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Activity for trichoplax
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #293281 | Initial revision | — | 16 days ago |
| Question | — |
Incorrect raw JSON failure message on posting a comment In a Codidact community where I have not yet earned the "Participate Everywhere" ability, I am unable to comment except on my own posts and answers to my own posts. This is as intended. I attempted to post a comment in an existing comment thread on an answer to my own question on Electrical Engine... (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293277 |
I relate. I learned to program in BASIC, back when the line numbers were part of the code. They would default to 10, 20, 30 so at first adding lines in between was fine, but eventually I'd be trying to guess where to leave space (should I make this new line 25, or 23 because I'm more likely to add fu... (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293277 |
I hadn't realised moderators could change the sequence. That sounds like a good start already.
Even if we leave gaps in the initial numbering, the addition of new links with arbitrary numbers means there may need to be renumbering at some point. The problem of renumbering to make room for a new li... (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293277 |
What would be most useful in terms of hierarchy?
I can imagine a single link that goes to a page containing more specific links.
I can also imagine a single link that shows those more specific links below it (perhaps as indented bullet points) so you don't have to follow the first link to find ... (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293215 |
Thank you both. That rules out a known Firefox bug, so we'll investigate it as a Codidact specific bug. (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293237 |
I've just seen [confirmation of this happening on Chrome too](https://meta.codidact.com/comments/thread/10468#comment-26318), so the Codidact problem is unlikely to be Firefox related. I don't know how that affects the Mozilla bug. (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293275 | Initial revision | — | 16 days ago |
| Question | — |
Help page: call for improvement suggestions At the top right of each page is a link to Help. > The help center, showing a variety of help articles If you want a specific help article to be edited or added, please raise that on your community specific Meta so that a moderator can make those changes for you. This question is instead about ... (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293237 |
Thanks very much for mentioning this. I was indeed using Firefox, so I've edited to mention this, and to mention your link. (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293237 |
Post edited: Mention Firefox issue from comment |
— | 16 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293237 |
Post edited: Mention similar problem |
— | 16 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293215 |
Post edited: Mention browser and OS and similar problem |
— | 16 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293237 |
Post edited: Mention browser and OS |
— | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293215 |
@#36396 @#8046 since you've both noticed this, would you mind sharing which browser and operating system you were using to narrow things down?
I was using Firefox 134.0 on Fedora 40 (Linux). (more) |
— | 16 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293270 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 18 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293270 | Initial revision | — | 18 days ago |
| Question | — |
More visibly non-profit There is a box in the right hand panel of most Codidact pages showing information related to Codidact: The Codidact box from the right hand panel, showing various links The first paragraph says: > This community is part of the Codidact network. We have other communities too — take a look! ... (more) |
— | 18 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293269 | Initial revision | — | 18 days ago |
| Question | — |
Visual bug during image upload Minor visual bug (no effect on usage). When uploading an image during editing or creating a post, the page is greyed out while the "Image upload" modal is showing (as intended). However, 2 of the input fields (Tags and License) remain white, making them stand out and look broken: (more) |
— | 18 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293268 | Initial revision | — | 18 days ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Draft of previous edit (including edit comment) loaded for new edit I'm not sure if the underlying cause is related, but I've seen a similar problem for drafting a new post. I just pressed "Ask Question" to post a new Meta question, and the text of this question (that I'm now answering) was loaded as a saved draft, despite this question already having been posted. (more) |
— | 18 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293214 |
Yes it's just the wording from my first answer (which works when there's no redirect). (more) |
— | 19 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293214 |
I suppose this does make the "and try again" redundant, as signing in does that automatically. Should we just say
> Search results for `user:me` can only be displayed when signed in. Please [sign in](https://codegolf.codidact.com/users/sign_in).
rather than
> Search results for `user:me` can... (more) |
— | 20 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293213 |
Thanks very much for implementing the extra optional answer too! This is more than I was expecting and is working well for me. (more) |
— | 20 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293214 |
Although it's not immediately obvious from the [code changes](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/pull/1506/files), the fix also includes the suggestions from [my other answer about my ideal solution](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/293213/293216#answer-293216) (which I wasn't expecting to be implemen... (more) |
— | 20 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293237 |
Post edited: Be more specific |
— | 24 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293237 | Initial revision | — | 24 days ago |
| Question | — |
Draft of previous edit (including edit comment) loaded for new edit After making an edit to an answer (in this case an answer of my own on Collab) I pressed Edit to make a further edit and the Edit Comment field was populated with the comment of my immediately previous edit. I changed this to describe my current edit and saved. I then pressed Edit to make a third edi... (more) |
— | 24 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293215 |
Thanks for pointing that out. I've edited to mention it. (more) |
— | 26 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293215 |
Post edited: Link to old issue |
— | 26 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293219 |
(So in short, yes i like your suggestion but let's not assume people will know when to copy from the URL bar and when to use the link button next to the results.) (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293219 |
I can imagine cases where someone might desire either of:
- "me" continues to mean the sending user
- "me" means the receiving user
Should we give the user both options at the point that they copy the link? Maybe in a similar user interface for links to posts, which offer both raw and markdown l... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293214 |
For me personally, I'd rather be shown no results and an explanation of why, than some results that I might go straight into looking through without noticing the message that warns me about them being different from expected. I'd like to avoid that potential for wasting the user's time.
Perhaps we... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293215 |
Thank you both for the extra examples. It sounds like it was already happening before the recent improvements to drafts then. Mentioning in case that's relevant to anyone who investigates this. (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293216 | Initial revision | — | 27 days ago |
| Answer | — |
A: 500 error page for user:me when not signed in My ideal solution would be to inform the user that search results for `user:me` require a signed in user in order to know who `me` refers to, and then show a sign in page that will automatically redirect to the search results once the user has finished signing in. I understand this would be more d... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293215 | Initial revision | — | 27 days ago |
| Question | — |
Draft not discarded after posting an answer Old issue: Posting sometimes doesn't clear the saved post Moshi's comment points out that this old issue (closed in 2021) describes the same problem, so this may be a regression. Other comments suggest at least 3 people have seen this over the last year. During writing an answer, a draft is... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293214 | Initial revision | — | 27 days ago |
| Answer | — |
A: 500 error page for user:me when not signed in One option would be to display a message along the lines of: > Search results for `user:me` can only be displayed when signed in. Please sign in and try again. (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293213 | Initial revision | — | 27 days ago |
| Question | — |
500 error page for user:me when not signed in When searching, a user can be specified by including `user:X` in the search term, where `X` is the user id of the relevant user. You can also search for your own posts by specifying `user:me`. If you share a link to search results based on `user:me` then the recipient of the link will see results ... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293200 |
Regardless of the expectations of any particular community, the software is designed to support editing deleted posts. If either of you would like the software to be changed to prevent the editing of deleted posts that seems a different feature request, so I'd recommend raising it separately. (more) |
— | 28 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293200 |
Declaring something irreparable and moving on is one use for deletion. In some communities it may be the only reason, but some communities have other reasons. For example, on Code Golf an answer that is found to be incorrect may be deleted by the author until it can be fixed. (more) |
— | 28 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293198 |
> Taking both together this feature should not be implemented because very likely there are more than enough features that deliver a higher return with lower effort.
Although I personally think that the effort involved in implementing and maintaining this feature would be worthwhile, I definitely ... (more) |
— | 30 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293198 |
> no scrolling back to the beginning of the page (although that might also be possible with an anchored link when reloading)
That's a good point - this benefit could be achieved separately using an anchored link so isn't a reason for implementing this feature request. For reference, I raised a sep... (more) |
— | 30 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293198 |
Thanks for highlighting that there were still no benefits of this change listed in the question (I had mentioned some in comments but forgot to move them to the question). I've now edited the question. (more) |
— | 30 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292886 |
Post edited: Add benefits of this change |
— | 30 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293200 |
Posts can be deleted until improvements are applied, including being deleted by the post author. This seems to be an anticipated usage, from the fact that a user with the Curate ability can see deleted posts. Suggested edits can be part of the recovery process of a deleted post. (more) |
— | 30 days ago |