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Activity for Moshi
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A: Tag and children missing from tag hierarchy pages `git` is a subtag of `version-control`, and so it's listed under it instead. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: Notifying each other that a commented-on issue is resolved, to produce fewer comments rather than more It is worth noting that we don't need to have the thread be deleted. Threads on Codidact can be locked and archived. Archived threads are still available for viewing, but cannot be commented on[^1] and are hidden behind a "view more" button under the post. Currently, only moderators can archiv... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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A: How to resize images Technically, you can do it by writing HTML manually: Code ```html ``` Result This is rather tedious though, and relies on some knowledge of HTML, so it would be nice if this was integrated somehow. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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A: How to avoid triggering mathjax? The trigger in this case is surrounding text with either - `$latex$` or `\(latex\)` for inline math - `$$latex$$` or `\[latex\]` for "display math" (centered and on a new line) The MathJax parser is smart enough to ignore `$` when there is only one on the line, which can make it seem inconsi... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
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A: Flag details vs. comments This is one of the things that seemed like a good idea at the time, but now is known to be extremely confusing, with many people asking whether it raises a flag or not (it doesn't). Therefore, this "flag reason" is planned to be removed in the future (See this GitHub issue). Comments are alrea... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
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A: Why is meta reputation linked to Q&A reputation? This is something that is currently being discussed on each community. Communities are able to decide for themselves whether they want Meta to affect reputation. L&L announcement by Monica (copied to all other communities) > When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to se... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: Tagging @username in a question/answer/comment Comments You are only able to tag users that have interacted with the thread, and the author of the post itself. After typing `@` plus the first 3 letters of the username, a popup should appear where you can select the user to mention. @da5 shows popup with da5nsy#65176 It is worth noting th... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: How does displaying users in the "users" tab work? If you take a look at one of those users, you can see where they're all coming from. For instance > This user was automatically created as the author of content sourced from Stack Exchange. > > The original profile on Stack Exchange can be found here: https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/u/1 ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Are downvotes needed? > The classic justification is of course that we need downvotes to flag bad posts, so that users can skip, filter or sort them to the last page, and moderators can prioritize them. Except we already have a "flag" action which is much more direct and logical. How should the flag action work to sort... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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"Needs author's attention" should not be a flag option When you click on "Flag" under a post, you get a dropdown asking "Why does this post require moderator attention?" One of the options is > - needs author's attention > > This question is off-topic or cannot be reasonably answered in its current form and needs revision by its author. > > ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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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 year ago |
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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 1 year ago |
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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 1 year ago |
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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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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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) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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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) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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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) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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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) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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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) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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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) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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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 2 years ago |
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A: Incubator (takes all questions that aren't on-topic 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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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 2 years ago |
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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 2 years ago |
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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 2 years ago |
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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 2 years ago |
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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 2 years ago |
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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 2 years ago |
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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 2 years ago |
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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 2 years ago |
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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 2 years ago |
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"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 2 years ago |
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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 2 years ago |
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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 2 years ago |
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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 3 years ago |
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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 3 years ago |
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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 3 years ago |
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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 3 years ago |
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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 3 years ago |
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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 3 years ago |
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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 3 years ago |
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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 3 years ago |
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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 3 years ago |
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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 3 years ago |
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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 3 years ago |
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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 3 years ago |
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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 3 years ago |
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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 3 years ago |