retagged (more) |
helpful | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280464 |
Post edited: Added links to the individual discussions |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280482 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280481 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280482 |
Suggested edit: Tagged (more) |
helpful | about 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280481 |
Suggested edit: Tagged (more) |
helpful | about 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280464 |
Suggested edit: Added links to the individual discussions (more) |
helpful | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280487 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280487 |
Suggested edit: Tagged (more) |
helpful | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280464 |
By the way, the numbering issue is a bug, see https://meta.codidact.com/posts/278500 (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280464 |
Regarding #6: Codidact's philosophy is to devalue 'reputation score'. A good answer is a good answer regardless of the reputation of the one posting it. On the other side, a good user should be evaluated using more nuanced metrics than how high their score is (e.g. A user with a 100 'good' posts and ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280464 |
#1 The first row is categories, which SE doesn't have. Merging the two rows wouldn't be a good idea since it'd make it more confusing, imo.
#3 Why do you think that the number of answers is more relevant than the last activity? neither of them are particularly useful to understanding the question, a... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280356 |
Possibly the same cause as https://meta.codidact.com/posts/279896 ? (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280300 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Comment link from activity page uses both answer and comment id in link After commenting on an answer, the "more" link to the comment from the activity page on the user profile uses both the answer id and the comment id. For example, this link: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/280005#answer-280011#comment-7785 The above link doesn't scroll to the comment like it sho... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280149 |
Post edited: |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280149 |
Suggested edit: (more) |
helpful | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280123 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280123 |
Suggested edit: Tagged (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280126 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Why can't I upload pictures from a link? You can use markdown formatting to directly link the image, like so: ```markdown alt text ``` E.g. ```markdown alt text ``` becomes alt text (Andonier, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) This will not upload the image to Codidact, merely link it, but it should be good enoug... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280115 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Add a link to the dashboard somewhere I realized that the dashboard isn't particularly easy to find for new people, which is a shame since it's pretty useful. (It shows which communities have new activity at a glance, handy for those in multiple like me). Could we have a link to it somewhere? Perhaps a button in the top bar, or as a ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280114 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280114 |
Suggested edit: Tagged (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280086 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280086 |
Suggested edit: Tagged (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280078 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280078 |
I can't reproduce either - this is what I see for suggested edits, do you see something different? https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/fQkUdkTtrUEYTuED9gebxZNu (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280078 |
Suggested edit: Tagged (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280054 |
@Canina updated (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280054 |
Post edited: Update |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280046 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280047 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280043 |
Post edited: Fixed typo in title |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280046 |
Suggested edit: Tagged (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280047 |
Suggested edit: Tagged (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280043 |
Suggested edit: Fixed typo in title (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280055 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Add more context in the community ads Recently, I saw this promoted post:  I feel like the way it's presented is less than ideal, since 1. It makes no sense out of context (Photo Contest) 2. It's not a question, so calling it one only confuses viewers more While th... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280054 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Overflowing text in community ad A picture is worth a thousand words, but don't put too many words in a picture  As you can see, the title of the post is long enough that it extends past the edges of the image. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280021 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
No sign in button in mobile view Exactly the title; with the new design changes, there are no sign in buttons when using Codidact in the mobile view. screenshot There isn't a button in the hamburger menu either: (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280020 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
404 Not Found for Meta Q&A questions when signed out If you go to any post on the Q&A category here on Meta while not signed in, it gives you a 404 page. E.g. this post, when I'm signed out, gives this 404 error I'm able to view it perfectly fine when I'm signed in. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280011 |
I support this, but would rather you just move it back to where it was originally - there's a big empty space now. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280013 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Category button no longer exists Before the recent updates, there was a button in the navigation bar that lead to the categories page screenshot (screenshot from the the internet archive) Now, however, the button is gone, leaving no link to the page anymore. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279985 |
Post edited: |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279984 |
They've arrived, and are just as buggy as expected (no diss though, I know you've been working hard) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279985 |
Post edited: |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279986 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Community ad is unclickable On mobile (haven't tested on PC yet but did test on desktop mode), the community ad is unclickable; I expected it to link me to the promoted post. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279985 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Community ad has the wrong logo The community ad has the wrong logo, see the screens hot (the post is from Languages & Linguistics, but the logo shows Meta) Screenshot After testing a couple times, it seems to be using the logo of the site the ad is displayed on, instead of the logo of the site the ad is from. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279960 |
@Lundin Personally, I agree with Mithrandir, I don't see the point of choosing mods before the site is up. At the start, the site is small enough that the global mods should do fine.
Of course, if they have experience, then we should factor it in *when* we start to choose mods - but the candidate... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279959 |
Post edited: bolded the part I think is the most important, proposed solution |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279959 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How can we improve community proposals? My three cents > the point is that if supporters "register" somehow, then we know whom to contact and could do it with automation rather than hand-written comment pings. This would essentially be solved by being able to subscribe to a specific post. > I don't know if there is still a meanin... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279899 |
Great, I can see the button again :) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279897 |
Post edited: Clarified the title |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279897 |
I'll update the title to clarify (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279897 |
@MonicaCellio Like I said, it's probably only suggested edits that exhibit this behavior (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279896 |
Post edited: It's just the button, direct urls work fine |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279897 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Suggested Edit comment isn't in post history I recently had one of my suggested edits approved. However, the edit comment doesn't appear on the post history for that post. Other examples of the bug are this suggestion and this suggestion; neither of the edit comments show on their respective posts' histories. This is probably specific to sug... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279896 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
No button to edit or suggest edits on articles It seems that there is no longer a button to suggest edits on article-type posts (e.g. posts in Resources of Languages & Linguistics, or Sandbox of Code Golf.) For example, this post is missing a suggest edit button article post buttons On a normal question, there is a suggest edit (or edit)... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279889 | Post edited | — | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #279889 |
Suggested edit: Slightly clearer title, (emphasizes the main issue, the details are in the post) (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276995 |
Re: *Re "If WSL is on topic" -- could y'all work out at least a high-level scope for this community?*, I've made an answer to discuss WSL specifically. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279874 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Should there be a community here for Linux users? Scope: Should WSL be on-topic? I'd say yes, because it is (technically) Linux, but there might be some peculiarities specific to WSL that would make it too far removed from being a 'Linux' question (e.g. I've seen a lot of WSL bugs ending up being "Microsoft hasn't implemented that functionality y... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276995 |
Oh, If WSL is on topic for this site then I'd probably use it as well (casual) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279862 |
Post edited: added screenshot |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279862 |
Not the sixth comment (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279862 |
@MonicaCellio I'd say when you click "add a comment" (so that they can see if their comment has already been addressed before commenting) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279862 |
@MonicaCellio ... suddenly having 7 notifications in my inbox after switching pages isn't good for my heart... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279862 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Adding a comment displays it at the end of the visible five comments, not the actual end When a post has more than five comments, the comments past the fifth are hidden until you click 'Show more comments'. However, when if you don't click on it and you add a comment, it will display it at the end of the currently visible comments, i.e. it will look like the sixth comment instead of ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279861 |
tl;dr, even though you don't have the permission to use the tools, the button is still displayed (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279861 |
Related: [Tools button doesn't do anything when clicked](https://meta.codidact.com/questions/278096). (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279157 |
@OlinLathrop That's a bug in itself then (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279821 |
@Lundin probably a bug. What post are you trying to move? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279765 |
I just checked the other report, seems like it is the same as this then. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279765 |
Could you test it on this answer? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279764 |
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| Edit | Post #279764 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Sort by activity actually sorts by age instead Basically the title. When sorting answers by "Active" (what the button says), it actually sorts by age. (It even puts `?sort=age` in the URL.) For example, this post has an answer that was edited recently be near the bottom since it was an old answer. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279760 | Post edited | — | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279758 |
Related: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/278039 (more) |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #279760 |
Suggested edit: Tagged (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279753 |
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| Edit | Post #279753 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Featured link doesn't appear in the mod tools So, I featured a link on Languages & Linguistics. However, I made it appear globally by accident (I expected it to be local, and it didn't prompt me whether I wanted it to be local or not so I assumed). I know (I've seen it before) that you can make featured links specific to the community, so I'd li... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279729 |
@PeterCooperJr. Eh, I wouldn't call it so much a duplicate since you also suggested some grouping (and this is arguably a better starting post for a long-term solution). Afaik we don't have a long term solution for the growing list problem, so thinking about what groups we could make seems like a goo... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279729 |
Related: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277841 (No answers though) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279719 | Post edited | — | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279719 |
GitHub issue: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/249 (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #279719 |
Suggested edit: Tagged (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279710 | Post edited | — | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #279710 |
Suggested edit: Retagged (seems like a bug to me), also fixed typo in title (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279654 |
@Canina and the even older bug report https://meta.codidact.com/questions/278171 (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279677 |
oh, it works now (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279663 | Post edited | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279677 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Looking at own flags gives a 500 server error When attempting to look at my own flags by clicking the link under "Flags" on my profile, it gives a 500 server error. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279673 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Ability to set tables to be collapsed? For now, as a workaround, you can use `detail` tags to create collapsible sections (I've also used this to hide large images). For example ```html Heading Content goes here ``` Renders as Heading Content goes here While not as feature rich as one might like (you can... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279668 | Post edited | — | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #279663 |
Suggested edit: Tagged (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279663 |
Related to the first suggestion: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/276332 (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279654 | Post edited | — | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #279668 |
Suggested edit: Tagged (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279668 |
For now, I've suggested an edit to put it under a `<details>` hideaway as a temporary solution. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #279654 |
Suggested edit: Added link to the relevant GItHub issue (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279648 | Post edited | — | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #279648 |
Suggested edit: Moved the actual question to the title (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279637 |
@MonicaCellio (I have no idea how SE does it) I didn't mean making a queue where people would step through them one by one (also, that sound really inefficient?) I meant queue as in an "oldest first list" so that every suggested edit will get looked at at some point. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279637 |
@MonicaCellio What do you mean by "no fancy queue stuff"? You mean you don't think a queue is a good idea? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279638 |
I was thinking that at least, you could put a checkmark on the detail page as well, right? since you technically earned it (by being a moderator). (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279637 |
@luap42 yeah, I just want to know that there are pending suggestions, and where they are. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279637 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Can we get a queue for pending suggested edits? Right now, you have to actually be there to notice there is an edit waiting to be approved, meaning suggestions on old posts often get overlooked (especially since there are so few actually able to approve those edits). Can we have a moderation queue for pending suggested edits? Or, if possible, n... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279636 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Discrepancy between abilities and privilege page On the abilities page for a moderator/admin (ex. Monica Cellio), there is a differnce between the abilities list which shows all privileges with a check mark and "yes" under "Earned", and the individual privilege pages which show an X mark and the text "... has not yet earned this ability. However, a... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279616 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
How do I suggest edits to the tag wiki? On the page for the Edit Tags ability, it lists a part of the requirement as > To earn this ability, you need to have roughly a 97.5% approval rate for suggested edits to either the detailed tag wiki or the usage guidance for tags... However, there's no "suggest edit" on tag pages. How do you s... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279615 |
On the other hand, it'd be kind of a misnomer as I'd expect the "Earned Abilities" link to link to well, the abilities I've earned, not to the full list. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279614 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Add a more obvious link to the Abilities page Right now, the Abilities page isn't very obviously accessible - I had to go to my profile, click on one of the abilities I have, then click "Return to list" since there is no direct link there. Therefore, I suggest making the abilities page more obvious. Maybe add Abilities as a tab on the user pr... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279468 |
Post edited: Relabeled Zerotime's section (Previously it read like a response to Zerotime, not authored by them) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279468 |
@OlinLathrop About loading `https://meta.codidact.com/assets/community/meta.js`, it does that for every site (tries to load `/<sitename>.js` (also tries to load `/<sitename>.css`). This is custom javascript, e.g. used on Judaism for the sefaria linker. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Featured link title doesn't update across the network The featured Meta post UPDATE on: Abilities update coming today (some downtime, update beginning 2020-11-24 20:00 UTC) was recently retitled, and the Meta featured posts widget reflects this updated title. However, on every other site, the featured link retains the original title, Abilities update... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279509 |
See also: https://meta.codidact.com/q/277221 (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279468 |
No repro here either, Edge Chromium on Windows 10. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277175 |
@Corsaka still happening on my end (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279409 |
The dashboard lists all of the communities, i just have it bookmarked lol (https://meta.codidact.com/dashboard) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279418 |
@CharlieBrumbaugh I didn't realize that mods can create custom ones. Though I guess my suggestion would be globally? Since this would be useful to a lot of communities (IMO) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279418 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Could we have a "Close as outdated" close reason? A sort of a solution to this problem, but would also apply to posts such as moderator elections, one-off proposals (though status-complete also works), and just generally posts which at some point had relevance but no longer, (such as some questions about comments once the new comment system is imple... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279392 |
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| Comment | Post #279371 |
@manassehkatz Perhaps this could be a setting (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279345 |
[Exact search](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=%22community+wiki%22) seems slightly more helpful in this case, but yeah the search kind of sucks in general (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279333 | Question closed | — | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279292 |
Possibly related to [*How to make an edit that only changes the tag list by adding a tag that does not exist?*](https://meta.codidact.com/questions/278225)? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279303 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
You can suggest more than five tags (but it can't be approved) See suggested edit https://languages.codidact.com/posts/suggested-edit/221 Though it doesn't appear on it, my suggested edit apparently included more than five tags, which isn't allowed. However, this was not caught when I suggested it, but only when the poster tried to approve it. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279292 |
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| Edit | Post #279295 |
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| Edit | Post #279240 |
Post edited: Accidentally added discussion tag, removed |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279240 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Brackets around link text in the table of contents See the table of contents on this post, as an example. For answers with links formatted as ``` text ``` the table of contents displays `text`. However, for answers with links formatted as ``` [text] ``` the table of contents shows `[text]` in the preview. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279222 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279222 |
Oops I misread the question. Sorry about that (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279222 | Question reopened | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279222 | Question closed | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279198 | Question closed | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279093 | Question closed | — | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279093 |
@weegee all right then. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279157 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Table of contents shows deleted answers Basically, the title. See the table of contents on https://meta.codidact.com/questions/278967. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279093 |
@OlinLathrop this is a dupe of https://meta.codidact.com/questions/276227.
Kind of hesitant to close as dupe though, given that the other has no answers. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279098 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279098 |
@KalleMP `esc` should work. We probably should put that in the help text (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279064 |
@OlinLathrop Right, and this isn't a site proposal. It's a weird policy-ish question which probably should've been tagged [support] but it's still not a site proposal. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279094 |
Reproduced on Edge Chromium on Windows 10 (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279093 |
Post edited: Clarified the title |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279093 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279092 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279091 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277489 |
@OlinLathrop go create a feature-request for it :) (Though IMO it's probably not worth the effort - afaik questions and answers use the same template) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277489 |
@OlinLathrop It's only useful on answers. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279064 |
Reopened: Site proposals is for site proposals. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279064 | Question reopened | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277489 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279074 |
Post edited: Removed an extra space in the title; tagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279076 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Is S.E. website layout more clear cut and user friendly? >Example 1 — SE forces you to write title of post, then body. This makes sense because title tops body. But Codidact forces you to write body first, then title. Counter intuitive? While perhaps counterintuitive from a design perspective, it makes sense from a writing perspective. It's common advic... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279062 |
Post edited: Clarified the title |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279063 |
If you have people willing to back the proposal, that's great! :) However, I'll have to close this as dupe, please post an *answer* or *comment* on the other page if you want to further that proposal. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279063 | Question closed | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279066 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Separate Languages from Linguistics? The reason is quite simple. We don't have enough people for more than one community. Also, a lot of people interested in one language are already bilingual or are interested in more than one language. By having a supersite, we increase the pool of answerers for any given language. Secondly, I thin... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279065 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279039 |
@Lundin it's not. That one deals with edit entries in the post history, this one deals with the last edited notice (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279039 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
"last activity" on the post history of questions is misleading. On answers, the "last activity" notice tells the time when the answer was edited and the user who edited it. For example, https://meta.codidact.com/posts/278908/history correctly states who edited the post last and when. However, for questions, this is not the case. It shows the same last activity... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278970 |
Punctuation isn't required apparently (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278970 | Post undeleted | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278970 |
Post edited: |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278995 |
Post edited: oop |
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| Edit | Post #278995 |
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| Comment | Post #278977 |
It seems that it only happens when using the link button, not when typing the markdown manually (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278967 |
Managed to duplicate it in this post (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278967 |
Post edited: |
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| Edit | Post #278970 | Post deleted | — | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278970 |
hmn i edited to have the exact same text so why doesn't it work (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278970 |
Post edited: |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278970 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Possible Markdown rendering issue This post is a test to see if I can duplicate it (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278967 |
Since the linked post got changed to avoid the bug, I tried reproducing it in this post - seems like I can't though (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278967 |
Post edited: Can't reproduce |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278967 |
Post edited: |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278967 |
Post edited: Since the original post was changed to avoid the bug, I have reproduced it here |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278967 |
Post edited: |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278765 |
Post edited: Changed alt text |
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| Comment | Post #278890 |
@DonielF nor am I implying so. However, we still need to address community overlap somehow, I merely noted that lyric and poetry was also in scope on Writing and thought about what to do about it. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278949 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Misalignment in post history In the post history, the "by..." and edit reason are misaligned from the "Post edited" (more obvious when there is an edit reason) E.g. https://meta.codidact.com/posts/278406/history post history screenshot (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278947 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: A Site for Privacy and Data Protection Enthusiasts I suggest we divide Q&A into these two categories, Q&A - General Q&A about what users can do to protect their privacy - Questions about the usage and functionality of privacy tools - Tor, VPNs, Adblockers, etc. - Questions about how to better protect your data while being online ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278945 |
Post edited: Added design tag |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278943 |
@.. What do you mean by that? Did a fix get implemented in the short time this post was up? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278943 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Extra brackets for footnotes (but this time in post) I noticed that this answer has two pairs of brackets: two opening and closing brackets However, in the preview, it shows as only a single pair of brackets, correctly has one pair of brackets Also here is an example in this post[^1]. Weirdly it seems to only affect some posts, for insta... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278642 |
@msh210 I added a hyphen to match the other community with a two-word url, [scientific-speculation.codidact.com](https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278931 |
Post edited: Retagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278911 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278890 |
@Lundin "I don't think such questions belong on Writing at all, except maybe if the question is about writing lyrics yourself." That's pretty much what I was going for. Though I would also exclude stuff like analysis of lyrics (for English) or translation requests (for non-English). A separate catego... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277185 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278890 |
For analysis of lyrics, I think that it would be better suited for Writing (the closely related poetry is explicitly allowed, and there's a [lyrics tag](https://writing.codidact.com/categories/1/tags/151) there as well). For rhythm/meter/rhyme, I'm kind of torn - I feel like it'd fit on both sites (s... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278904 |
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| Edit | Post #278904 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Tables have no borders Basically, the title. Tables, such as this example table | One | Two | Three | |-|-|-| | Four | Five | Six | | Seven | Eight | Nine | Image for posterity borderless table Look... less than appealing without any borders visually separating the entries. I was expecting something... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278894 |
While I do agree that it probably shouldn't be allowed, I don't see how it's "dehumanising" for the person involved (after all, they chose that username). And it's not like other usernames make it any less difficult to put together a mental image of the person. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278873 |
Right now? One. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278864 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Confusing behavior of tags shared between categories Over on Software, Q&A and Code Review share the same tags. While this is really helpful since it makes tag parity easy, it also produces some weird behavior. For instance, at the moment [the site claims there are 21 posts tagged [google-sheets]... in the Code Review category](https://software.codidac... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277355 | Question closed | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278812 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Sign up to answer this question but no sign in When signed out and viewing a question, there is a "Sign up to answer this question" button. However, there is no "Sign in to answer this question" button, which I think should be added for parity. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277321 |
@MonicaCellio I doubt so, it still isn't fixed (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74893 |
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| Edit | Post #278807 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Music site, for both fans and musicians Regarding > - Purchases: Where can I buy [sufficiently detailed music-related item]? I propose making this a category like Outdoor's and Photography's Gear Recommendation categories. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278805 |
"but I guess the count included the deleted post?" That's the same for all tags, not just that one. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278544 |
Post edited: Update |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278765 |
Post edited: Changed alt text |
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| Edit | Post #278776 |
Post edited: |
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| Comment | Post #278644 |
@Razeltime Yeah, the library the preview uses is different from the library the server uses, which results in those odd disparities where you *think* something looks right but actually the server creates something else. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278770 |
Post edited: Added link to related question, added comments tag |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278748 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
What gets on Hot Posts? What actually gets a post on the Hot Posts list? Is it views? Votes? Answers? Comments? Most likely a combination of them, but what exactly? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278726 |
Post edited: Added support tag |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278743 |
This could even be a per-category setting - ex. on Software, the hover text would probably be different for the main Q&A and for Code Review. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278743 |
Post edited: Added design tag |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278722 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Unable to create paragraphs in comments In comments, neither ``` line one line two ``` nor ``` line one line two ``` (with two spaces after line one) work to create a new line, the comment ends up being `line one line two`. This has messed up my formatting more than once, as I usually do something like ``` "quote from ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278692 |
@Dani I went by the "main idea", that is, they would be happy for a follow feature but their actual request (as stated in the title) is for an RSS feed. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278719 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Close reason doesn't appear in post history See the history of this post, the reason for closure (closed as duplicate) doesn't appear in it; when I reopened the question the close reason and duplicate target were completely lost since it wasn't shown anywhere other than in the close banner. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278692 |
Reopened, this is a request for an rss feed. The other post is about getting notifications. While similar in purpose, one can be implemented without the other request being fulfilled so I don't see them as duplicates (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278692 | Question reopened | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278716 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: A badge! A badge for completing the Codidactyl Tour. Or even several badges!! And points!! As sort of an extension of Zerotime's response, > I really liked the opportunity on the SE sites to be able to gain badges for domain knowledge and this is something I can envision to exist here as well because it helps (new) users to discern if among all the answers they get there are answers fro... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278715 |
Thanks for your hard work! a couple comments: 1. Maybe y'all should consider making a shared team account for these posts. At least for me, it was kind of weird having "an interview with one of the Codidact leads" instead of "an interview with me" (as the interviewee, you, is the "author" of the post... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278714 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Extraneous pair of sign in/sign up buttons in menu Not really a bug, but something that I noticed. Opening the menu will give a second set of [sign up] [sign in] buttons, even though there are already a pair on the navbar. Since it is redundant, it can be safely removed. Screenshot Screenshot (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278713 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Can't open hamburger menu on this Meta when signed out Title is self-explanatory; on mobile (or when I just resize the browser window so it appears), the hamburger menu doesn't work on meta.codidact.com when not signed in. It works as expected on every other community, or when signed in. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278702 |
"sometimes it's really hard to know who this user was before changing names." The solution, of course, is to display the user id immediately after the username, that way you can just mem people's ids ;) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278642 |
@manassehkatz It's a suggestion for a name though, I doubt people will first think of it as "code(v.) games" and will actually take as "code(n.) games" unless they really contrive to do so (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278701 |
The current implementation of abilities (on dev) shows earned abilities publicly, so there isn't really a need for badges in that case.
As for domain knowledge, if there's no technical reason to have tag "badges" (ex on SE it gives close rights for questions under that specific tag), then I would ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278642 |
@manassehkatz how does Code Games make you think of computer games? (I assume by computer games you mean stuff like video games). It's literally "Code" Games, games about coding (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278544 |
Says top fifty but the leader board only shows top 30? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278642 |
@manassehkatz @dzaima How does my new proposal look? I'm still trying to keep the name short so we can hopefully keep it on one line for the banner. Also, I like short names (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278642 |
Post edited: Updated proposed name with feedback from comments. Updated domain to match new name |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277057 |
Post edited: Tagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278690 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Prevent Featured posts from also being on Hot Posts Just a small feature request, preventing duplicate links in the widget would let more posts into the Hot Posts section. Image double link </details (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278644 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Tables in posts Can we have the ability to create tables? Right now, according to this answer tables are not on the list of things allowed in posts, which is a shame because I can see many uses for them, such as the many, many, many questions about spreadsheets over on Software[^1] I'd also use them to create con... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278642 |
@manassehkatz I can see your point, though I personally don't associate "Coding Challenges" with "unanswered problems in Computer Science". I basically just used "Coding Challenges" as the shortening of "Code Golf and Coding Challenges", but there are always other options (Programming Puzzles might b... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278609 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278642 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Site suggestion - Code Golf I guess I'll go put my own suggestions in ;) Suggestions: Name: Code Games / Programming Games I feel like for a name, "Code Golf and Coding Challenges" is too long. We're gonna have to somehow make it into a logo as well. I chose "Games" to promote the sense of friendly competition. Also... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278608 |
Therefore, we might actually want to split code golf off from other types of challenges. My revised suggestion would be having code golf as a specific post type in the Challenges category, and enabling the leaderboard for just that one. I'm not sure how feasible that would be though. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278608 |
"Challenges would be in their own category ... a separate category means the leaderboard would only need to be enabled there." An automated leaderboard really would only work for Code Golf (where there is an easy score for any submission); King of the Hill, Cops & Robbers, and other host defined scor... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278639 |
While it isn't really a set format, you might want to look at the descriptions for other sites on https://codidact.com/ as inspiration for the CCCG description (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278627 | Question closed | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278544 |
Post edited: Leaderboard is already up |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278494 |
@Canina (I assume you were responding to me) Its not just you, I don't see any contradiction either. I was just explaining to Olin that his assumption about why I posted this was wrong. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278611 |
2. test comment
Edit: Reproduced (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278611 |
Post edited: Fixed typo in title, tagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278608 |
@MonicaCellio @moony sounds like Meta to me? It might just be that I have a broader definition of the Meta category than most though. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278608 |
@MonicaCellio Interesting. I asked that because I don't think a code golf community would need a Q&A category - anything that isn't a challenge or a sandbox post would be Meta, no? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278544 |
How's the leaderboard looking rn? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278608 |
Actually, now that I think about it, can sites even remove the Q&A category in the first place? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278608 |
@MonicaCellio Code Golfing is a type of challenge. I'd suggest having Challenges, Sandbox, and Meta as categories, and then having code-golf etc. as tags (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278608 |
"Golf challenges would be in their own category (there are other types of questions)."
Will you also make a category for King of the Hill, Cops and Robbers, etc.? I feel like it'd get out of hand quickly. Why not just use tags? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278607 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
No way to remove parent tag. Over on Software, the [excel] tag was mistakenly put as a subtag of [openoffice-calc]. When I went to edit the tag to fix it, I realized there was no option to remove the parent tag. I ended up asking an admin on the discord to remove it, but for the future, could there be a way to remove parent tags... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278552 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278542 |
@Lundin that's a different issue, feel free to make another post about it. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278544 |
Just curious but why is this here instead of on the blog lol. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278542 |
No repro, could you check to see if "Clear cookies on exit" is set on your browser? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278500 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278493 |
@OlinLathrop It's a standard and expected setting if the site tracks last seen times.
@MonicaCellio Me neither, but the point here wasn't to debate the merits of tracking last seen times but just to point out that it should be a user preference. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278505 |
@MonicaCellio premature suggestion: I'd be down for you to add bbcode as an option. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278494 |
@OlinLathrop I actually like the autosave. I posted this because of the linked post, not because I'd use it myself. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278492 |
Post edited: Apparently tags aren't category specific |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278495 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Future planning: what user preferences would be useful? Use a monospace font in the editor (enable/disable) For those like me who want to use a proportional font when writing posts. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278492 |
@MonicaCellio Wait, so communities can have multiple tag sets? That makes things a bit more complicated... I guess it really is gonna be a "per tag set" scope if it gets implemented. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278490 |
Sorry for the spam - I'm basically just going through the incomplete feature requests lol (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278494 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Future planning: what user preferences would be useful? status-completed Enable/Disable Autosave Self-explanatory, let users choose whether they want to turn the autosaving feature on/off. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278492 |
@MonicaCellio oh, is that how it works? Are tag sets per-community? Because in that case, I'll edit it and change it to suggest a per-community setting. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278493 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Future planning: what user preferences would be useful? Show/Disable last seen time This is a pretty standard preference for those sites that do have "last seen" tracking, for those who want to opt out. If they enable it, their last seen time would be shown on their profile, if not, it wouldn't. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278492 |
Was debating whether to put this as its own feature request but since this discussion exists might as well put it here. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278492 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Future planning: what user preferences would be useful? status-completed Favorite tags It's an idea I was thinking about since a while ago, but wouldn't it be nice if users could choose 'favorite' tags, and they would be highlighted in some way on the feed? (maybe with a different background). For example, on Software Q&A, I would favorite JavaSc... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278490 |
Post edited: Added [preferences] tag |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278438 |
@Lundin yes, this is off topic. And I wasn't debating whether or not Discord was spyware either, merely commenting on how unreliable that site looked. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278438 |
Post edited: Formatted, added link to forum discussion, removed "no example available" (extraneous) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278487 |
@MonicaCellio that's what I thought as well, maybe it should be renamed something like "Exit"? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278476 |
@OlinLathrop Although admittedly a rare use case, the back button won't go to the post if the post history is directly linked to (such as in this question). In any case, this is still a bug regardless of how you feel about the particular feature. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278487 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Reset button for drafts I was recently editing someone else's answer, but I didn't like my changes and decided to redo them. However, there was no way to reset the edit (revert to the state before I started editing). The Cancel button doesn't work either, it just exits the page and when I click on "Suggest Edit" again, the ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278458 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278451 |
"Sites metas can easily fight this by insisting on not falling in authority fallacy." Insisting in what way exactly? The help page (that no one reads)? A meta post (that'll get buried)? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278451 |
"Knowing who hates others is a good first step towards their reconciliation."
I don't really see your point with that. Downvotes are not equal to hating the poster; this attitude is exactly why I argued against signing votes since it would cause needless drama. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278451 |
"Instead, let that minority downvote privately, but why force their needs on other people?"
I was under the impression that we were discussing the all or nothing choice. If that wasn't the case, then I'm find with the compromise of letting people chose to sign their votes. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278446 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: General discussion on making votes public Let's weigh the pros and cons. Pros - Discourages downvoting without reason As stated in Olin's answer, people will be less likely to go on a downvoting spree if their name is attached to those downvotes. - Uh... we can lynch active downvoters? Cons - False accusations of revenge voti... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278438 |
I'm not here to debate about security, I just don't want people getting the wrong idea about what "High levels of spyware" mean on that site. Their idea of spyware is, apparently, anything that the user doesn't have minute and direct control over, meaning every website is high level of spyware (becau... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278438 |
Imagine that level of paranoia was applied to Codidact (no offence to Codidact). It would fail miserably because it requires users to provide an email address, stores all of the user's posts and comments on private Codidact databases, and runs an analytics script in the user's browser. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278438 |
@Lundin That site also lists Mozilla Firefox, Unity and Steam as having High levels of spyware, and Mozilla Thunderbird as medium spyware; even Paint.NET is apparently spyware. I highly doubt the accuracy of that site.
Their reasoning for those labels is also utterly inane. Discord is spyware beca... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278438 |
Post edited: Simplified the title |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278438 |
@Olin Lathrop It's for the same reason other sites require it, as a platform they are required to restrict usage of it for those underage. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278406 |
Post edited: Changed title to better reflect the bug |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278234 |
@luap42 "And when you are asking where the sweet technical details are; I’ll write another blog post in a few days about how abilities are designed." So, where is it? :) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278413 |
Post edited: Added a reference to the highlight.js GitHub repository |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278377 |
Post edited: Retagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278412 |
I give up, the damn thing is probably just not enabled on Meta for some reason. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278412 |
Post edited: I give up |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278412 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278412 |
I could have sworn that we had C highlighting at least, since this question (https://software.codidact.com/questions/277486) uses it (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278412 |
Post edited: trying C++ |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278412 |
Post edited: trying C |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278406 |
There is a `code` element inside of a `pre` element. The `code` element has a horizontal scrollbar, while the `pre` element has a vertical scrollbar. This means that the horizontal scrollbar, as part of the inner `code` element, can be scrolled out of view. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278406 |
@Monica Can't say this is exactly what @Canina is seeing, but I would say so given their screenshot. The scrollbar is there alright, but you have to scroll down to see it because of how the page is layed out. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278406 |
Post edited: Retagged |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278412 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
What languages have syntax highlighting support? Users can specify the language of a code block by adding it after the first set of triple backticks. For example, this question over on Software Dev uses it for C. What programming languages are supported by the syntax highlighter? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278377 |
Post edited: Syntax highlighting |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277355 |
Post edited: Added a notice to direct people to the newer, more active discussion |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278386 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278386 |
@Dani https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277355 ? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278364 |
Finally, even if being offensive wasn't the intention, you should still apologize for essentially saying that the staff are irresponsible and don't have the ability to run Codidact. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278364 |
2. "I can assure you the community team are aware of the mentioned post." Being aware does not equate to immediately taking action. They have to decide *what* to do with that post. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278364 |
@MathPhysics "It is obvious to all that I never said 'why not just let me do it?' nor meant that" 1. You did say that. It's right there in the post history. Not those exact words, but you did say "you should first appoint me as Codidact chief executive officer." And no, just because it is in parenthe... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278374 |
Post edited: added mod tools tag |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278371 |
Oh it fixed itself (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278364 |
"Attributing offensive words such as "troll", "stupid", "absurd", ... to a specific user or their actions is not an example of disrespectfulness?"
I don't believe any mod said that. Moderations takes *time*, and while not taking action can be seen as implicit allowance, they probably just haven't go... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278364 |
I won't say that your paragraph was to the same degree, but it really does come across as "If you're too busy to run Codidact, then why not just let me do it?" *Also*, you stated that the staff members are too busy as a fact. If you claim that the staff members are too busy, then claim IF the staff m... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278364 |
"As you can see, no offensive word was used in the paragraph." Imagine if someone were to say, "I don't believe your mental capacities to be enough to post here," and then say it's not offensive since no offensive words were used in that sentence, and it's clearly just an opinion since they said "bel... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278356 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How should staff deal with posts critical of themselves that they want deleted? Follow normal procedures. > If there's a post attacking a particular user or group of users, the appropriate thing to do is to flag and let one of the mods/staff deal with it. If someone disagrees with the mod(s)/staff's actions, they can take it up with the Arbitration & Review Panel or ask a que... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278300 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278300 |
Tables are not currently permitted; see https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277420#answer-277424 and a related issue, https://meta.codidact.com/questions/75005
Consistency between client preview and server rendering is currently being worked on. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278234 |
"For example, someone that has read and answered a lot of questions should know how to tell good from bad questions. In fact, they are probably better at it than someone that had a few close/reopen/delete flags accepted." On the other hand, someone who knows how to tell good from bad questions should... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278234 |
@OlinLathrop "it seems like the metric of generally writing well-received answers is getting lost except for the first ability you mention" ... 3 of the 5 unlockable abilities rely partially on well received posts though? (Participate Generally, Vote on Holds, Curate) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278276 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What is clicking the inbox icon in the top bar actually supposed to do? It is supposed to open the notifications inbox. My notifications However, due to a bug, https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/162, this will fail under certain conditions. When this happens, your notifications will be marked read without the notifications showing up. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278273 |
I assume it is because of the poster's implicit request that Codidact volunteers work like paid workers, which is certainly something that can be declined. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278236 |
#1 is probably this bug: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277092 (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277092 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278236 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278229 |
Post edited: changed [close] to the pre-existing [close-question] tag |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278225 |
@Alexei I just edited your post and only added the [tags] tag, so it seems that it either doesn't affect either me or it doesn't affect Meta. Could you try editing the post, or a different post, and see if it happens again? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278225 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278200 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278200 |
..."Other comments" (The tour ends abruptly, Letting people choose roles, the -0 should be hidden, etc.)
This makes it easier for people to answer specific questions rather than forcing them to consider the whole chunk you just dropped on them. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278200 |
By the way, I'd suggest grouping related questions under a heading, ex.
"How should we guide new/unregistered users?" (peer production, orientation, first impressions, is there a quickstart/intro guide)
"How and where can I contribute to the project?" (GitHub, [feature-request]s, What feedback ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278200 |
I'll have to agree with 8063, this is probably *way* too many questions for one post. While the Q&A format allows for multiple answers, it's not exactly great for answering multiple questions since they all get mixed together. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277162 |
@FoggyFinder this answer was for the original bug two months ago (look at the timestamp) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278171 |
Could it be related to this issue? https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/162
(Despite being closed, it hasn't actually been fixed yet) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277157 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277157 |
Post edited: issue reappeared |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278181 |
@Mithrandir24601 There was a lot of confusion in chat. Someone clarified that non-constructive posts are not the same as non-constructive in the sense of the CoC, but then it became confusing what *either* meant. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278169 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
[status-completed] posts bury everything else At the time of writing, there is a big chunk of (around 15) [status-completed] and [status-declined] posts in the Q&A category feed, burying the open posts. Since open posts are much more important than completed ones, I think that this situation should be avoided. I suggest either: 1. Add an ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278159 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278074 |
@ShowMeBillyJo Providing context is solving the knowledge gap of knowledge of context. However, readers still have to have to be able to understand the context, and if they do then tags should be unnecessary for them anyway. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278096 |
@msh210 what does the stuff at the end mean? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278096 |
Post edited: Clarified the title, added user-interface tag |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278103 |
@ArtOfCode I thought as much, since the image is on the amazon aws domain instead of the codidact domain. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277949 |
@aCVn Oh, I hadn't noticed that post. If you want to close as dupe of that, I don't mind. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278103 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Serve images with file extensions I've noticed that images uploaded to Codidact don't retain any meta information. That is, they don't keep either the name of the image or the image extension. While the former isn't that bad (alt text or just plain explanation is probably better if information about the image is needed), the latte... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278102 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Only send one notification per comment In my notifications box, I had two notifications: Notifications screenshot > You were mentioned in a comment > > mark unread and > New comment on Should we show tags before the body, to provide context for reading the question? > > mark unread The problem is, both of them refer to... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278074 |
@ShowMeBillyJo I'm sure novices could be interested in many things they don't understand. My point was, Monica didn't even know what the question was about, even after looking at the tags - . Like I said in my post, "sure, you might now know how to fix a click signal not being received by the main wi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277949 |
@aCVn I think that the "complexity outweighs the value" can only be decided by the devs. Downvoting a feature request for that is stopping it from happening before problems with it are found. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278088 |
Could you clarify what you mean by this? Are you suggesting that the unclickable (disabled) buttons should be more obvious? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278084 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278074 |
@MonicaCellio the QT library isn't a web client library though? It's a GUI library/application framework. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278074 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Should we show tags before the body, to provide context for reading the question? I think that questions should be able to stand on their own without the use of tags, and so tags should be unnecessary to display at all. Not to say they have no use - it's helpful if you want to know some information about a question at a glance, such as when looking at the feed - but if you need to... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278073 |
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| Edit | Post #277949 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278059 |
Reproduced on Edge (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278059 |
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| Comment | Post #278050 |
Obviously there should be a reasonable limit. I just don't think that limit should be *1*.
Design and implementation-wise, you could take a page off how other sites do it - another site that I'm on allows users to define arbitrary "name: address" rows on their profile page. (ex. Twitter: @username... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277949 | Post undeleted | — | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278037 |
@DonielF Yeah, that sounds better. Toggling the children on the hierarchy page is much more intuitive to me than just hiding them and leaving it to the user to open each individual tag page. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278037 |
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| Comment | Post #278036 |
There actually used to be a forum, but it was abandoned in favor of Meta and chat. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278037 |
Sort by hierarchy does exactly what id expect, it shows the tags and what children they have. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278030 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Automatically clean up tags with zero posts There are currently seven tags with zero posts associated with them in the Meta Q&A category[^1] (excluding tags like TibetLhasatourpackage which have deleted posts associated with them.) These tags are kind of annoying since they clog up the suggested tags list (and the tags page when sorting by hie... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277015 |
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| Edit | Post #278004 |
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| Comment | Post #278004 |
Can reproduce on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge (Chromium browsers) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278020 |
Post edited: Clarified the title |
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| Edit | Post #278020 |
Post edited: [asking] tag doesn't add anything |
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| Edit | Post #277991 |
Post edited: oops left a half written edit in there |
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| Edit | Post #277991 |
Post edited: Got rid of the salty footnote |
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| Comment | Post #277993 |
Also, I actually think that separating bug reports into it's own category would be immensely helpful - those reports tend to get buried beneath all the new stuff, since they are rarely updated, and it'll be much easier to find previous reports once search by catagory is implemented. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277993 |
To be entirely honest, I wish people would just post bug reports on github as a new issue so it'd all be gathered in one place, but I can't expect everyone to have a github account. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277993 |
I personally think workarounds should just be edited into the post itself, or left as comments. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277015 |
Post edited: merging [post] and [posts] (deleted title and body tags because they are pretty useless and there is a 5 tag limit) |
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| Edit | Post #277015 |
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| Edit | Post #276900 |
Post edited: merging [post] and [posts] |
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| Edit | Post #276650 |
Post edited: Accidentally saved before adding the tags |
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| Edit | Post #276650 |
Post edited: merging [post] and [posts] |
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| Edit | Post #276871 |
Post edited: merging [post] and [posts] |
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| Edit | Post #277991 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Should we use the Article type for bug reports? I've recently been looking through the [[bug] tag](https://meta.codidact.com/categories/3/tags/394), and one thing stood out to me. Every bug post either has no answers, or one answer that just says, "The bug has been fixed" (or some variation thereof). Even that one answer is unnecessary anyway sinc... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277960 |
Post edited: fixed grammatical errors |
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| Edit | Post #277949 | Post deleted | — | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277949 |
@Olin Lathrop Might be obvious to you, but to me disagreement means "*This feature shouldn't be implemented*" (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277960 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Suggestion for allowing to mark answers as "accepted", "outdated" or "dangerous" I would like this functionality to extend to 'questions' as well as answers. This was influenced by the post I cannot understand the meaning of some downvotes > In my opinion, downvoting some kinds of posts is meaningless. > > For example, why should anyone downvote a bug report, like this ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277954 |
I did explicitly say that it was an option to just put it in the profile text. However, the functionality of having links in the sidebar is there already, so why no extend it? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277949 |
Down voters please explain? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277949 |
@Dani 1. I did explicitly say that it was an option. 2. I had no idea about linktree, and I doubt many people do either. Besides, using linktree just sems like a workaround, being able to do it here would be preferrable. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277949 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Allow users to link more than one website in their profile. Currently, users can only add their twitter handle and one other website to their profile. I find this kind of limiting since someone might want to add more to their profile. Say for instance they want to put a link to both their blog and their professional website; right now, they have no way of doi... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277943 |
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| Edit | Post #277943 |
Post edited: Added Monica's suggestion for tag name |
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| Comment | Post #277943 |
@Monica Cellio Oh, that sounds much better than my suggestions. I'll put that in the post. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277943 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Add a [status-pending] or similar tag My other Meta post n the usage of status tags pointed out a pretty big gap to me. Namely, we don't have a tag to signify that something is being actively worked on. While we currently use either [status-completed] (for things that are done developing but not yet launched) or [status-planned] to this ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277936 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277941 |
@MonicaCellio I would agree with you, but the questions they copied over had no answers at all. When you are the only answerer for the question, I feel like it's more than just a kindness to give them at least a link to the answer. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277941 |
If you went through the trouble of answering the question, can't you have a bit of decency and give the answer to the person who asked for it? (generic you here) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277941 |
What I was worried about is that they seemed to only be crossposting for the sake of having questions for themselves to answer here - which I still wouldn't take offence to, but they didn't bother to answer the *asker*, which just feels... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277936 |
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| Edit | Post #277936 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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What is the policy on importing questions by simply quoting the question over here? Recently, three questions were "imported" from StackOverflow: https://software.codidact.com/q/277934, https://software.codidact.com/q/277930, https://software.codidact.com/q/277932 I put "imported" in quotes, because they weren't actually imported. The user just quoted the respective StackOverflo... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277926 |
@pnuts I was less worried about how minor it was than about how confusing it was. When I saw that it was marked "completed", I was actually going to post a bug report since the change didn't show up for me (but thankfully when I was linking the post in the report I saw the clarification that it wasn'... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277926 |
@Olin Lathrop are you fine with "a little delay" of a couple days? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277923 |
Post edited: Fixed typo in title |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277924 |
Sorry, but I disagree. status-completed implies that users will actually see the change, and it is is confusing in the interim between the "completion" and the "deploy" times. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277923 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Should [status-completed] be used before the changes are live? As of the time of writing, this request has the [status-completed] tag despite the change not being live yet. It is completely developed, sure, but since it is not yet deployed, should the request be marked completed? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276818 |
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| Edit | Post #277918 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
If a user is not able to directly edit the post, allow the edit to be suggested I attempted to edit this post, but couldn't because I was attempting to change "moderator-only" tags. > The following errors prevented this post from being saved: > > - You don't have permission to change moderator-only tags. If a user is unable to edit a post because of permissions, could t... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74966 |
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| Edit | Post #74966 |
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| Edit | Post #277015 |
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| Comment | Post #277887 |
@pnuts Actually, the time when someone suggests an edit also shows up in user activity as "Suggested Edit" and also says whether the edit was "helpful" (accepted) or "declined". The existence of the latter information makes the "Edit" activity for when the edit was accepted kind of pointless imo (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277887 |
Post edited: Added [post-history] & [activity], removed [editing-posts], since that tag is for the edit process itself, while this is an issue with the edit history |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277904 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: The site claims I made edits to post while I was offline The timestamp for edits is when the post is changed. Notably, that means that the time does not correspond to the time when an edit was suggested. This is your edit suggestion, which was approved while you were asleep: https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/suggested-edit/11 The site should prob... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277890 |
There are bugs for me, and it lacks the functionality I want, so please work on that instead of other things (launching new communities) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277890 |
I didn't close it because I thought it was opinion based - You're free to suggest whatever you want (and posts tagged with [discussion] are naturally opinion based anyway.) I closed it because, as the close reason says, "It's not possible to learn something from possible answers, except for the solut... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277890 |
As the one who closed it, I feel like I should offer my reason. The way I read it, it was basically a rant: "an unfortunate thing for this community is that when you report some bug on Meta, you are not usually received any response". Both of the examples you listed 1. are your own, which to me was a... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277886 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Add the staff badge to the user list Currently, the user list displays the Administrator (☗) and Moderator (☖) badges on users, but not the staff badge that displays when you go to the user's profile. For consistency, could you have the staff badge show up on the user list as well? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277884 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Second Iteration of Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel Does the Panel's jurisdiction extend to chat? Over on the discord server, the topic of chatroom moderation came up. If a chatroom mod does something that one could consider an abuse of power or generally incorrect, is the Panel allowed to step in? Keep in mind that although the site mods and th... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277487 |
@Alexei that would totally work, since the issue is due to the word-wrap not being set to wrap long 'words' (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277875 |
*a [ref] (short for reference) button or a button with the icon used in email clients for reply (left arrow)*
Something like ⮪ or ⮌ ? (I'm aware you were just listing possible examples, just was curious what you envisioned) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277875 |
In all seriousness though, your suggestions are good. I wasn't really thinking about space, since blockquotes don't add much height anyway and I basically assumed that the height would be constrained by the hiding-extra-comments mechanic that we already have. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277875 |
*Showing line-related comments inline by adding a small comments icon.*
Oh, so Wattpad XD (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277868 |
@Olin Lathrop Well, it's sort of also a notice to users that the function is *there*, since the "draft saved" notice comes and goes really quickly and isn't really noticeable unless you look out for it. And it's also for a bit of peace of mind, instead of relying on some timer to save your work, you ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277872 |
@Olin Lathrop ah, that does seem like a good workaround. I'll probably use that for now. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277365 |
@pnuts really? downvoting just because "it's not important"? Important stuff will be upvoted more anyway. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277487 |
Post edited: Updated image & added cause |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277873 |
"Since this is the only instance I have noticed this behaviour, I assume it is related to the answer content itself (contains Chinese characters)."
It's actually not that; It's because of the really long string of text without spaces which doesn't properly word-wrap. It pushes the sides of the answe... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277873 | Question closed | — | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277872 |
Dang, people *really* don't want to have blockquotes in comments for some reason... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277872 |
Post edited: Expanded a bit |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277365 |
Post edited: Added design tag |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277872 |
@msh210 comments are meant to be, well, comments. Constructive comments to improve a question/answer, or like you just did, comments to state why you disagree with something. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277872 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Allow block quotes in comments When commenting on a post, sometimes I want to comment on a specific paragraph, or similar section. The most natural way to me is to block quote it, however using Markdown to do it doesn't work (it just removes the `>`). I'm left using regular quotation marks (which work, but are kind of ugly for lon... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277841 |
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| Edit | Post #277868 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Save draft button So apparently, while writing a new post, there's an auto-save feature where every once in a while the system saves the current progress as a draft. However, there doesn't seem to be a way to manually save it, which seems kind of odd to me given that the save feature is there already. Could we have a ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277549 |
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| Comment | Post #277863 |
@DonielF that issue stems directly from this issue, since the notification just provides a link. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277863 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Direct comment links don't jump to the comment when it is hidden. Currently, comments past the fifth(?) comment are hidden for length purposes. However, this breaks the ability to automatically scroll to the comment when using a direct link. For example, I recently got a notification for this comment: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277002#comment-3855 It... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277859 |
@pnuts i just used the term in-scope because that's what the post used, what i mean is that I believe that the scope of the questions relies too much on other disciplines, and focuses too much on them to be a good question for the site, but the questions can be reformulated to fit the site, so they a... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277859 |
As for the post, I don't believe any of them are in-scope, since they rely more on physics/chemistry/biology than on mathematics. However, I don't think they are *off-topic* per-se - applied mathematics is still mathematics, after all. It's just that the proposed questions are less about the math and... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277859 |
@Monica Cellio personally, I prefer KaTeX, but you should use what works for you. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277549 |
Half-joking-half-serious suggestion: Use the standard calculator logo - a 2x2 grid of + - x = (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277553 | Question closed | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277851 |
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| Edit | Post #277851 |
Post edited: Grammatical fixes |
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| Comment | Post #277851 |
Huh, I didn't realize I had the ability to close posts by myself... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277851 | Question reopened | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277851 | Question closed | — | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277851 |
Yes... The thing is, the amount of people who disagree with you should tell you how successful you'll be in doing that (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277571 |
@manassehkatz ah, I see. your comments make a lot more sense to me now (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277571 |
@manassehkatz Typical databases can't store arrays? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277571 |
@manassehkatz I didn't mean UserID + PostID, I meant having one record per userID with a list of postIDs that correspond to which posts the user has read. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277571 |
@manassehkatz You wouldn't need to store timestamps, just read/unread status, so it would just be the table of users and the list of posts they've read. Updating the lists might be a pain though. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277572 |
It is listed as a fraction rather than a number because the number of members can change (such as if a member can't join the session for some reason), and so that it doesn't need to be changed if the number of panel members changes in the future. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277571 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Indicate which posts in the category feed have unread updates Right now, if a category has new/updated posts, a small dot appears next to the category name. Could this feature be extended to posts within the category as well? While it's not that hard to just manually see which posts have unread changes, it would be convenient to have an indicator. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277568 |
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| Edit | Post #277568 |
Post edited: seeing if this works |
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| Edit | Post #277568 |
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| Comment | Post #277549 |
@manassehkatz I assume the box is supposed to be the Q.E.D. box at the end of proofs (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277569 |
"may or may not be advisable to allow 3rd-party image hosting, that is a separate discussion"
I see... should I edit my post to allow discussion of whether to block 3rd-party images? Or should I just make another post for it (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277549 |
Proposal: use just $e^i\pi$. It's more square, which looks better as an icon/logo imo (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277568 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Allowing arbitrary image links causes security warnings screenshot This question's page shows up as not secure on my computer. I believe it is due to this answer. When I look in the console, it warns that the images on it were loaded insecurely (since the image link is http instead of https). Console log I can understand if you don't want to h... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277538 |
@Olin Feature Request (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277489 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Have permalink button show a popup instead of redirecting Currently, when I click the "permalink" button on a post, it just sends me to the permalink URL, which is kind of unintuitive - it took me a couple seconds to realize that the page hadn't just reloaded and the URL had changed. Could we instead have a popup show up when you click the button, which ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277487 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Overflowing text in answer Overflowing text On this answer to my question over on Languages, you can see how it ended up overflowing the post area and how part of it is hidden underneath the side widget. This is because of the long string of text without any spaces, which breaks word-wrapping and pushes the side of the p... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277449 |
Hah, I didn't realize how divided this post would be... Its at +3/-2 right now (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277449 |
@Dani just for the look (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277449 |
Post edited: Trying out something, will revert if it fails |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277453 |
I guess to each their own. I personally find it more annoying when proper capitalization is ignored. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277449 |
Post edited: Got rid of feature-request tag, after thinking about it, I'm *opposing* a "feature" |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277449 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Should we allow capitalized tags? So this has been bugging me for a while now. Recently, the tags Chinese, Cantonese, and Mandarin were changed to lowercase. When asking why on the discord, I was told that it was because "tags are lowercase". > yanchan: > > @ArtOfCode why'd you change them to lowercase though > ArtOfCode: >... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277442 |
@Mithical We already have icons for each site, it shouldn't be too difficult. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277431 | Post edited | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277432 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Unique favicons for each site Could each site have its own favicon? When I have too many tabs open and can't read the page titles, it'll help me distinguish the different sites. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #277431 |
Suggested edit: Changed [user-interface] tag to [design] since that's the common tag (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277353 |
Post edited: added rss tag |
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| Edit | Post #277426 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Can we get email notifications? While the current notification system is okay, I'd like to be able to receive email notifications for things such as a new answer to my questions. (Of course, this should be opt-in. Maybe add a checkbox somewhere in the user account settings for it?) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277424 |
Thanks, this is exactly what I wanted (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277421 |
Well, for one, it doesn't have the `<details>` and `<summary>` tags listed there. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277420 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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What html tags can we use in posts? So, I finally got around to looking at the second Review Panel draft, and was surprised by the ability to make collapsible sections in posts. From the comments, I wasn't the only one. > Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down, you can make collapsable sections? Tell me that if posts support any form of HTML c... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277412 |
I don't see any real need for this. If you want to add your location, you can just put it in your profile description. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277379 |
I can't reproduce either on iPad (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277404 |
What makes you think Inter looks better to you? (wondering as someone who can barely tell the difference between Arial and Calibri) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74817 | Post edited | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277398 |
Post edited: Fix some messy wording |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277398 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Edit activity shows even when the suggested edit isn't confirmed Related: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277395 For some reason, edits are showing up on the history of posts (linked above) and on the activity of the user even when the edit hasn't been confirmed yet. My user activity You can see how even though the edit suggestion is "pending", above ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277395 |
I wonder if that's what happened, it's showing unconfirmed edit suggestions in the history for some reason (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277395 |
It tells me my edit is pending on the first post... But also shows it in the history? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #74817 | Post edited | — | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #74817 |
Suggested edit: Added status-planned due to comment by Art (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277384 |
Why? Not trying to be dismissive or anything, just wondering what you'd actually gain from seeing that information. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277383 |
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| Edit | Post #277383 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: What are my options for access to my data being processed by Codidact? See the privacy policy: https://meta.codidact.com/assets/privacy-policy.pdf, specifically the section "What are your rights?" tl;dr > Please email us at info@codidact.org (I'm not a part of the Codidact team btw, just pointing the resource to you) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277362 |
@ArtOfCode I want to search for keywords, then filter by specific tags. Also, the ability to filter by multiple tags - right now, there's no way to search for combinations of tags like "tag:feature-request tag:status-planned" (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277365 |
@ploni Sure, it makes sense from a *technical* standpoint, but from a UI standpoint I feel it's unnecessary. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277365 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Don't show "Initial revision" in user activity Immediately after the activity entry about posting a question or answer, another entry labeled "Initial revision" is placed. This seems kind of redundant to me, since all it really says is that a post was created, which can be seen from the previous entry. The only current use for it is to provide a ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277362 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Filter search by tag I might be missing something, but I can't find any way to filter a search by tags. I looked in the Help Center, but it also doesn't list any way to do it. Simply searching the tag doesn't seem to work either. When I search "feature-request", it doesn't give me the stuff tagged feature-request, onl... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277355 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277356 |
Oh, is that what it's called? I'll edit my post to fix it (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277355 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Community Wiki Posts Also see the more active discussion on https://meta.codidact.com/questions/278386 Will there ever be something akin to StackExchange Community Wikis? While I'm not sure of the specifics (I've never interacted with its posts), I believe that it allows such things as letting the community review... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277353 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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RSS feed for entire site Currently, each category of a site has its own individual RSS feed. While it's useful, could we have an RSS feed for the entire site? (like how Subscriptions work, but as an RSS feed) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #277337 |
Suggested edit: Clarified the title (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277321 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Send notifications if a comment is edited to mention the person Sometimes, I forget to mention someone when I first make a comment, and I go and edit the mention in. However, I've been told that this doesn't actually send them a notification. Can we get it so that it does? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277280 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277290 |
Seconded, but I would suggest using the more standard way of linking to a part of a page: URI fragments (e.g. /question/id#anchor-id) (You may also know them as jump links)
All you'd need is to have the headers have enumerated ids (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277280 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Can we move questions? This question was accidentally posted in meta instead of language, and ended up being closed. Does the ability to move questions between sites currently exist, or is closing the only way to deal with it right now? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277251 |
I'd think you'd know when you're editing or writing a post lol. I would like a rich text editor though (since I'm more used to it) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277250 |
I get where you're coming from. I'm just used to editors using a normal font even for Markdown (discord markdown, Typora, most forum software, etc.) Personally, I find normal fonts easier to read, as well as just looking nicer, especially when writing longer posts. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277248 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Why isn't the text editor in the same font as what posts are? It's not really an issue, but I'm curious why Codidact chose to use a monospace font for editing/posting while published posts use a normal font. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277179 |
@Olin ctrl+I is italics on every text editor I've ever used, include site text editors like forums. I'm all for having a shortcut for image uploads, but it probably should be something else to avoid confusing people. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277175 |
Post edited: Added Safari |
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| Edit | Post #277175 |
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| Edit | Post #277175 |
Post edited: Updated affected browsers |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277175 |
Ah, probably should've mentioned my browser as well. I'll edit. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277175 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Clicking on a notification changes it from read to unread If I click on an already read notification in the inbox, it will go to the page I was notified about, but it will also change it from read to unread. Browsers affected: Microsoft Edge (Chromium) - Me Safari - Me Google Chrome - @Monica Cello, Me (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277167 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Subscriptions settings don't sync between sites (even though everything else does) I noticed that the email subscriptions settings page doesn't sync between the different sites. It kind of irks me that everything else is exactly the same between the different account pages except for that. On a related note, why isn't there a 'main account page' for all the user settings instead... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277157 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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No favicon appears on main site (codidact.com) Screenshot of tab Not sure if it's just me, but when I visit the main site it doesn't show any icon on the tab. It's not a serious issue, but I thought I'd bring it up. Update: Issue reappeared (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276908 |
"Also, if someone doesn't want to use a template, they can always CTRL-A + Backpsace and remove it entirely."
Wouldn't it be better to have it be the opposite case? Start blank, then let the user pick a tempate if they want to. Especially if there's gonna be more than one template on the site, it'd ... (more) |
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