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Posts by Moshi‭

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Q&A 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 I'm able to view it perfectly fine when I...

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

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Q&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 (co...

posted 8mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 10mo ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&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 alread...

posted 10mo ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 1y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A 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...

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

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Q&A 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: Title: Que...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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)....

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

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Q&A 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...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A 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/...

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

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Q&A 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 serv...

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

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Q&A 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 mig...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Prevent Featured posts from also being on Hot Posts [duplicate]

Just a small feature request, preventing duplicate links in the widget would let more posts into the Hot Posts section. Image

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

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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 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 s...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Don't show "Initial revision" in user activity [duplicate]

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 p...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A 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 ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A Table of contents shows deleted answers

Basically, the title. See the table of contents on https://meta.codidact.com/questions/278967.

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

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Q&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 langua...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A 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 Look... less than appealing withou...

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

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Q&A 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. C...

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

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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 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...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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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 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