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Activity for trichoplax
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comment | Post #296608 |
Related:
- [Incorrect time of posting on a comment](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/295011)
- [More than just timings out of date on a page](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/296076) (more) |
— | 20 days ago |
| Edit | Post #296590 | Initial revision | — | 26 days ago |
| Question | — |
Thread rename comment broken by code block When a user renames their comment thread, the System user adds a comment indicating the change: > Thread renamed from "previous title" to "current title" by username When the previous title is an automatically generated title containing a code block, this can be rendered strangely: > Thread wh... (more) |
— | 26 days ago |
| Comment | Post #295243 |
Maybe whatever method we settle on to show sidebar things to mobile users should kick in when the sidebar is hidden? Currently everything in the sidebar just goes to the bottom of the page on mobile, but maybe that should be different for different things. For example, related posts could be in t... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Comment | Post #296494 |
I wonder if there's a more explicit way to word this (and whether it should be indicated at the top of a comment thread to avoid ambiguity).
For the author of a post, it might seem reasonable to assume that (c) indicates their comments will be under the same license as they chose (actively or ... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #296521 |
Would it be useful to have a single place that lists the limits that have been set for the particular community, even if it isn't easy to find directly? Then other, easier to find places can link to that, rather than need to have setting-sensitive text in various different documents.
For examp... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #296512 |
- [Incorrect time of posting on a comment](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/295011)
- [More than just timings out of date on a page](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/296076) (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #296519 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Question | — |
Discovering the daily limit on posting A new user who has not yet gained the Participate Everywhere ability is restricted to a certain number of posts per day. Is the value of this daily limit listed publicly? If not, should it be? If it is, should it be made easier to find? (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #296495 |
That's an interesting point about inheritance (or not) of a licence from a parent post. Although I don't see a problem in principle with an answer having a different licence from its question, it could become a problem in some contexts. For example, if an answer quotes part of the question then i... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #296494 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Question | — |
Do we have or need licences for comments? A post has a licence, which is the default unless the post author chooses a different one. This makes it clear to anyone reusing the content of the post what their rights and responsibilities are. A comment does not display a licence, and has no option for a commenter to choose one. Do we have a... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #296432 |
Post edited: Testing empty edit |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296432 |
@#117749 I apologise for the unhelpful suggested edits. I've raised the problem of the entire post being highlighted in the diff as https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/2122 and we're working to fix it. I won't be making any suggested edits until that is resolved. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296432 |
That's [another issue (just discovered yesterday as part of testing the fix for this issue)](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/2115).
I was hoping it wouldn't restrict you, since it doesn't reduce the character limit as much as the previous bug, but it seems you're close enough to the ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296432 |
You might be able to estimate how many characters the HTML takes by viewing it in the developer window and then pasting it into a character counter (such as a new post). I'd save your draft post in a text file first just in case.
Obviously you shouldn't have to do this, so I'm just mentioning ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296432 |
I don't know of a workaround other than finding a way to remove enough characters to bring the HTML under 30,000 characters. Without knowing how long the HTML is, this could require losing anything from 1 character to a few thousand (my example linked from the issue hit this problem somewhere abo... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296432 |
It seems likely that the HTML generated from the Markdown is longer than 30,000 characters, even though the Markdown you've entered is shorter. There's an [existing issue for this](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/958). Ideally when this is fixed the limit will apply only to the Markdown... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296347 |
Yes longer term it might be possible to close a post as a duplicate of a post of a different type. I don't believe there's a feature request for that yet. This request is just for clarity in the meantime. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #295246 |
I can't replicate this, and I don't expect it to happen again since the problem that automatically inserted `[]()` into posts has been fixed, so I would regard this secondary problem as fixed too. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #296426 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Inconsistency between Ctrl click and middle click on Search button Open the Search page in a background tab. - Both Ctrl click (or Cmd click on Mac) and middle click are widely used shortcuts for opening a link in a background tab (opening for later without switching to the new tab). - Anyone wanting the dialog box would be using left click. This means th... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #296425 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Inconsistency between Ctrl click and middle click on Search button The Search button at the top of the page opens a dialog box to enter a search term. There is also a separate Search page that opens in browsers that have JavaScript disabled. Browsers have shortcuts for opening a link in a separate background tab, for example: - Holding down Ctrl while left c... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #296424 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
A user's posts on all communities The user page Profile tab shows some posts from that user, along with a link to view all posts from that user. Could these two places have an option to show posts from that user across all communities? (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296392 |
I think I'd prefer tags late from someone who cares enough to add them, than tags early from someone who resents having to add them. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #296391 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Why at least 1 tag? When saving a question, there must be at least 1 tag. Is this necessary? Should this be adjustable per community? Should tagging be the responsibility of the original author, or the responsibility of the community? If someone has a question but they don't find any existing tags that seem to fi... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296375 |
In my case I was writing very little - just a word here and there for testing - but I can imagine it being painful for someone who spent more time. As a workaround until this is fixed it's possible to get the wording back by pressing the browser back button. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #296375 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Warning that daily flag limit has been reached After trying to raise a flag on a post after reaching my daily limit[^1], I saw this message: > Thank you. Flags from people like you help us keep this site clean. However, you have reached your daily flag limit of 30 flags. Please come back tomorrow to continue flagging. This is a helpful,... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288176 |
A similar request was raised: [Improve the search mechanism to find answers to questions with specific tag](https://software.codidact.com/posts/296285) and has siginificantly more upvotes than this one, so this one is underestimating demand for this feature. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296354 |
There was a recent change that introduced a "Reply to this thread" button inline (in the question page rather than having to open a separate thread page). Are you able to reply using that?
I'm only suggesting this as a workaround until the thread page problem can be identified and fixed. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296354 |
Possibly related:
- [More than just timings out of date on a page](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/296076)
I wasn't showing as signed out there, but I did see out of date information on the thread page, so I wonder if there's a common root cause. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296354 |
I'm on Firefox on Fedora Linux in case that narrows anything down. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296354 |
I'm able to reply in the separate thread page. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296354 |
I'm able to reply inline (on the question page, rather than visiting the separate thread page). (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296354 |
Anyone seeing this, please try to reply to see if that's possible. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #296347 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Meaningful message when failing to close a post as a duplicate of a different type If I try to close a question as a duplicate of a different post type, such as a blog, this correctly fails. However, there is no message indicating the reason for the failure, so someone might not realise that this is not a valid duplicate target. All that is displayed is "Failed: 404" in a red b... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #296333 |
Post edited: Improve sentence clarity |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #296333 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Displaced user avatar alt text on Chromium When my avatar cannot be loaded for some reason, there is instead alt text saying "user avatar" so that it's clear what is missing. This works well on Firefox, but on Chromium a missing image icon is also displayed, squeezing the alt text out of the available space. My missing avatar on Firefo... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296237 |
I just realised we have a user preference for this, but it doesn't work so I've raised a bug [Hot Posts not collapsed even with the preference ticked](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/296329). (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #296329 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Hot Posts not collapsed even with the preference ticked In the user page there is a Preferences tab, which includes a checkbox for: > Collapse hot posts Collapse the Hot Posts widget in the sidebar by default. However, the Hot Posts widget is expanded regardless of whether this checkbox is ticked. In addition to this bug, I also raised a s... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #296259 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Should the "All events" button show a number on the Activity tab? On the Activity tab of the user page, there are buttons to show only Posts, only Comments, or only Edits. Each button also shows the number of results of that type: > The Activity tab of the user page, showing numbers to the right of the words Posts, Comments, and Edits in their respective but... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296237 |
I had a vague recollection of some discussion of it, but I couldn't remember if it was about implementation or as a new feature, so I've raised it here to see if there's demand for it. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |