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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 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 down...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A 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 su...

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

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Q&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 w...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A What is clicking the inbox icon in the top bar actually supposed to do?

It is supposed to open the notifications inbox. However, due to a bug, https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/162, this will fail under certain conditions. When this happens, your notifications...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A [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 impor...

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

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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 Only send one notification per comment

In my notifications box, I had two notifications: 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...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&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 k...

posted 3y ago 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 Should we use the Article type for bug reports?

I've recently been looking through the [bug] tag, 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 ther...

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

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Q&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 ...

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

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Q&A Allow users to link more than one website in their profile. [duplicate]

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 ...

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

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Q&A 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 [s...

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

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Q&A 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"...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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 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 chang...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&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 w...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A 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 t...

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

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Q&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 gen...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A 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...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 manual...

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

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Q&A 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 recen...

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

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Q&A 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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Allowing arbitrary image links causes security warnings

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 l...

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

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Q&A 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 relo...

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