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

Posts by Moshi‭

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Q&A Automatically clean up tags with zero posts

There are currently seven tags with zero posts associated with them in the Meta Q&A category1 (excluding tags like TibetLhasatourpackage which have deleted posts associated with them.) These ta...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by msh210‭

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Q&A 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...

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

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Q&A 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...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&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, bu...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A 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 i...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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) After testing a couple times, it seems to be using the logo of th...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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. Th...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 wher...

posted 9mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A 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 was...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A 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 ask...

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

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Q&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.

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A 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 t...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A 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 ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Sigma‭

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Q&A Overflowing text in answer

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 o...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A 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 t...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by fedorqui‭

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Q&A 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 sit...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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, ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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.c...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&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 dra...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&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:stat...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A 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.

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A "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 ...

2 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How to resize images

Technically, you can do it by writing HTML manually: Code <img src="https://codidact.com/community-assets/meta/logo-large.png" alt="Codidact logo" width="100px"> <img src="https://cod...

posted 7mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Extra brackets for footnotes (but this time in post)

I noticed that this answer has two pairs of brackets: However, in the preview, it shows as only a single pair of brackets, Also here is an example in this post[1]. Weirdly it seems to only a...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 t...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭