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Activity for trichoplax
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| Comment | Post #288337 |
Fixed for me too - thanks for checking. I'm guessing this might have been fixed at the same time as allowing the profile to be reverted to empty and not need a minimum number of characters. Either way, this looks status-completed to me. (more) |
— | 3 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289786 |
Post edited: Add bug tag plus tidying |
— | 12 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289766 | Initial revision | — | 14 days ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Add an entry for the "Participate" ability to the help center While that page is being edited, there's a typo that could be fixed at the same time: > There are 6 Abilities you can earn on this site (not neccessarily in this order): Note that this is correctly spelled "necessarily" on every community except Meta and Electrical Engineering (maybe the typo w... (more) |
— | 14 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289721 |
You may occasionally see a thread that has had all of its comments deleted. However, this is just leftover from before automatic hiding of such threads was introduced. If you see such an empty thread, you can trigger its removal by adding a comment and immediately deleting the comment. The thread wil... (more) |
— | 17 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289724 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 17 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289697 |
If we did decide to discard changes if the field is still in focus then there are events in JavaScript for leaving a page so it should be possible.
I don't have a strong preference on whether we change the behaviour or the wording, as long as they are consistent and unambiguous. (more) |
— | 20 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289697 |
Yes I agree that technically the field lost focus, but it could be clearer to the user (especially for nontechnical users). (more) |
— | 20 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289697 |
Post edited: Ask which solution is appropriate |
— | 20 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289697 | Initial revision | — | 20 days ago |
| Question | — |
User preferences behaviour inconsistent with advice A preferences problem highlighted in an answer on Software Development Meta appears to have been somewhat fixed, but leaving an inconsistency with the guidance on the preferences page. At the top of the user preferences page there is a note that says: > Changes are automatically saved once you ... (more) |
— | 20 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289687 |
The title mentions "Bringing bad posts to the attention of curators". In addition to discussing potential close reasons, are you also looking for mechanisms for notifying curators of posts that need a decision from them?
For example, adding a close vote could also add the post to a queue of posts ... (more) |
— | 21 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289632 |
Oh - you already did :) (more) |
— | 26 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289632 |
I guess you could post it as an answer saying "here's a workaround until we get a proper solution". (more) |
— | 26 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289632 |
Also, that would make a great answer. (more) |
— | 26 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289632 |
Far from a solution so not posting as an answer:
If you put a wide image (such as a desktop screenshot) in a quote block, then the reduced horizontal space results in the height of the image also being reduced. It only makes a small difference though, and has no effect at all on tall narrow images... (more) |
— | 26 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289632 |
Is there any reason that images shouldn't work in threads? Is it worth adding a feature request to have the `img` tag permitted? (more) |
— | 26 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289626 |
I don't have reasons for or against. I've started a Meta discussion so that people can answer with any reasons, positive or negative, for or against these or any other questions they think of. (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Edit | Post #282292 |
Post edited: Tidying |
— | 27 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289600 |
Would it be slightly more likely to get people to look in the right place if it instead said "Not here (see below)" or possibly "Not here (see link below)" if that fits on mobile? (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289627 | Initial revision | — | 27 days ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Discoverability for the new Proposals site > Now that there is a separate Proposals site with its own Meta and other categories, that would seem to qualify as a separate "Codidact Community" which should be listed among the "Other Codidact Communities" in the standard page footer. (Since this footer also always lists the current community, ma... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289626 |
Post edited: Add bullet points |
— | 27 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289626 |
Post edited: Catch all question for anything I've missed |
— | 27 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289626 | Initial revision | — | 27 days ago |
| Question | — |
How should we phase out the Site Proposals category? Currently the old Site Proposals category points to the new Proposals community, presumably as a temporary measure until people get used to the new community. This is not ideal, as described in the last paragraph of Discoverability for the new Proposals site. What is the best way to approach remov... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Edit | Post #287378 |
Post edited: Link to related Meta post on Collab |
— | 27 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289600 |
Post edited: Add `https://` to link as it was previously being treated as internal, giving a 404 error |
— | 28 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289600 |
[Codidact Collab - should it be listed?](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287378) (more) |
— | 28 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289600 |
[Add proposals to Codidact.com](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289609) (more) |
— | 28 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289587 |
Having said this, I don't believe the reference to English as a first language was intended with malice. Only Olin can know this for certain, but my impression is that it was intended to soften the English usage advice, by indicating understanding. It appears to have had the opposite effect, which I'... (more) |
— | 29 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289587 |
I have 2 issues with the mention of English in this answer:
1. We don't have a requirement that a post's English have any particular minimum quality. We have the ability to edit each other's posts so that we can each add our own respective strengths.
2. English being an author's second language i... (more) |
— | 29 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289590 |
My main aim with this answer is to avoid losing your future contributions. People don't generally rant about things unless they care.
Although your first set of suggestions was rushed and ranty and turned out to have already been discussed, I'm still hoping you'll stick around to make further sugg... (more) |
— | 29 days ago |
| Comment | Post #289590 |
Your rant wasn't without reason. Even though things have been discussed before, most people arriving new won't know that, and may have similar frustrations to yours. It might be useful as a signpost to existing discussions.
It's up to you whether to delete, edit, or leave it as is. I don't persona... (more) |
— | 29 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289590 |
Post edited: Use exact wording of link mentioned in right hand panel |
— | 29 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289590 |
Post edited: Edit to reflect edited question |
— | 29 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289585 |
Post edited: Typos and tidying, hopefully without changing the author's intent. |
— | 29 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289590 | Initial revision | — | 29 days ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Problems i have encountered/seen in the last week > I am a new user to Codidact that just migrated from StackOverflow and there are some things I would like to get across. Welcome to Codidact! Thank you for sharing your suggestions for improvement. One of the differences with Codidact is that the code is open source, so anyone who wants to can co... (more) |
— | 29 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289567 |
Post edited: Add heading for workaround |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #289567 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Question | — |
Comment flagging broken on mobile portrait mode From a comment thread page, pressing "flag" on a comment results in a pop up panel with a text input and a "Flag" button. On mobile, in portrait mode, this pop up panel overlaps the left hand edge of the screen so that the flag message being typed and the "Flag" button are obscured: Flag pop up pa... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #289565 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Question | — |
Users with multiple Codidact accounts Are there any rules about a user having multiple Codidact accounts (sometimes known as sockpuppet accounts)? What should a user do if they suspect another user has multiple accounts? (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #289520 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #289520 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Question | — |
The posts list for a tag suggests each post has only that tag Clicking on a tag takes you to a page showing the details of the tag, followed by a list of posts bearing that tag. However, each of these posts is shown with only that tag. All other tags on each post are omitted: > Posts tagged bug, each showing only the bug tag This can be confirmed as a bug... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #289479 |
I like the idea of the labels "Question" and "Answer" (or "Article" - there are a few post types) being at the top of the individual search result.
How would you feel about these only showing in mixed search results? That is, they could be hidden in search results for a specific post type (so if I... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #289451 |
Could there be a default MathJax help article that switches on and off when MathJax is enabled or disabled? (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289449 |
I recently [posted on Codidact Proposals](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289268) mentioning similar problems, including a link to an example post on the development server with more examples of raw text and rendered results.
Mentioning here as further evidence that avoiding accidentally trig... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289173 |
Post edited: How to make exceptions for images |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289173 |
The images were what I was most dissatisfied with. This is a big improvement - thank you. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289391 |
This answer covers everything except the mention of a preview while editing comments. Even the standard comment editing interface does not yet show a preview, but there is a Meta feature request for one: [Can we have a preview pane for comments?](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289248). (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289394 |
Post edited: Tidying |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289394 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Editor preview for comments Comments allow some Markdown features such as numbered and bullet point lists, code blocks, and quote blocks. They also allow MathJax in communities for which it is enabled. A rendered comment can therefore look very different from the raw text. Could a preview be added to the comment drafting/edi... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289367 |
Post edited: Replace "give for granted" with English idiom "take for granted" |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289381 |
That's an interesting point about service tags. If there are more than one kind of tag maybe we could have tag categories.
For example:
- Topic tags show on a row of their own and can be applied by anyone
- Status tags show on a row of their own and can only be applied by moderators
Tags like... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289366 |
There are a few cases where the number of tags is not the problem, just being at the limit is a problem (as it prevents adding a moderator-only tag, a proposal tag, or undeleting a tag). Maybe it would be sufficient to just have a limit for users, and an exception for those 3 cases. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289366 |
So there is not necessarily a tag limit per post, but there is a tag limit per user per post. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289366 |
Would it help to have a slowly increasing limit like a trust level?
So for example, when a new user joins they can only add 5 tags, but after they gain trust over time they can add 10, and if they don't misuse that they later get 20. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289366 |
I can't think of an example of a problem that could arise if there were no tag limit. What sort of abuse were you expecting? (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289353 |
I've edited my answer to try and make it more clear and to include the examples (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289353 |
Post edited: Link to 5 tag limit Meta post |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289353 |
Post edited: Clarify that this wouldn't mean trusting everyone |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289353 |
I wasn't suggesting relaxing the trust requirements entirely.
I wouldn't want to give arbitrary abilities to everyone as soon as they join a community. I was thinking that some actions could be trusted to slightly more people than currently (as the question suggests, but with undo allowing taking ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289353 |
I've raised a separate [discussion on the 5 tag limit](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289364). (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289364 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Assessing the 5 tag limit We currently have a limit of 5 tags per question. Should we keep this the same or would any changes be of benefit? For example: - Should the limit be higher or lower? - Should there be different limits for different contexts: - Different communities? - Different categories? - Differe... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289353 |
It's interesting that we're both using the same argument (reduce administrative burden) for opposite opinions. Sounds like this would need careful discussion before deciding where to have undo and where to avoid it.
Note that I'm not suggesting the undo functionality be implemented any time soon. ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289353 |
Post edited: Fine tuning |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289353 |
Post edited: Improve structure |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289353 |
Post edited: Add subheadings for ease of reference |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289353 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Proposal to ease tag maintenance This is perhaps a longer term solution, with slightly broader scope than the question, but I'm mentioning it for consideration since the question made me think of it. It still makes sense to implement the more specific changes suggested in the question in the meantime. Trust, but implement undo ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289341 |
Post edited: Mention list is non-exhaustive |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289341 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How should a Codidact public API work? I'd like to make charts of user and community stats These could involve a large amount of data as the site grows, so should probably be links to a location that generates them once a day and/or caches them so they don't use the API every time someone views them. This is a non-exhaustive list of... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
In response to the stateful/stateless query:
My earlier comment was a contrived example imagining that we had a history API that could not be accessed without info only found in the response to the post API. I don't think this is realistic, but that's how I was imagining we could know that the req... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289338 |
I'd also bear in mind accessibility when considering use of a smaller font size. If a user has overridden their browser default font size to ensure they can read text on websites, then `<small>` may be a smaller font size than is comfortable to read. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289338 |
For your particular purpose, it's your decision how to format your own post, but personally I would find it easy to assume that a section in smaller font is more skippable. In a post of my own, if I wanted to distinguish something that the reader *must* be aware of I would aim to make it appear *dist... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289338 |
In general, I don't know the reason for the particular set of HTML tags that were chosen to be permitted. The list does change from time to time, so feel free to raise a feature request on Meta asking for any additional tags you would like to be added. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
It's good to hear that a URL is sufficient rather than the full licence text.
Even if it turns out that we need the URL in every response that contains licensed content, that doesn't seem too bad as it will be small in proportion to the length of most posts. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289338 |
Post edited: Add missing raw text input for the other half of the footnote Markdown |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289338 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Why is <small> HTML tag rendered differently in preview? Explanations for the current behaviour Rendered text is not small after saving The `` tag is not one of the currently supported HTML tags. Supported tags and attributes are discussed in the following Meta posts: - What html tags can we use in posts? - What class attributes can we (usefully) use... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289334 |
A fix is planned for the discrepancies between preview and saved post. If you're reading this and that fix has been released, then this post needs to be updated to take that into account. Feel free to reply to this comment to let me know it's time. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289334 |
Post edited: Fix explanation of manual p tags, and refer to HTML sanitiser instead of Markdown parser |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289337 |
Post edited: Change title to reflect that this is only for some posts |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289337 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Expanding a comment thread changes the width of some posts When a comment thread is expanded, the width of the post it is attached to in some cases increases. This seems to be rare (most posts do not change width when their comment threads are expanded), so I am only raising this for reference in case investigating it highlights something that needs to be fi... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289334 |
Post edited: Add note that a blank line does not have the expected outcome |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289334 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Why do HTML tags reduce my line spacing in Codidact posts? The cause of the lost line spacing The raw text of your post is converted to HTML ready to be displayed by your web browser. The text is split into paragraphs based on the presence of blank lines, and each paragraph is wrapped in a `` tag. This causes your browser to display it with the styling of a... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289333 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Why do HTML tags reduce my line spacing in Codidact posts? When I use an HTML tag to alter the appearance of a paragraph in a Codidact post, it works but the line spacing is reduced, which I do not want. Why is this? Is there anything I can do about it? Example Raw text input ```text A long, drawn out, meandering test paragraph. This is more than lon... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289331 |
Post edited: Put screenshot in a quote block to avoid it looking like the end of the post |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289331 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
I can mark my own answer as "Works for me" The "Works for me" reaction can be added to any answer, even if the reacting user is the author of the answer. For example, here is what an answer looks like if I post the answer and react to it myself: > An answer with a "Works for me" reaction from the same user Is this intended behaviour?... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289233 |
If we do end up showing previous flag info on the post page, we may want to consider making it a user setting. I can imagine situations where a user might want to keep such info only to their profile page, for example if working on something with a colleague who sees the questions they look up on the... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
Possibly relevant aside:
My impression of the problem people had with SE retrospectively changing all content to CC BY-SA 4.0 is that they objected to SE adding a new licence that they did not have the legal authority to decide on.
I see it as very important that we never accidentally provide a... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
I like this approach of only being required to make the licence available on request, rather than having to include it everywhere. I'd want to know what the legal situation is, and to what extent it varies by country, but my rough understanding of international copyright law is that if a licence is n... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
As for preferring option 2 of 3 from my first comment: No, I can't imagine anyone preferring that. I only included it as an approach that definitely doesn't cause any legal worries. If we can't agree on what is required for licensing, option 2 is still available. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
Interesting thoughts. I get 2 questions from this:
1. In those places where a licence is required, how much of it is required?
- a licence id?
- a licence short name such CC BY-SA 4.0?
- a URL for the licence text available online?
- the full licence text?
2. Where is a licence ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
So I guess we need to include the licence with any response that contains all or part of the content of any revision. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
Since the licence isn't editable I guess it applies to all edits regardless of who does the editing. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289322 |
Post edited: Mention limits and pagination |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
Good point. Thanks for raising this.
I don't know the best approach for this, but the options that come to mind are:
1. Include the licence with all licensed content (so questions, answers, articles, but not comments).
1. Only allow programmatically accessing content that does not require a li... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289324 |
I've now edited to tag this as a "bug" rather than a "feature-request", as it turns out that even if the user does take into account other posts on the page, it is not possible to avoid clashing with other footnotes as they are automatically numbered from 1 in each post, overriding any different numb... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289324 |
Post edited: Link to earlier post that explains this is a bug with no workaround |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289324 |
Thanks for finding that. It does look like mine is a duplicate. The comments there also explain that my untested workaround (using different footnote numbers in your own post than the other post on the same page) doesn't work - they will be automatically renumbered to use the smallest numbers, and en... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289323 |
Post edited: Add finer detail |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
I was aiming for something that can be accessed from any programming language, so most likely HTTP. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289324 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289324 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Footnotes with the same number in different posts on the same page If 2 or more posts on a page contain footnotes with the same number, they all link to the footnote that appears earliest on the page. For example, the question How should a Codidact public API work? has a footnote numbered 1 in both the question and an answer. Clicking on the footnote number in th... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289323 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How should a Codidact public API work? I'd like to host contests that read code directly from answers Here's what I'd like to see in an API to allow me to host coding contests on Code Golf Codidact. Essential This is the only feature I would need in order to start hosting contests. The answer content for each answer to a speci... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289279 |
Meta discussion started: [ How should a Codidact public API work? ](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289322). (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289293 |
Meta discussion started: [ How should a Codidact public API work? ](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289322). (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289322 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
How should a Codidact public API work? I'm planning to add a public API to Codidact so people can make applications that read Codidact data automatically. Features and purposes I have my own purposes in mind for this[^1], but there are many other potential uses. Before I start building this, I'd like to hear what features you would li... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289298 |
I personally believe it should be removed. I flagged your question for moderator attention directly after posting this answer, so when someone sees the flag they can decide whether to remove the norepro tag. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289279 |
There's also some discussion of scraping in [Is it okay to scrape Codidact for personal tools?](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289293) and I've mentioned an API as an alternative approach. Would an API providing raw source text be relevant to your purposes? If so it would be good to get your input o... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289298 |
Post edited: Mention blank lines are omitted |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289297 |
Yes that's what I see, on Firefox for mobile or desktop. Haven't yet tested with other browsers. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289298 |
I was focused on the indentation and didn't picked up this, but I can confirm I also see this (no blank lines). I'm not sure how to avoid this with copying from rendered HTML, but an option to view as raw text would ensure the correct number of newlines. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289296 |
Not sure if there is any overlap in the root cause but mentioning for reference just in case:
- [Mismatch between blue notification circle and notification panel](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287765) (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289293 |
Interesting idea. Might not be necessary if we can just make the changes directly in the back end. Let me know if there's an advantage I'm overlooking.
I've been working on Codidact bugs and feature requests as practice to get used to the codebase, as part of working up to implementing an API. If ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289297 |
No, I see the correct number in the blue circle (generally 1 unless I've been away for a while).
When you click on the notification multiple times, is this from a page other than the destination? For me, it goes away first click if I am on the page it leads to (exact URL, not just the same questio... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289298 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Issues with copying post source from revision history I see the described behaviour in Firefox but not in Chromium. - Operating System: Fedora 38 - Firefox version: 116.0 - Chromium version: 115.0.5790.102 Example of a Post History page where this behaviour occurs: - https://meta.codidact.com/posts/275838/history The initial revision (#1),... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289173 |
Post edited: Add warning that user id based approach will occasionally switch to light mode |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289297 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Notifications sometimes stay unread after clicking I suspect the add ons and fork mentioned are not relevant. I see a persistent notification circle on standard Firefox with no add ons. It doesn't seem to be completely consistent but the general behaviour I see is as follows: - I see a blue circle indicating I have a notification. - I open the no... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289293 |
As you may guess from the API post you linked to, I am very interested in implementing an API for Codidact. I'm also likely to have free time coming up in a couple of months.
I know exactly what I want out of an API, but I don't want to implement just what suits me, and then find it needs to chang... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289291 |
That's good to know. I wasn't really concerned about launch decisions. I like the idea of everyone who views a proposal having an idea of how it's doing. Sometimes seeing the activity might drive someone's motivation. Also seeing where the gaps in activity are might affect someone's decision on wheth... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289291 |
Sounds good. We could even end up with both solutions running in parallel. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289283 |
Good point. Maybe only a third tag type would work then. That way it could show in the tags list with styling that suggests it is disabled, and its description could explain why it cannot be used, and we could prevent it being added to posts. A lot more work than just reusing an existing tag type tho... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289291 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Indicate stale reactions based on user activity Wary of trying to be too general Although I like the idea of this for making sure indications of interest don't last indefinitely on Codidact Proposals, trying to find a general use for expiring reactions on existing Codidact communities might end up stretching one tool across too many use cases. Pe... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289147 |
A [discussion on Discord](https://discord.com/channels/634104110131445811/634104110131445815/1138369664976703589) has made me realise I was wrong about this being a filter - instead of hiding the imported posts it just sorts them to the end, so it is a sort rather than a filter.
I still think it m... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289141 |
Post edited: Change from bug to feature-request now that I understand better |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289141 |
Post edited: Correct my mistake - "Native" is a sort, not a filter |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289279 |
There is another feature request for [Can we have a "show post source" button?](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289245). That one is for the post itself, rather than the revision history. Perhaps it would be useful to have both? A "show source" or "raw text" button on a post, and a similar button on ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289283 |
Post edited: Mention explanatory description |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289283 |
Post edited: Clarify |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289283 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: A way to prohibit creating certain tags. Moderator only tags Another existing feature that might be relevant as part of a solution: some tags can only be added by a moderator, such as "status-completed". If "voltage" is created as a moderator only tag, then the description can explain why it's not useful, to reduce user frustration when th... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289223 |
You're welcome. There will be plenty more bugs to raise over time... Thanks for the edit - I noticed the image looked like the end of the post, but it didn't occur to me that a quote block could fix it. Looks better now. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289270 |
I raised this myself a few months ago, and found it was a duplicate of https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277432
It seems to have been raised a few times, which in itself demonstrates demand for this feature. That original feature request also has a number of answers making the case for different app... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289262 |
Was considering linking to the Wikipedia page for "four-letter word" in case the phrase wasn't in common usage outside the UK, but wow, no, not linking to that. Suffice to say this just means words you wouldn't want on your site outside of Linguistics. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289262 |
Sounds good if they work, but they might be an invitation to find unscrupulous workarounds. Also, how small would they have to be to eliminate the possibility of malicious edits? A four letter word plus a space is a 5 character edit.
I wonder if we would be better with "human guardrails": We could... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289262 |
I wouldn't expect it to be a concern to the original author. The problem is that anyone can be an original author. This change would give anyone the ability to make a post, wait until it drops off the front page, and then edit it to say something the community would have flagged had it not been kept ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289262 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How to edit a post for small modifications without affecting the visibility of other posts? I like this, but... I've often wanted this feature. I feel bad about cluttering the top of the question list when I make a minor typo fix on an old post. However, having thought about it more over time, I can see a problem with letting a user decide which of their edits should be visible. Misu... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289239 |
I raised that a blank line is necessary in `<details>` sections previously, and it turns out that's necessary whenever mixing HTML and Markdown, as [explained in an answer there](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287279/287284#answer-287284). (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289249 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Can we have a "show post source" button? Why I like I like the idea of a button that shows me the raw Markdown (or MathJax or HTML depending on the post) so I can see how certain styles are achieved. I too find the "Edit" button unsatisfactory for this purpose. If I'm making a genuine edit then a draft is saved (which I like). I don't want... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289242 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: TOC display problem after answer deletion Expected behaviour for different users My expectation is the same as in the question when a user is unable to see deleted posts. Sometimes a user can see a deleted post (such as when the user is a moderator, has the Curate ability, or is the author of the deleted post). I would expect the Table o... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289241 |
Post edited: Tidying |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289233 |
Would that only apply while the previous flag is still pending? I'm imagining seeing no previous flag content when raising a new flag after a previous flag has been marked helpful, but not sure if anything should show if a previous flag was declined. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289233 |
On the flags page that Olin mentioned, all 3 flags show up, so they are not being lost, just not being announced on the post to the user who previously flagged. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289233 |
Just checked on the dev server: It doesn't give any indication that there is already a flag, and allows me to raise another. This applies immediately on the same tab, and also later if I open the same post in a fresh tab. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289236 |
That's really useful - thank you!
Perhaps there could be an indicator on an individual post that just says "flagged" and links to that page you mentioned. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289233 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Indication that I have flagged a post When I flag a post for moderator attention, an acknowledgement message appears, but if I revisit the post later there is no indication that I have flagged it. I would find it useful to have an indication, in case I see the post later and don't remember whether I already got around to flagging it. ... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289230 |
I like the idea of side by side input and preview, particularly for long posts which currently prevent seeing the preview and input at the same time.
However, I would want to make sure that the preview still works for narrow windows or zoomed in browsers. Even among people who have a widescreen m... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289230 |
There is already some use of a wider view: edit diffs in the post history have side by side comparison of before and after, and the page has no sidebar. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289224 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289224 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Rendering bug of HTML entity in hover text for tags guidance. While ArtOfCode's answer explains that this is unlikely to be fixed in the near future, there is a workaround. If you decide that you need a character such as φ in the brief usage guidance that shows on hover, you can achieve this as follows: Workaround - Go to the bode-plot tag page. - Copy the... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289223 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
User id shows instead of user name in comment thread title When a user is mentioned in a comment thread using `@`, internally the user is referred to by their user id number. The comment is displayed using their user name, but the user id behind the scenes means that if they change their user name, the name shown in the comment stays up to date. This work... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289200 |
In particular, we could let a user choose whether to be contactable by direct message, or only in public messages.
Direct messages create an additional moderation burden though, so I would want us to consider only allowing direct messages to moderators, with all other communication being public. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289200 |
It might help to also have more fine grained options: do I want to be contactable only in rooms I have already participated, or from any room? (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289200 |
I recall SE chat only allowing pinging a user if they have been active in a recent period of time. If implementing it here, I'd prefer to have a user not contactable until they choose to opt in to chat, but then continue to be contactable indefinitely until they choose to opt out. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289200 |
In the same way that not everyone is on Discord, there may be people who do not want to be on our own chat system.
I'd like to see us implement a chat system, and remove the dependency on Discord, but I would still want it to be opt in. Not everyone who wants to participate in Q&A wants to be cont... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289202 |
This would be aligned with the way moderator flags are currently handled - you don't see which moderator handled it. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289202 |
The difference between Discord and a built in "contact a moderator" button is that on Discord you would be sending a direct message to a specific person who you know is a moderator, whereas the built in button would put you in touch with whichever moderator responds first. On Discord you would know w... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289173 |
The developer window has a tool for manually finding the colour value of whichever pixel your mouse is pointing at, but I don't know of an automated way to get all of the computed values at once.
Some of the tools for compiling to CSS, such as SASS and SCSS, allow seeing the CSS output which might... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289202 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How to send message to mod other than by flag? Awkward workaround is acceptable until this feature is implemented You are correct, there is not yet a better way to contact a moderator than the awkward workaround you mentioned (flagging an unrelated post). To be clear: 1. A better method to get a moderator's attention should exist, so this w... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289173 |
Post edited: Mention unticking the CSS on the body to take light mode screenshots |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289173 |
Post edited: Mention signed in only version |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289173 |
CSS filters are powerful (they can do far more than these simple adjustments) but I would want to think carefully before making them built in.
As a user script, browser compatibility is no problem because people it doesn't work for can simply not use it. If we made it built in we might break the s... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289173 |
When you say "finer-grained adjustment of the contrast" do you mean being able to set different contrast levels in different regions of the page? (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289173 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: UX changes: dark theme, distinct borders and shortcuts Horrible hacky dark mode Until there's a real dark mode, here are some quick CSS hacks that you can try out in the developer window of your browser, and add to a userscript or user stylesheet if you like the results. The site as it currently looks With no CSS changes, here's the starting poi... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289166 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Code block copy button in more places, such as help documents I find the copy button on code blocks in posts very useful. Could this also be added to code blocks in other places such as help documents? For example, the Template for Proposal Posts would be much easier to copy if there were a copy button. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288657 |
I was very tired when I posted that comment and completely overlooked that you might mean a suggested edit. Reading it now, being more awake, it's perfectly clear that "applied" means "approved" rather than "submitted for approval". Thanks for being understanding. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289143 |
Post edited: Make link human readable |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289141 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Native sorting button blocks other sorting orders The sorting buttons at the top of a category's post list include "Activity", "Age", and "Score", which are all orders into which to sort the posts. However, for sites with imported content they also include "Native". This is not a sort order, but a filter, showing only posts that were not imported. T... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289139 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Hover text on sorting buttons not available on mobile The sorting buttons at the top of a category's post list have title text which appears on hovering with a mouse, but this is not available on mobile devices. The sorting buttons above the filters section "Activity", "Age", and "Score" are reasonably intuitive names, so a mobile user could still... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289018 |
Post edited: Remove redundant markdown added by a bug during the previous edit |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289058 |
I have no preference, just wanted to raise the question so both can be made how you want them at the same time (you plural, the mods) (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289058 |
Would you want the same behaviour for links that have a start date in the future? Do they currently stay in the "inactive" tab until the start date is reached? (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288657 |
I'm very confused by this question. I was sure I had kept my time travel a secret. Could you rephrase to help my parsing? (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289018 |
Thanks for the perspective. I appreciate that votes are difficult to interpret, particularly when the question seems to be also leaning towards an answer.
I suppose a large number of downvotes will probably also achieve the same as a large number of upvotes - more people will be likely to be curio... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289018 |
I can't speak for the downvoters. I don't know whether the objections are to the question or to the way it is phrased.
Personally I see this as an important question. Codidact exists to provide freedom from the conflicts of interest associated with profit driven organisations. Users publicly raisi... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288976 |
I'll make sure I focus more on the title and introduction from now on. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288974 |
The comment was all that was needed - it made sense and did help.
I wouldn't have known about mobile without your comment. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288974 |
Thanks for highlighting this. I've established that the problem only occurs in windows of width 780 pixels or more, and edited the post to make this clear. I've also added a screenshot so this post can make sense to mobile viewers. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288976 |
For future readers, note that this answer is to the initial bug report where I did not understand that the problem only occurs for some viewers, and I phrased the bug report in a way which made it sound like I was complaining about scroll bars.
Although I have now edited away the context, this ans... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288976 |
I absolutely agree that horizontal scroll bars are the solution. Thanks for highlighting that the title and opening paragraph suggested the opposite.
I have now edited to make the title mention the right hand panel, to mention in the first paragraph that scroll bars are a good thing, and added a s... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288974 |
Post edited: Add screenshot so mobile users can see the problem |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288974 |
Post edited: Make title clearer and add section on mobile view |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288976 |
If skimming through the post didn't look immediately awful, I'm wondering if you are viewing on mobile, where I've just been informed the problem does not exist. On desktop the expandable details section has a summary which is a code block stretching out and partly obscuring the right hand side panel... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288974 |
Post edited: Highlight which rendered results are broken in the editor preview |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288974 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288974 |
Post edited: Mention this may not be noticed until next time |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288974 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Some code blocks extend into the right hand panel on desktop If a code block contains a line too long to fit in the available horizontal space, the excess to the right is hidden, with a scroll bar to allow seeing the rest (this is a good thing): Raw text: ````text ```text This is an exceptionally long line for the purpose of demonstrating what happens wh... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288715 |
Post edited: Link to related post |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287892 |
Post edited: Link to related post |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287245 |
I should have reread my 9 month old post before responding to your comment. I've now spotted my earlier misunderstanding and edited to reflect your comment.
I raised the GitHub issue earlier today, with my current understanding, and forgot that my understanding 9 months ago when I wrote this post ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287245 |
Post edited: Explain that the number is useful |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287245 |
Thanks for the explanation. I appreciate the difference. The bug is not that there is title text, but that the title text is applied to the container instead of the element. It just needs to be made more specific.
Hovering over "1.1k" and seeing "1063" makes perfect sense.
Hovering near the sor... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287837 |
Post edited: Add note that duplicate flags now require details |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287837 |
For me, a duplicate flag with empty Details section is submitted successfully (and shows up to a moderator) in my local development environment, but is rejected with a red message "Details are required for this flag type - please enter at least 15 characters" on the dev server. Both are using the lat... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287245 |
Post edited: Link to GitHub issue |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288931 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Get rid of minimum character requirements Prevent zero only - I'm comfortable with preventing users from posting zero character comments and posts. - I agree there are times when insisting on 15 characters is unhelpful. - For comments, I see no reason to make the minimum higher than 1. - For posts, I'd expect them to be longer but 15 is ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288896 |
Thanks for explaining. With priviliges and abilities being two separate things, it might be worth making the separation more definite. The screenshot in this answer exclusively uses "privileges" in the Roles section, and "abilities" in the Recalc Abilities section, but the screenshots in the question... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288886 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Cannot view with no filter when a category has a default filter This is the filter section above a post list: Filter section showing the default filter for the category In a category where I have set a default filter, I can temporarily view the post list using a different filter by selecting it from the "Predefined Filters" drop down box, and then clicking ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287765 |
At some point I got a persistent zero (persisting until I manually refreshed the page) but haven't seen it since (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287765 |
Somewhere in trying to work out the steps to reproduce this I also ended up with a blue notification circle with a zero in it, but I haven't been able to make that happen again. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287765 |
I am. Steps to reproduce:
1. Open this page in 2 tabs.
2. Mark your top notification as unread.
3. Close the notification panel and see the blue notification circle.
3. Switch to the other tab and click on the unread notification.
4. Switch back to the first tab and see the blue notification cir... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288858 |
I like this approach. I also enjoy overthinking, so I'm not best placed to judge whether it's more than we need, so I'm interested to see what others think.
Since we already have at least 1 other instance, and possibly more we don't know about, committing to not breaking existing behaviour without... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288828 |
The [answer explaining why we shouldn't do this](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288828/288834#answer-288834) has plenty of upvotes (including mine) so I'm pretty sure we're safe from this happening. I have been thoroughly convinced that my suggestion is a bad idea... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288834 |
The post you link to discusses questions, rather than answers, which makes me realize what I was overlooking:
An answerer will generally put `--` inside a code block or inline code, so it won't get converted, but someone asking a question is less likely to know to do this, so we can't rely on it.
... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288826 |
That's one difference with Codidact - there is no voting on comments. There is only voting on posts (questions/answers/articles). The [reputation per vote is adjustable though](https://software.codidact.com/posts/288728). (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288828 |
Post edited: Clarification |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288828 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Should we render double hyphen as an em dash? Some places render "--" (double hyphen) as "—" (em dash). Currently Codidact does not -- so these are left as double hyphens in both the edit preview and a rendered post (like that). Would it be useful for Codidact to automatically render double hyphen as an em dash? Are there settings in... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288825 |
Post edited: Replace "--" with "—" as the markdown renderer doesn't do this for us |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288825 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288826 |
We have a [community called Collab for people working on the software behind Codidact](https://collab.codidact.org/categories/56). It's not the test community you're asking about, but it can help with setting up a local development instance of the software which would allow you to try out whatever yo... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288826 |
To post the previous comment, which contains triple backticks inside a code block, you can use quadruple backticks to wrap it as shown below (which uses quintuple backticks to allow showing the quadruple backticks):
`````text
````text
Example triple backticks inside a code block:
```text
some
... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288826 |
You can see how someone achieved a given format in a post by pressing "Suggest Edit" to see the raw markdown, but since you can't edit other people's comments, here's the raw markdown for the previous comment's formatting:
````text
You can also use `inline code`, [links](https://meta.codidact.com... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288826 |
You can also use `inline code`, [links](https://meta.codidact.com/help/formatting "Post formatting help"), **bold**, *italics*,
```text
code blocks
for multiple lines
```
> quote blocks
> for, uh, quotes
- bullet
- points
1. numbered
1. lists
> quote blocks containing
> - bulle... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288816 |
Just to highlight this in case any downvoters see this as a reason to retract a downvote. I can't know the reason for downvotes, but the animation seemed like the worst thing about the linked question so I thought I'd mention it here where objectors might see it. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288817 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288816 |
Post edited: Add some tags |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288818 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Let's not allow animated avatars. Switch off animation until a decision is made I've posted an answer listing possible options which can be discussed over time, but I recommend that in the meantime animation is suppressed completely. Switching animation off everywhere for everyone is much quicker and easier than implementing a ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288816 |
I agree we need to do something, but I would recommend a solution built into the site rather than a rule that takes up moderator time to enforce. Whether the decision is to ban animation altogether, or to allow users to opt in or out of seeing them, the site should enforce this so users do not have t... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288817 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Let's not allow animated avatars. I was in the middle of drafting a very similar Meta question when I noticed this one had just been posted. I will instead post my thoughts here as an answer, to prompt further discussion. I see the current situation (everyone sees animated avatars whether they like it or not) as a problem, but there ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #277974 |
Post edited: Remove redundant "Feature request: " from title to reduce clutter on question page |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287130 |
Post edited: Link to original GitHub issue |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287130 |
Post edited: Link to recent GitHub issue for the same problem |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288799 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: UI question: how should the "post" button behave in restricted categories? With many different Codidact communities and more being proposed, along with other organisations that have their own instances of the QPixel software, it seems unlikely that any single one of these suggestions will be consistently the best approach. Each occasion may have a different approach that wo... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288797 |
I wonder if "Not here (use new site)" might be better, so that mobile users see "Not here (use new" which gives more of a hint that there's something new to look out for. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288795 |
Post edited: Link to general question |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288797 |
On mobile (at least on mine) it now says "Don't post here (use" which at least should make someone more likely to stop and read the category description. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288795 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Clearer community proposals transition for skim readers During the transition from having a Site Proposals category on Meta to having a separate Codidact Proposals community, there is a message at the top of the Site Proposals category with a link to the introductory Meta post on Codidact Proposals: Site Proposals category showing a link in the descrip... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288792 |
Post edited: Tidying |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287379 |
Post edited: Add anecdotal evidence |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288777 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Confusing row highlighting on abilities page On the Abilities page clicking on the name of an ability takes you to the specific ability page. However, clicking on the row of the table anywhere other than the name of the ability just highlights the row in grey, rather than taking you to the specific ability page: Abilities table showing a row... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288748 |
Post edited: Tidying |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288746 |
Post edited: Another typo |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288746 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288746 |
Post edited: Mention that the blue highlighting is counterintuitive |
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| Edit | Post #288746 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
The tag description in the tags list does not link to the specific tag page On the Tags tab, clicking on a tag in the list follows a link to the specific tag page. However, this only works if you click on the tag itself. The tags in the list each have a snippet of their description showing, but clicking on the description snippet does not link to the specific tag page with t... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288744 |
Post edited: Add an example proving the problem does not affect searches in the Posts tab |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288744 |
Post edited: More detail with a second example |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288743 |
Sounds right. Where I have the Edit Posts ability I see "Edit" as expected, so it does seem to be a wiki thing. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288745 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Update tag descriptions to reflect new home of proposals Here on Meta the tags "community-proposal" and "new-communities" both have descriptions referring to the Site Proposals category. Can these be updated to refer to (and possibly link to) the new Codidact Proposals community? (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288744 |
Post edited: Mention this affects tag searches only |
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| Edit | Post #288744 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Tag search breaks if a space is added In the Q&A category of Meta a tag search for "proposal" shows 4 results, but a tag search for "proposal " (with a trailing space, as is commonly automatically inserted when typing on mobile) shows 0 results. This seems to be a literal string search. For contrast, a search for "bug" shows 4 results... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288743 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Proposal descriptions show "Suggest edit" instead of "Edit" In the Descriptions category of the Codidact Proposals community, anyone can edit any proposal description. This is in contrast to other categories where suggested edits require approval before being applied (until the editing user gains the Edit Posts ability). I would therefore expect an "Edit" ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288742 |
Post edited: Typo |
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| Edit | Post #288742 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Indicate change in reputation in voting summary In the Vote Summary tab of the user page, each of a users posts shows how many votes up and down: Two posts showing 1 upvote each This shows voting, but does not make clear how this affects reputation. In this example, the first post is a Question in the Challenges category, and the upvote resu... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288646 |
Post edited: Add an examples section |
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| Edit | Post #282459 |
Post edited: Link to duplicates as a measure of demand |
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| Edit | Post #288715 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Confusing percentage on Edit Posts Ability page Related: - Tracking progress towards the Edit ability The Activity tab of my user profile, filtered to Edits shows 20 helpful suggested edits, and 1 declined. The Edit Posts Ability page shows that I need a minimum of 30 approved suggested edits: The Edit Posts Ability page, showing a p... (more) |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #282459 |
Suggested edit: Link to duplicates as a measure of demand (more) |
helpful | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288713 |
Post edited: Remove abbreviated expletive |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #288713 |
Suggested edit: Remove abbreviated expletive (more) |
helpful | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288675 |
Post edited: Use markdown footnote syntax so it links both ways |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288646 |
Post edited: Add example not involving tags and amend title accordingly |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #288675 |
Suggested edit: Use markdown footnote syntax so it links both ways (more) |
helpful | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288707 |
If the only reason to distinguish deleted users is the problem described (confusing threads involving 2 or more deleted users), then perhaps a per question approach could work:
- If a question & its answers & comment threads contains only 1 deleted user, show them as "deleted user"
- If a questio... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288707 |
In terms of privacy, generating a new number for the deleted account would fall somewhere between using their original user id and using the same fixed "deleted user" for all deleted users.
It would protect against being identified by people who already know your user id, but if anyone also knows ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288700 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
How does "@username" work in comment threads? In a comment thread, I can notify someone by including "@username". I also get notified of replies, even if they do not include my username in this way. What determines who is notified of a comment in a thread? - When a comment does not include "@username", who is notified? - When a comment does ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288695 |
I understand now. I'm not sure what to call them, but each Meta question requires at least one of them.
Although very few questions have more than one of these required tags, some questions change between them as more information becomes available, which would require moving between categories if ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288695 |
When you say "meta tags" do you mean "status tags" (the ones that show in red on the tags tab)? These can only be applied by a moderator and I've never seen a post with more than 1 status tag applied. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288693 |
I think I would rather that voting on a bug / feature request require visiting the specific page rather than being able to vote on the status page.
Voting on the status page would be voting on only the title, rather than on the full description, and would also skip viewing the answers and comments... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288693 |
Most of the bugs and feature requests that are planned to be fixed/implemented go on to be raised as [issues on GitHub](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues). This can be filtered by open/closed, priority, and estimated difficulty. I'd still like to see an overview tool here on Meta too, but Git... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288694 |
In fact you can view all of these tags together by [searching the tags tab for "status"](https://meta.codidact.com/categories/3/tags?q=status). (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288694 |
If you look at the [tags tab](https://meta.codidact.com/categories/3/tags) and scroll through, you will find a number of red tags that can only be applied by a moderator or administrator, and seem to cover the purpose you suggest. So we might be nearer to a solution than first thought. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288682 |
Interesting - it indents but misses out the bullets. Does the question that you posted that answer to show bullets correctly for you? If so, it would be useful to know whether your answer renders bullets correctly if you change the asterisks (`*`) to hyphens (`-`). (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288682 |
Post edited: Ask about the question for comparison |
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| Edit | Post #288682 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Bulleted lists don't work on IOS Firefox Here is what your answer looks like on my machine: Answer showing bullet points rendered correctly You can see that the bullet points are rendered correctly, so it sounds like it is the rendering of bullet points on your machine that is problematic (the other answer you mentioned also looks cor... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288674 |
Post edited: Typos |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288674 |
I also had this experience, but with a comment rather than an answer, resulting in a duplicate comment. I can't find it now that it's deleted but if I see this again I will take a screenshot before deleting and link to the comment thread. (more) |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #288674 |
Suggested edit: Typos (more) |
helpful | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288642 |
You could raise this as a separate Meta post tagged "bug" and then it can be investigated. It also means anyone else who has a similar experience can add their information too. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288618 |
I try to raise as many minor bugs and feature requests as I can. Just because they're not essential doesn't mean we shouldn't have them.
With the code being open source, they can make good first issues for people wanting to get started, so they don't necessarily have to wait a long time to be impl... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288618 |
Is it worth raising separately that the licence wording could be less abbreviated? (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288618 |
I see your point about the extra UI. Even though I ignore it now and just leave the licence as the default, I do remember spending more time thinking about it when I first arrived (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288650 |
No problem - replies don't need to be in real time :) (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288609 |
Some Meta questions are feature requests, and votes can express support or opposition to the feature. Other Meta questions are discussions, and do not express an opinion, just provide a place for opinions to be expressed in answers. In such cases I see upvotes on the discussion question as indicating... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288614 |
Post edited: Tidying |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #288614 |
Suggested edit: Tidying (more) |
helpful | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288657 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Tag-only edits only sometimes have a tag diff I noticed that the edit to the tags in this edit history does not have a tag diff section. It makes it appear that the second version of this post has no changes: Edit history showing tags have changed but there is no tag diff section For comparison, here is tag-only edit on another post, that ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #282669 |
Post edited: Link to GitHub issue |
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| Comment | Post #288618 |
I know you've already [raised the idea of the question title being a link](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288499).
I also like the idea of the last edited timestamp being a link to the edit history. I like the explicit "History" button, but I don't see any reason why we couldn't have both links -... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288618 |
Although this won't cover all of your personal user scripts, each community can add scripts that are then present for all users, rather than users having to individually install user scripts.
For example, challenges on Code Golf Codidact have a leaderboard that shows up for all users, whereas on S... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288618 |
In the answer, it might be worth rephrasing
> you have to choose how to license that post
to
> you can choose how to license that post if you don't want the default
At present the wording sounds like you have an extra obstacle to posting, whereas in practice I just don't change the lice... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #282669 |
Suggested edit: Link to GitHub issue (more) |
helpful | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288650 |
I now understand the problem. I have edited to explain that this is still a bug, and [raised an issue on GitHub](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/1084). (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288650 |
Post edited: Explain why this is still a bug, and link to GitHub issue |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288650 |
Post edited: Update as it turns out this is not fixed for everyone |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288650 |
I've confirmed this by deleting a comment thread on a question post that I posted. I see the "Show more" button that you mentioned. This doesn't seem to serve any purpose, because I can't see the deleted comment even though I posted it. Definitely seems like a bug. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288650 |
I've just realised the difference - you are the poster of that answer. It looks like the empty thread is hidden from non-moderators, with the exception of you, who posted the answer. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288650 |
Did you have that page open already? If I follow the first link in your comment I don't see a "Show more" button at the bottom of the answer. I just see "0 comment threads". (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288650 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Comment threads remain active even if all comments are deleted This bug appears to be fixed, but it is not. The following works for me, but the original poster of the answer can still see the deleted thread. How it seems to someone who didn't post the original question/answer Note that newer threads disappear from view (at least for non-moderators) when th... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288649 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Suggest an edit without any changes is possible This appears to be fixed. I just tried making an empty edit to this question and received an error message: (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288646 |
Post edited: Add system info |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288647 |
Post edited: Clarify extension behaviour |
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| Edit | Post #288647 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Mobile browser cannot open older Codidact images Difference between older images and recent images Following a link to the url of an image uploaded to Codidact redirects to an AWS link for recently uploaded images. For older images, following the link instead starts a file download. On desktop this downloaded file opens as an image, but on mobile ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287030 |
Post edited: Make image a link to the standalone image |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288646 |
Post edited: Make image a link to the standalone image |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288646 |
Post edited: Add screenshot of edit history rather than needing to follow the link |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288646 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Automatically added redundant markdown when editing After making an edit that only adds tags, some redundant markdown is added to the beginning of the body of the post. This does not show up in the rendered post but it gives an inaccurate edit history. For an example, see the [edit history of another Meta question]. [![Edit history showing tags ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288645 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Can't edit a question just to add tags. It appears that this problem has been fixed. See the related [How to make an edit that only changes the tag list by adding a tag that does not exist?] which has been marked "status-completed". (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288644 |
Post edited: Remove automatically added markdown |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288644 |
Post edited: Add tags |
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| Edit | Post #288644 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
MathJax in comments requires a refresh after editing After editing a comment, any MathJax in the comment is not rendered (instead displaying as raw text) until the page is refreshed. If a user does not know to refresh the page, they may be led to believe that MathJax does not work in comments. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288577 |
Post edited: Label workaround |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288530 |
Post edited: Mention answer has a workaround |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288530 |
Turns out this is already saved server side, just is not reliably being picked up by other devices, so I've reclassified as a bug. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288530 |
Post edited: Reclassify as a bug since the functionality already exists but is partially broken |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288577 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Use filters across devices Misdiagnosed problem I was wrong about this. It turns out your personal filters are already saved across devices, but there is a problem stopping them from showing up. Workaround Adding a new filter when signed in on my phone resulted in my existing filters that I created on desktop all showing ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288530 |
I also prefer the database approach. Also allows use on a shared computer by several people signing in at different times. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288530 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Use filters across devices If I save filters for the question list, I can use them at a later date, which is very useful. However, they are only available on the device I saved them on. It would be useful to have the saved filters available on any device where I am signed in. For example, I could then save a filter on my de... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288529 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
MathJax breaks in edit history I noticed this in a [post on Code Golf Codidact] where MathJax is enabled. The raw text of the post can be seen by pressing "Edit" or "Suggest edit" below the post: Text during editing, showing the $ enclosed MathJax terms When viewing the edit history, most of the MathJax is rendered, rathe... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288508 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Missing translation for English for suggested edits rate limit I'm guessing that the following message means that I have been rate limited for suggested edits, but this error is showing instead of the intended message: Red error message saying "The following errors prevented your post from being saved: translation missing: en.ratelimit.suggestededits" I re... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288499 |
I really like this idea. It does mean one additional click for someone who wants the plain URL, but for me that would be a reasonable price to pay.
An alternative would be to have separate buttons rather than a drop down. One additional button would probably fit on desktop view, but probably not t... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288499 |
[ Can the title of the question be a "clean" link to the question itself? ](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/280149)
This is similar to your feature request #1 but without the rich/markdown link, and there is one answer pointing out that this can make it more difficult to copy just the text of the ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288456 |
Post edited: Add a comma |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288456 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Input box is not on screen after pressing "Start new comment thread" with expanded comments If comment threads below a post are already expanded, then the input box that appears after pressing the "Start new comment thread" button is too far down the page to be visible. This makes it look like the button is broken, unless the user thinks to scroll down the page and look for the input box. ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288442 |
No need for the check - it's working now. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288454 |
Thank you! I've checked and can confirm that both this existing post and a new draft show images correctly now. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288441 |
Post edited: Mention new draft post works correctly too. |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288441 |
Post edited: Edit to note that image now displays correctly |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288443 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Post score in title text of vote counts does not update when voting When adding or removing an upvote or downvote, the user interface is updated without reloading the page. This changes the upvote and downvote buttons to be the appropriate colour based on whether the user has upvoted or downvoted or neither, and changes the number of upvotes and downvotes. However, i... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288442 |
That sounds consistent with old images showing fine and new images not showing. Thanks for the info - I'll check back in 24 hours and edit accordingly. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288441 |
Post edited: Mention old posts still show old images but not new images |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288441 |
Post edited: Mention image is also missing from the saved post |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288441 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Images fail to load when previewed or saved While drafting or editing a post images do not show in the rendered post preview. Instead the alt text is displayed: Mouse pointer hovering over the voting buttons showing a score of 0.5 (For me this now shows correctly as an image, so it looks like this is fixed. Testing with a new draft post ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288303 |
I can confirm that it currently allows any string - no numbers required. Mine is currently a link to a Meta post. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288336 |
Post edited: Remove mention of linking to Discord as apparently that's not possible |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288336 |
Post edited: Mention profile already accepts new style Discord username |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288337 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Cannot remove Discord username from user profile once added After editing my user profile to add a Discord username as part of testing how it works, I am unable to remove the username. Deleting the username and pressing save results in an apparently successful save (no error message) but the username is still present on my profile, and pressing edit again sho... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288336 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Should the Discord guidance be updated as discriminators are being removed? From [Discord's announcement]: > In addition, your previous username and discriminator will continue to work as an alias after the conversion process is done, so old friends who don’t know your new username yet will continue to be able to add you. So even after the discriminator (the `#1234` in... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #278611 |
From the other, older, comment thread, it appears that pre-existing numbered lists now show correctly too. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288278 |
I agree that there are fundamental differences that give Codidact a much better chance of turning out well long term, but I'm also really glad that potential future problems are being discussed now, while there is time to try out new ideas that might help.
I see one of Codidact's strongest advanta... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288268 |
Post edited: Typos |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288267 |
Post edited: Typo plus link to Wikipedia for reference |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288235 |
Post edited: Add Wikipedia links for ActivityPub and Fediverse |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288294 |
I understand website reviews being off topic to keep the questions section focused. How would you feel about a separate category for site reviews, like the separate category for code reviews on [Software Codidact](https://software.codidact.com/)? (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288267 |
Yes you're right, this is a bug. It was [reported on Software Meta](https://software.codidact.com/posts/288238) and a [fix has been implemented](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/pull/1057), but has not yet been deployed. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288277 |
I absolutely agree that we cannot separate voting from people's likes and dislikes. Voting is indeed far from the ideal of purely assessing accuracy and quality.
My concern is that this proposal would push voting even further from that ideal.
At present, people voting selfishly can still give a... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288277 |
People's voting will be for a mixture of reasons, some of them political, and this proposal will not distinguish the reasons. This means that filtering based on prejudice will implicitly happen, which would be much easier to detect with tags than with automatically adjusted vote values.
I like the... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288273 |
[Let's improve how we manage proposals for new communities](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288156) (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288278 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Are downvotes needed? There is a difference between a flag ("this requires action that only a moderator can take") and a downvote, which expresses an opinion about the post that the community can decide how to respond to. There may be several reasons for and against having downvotes. This answer just expresses one reas... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288268 |
What a downvoter means by their downvote is not defined by the guidance in the help documents. It is a personal decision. Anyone can downvote for any reason, and at least some downvotes are motivated by disagreement.
> "Downvote != disagree" is a concept that long predates both this site and even ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #288268 |
Suggested edit: Typos (more) |
helpful | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288266 |
On Meta, downvotes can indicate that a post is low quality, but they can also indicate disagreement with the opinion expressed, even if that opinion is expressed eloquently.
So although I am in favour of keeping downvotes (and will be adding an answer expressing a benefit), I do appreciate that th... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #288267 |
Suggested edit: Typo plus link to Wikipedia for reference (more) |
helpful | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288277 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Support subjective scoring This is an interesting proposal. Although I think it would be detrimental in its current form, I'd like to emphasise that I would like to see more discussion of potential modifications to the way the site is curated and presented. I don't think this should ever be regarded as "finished" - improvement... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288243 |
Post edited: Mention width change problem on questions list page too |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288243 |
Post edited: Improve formatting of system info |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288243 |
Post edited: Mention pop up only immediately after page load |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288243 |
Post edited: Add system info |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288243 |
Post edited: Mention wide page problem disappears once drop down is closed |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288243 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Odd behaviour of the user page filter tab On the filters tab of the user page, there is a drop down box called "Predefined Filters": The filters section of the user page, showing a drop down box set to "None" On mobile, tapping on the drop down box for the first time after page load results in a pop up selection window rather than a dr... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #288235 |
Suggested edit: Add Wikipedia links for ActivityPub and Fediverse (more) |
helpful | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287061 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288229 |
On my phone, the number of posts now shows without having to scroll down, so I would say this is sufficient to mark this as status-completed - pressing search no longer has no visible effect.
I agree it would be good to consider further improvements, such as possibly collapsing the "Advanced Searc... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288223 |
I'd be interested to know why this has been downvoted. Here on Meta, a downvote can mean disagreement/disapproval, but it can also mean a post is not worded well.
Does the post need more detail, or is there objection to the idea?
If I understand correctly, the request is to provide only the sam... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288215 |
Post edited: The reputation and age buttons are sorts rather than filters (they are only intended to change the order) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288215 |
I've checked and the same behaviour shows for me. The sort order is fixed regardless of which sort button is pressed, and the order does not match what would be expected for either Reputation or Age.
The sort order appears to put staff first, followed by everyone else in almost lexicographical ord... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #288215 |
Suggested edit: The reputation and age buttons are sorts rather than filters (they are only intended to change the order) (more) |
helpful | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288196 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Return to same page after signing in After signing in the user is taken to the home page of the community from which they signed in (so, the Q&A posts tab here on Codidact Meta). This means that if I am reading a question and decide to answer it, I sign in and find myself on the question list, and have to navigate back to the questio... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288189 |
That's good to know. I guess as a quick fix rather than constructing a description of the filter we could just show something like "Filters (un-named filter)", so it's immediately clear that the list is filtered. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288189 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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Single line summary of currently applied filters When no filters are applied to a post list it shows "Filters (None)". When there are filters applied to a post list it shows "Filters ()". Would it be useful for there to be a 1 line summary of the currently applied filters instead of empty parentheses? For example, it could say something li... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288181 |
That seems like a good reason to make the filters start collapsed, but they might still benefit from a summary in parentheses for after filters are applied.
This isn't really search specific though, so maybe I'll raise this for filters in general. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288188 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Community sort order As the list of communities gets longer, it becomes more difficult to find any particular one in the various places they are listed. Sorting Would it be helpful to have sorting buttons, similar to at the top of post lists? The sorting criteria might be slightly different, perhaps: - alphabetical ... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288181 |
To counteract the lack of information when the filter section is collapsed, we could show a filter summary when collapsed. On post lists, the collapsed filter section already says "Filters (none)" when no filters are applied, but simply "Filters ()" when there are filters applied.
Those empty pare... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288181 |
Post edited: Paragraph break |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288181 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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No visible response when searching on mobile After searching from the search box at the top of each page, you are taken to a search results page. This has the search box with the current search term prepopulated, ready to modify and search again, followed by a filter section. On mobile this fills all of the vertical space on the screen, so e... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288180 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Cannot search for net negative votes Searching for `votes:-8` does not give results with net votes -8. Instead it returns all posts, regardless of votes. Upvotes and downvotes break in exactly the same way for negative numbers, but for those I wouldn't expect to be able to use negative numbers, as there can never be a negative number... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288179 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Mismatch between search guidance, search help page, and search behaviour for votes and score There is some inconsistency between the guidance and the behaviour when searching by votes or by score. Searching by votes In-page search guidance > votes:4 votes with 4+ votes Search help page > you can use `votes:5` to find posts where the net votes (upvotes minus downvotes) of a post equa... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288178 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Reconsidering the shorthand for month in search From the search help: > You can use m for minute, h for hour, d for day, w for week, mo for month, and y for year. It seems likely that users would want to use months more often than minutes in a search. Would it be more useful for "m" to mean month, and for minute to be the one with an awkward... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288177 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
PolicyDoc and HelpDoc hidden from search Searching for `posttype:3` (PolicyDoc) gives no results. Similarly for `posttype:4` (HelpDoc). Should these post types be excluded from the options presented when the user types `posttype:`, or should the search be amended to include results from the help section (it currently only seems to return... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288176 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Searching for answers by tag Searching for `posttype:2` (answer) and a tag gives no results, as answers do not have tags. Intuitively, I would expect this to return results which are answers to a question with that tag. - Is this also what other users would expect? - Would this be straightforward to implement? - Would this... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288175 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Adding the search guidance hints to the search results page too When entering a search term, there is some guidance showing above the text box: The area above the search box, containing hints on each type of search term The guidance is only shown before the initial search. Could it also be shown above the text box of the search results page, so the user can... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288156 |
The section on quality makes me realise that anyone can vote on any proposal, even if it is not a proposal they have an interest in / knowledge about. This is true of all of our communities, but in the incubator the proposals will all be presented in one place so people browsing will be more likely t... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288162 |
Might be worth having a quick note somewhere to help people understand how to get the most out of the filters with the incubator. If you filter to include tags for proposal-a and proposal-b, you will only see posts tagged with ***both*** of those tags, which in most cases will be none.
The solutio... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288160 |
I see the problem, but I'd expect it to take far more effort than that to make a proposal seem viable under the new system where there need to be many questions and many answers.
I acknowledge that we can't rule out the possibility of someone trying though. The incubator would definitely benefit f... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288162 |
My initial assumption was that edit wars on the Site Description would lead to a Meta post discussing which description to go with.
I can see the appeal of having the proposed modifications as "answers" to the Site Description post, so that they are right there for voting and discussion rather tha... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288162 |
I like the idea of a separate category per proposal, but I'm not sure how the site would deal with a long list of categories that don't fit across the top of the screen. It currently seems to struggle with communities that have more categories once the window gets narrow. This is not a reason to avoi... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288160 |
Although it's possible for someone to create sock puppet accounts and try to manipulate the system, I would expect most people involved in trying to start a new community to have good intentions. I don't see a financial incentive for manipulation and even with sock puppet accounts a user would have t... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288160 |
For a proposal that has enough questions to show that it is clearly not a good candidate for a new community, I like the suggestion of removing the questions to reduce clutter. Perhaps the same or similar tool to the one that migrates questions to a new successful community could also be used to remo... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288155 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Unclickable suggested edit button below post After suggesting an edit to a post, it is displayed differently to indicate that the edit is pending. This difference is in 2 places. The top of the post shows a message in a box: Box containing message "Your suggested edit on this post is pending review." Below the post, the edit button has... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288151 |
Post edited: Fix to the awkward workaround advice thanks to Monica |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288151 |
Post edited: Slight clarification of root cause section |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288151 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Sorting by score after excluding a tag gave me a 500 error First, to quote from the 500 page: > It's not your fault. Thanks for raising this. Instant workaround For your particular combination of filters and sorting criterion, here is a corrected link that you can use until the bug is fixed: - [Site Proposals excluding tag status-launched sorted b... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288143 |
Ah - that makes sense now.
If there is already code to decide whether to show the additional sections then I guess that same code can be used to decide whether to show the "Posts" heading, so this might just be a copy and paste. Maybe. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288139 |
Post edited: Mention bar is not interactive |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288139 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
| Question | — |
Redundant "Posts" heading on every community in the dashboard There is a [dashboard] available from the top right of the screen: The 3 by 3 grid of squares icon representing the dashboard at the top right of the screen This shows the categories for each Codidact community, along with an indicator for any categories that have new activity: Desktop versi... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287691 |
As the last paragraph in parentheses is a separate useful suggestion, I've raised it as a separate Meta question, but applying to all post types not just answers: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288103 (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287719 |
In terms of available space, it looks like anything 4 characters or fewer will fit in the available space.
In terms of being understood, I personally see the abbreviation "pic" as sufficiently widely used to not need any further explanation.
Looks like the font size doesn't need to change after... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287696 |
I guess as a way of finding out that I've had a reputation change without visiting every community, either solution would work (dashboard or network profile). I don't have a preference for which solution is chosen.
Longer term, I wonder if it might be useful to have the reputation change show up i... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288125 |
Post edited: Mention draft questions in support of tab styling |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288124 |
Post edited: Add my opinion |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288125 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Confusing reuse of styling between button and tab header Another option is to not use button styling in the bar at all. The "Ask Question" button can become another tab along with "Posts", "Tags", and "Edits": Codidact Meta site with all 4 items styled as tabs, with "Posts" selected This is my personal preference as it simplifies the interface withou... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288124 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Confusing reuse of styling between button and tab header One option is to style the tabs as tabs rather than buttons, similar to the row above which shows the category tabs. The "Ask Question" button can then remain a button: Codidact Meta site with "Posts" styled as a tab rather than a button I prefer this to the current situation with 2 things that... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287656 |
The regex would have to check whether the text is inside or outside a code block, which includes single back ticks, triple back ticks, `code` tags, plus all the back tick variations that markdown allows for special use cases. This would mean effectively writing a markdown renderer in regex, which wou... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288103 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
| Question | — |
Tailored previews in search results to show the relevant parts of each post In search results the title is shown followed by a preview of the post, consisting of the first few lines. I would find it more useful to see the section of the post that contains the search term, in order to easily judge the relevance of the result at a glance. For example, one of the results ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288070 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
| Question | — |
Make code field active on 2FA sign in page When signing in with two-factor authentication enabled, a code is requested on the next page after entering email and password: Two-factor authentication page showing the "Code" field does not contain the text cursor The "Code" field is not active (does not contain the text cursor) so the user ... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288069 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
| Question | — |
Premature confirmation of successful sign in with 2FA When signing in with two-factor authentication enabled, a code is requested on the next page after entering email and password: Two-factor authentication page showing "Signed in successfully" However, before the code is entered, a green banner at the top of the page already says "Signed in succ... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288047 |
Post edited: Mention root cause in title |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288052 |
Post edited: Use HTML entity as M-dash shortcut with 2 hyphens doesn't work in Markdown |
— | 6 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #288052 |
Suggested edit: Use HTML entity as M-dash shortcut with 2 hyphens doesn't work in Markdown (more) |
helpful | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288047 |
Post edited: Strike out no longer relevant points and mention this is a smaller problem |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288047 |
Post edited: Label root cause and tidy up |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288047 |
Post edited: Use exact code that was rejected from Collab to be sure Meta is unaffected |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288047 |
Post edited: Test closing tag |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288047 |
Post edited: Add a script tag to test if this is just a problem on Collab |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288047 |
Post edited: Explain problem was script tag |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288047 |
I don't want anyone to keep working on this unnecessarily so in case you haven't see the Discord discussion, we've narrowed this down and the question is now successfully posted (with a deliberate typo to avoid the word that was triggering the blocking). (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288047 |
Just mentioned on Discord (network-town-hall) that I've tried changing IP address by using mobile hotspot instead of broadband and I'm blocked either way. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288047 |
I don't seem to have a saved draft as I would on other Codidact communities. Not sure if that's something that usually works on Collab or whether it's relevant here. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288047 |
Nothing different here. Maybe this is a good reason to migrate Collab to codidact.com... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288047 |
Thanks Monica. It isn't holding me back from anything, just raising an inconsistency from the Co-Design installation guide in case it needs changing. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288047 |
Post edited: Mention I can still post comments on Collab |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288047 |
Post edited: Add extra info |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288047 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
| Question | — |
Blocked from posting to Collab by script tag inside code block I am currently unable to post to [Codidact Collab]. When pressing "Save Post to Q&A" I am taken to the following page: Page with a big red X saying "Sorry, you have been blocked" The small print at the bottom says: > Cloudflare Ray ID: 7b7c1ee0bdc87761 In case it's relevant: (turns ou... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287930 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287930 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
| Question | — |
No response when clicking on the title of a thread on a recently deleted post When clicking on the thread title ("Welcome!" in this example) of a comment thread below a post: Comment thread title in context I see the following error in the Firefox developer window (click image for a larger version):  |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287929 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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Notification about a thread on a deleted post What should be the behaviour when a user posts a reply to a comment in a thread on a post, and then deletes the post? For example, the post may be a question which requires editing before it will be ready for answers. Currently, a notification is shown to the user who is being replied to (and pres... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287912 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
No datetime on hover at the bottom of a suggested edit In the Suggested Edits list page, the time suggested shows as a duration since suggested, such as "2 days ago", but hovering the mouse cursor over it displays the exact datetime: Suggested Edits page showing exact datetime on hover However, in the individual Review Suggested Edit page, the time... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287910 |
Post edited: Typo in title |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287911 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Button to return to Suggested Edits page From the Review Suggested Edit page there is a button to "Return to post" which links back to the post on which the edit is being suggested: Review Suggested Edit page showing "Return to post" button This makes sense, as one of the places a reviewer may have reached this page from is the origin... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287910 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287910 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Show notice that a suggested edit cannot be reviewed without the Edit Posts ability When viewing the Suggested Edits page, there is a notice for users that have not yet earned the Edit Posts ability: > You can't approve or reject suggested edits because you haven't yet earned the Edit Posts ability. Suggested Edits page showing a notice However, a user without the Edit Post... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287909 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Show raw MathJax in suggested edit diffs and edit histories Related: Post revisions are displayed without rendered Markdown but with rendered MathJax When reviewing a suggested edit, any MathJax is presented in its rendered form, making it difficult to see what has changed, and leaving the reviewer wondering whether the MathJax is part of what they nee... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287892 |
That sounds even better than linking to a separate page. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287894 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Misleading edit history label "Initial revision" In the edit history for a post, the initial version is labelled "Initial revision" even though it is not a revision. What would make more sense here? - Initial post? - Initial version? - Initial wording? (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287893 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Hiding "Initial revision" on the Edits section of the Activity tab of the user profile When viewing a user's Edits on the Activity tab of the user profile, it includes "Initial revision", which seems to me more like a posting than an edit: Edits section showing most rows are "Initial revision" In the edit history of an individual post it is useful to be able to see the initial ve... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287892 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Tracking progress towards the Edit ability Related: - Confusing percentage on Edit Posts Ability page Currently, the best place I can find to track my progress towards the Edit ability (30 approved suggested edits with at least 95% approval) is the Activity tab of the user profile, filtered to Edits. However, this still includes al... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #283323 |
(For now all we need is a line of code to close the notification panel before following the link, so it won't matter whether there is a page reload or not.) (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #283323 |
Yes exactly! This is due to the way our answer URLs work. Currently a question is:
```text
meta.codidact.com/posts/Q_ID
```
An answer is the same, but with the answer id added on the end (followed by a `#` to tell the browser where to scroll the page):
```text
meta.codidact.com/posts/Q_ID... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287883 |
Post edited: Remove invisible Markdown error accidentally introduced during spelling fix |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287891 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Minor typo fixes on Blog posts activate the activity indicator circle When an edit is made to a Blog post, the new activity indicator circle appears on the Blog tab: Page header showing a grey circle next to the Blog tab This is useful when there is a new Blog post, but less useful when there is a minor typo fixed. Would it be useful to be able to switch on an... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #287883 |
Suggested edit: Remove invisible Markdown error accidentally introduced during spelling fix (more) |
helpful | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #283323 |
I've just checked with a notification of an answer to one of my questions, and I see the same behaviour. If I am already at the URL for the answer (not the question) so that clicking the notification link does not change the URL, then it scrolls the window to the answer but leaves the notification pa... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287888 |
None of the [existing communities](https://codidact.com/) appear to have any overlap with general legal questions.
In the [Site Proposals](https://meta.codidact.com/categories/10) section there have been a couple of law related proposals:
[Law (and legal advice)](https://meta.codidact.com/posts... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287866 |
I initially tested this with a couple of previous (already read) notifications, without first marking them unread. I've now used your notification from this comment thread to test with an unread notification (first navigating to this thread page manually, and only then clicking on the unread notifica... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287885 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Should we have category specific reactions? Reaction types can currently be switched on and off for a community (by a moderator) so different communities can have different reactions (including custom reactions). The interface for editing which reactions are active for a community However, each reaction that is active is available across... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #282005 |
As mentioned, including `site:codidact.com` will return all pages on Codidact that match the search terms. This includes help pages.
For cases where you only want to see posts, you can instead include `site:codidact.com/posts` to show only posts, but from any community.
You can also restrict to... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287883 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 8 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #287883 |
Suggested edit: Typo (more) |
helpful | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287871 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Large reputation on phones shrinks the community logo As a user's reputation increases, it takes up more horizontal space on the header bar of each page. On desktop there is plenty of empty space so this makes little difference. However, on a phone screen in portrait mode each new digit leaves less space for the rest of the header bar. Currently this ca... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287867 |
Post edited: Separate example from main problem |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287867 |
In brief:
The title of the post is asking for a way to show the list of all posts without first scrolling to the bottom of the user profile (useful for anyone wanting to see more than the first 15 posts).
The third sentence in the first paragraph gives an example of when someone might want to d... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287867 |
I understand. I was just explaining that sorting by Age is not possible without first scrolling all the way to the bottom in order to press "Show all". (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287869 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Ability to sort individual user Posts page by Activity There is a Posts page showing all the posts by a given user. At the top it has sorting buttons: Individual user Posts page shows sorting buttons for Score and Age The sorting buttons at the top of the questions list on the front page has more sorting buttons: General questions page shows sor... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287868 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Show total number of posts on individual user Posts page There is a Posts page showing all the posts by a given user. Could this have a total number of posts shown at the top, similar to the front page? (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287867 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Easier way to get to the individual user Posts page There is a Posts page showing all the posts by a given user. However, the only place it is linked to appears to be the bottom of the long list of posts on the user profile. An example of when this is cumbersome: In order to change from sorting by score to sorting by age you have to scroll all the ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287866 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: No escape from reactions dialogue box Since this question was posted, the user interface has been updated so that clicking outside a pop up panel makes the panel disappear. This means a new user unfamiliar with the site will now be able to dismiss panels easily, so this is no longer a problem. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287837 |
Post edited: Refer to red message as error not warning |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287837 |
Post edited: Mention root cause of 422 error |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287838 |
> Let's make the experience easy and welcoming for those trying to help keep the site clean
I like this way of putting it - sums up your point perfectly. If someone is putting their time into raising a flag, we should avoid anything that puts them off. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287837 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Miscellaneous Flag modal problems Flagging an answer After pressing "Flag" under an answer there are 3 radio buttons to choose from: Flag modal for an answer showing 3 radio buttons Flagging questions and answers Some changes would benefit both types of post. Changes specific to only questions are listed later. Radio butto... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287834 |
If I've understood correctly, this answer isn't suggesting keeping the indicator circles for people without the Edit Posts ability, just keeping the ability to click on the Edits tab and see the suggested edits if desired.
(So it sounds like you both agree, just in different words.) (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287833 |
I see the abilities system as a work in progress. I'd like to see a meta discussion about how it could be improved. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287833 |
30 posts is community specific - I believe it can be lowered for new communities (and there may be a case for lowering it for all communities - it would be interesting to hear how many people in each community have the Edit Posts ability by now in case that lends weight to the argument). (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287833 |
These points sound like they would make a good separate Meta post. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287834 |
(This has been clarified in a comment on the [GitHub issue](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/995) - everyone will still be able to view suggested edits.) (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287834 |
Before the notifications were introduced, people without the Edit Posts ability could already see the suggested edits (both pending and decided) by visiting the Edits tab of a category.
I understand this request as asking for the *notifications* to be displayed only to people with the Edit Posts a... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287833 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Edit activity show, but not allowed to approve The requirements for earning the Edit Posts ability which would allow reviewing suggested edits can be found in each community's help section. For example, the Physics Edit Posts Ability page: > ## How do I earn this ability? > > To earn this ability, you need to have at least a 95% approval rat... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287832 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Edit activity show, but not allowed to approve I agree that seeing the indicator circle when unable to review edits is not useful. I've raised an issue on GitHub. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287824 |
Thank you!
I've checked the 4 examples from the question, and 3 of them now show with a single set of square brackets as intended. These 3 have all been posted/edited in the last few months. The [only one that shows differently](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/276213/276222#answer-276222) has not ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #279562 |
Post edited: Typos |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287796 |
Post edited: Add alternative and extra tag |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287784 |
Post edited: Add consistency tag |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287798 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Inconsistent use of "abilities" and "privileges" The Your abilities page looks something like this (depending on your current abilities): The "Your abilities" page To a moderator looking to grant or suspend abilities, there is a mod-only page called "Privileges", which looks something like this: The "Privileges" page Each of these pages... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287797 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Inconsistent use of "undelete" and "restore" When a post has been deleted, it shows a notice explaining its situation: A deleted answer showing in red This notice says: > Users with the Curate privilege may vote to undelete (emphasis mine) However, the button below the post to reverse deletion is called "Restore". Should we co... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287796 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Attempting to restore an answer deleted by a moderator gives no visible feedback After a moderator has deleted an answer, it looks like this to the poster of the answer: A deleted answer showing in red If the poster of the answer clicks on "Restore", the action is prevented, and a message is shown at the top of the page: Message saying "You cannot restore this post delet... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287784 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Inconsistent badge alignment on Vote Summary tab of user profile On the Vote Summary tab of the user profile page, the post type and category show as badges on the same line as the question title and aligned to the right. However, if the question title is too long to allow them to fit, they are pushed to the next line down. At this point they should remain right a... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287766 |
I like that. (Bear in mind these are just my opinions - I have no more authority than any other voter here.) The only problem I can foresee is when the community grows and there are more votes, some of these may become more than 2 digits and not fit in the circle... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287775 |
Post edited: Mention Meta post that may make this one irrelevant once completed |
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| Edit | Post #287778 |
Post edited: Mention dependent Meta post |
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| Edit | Post #287778 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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License CC BY-SA 3.0 only available on Writing and Outdoors For 2 communities (Writing and Outdoors) the License drop down list when making a new post shows an option of CC BY-SA 3.0: Dropdown list for license, showing CC BY-SA 3.0 For all of the other Codidact communities this option is not present. Is the option only there for historical reasons, o... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287776 |
Post edited: Mention context in title |
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| Edit | Post #287776 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Does "site" mean "community" or "Codidact" on License field? Above the drop down list for license when making a new post, it mentions "site default". As people use the word "site" to mean different things, this could be ambiguous, particularly for a new user. Would it be clearer to use one of the following: - community default - Codidact default I'm gu... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287766 |
Ah I see now. Interesting. A separate accessibility issue is the contrast problem of putting the colours behind the text - but that could easily be avoided by having the same colour and shading to the side of the text instead of behind. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287775 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Incorrect description for CC BY-SA 3.0 in license drop down list This will become irrelevant if License CC BY-SA 3.0 only available on Writing and Outdoors results in CC BY-SA 3.0 no longer being available For those communities where it is present, CC BY-SA 3.0 has a description of: > You've opted to be required to choose a license explicitly for every p... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287774 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Very narrow blank option in Default license drop down list The drop down list of options for "Default license" in the "Community Preferences" section of the "Preferences" tab on the user profile page does not appear to have the option of returning to blank. The only visible options are licenses, or "No default (make me choose)". This seems like a problem if ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287767 |
Post edited: Make title less ambiguous |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287766 |
Also worth bearing in mind that having some of the info available on hover makes it difficult or impossible to access on a mobile device. That's already a problem with the existing state though, not specific to your suggested improvement. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287766 |
The accessible palettes make an improvement in how *distinguishable* the colours are (more people will be able to tell them apart) but they do not help with how *identifiable* the colours are. Many people are already conditioned to see green as good and red as bad, but people who see the accessible p... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287771 |
Ah I see (and well demonstrated with this thread title - thanks for that).
My guess is that comments before and after threaded comments were introduced would both be overlooked for automatic empty thread deletion if their last comment was deleted before the automation was introduced. I don't have ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287768 |
I don't have a Chromium based browser available to test with so I don't know whether the font size on Chrome is different causing 64 em to be a much larger pixel value, or whether it's independent of browser and related to any fonts / font sizes you may have overridden.
I don't think it's uncommon... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287768 |
It's also worth considering whether 1068 pixels width is where you want the switch between limited and unlimited height to happen. Maybe this was aimed at having no height limit on mobile? However, on a full HD screen viewing 2 windows side by side (so each is half width), the unlimited height will b... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287768 |
It turns out that the containing `div` tag has a class of `profile-text` which is defined to have a `max-height` of 500 pixels, causing a scroll bar if the profile content (text or image or any combination) is taller than that in total.
It's overridden by a `@media` query in the CSS that removes t... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287768 |
I'm using Firefox on Fedora Linux. At width 1068 pixels and narrower there is no scroll bar and the full image is visible. At width 1070 pixels and wider there is a scroll bar and a small amount of the image is cut off at the bottom. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287771 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Comment threads with zero comments I believe that when the last comment in a comment thread is deleted, the thread is also automatically deleted. However, there are some threads that still exist despite having all their comments deleted (presumably because they were deleted before the automation was introduced). This is what they look... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287770 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Duplicate Mobile Sign In button in user profile shows on mobile When viewing my own user profile (not anyone else's) there is a button below the profile content called "Mobile Sign In": Mobile Sign In button below user profile content This does the same as the Mobile Sign In button in the page header: Mobile Sign In button in page header Is this redun... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287768 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Tall profile content (image or text) causes scroll bar only on desktop I recently added an image to my user profile as an experiment. In the edit preview this showed in full, but after saving it shows on my profile with a vertical scroll bar and the bottom section of the image is cut off until I scroll. Notice how the dates on the horizontal axis are cut in half: Use... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287767 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287767 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Diagram errors in "Scoring" help article The help page explaining the post scoring method has some diagrams at the end, but they are somewhat confusing. Axis mislabelling The following chart has a horizontal axis labelled "N", which is confusing as there is no other mention of "N" on the page. Should this say "z"? Chart with horizont... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287765 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Mismatch between blue notification circle and notification panel When I read the target of a notification in another tab, and then switch to a tab that still has the notification circle showing, opening the notification panel shows the notification as read, but the notification circle remains: Blue notification circle showing even though the notification is rea... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287763 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Question | — |
Question score on hover in question lists When viewing an individual question, the score can be seen by hovering over the voting buttons or the upvote and downvote counts: Individual question page showing score on hover In the question list page, it might be expected that the score could be seen by hovering over the upvote and downvote... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287758 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Broken edit diffs on narrow mobile screens When viewing a post edit diff on mobile the side by side format for before and after makes each side very narrow in portrait mode. Text wrapping appears to only happen between words, leaving longer words overflowing from the left hand (before) side and extending behind the right hand (after) side, ob... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287753 |
Post edited: Undo previous edit |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287753 |
Post edited: Try displaying tag in title |
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| Edit | Post #287753 |
Post edited: Make tags in text look like tags |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287753 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Highlight [status-completed] posts in Hot Posts for Meta In the Hot Posts panel on Codidact Meta, or in the Meta Category of a specific community, some of the posts may be bug reports or feature requests. It is not clear from the Hot Posts panel whether these are needing discussion and voting, or are recently completed: Current Hot Posts panel Could ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287752 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: Sign In vs. Sign Up Here are screenshots of what the two pages currently look like on desktop: Sign up Sign up page Sign in Sign in page For Sign up, there is a green box suggesting using your existing details from another Codidact site. From the question wording I'm not sure whether this was already pres... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287749 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287749 |
Post edited: Add two spaces to prevent image being brought back onto the line above |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287749 |
Post edited: Add newline to account for formatting difference between preview and saved post |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287749 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: Unique favicons for each site In support of unique favicons A common logo to bring the communities together In response to another answer, which says: > it has a very important disadvantage of diluting the platform image (the book) when being reached by newcomers If it is considered important to have the Codidact logo (ra... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287740 |
Post edited: Mention Firefox and Chrome on Android |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287549 |
Post edited: Make link to related bug human readable |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287740 |
Post edited: Make link to related bug human readable |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287740 |
Post edited: Add in screenshots for the other communities |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287744 |
Post edited: Link to possibly dependent request for more question title in browser tab |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287743 |
Post edited: Link to related request for unique community favicons |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287744 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Unique favicon per community If pages for several different Codidact communities are open in different browser tabs, they all show the Codidact logo as their favicon: Three different community pages each showing the same Codidact favicon It would be easier to see at a glance which community is in which tab if each communit... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287743 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Show question title before community name in browser tab The title for a specific question page (displayed in the browser tab) shows the community name followed by the question title: Current browser tabs showing community name first This means that only the first word or two of the question title are visible. Even less is visible when tabs become na... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287742 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Meaningful tab title for Ask and Edit pages The title for a page (that appears in the browser tab) shows the community name (such as "Codidact Meta"), followed by the question title for a question page. This can be helpful for a user who has more than one question open in different tabs. However, when creating a question the title is simply... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287740 |
Handy - thank you.
(In this case I don't need to, as your comment has caused a blue circle already...) (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287549 |
Post edited: Mention related bug |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287740 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Logo shrinks from blue notification circle Related bug (not sure if solution will be related): - Logo becomes tiny in mobile landscape mode and narrow desktop windows On mobile, the community logo can shrink when a blue notification circle appears next to the notifications icon, even though there would still be room for the full size ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287303 |
As an admin, do you have the power to edit thread titles or is that future work? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287725 |
The pending edit suggestion page already has a "Return to post" button at the top right so that's probably sufficient. Just adding a "cancel" button for your own edit sounds like a full solution. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #279562 |
Suggested edit: Typos (more) |
helpful | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287725 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
The ability to cancel my own suggested edit Related: - A way to edit my suggested edits If I suggest an edit to a post and then change my mind, there is no way for me to retract my suggestion. The top of the post I suggested an edit on says: > Your suggested edit on this post is pending review. It would be useful if this message ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #280722 |
Suggested edit: Testing adding more than 5 tags - please reject if this reaches edit review (more) |
declined | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287030 |
Post edited: Link to older GitHub issue that already covers this |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287719 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Avatar alt text does not fit in avatar available space On a slow connection the user avatar may not immediately be available. When it has not yet finished loading there is placeholder text displayed instead (the alt text for the image). However, at the specified font size this does not fit into the space allocated for the avatar, resulting in it overflow... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287718 |
Rather than fixing each discrepancy as they are raised, is there a way to use the same renderer for both the edit preview and the saved post?
If neither of the renderers used currently are suitable for both purposes, is there a third renderer available from somewhere that will be suitable for both... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287718 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Text colour works in edit preview but not in saved post I entered the following markdown into an answer I posted recently: ```text ImageMagick > An error occurred while installing rmagick (4.2.6), and Bundler cannot continue. ``` I wasn't sure if the red colour would work, but I tried it to find out. In the edit preview, it looked like this: ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287712 |
Post edited: Link to the new GitHub issue for this Meta post |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287712 |
Ah I see. The recent comments on that GitHub issue suggest that answer deletion will be labelled as such, as you recommend. I've edited this Meta post to make it clearer that this one concerns the grey circle indicators and question deletion rather than answer deletion, and I've added a new GitHub is... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287712 |
Post edited: Mention questions specifically rather than posts |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287712 |
Post edited: Overcompensate for confusion by mentioning grey circle everywhere |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287712 |
Post edited: Mention grey circles in title to make clear this is not about the question list page |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287712 |
Post edited: Clarify that related links are about question page wordings, not the grey circle indicator |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287712 |
I've just edited the top of the question to change it from a link to a closed GitHub issue to a more general GitHub issue. That one mentions the possibility of indicating there was an *answer* deletion on the question. It currently states this decision could go either way, so it might be worth puttin... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287712 |
Post edited: Edit GitHub link to be the issue the previous one was closed as a duplicate of |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287712 |
Post edited: Draw attention to the last edited date in the image |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287712 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
New activity grey circle indicators confusingly triggered by question deletion Related: - Make "last activity" notices on question lists more useful (GitHub) - Can "last activity" provide more context on what was that happened? (Meta) - Posts list shows luap42 instead of actual author (Software) (Note that those are about the wordings on the question list page, whereas ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287704 |
Post edited: Improve clarity and fix typo in title (Software rather than Meta) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #287704 |
Suggested edit: Improve clarity and fix typo in title (Software rather than Meta) (more) |
helpful | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287702 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Clarify "Remember me" When signing in there is a checkbox labelled "Remember me". There is no supporting information to indicate what this checkbox is for. Without it, a user may not know which of the following it means: - "Remember username": Make the browser remember your username for next time you sign in (so you on... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287701 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Remember 2FA on this device On some sites that support Two Factor Authentication (2FA) there is the option of remembering your device so that in future 2FA will only be required if signing in from a different device. This is optional so that it can be disabled for users who share a device or who require additional security in c... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287698 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
No title text on edges of buttons away from icons The "Dashboard", "Notifications", and "Mobile Sign In" buttons in the page header at the top right of the page have title text which displays those names. However, the title text is on the icon rather than the whole button, so it does not display when hovering over the edge of the button, even though... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287696 |
Post edited: Add suggestion of network preference |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287696 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Reputation change indicator on dashboard The dashboard button in the site header On the dashboard there are indicators for each Category of each community, that appear when there is new activity in that Category: The dashboard showing indicators for Categories with new activity Would it be helpful to also show the reputation for ea... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287694 |
I guess that even if there was a shared "Codidact Staff" account, staff would still be likely to add "This is just my personal opinion" when posting from their individual account.
The same applies if each staff member had 2 accounts, one for official posts and one for personal posts - they would s... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287694 |
It seems like there are two separate ideas here:
1) The question suggests a shared account, which several different members of staff could post from (which may or may not also indicate which member of staff is currently posting from that shared account)
2) This answer is suggesting multiple acc... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287691 |
I agree that showing the answer text makes more sense, especially as the question itself is often another search result nearby.
As for previewing the section that includes the search text like search engines do, I'd like to see that for both answers and questions. As it's a separate feature reques... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287037 |
Post edited: Test adding duplicate tags to see if they still persist to the next editing session |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287675 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Tags shown on a question can differ from tags shown when editing that question It appears that this may have been incidentally fixed by other recent changes. I have just suggested an edit on the question you linked to, and I was able to see the tag "writing-instruments" and remove it. The edit will need to wait for review, but it seems that simply being able to suggest it means... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287030 |
Post edited: Replace outdated image with current look |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #280374 |
More detail: I've had to log in again on mobile several times today (Firefox on Android, not private browsing). I haven't had to log in again on desktop once though (Firefox on Fedora Linux). (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287670 |
Post edited: Replace outdated question image |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287670 |
Post edited: Rewrite having realised this is not a general HTML entities problem |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287670 |
Post edited: Shorten intro to test ampersand in this particular question's preview |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287670 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
HTML entities & the question content preview An ampersand shows as `&` instead of `&` in the following question content preview: A question content preview with an HTML entity instead of an ampersand I've also included an ampersand in the title of this question to test whether the title is also affected in the question preview. As can... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287669 |
Post edited: Add mobile screenshot which shows the problem at its worst |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #280374 |
To add an anecdotal data point: This morning I switched on 2FA and then logged in on mobile, ticking "remember me". A few hours later I had to log in on mobile again. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287669 |
Post edited: More specific title |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287669 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Confusing reuse of styling between button and tab header At the top of the page there are sections for the community's Categories, which are displayed as tabs that can be switched between. For example, here on Meta Codidact there are "Q&A", "Site Proposals", and "Blog". Similarly, on the next line down there are sections for things relevant to the curre... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287656 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
The mystery of the alt text warning in a post with no images Amusingly, a post about alt text triggered the missing alt text warning: A post containing a code block that triggered the alt text warning I can see why the warning was triggered - the post contains the markdown for an image, which has the standard placeholder text instead of a meaningful desc... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287653 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Quicker replacement of image alt text placeholder After adding an image to a Codidact post, the automatically entered markdown looks like this: ```text Image alt text ``` The `Image alt text` part is to be replaced with a meaningful description of the image, for use by screen readers, or by browsers if the image fails to load or loads slowly... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287652 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Surprising page load after pressing "follow new" Clicking "follow new" below an answer results in the page being reloaded with that answer as the highlighted answer at the top of the answer list, with the message "You are accessing this answer with a direct link". This is potentially jarring for someone not expecting a page change. It also makes fo... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287650 |
Would it be better to edit this question to be about adding additional links to the notifications page, or to ask that as a separate question so that the bulk of this one can be closed as a duplicate? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287650 |
In addition to an extra link at the top of the notifications drop down panel, would it also be useful to have a link from the user profile? That's where Olin looked for them, and I'd find it a natural place to look too.
As there is already a list of sections along the top of the profile page, it s... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287650 |
Monica, is this also relevant to the [GitHub issue](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/928) you opened recently? I don't know if the existence of `https://meta.codidact.com/users/me/notifications` affects your decision on whether that issue is important? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287650 |
If you scroll down in your notifications in the drop down panel you will eventually get to the bottom, where it links to a [dedicated notifications page](https://meta.codidact.com/users/me/notifications). I found this useful recently for finding something that I knew I'd been notified about a long ti... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287424 |
The [third example I linked to from the question](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277238) was edited by Moshi shortly after, and now shows the double square brackets whereas it did not previously.
Suggests this may be related to the date and time that the post was saved, and may be stored incorrec... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287424 |
Post edited: Mention that editing has triggered the bug in a previously unaffected post |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287643 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Should markdown links work in comment thread titles? Markdown links work in comment thread comments, but not in comment thread titles: A comment thread with raw markdown in the title Would it be better if they worked in the title too? If there is a reason to avoid links in thread titles, would it be better to convert the link text to standard ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287640 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Impolite comments Since this question was asked, the ability to flag individual comments has been implemented, so the workaround mentioned in the other answers is no longer required. It may not be immediately apparent that this is now possible, so here's a quick guide: - At the bottom of the comment thread click... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287639 |
Post edited: Remove ambiguity |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287639 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Comment flagging is hidden from inexperienced users I do not see flagging as something that should be restricted to experienced users who know where to find the link. A new user who sees a comment on their first post and wants to flag it should not have to wonder how to do this, or wonder whether flagging is an option for them. Including the flag l... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287638 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Comment flagging is hidden from inexperienced users GitHub issue: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/544 In the past, it was not possible to flag individual comments for moderator attention. There was a Meta question asking how to respond to comments that would otherwise be flagged. The suggestion was to instead flag the post on which t... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287424 |
Post edited: More examples |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287424 |
I realised that when I posted this Meta question I neglected to link to the example where I first saw the double brackets, so I have now edited to included that answer and the one I found today as examples. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287424 |
Post edited: Include example answer where this happens and one where it didn't |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287424 |
In case it's useful in investigating this, I've happened upon a [post with a footnote that correctly has just single square brackets](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/276213/276222#answer-276222).
I notice that it was posted 2 years ago, and has never been edited, in case either of those things are... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287622 |
Thanks for the info. Sounds like most of my concerns are already planned for.
In the Discord specific community channels I see notifications of new questions, which is why I wondered if the same bot could notify of new answers. If it's planned to have notifications of new answers directly from Cod... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287622 |
Having jotted some thoughts down in this comment thread, I'm wondering whether it would be useful to have a separate Meta discussion about whether specific question discussions are better hosted in a Discord thread or a question comment thread.
As you are more familiar with Discord, would you like... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287622 |
A Discord channel would allow notification of new answers, but I don't know if it's possible to set that up in a Discord thread. Maybe it would be useful to have a way of following new answers on a specific question (I couldn't see a way for new answers, only for new comment threads). (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287622 |
My previous king of the hill contest, posted Somewhere Else, had a chat room with new strategies and new players being discussed over a period of several months. Would we want comment threads on the question being used for that many messages? Currently, comment threads seem optimised (user experience... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287622 |
Thanks for mentioning Discord threads - being unfamiliar with Discord I hadn't realised that was an option.
I'm happy to see comments on questions as long-lived rather than just suggestions for clarification to be deleted as soon as the clarification is made. My reason for wanting the strategy dis... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287621 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Creating new Discord channels I've been looking at the Codidact Communities Discord channels (see the join us in chat link in the right hand panel of this page). Is it possible for Codidact Communities Discord users to create new channels? Currently there is a channel per community, but I was wondering if there is the option o... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287620 |
Post edited: Explain lack of image in case anyone thinks there's a display problem |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287620 |
Post edited: No need to show bottom of a real question twice |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287620 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Posted question has old layout in the tour After completing the tour, the resulting question that is displayed uses an old version of the question layout, rather than training a new user to recognise the current layout. The bottom of the question in the tour looks like this: Bottom of tour question showing old layout The bottom of a ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287619 |
Post edited: Mention Next button still works |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287619 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Cannot add tags during tour During the tour, the user is asked to add tags to their new question. The tags (either the suggested ones or other words) are not recognised, instead displaying "The results could not be loaded": Tags box showing "The results could not be loaded" This prevents entering any tags (pressing Enter ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287466 |
(So the only places the bug is a problem are where a panel opens on the same page, rather than the link going to a new page.) (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287466 |
I think those are unaffected as they link to a new page (they are standard links, rather than being links overridden by JavaScript to behave like buttons). The bug is in the JavaScript, so a link that works without JavaScript (just using the default HTML behaviour for a link) is unaffected. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287466 |
The mod menu that Canina saw the problem with was a different mod menu that does have an icon. It seems consistent with the explanation that only the mod menu with an icon has the problem. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287466 |
For a button with only text, the HTML looks something like this:
```html
<a> // The <a> element corresponds to the whole "button"
Text // The text inside the <a> element does not have an additional <i> element
</a>
```
Clicking on the text counts as clicking on the `<a>` elemen... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287466 |
For a button with an icon, the HTML looks something like this (simplified for illustration):
```html
<a> // The <a> element corresponds to the whole "button"
<i> // The <i> element inside the <a> element corresponds to the icon image
</i>
</a>
```
Clicking on the icon (th... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287466 |
Thanks for explaining, Monica.
As for the mod menu, I don't have access to it, not being a mod here, but [Canina's comment on this same Meta post](https://meta.codidact.com/comments/thread/7015#comment-18876) may give a clue. It sounds like buttons that have an icon have the problem, but buttons t... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287618 |
I agree it's not generally a problem now that a panel can be closed by clicking anywhere outside it (not knowing which button opened it is no longer an obstacle to closing it). So even for people who need to zoom in to press a button and then zoom out to view the resulting panel, closing the panel is... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287573 |
After some sleep I've had another look and the upper case T is just the avatar of the answerer, and the plain white image is the avatar of the question asker (just happens that their avatar is plain white - not a cropping of mine). The extra image when I'm logged in is my avatar for the top right.
... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287582 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Should post tags go above the post content, rather than below it? Tags should be at the top In addition to the possibility of navigating to the question from somewhere other than the questions list (which means I haven't seen the tags), I'd also find it useful to see the tags at the top of the question when I have navigated from the questions list. I don't necessa... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287581 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: A way to edit my suggested edits In addition to the mistakes in edits mentioned in the question, I would also find this functionality useful for times where I want to make a second (unrelated) edit before the first edit has been approved. For example, I may make a quick edit to fix a typo, then later realise there is a wording th... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287580 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Other top bar drop-downs should be closed when another is opened It appears that this has now been fixed by the fix to Clicking outside of notification popup does not close it. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287579 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287579 |
Post edited: Change wording to avoid ambiguity between space and time |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287579 |
Post edited: Be more explicit |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287579 |
Post edited: Avoid overuse of the word "answer" in an answer about answers |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287579 |
Post edited: Wording improvements |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287579 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Please build inline editing functionality Editing a question For editing a question, I see no particular advantage to either approach, so my opinion will be motivated by the advantages and disadvantages when editing an answer. Editing an answer When editing an answer, there are 2 aspects that influence my decision on whether to prefer i... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287379 |
Post edited: Add consistency section |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287573 |
Post edited: Typos |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287573 |
The only other 301 responses only show when I'm logged in, and are images of size 60x60 and 400x400. The 60x60 is my avatar, and the 400x400 is plain white - not sure if it's a cropping of my avatar, which does have a plain white background?
There are 200 response instances of my avatar too, so it... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287573 |
The message in the padlock icon is vague, only mentioning images, not which ones. I've just had a look in the Network tab of the developer window and it looks like the only requests with a broken padlock symbol are returning a 301.
For example, there's a 301 response for "48.png" but then afterwar... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287549 |
Post edited: Reverse decision to use "phone" instead of "mobile" |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287578 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Ability to revert an edit Would people find it useful to be able to revert an edit from the history? I imagine that reverting the most recent edit would be straightforward to implement, but that reverting an earlier edit would be significantly more challenging to implement. With this in mind, which is there more demand for... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287573 |
Post edited: Reverse decision to use "phone" instead of "mobile" |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287576 |
Post edited: Link to example of empty search results |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287576 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
No indication of zero results in tag search When searching the Tags section, a search string that gives no results gives an empty results section, rather than a message saying there were no results. This makes it unclear whether there is a problem with the site, or just zero results: No indication of no results in a tag search This is in... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287575 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Where do meta questions about the Codidact Collab site belong? Should I ask questions about the Codidact Collab site here on Codidact Meta, or over on the Collab site itself? I notice that Collab doesn't have its own Meta section, unlike most Codidact communities. I thought of asking this question on Collab, but I noticed the tag wiki for the `support` tag th... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287549 |
Post edited: Use internationally recognisable "phone" instead of "mobile" |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287573 |
Post edited: Use "phone" instead of "mobile" consistently for international understanding |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287573 |
Post edited: Link to Collab Codidact mentioned pages |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287573 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Collab question pages not fully encrypted The main page of Collab Codidact is encrypted fully and shows a padlock symbol in the URL bar (top of the page on desktop, bottom of the page on mobile) in Firefox: Collab question list page Desktop Desktop Collab question list page with padlock Mobile Mobile Collab question list page with p... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287549 |
Very strange. I haven't seen that myself, only the dependence on changing width described in the question. That appears to affect any community though, not just Meta, so maybe these two problems are unrelated? (So might be worth raising yours separately.) (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287550 |
Post edited: Break up sentence into bullet points to remove parsing ambiguity |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287550 |
Post edited: Remove unnecessary pluralisation |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287550 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Lack of availability of info on hover with touchscreen devices Many aspects of Codidact pages have title text ("tool tip[]()" / "hover text") that gives further detail/explanation when the mouse pointer is hovered over them. This useful information is unavailable on touchscreen devices such as mobile phones and tablets. In those cases where the additional inf... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287549 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Logo becomes tiny in mobile landscape mode and narrow desktop windows Related bug (not sure if the solution will be related): - Logo shrinks from blue notification circle The size of the community logo at the top left of the page changes based on the width of the window. On mobile, with a narrow screen, this gives a large logo that is easily visible on the s... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287548 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
The meaning of "follow new" on your own posts Below each post, at the top of the comment section, is a link to "follow new". The title text displayed when hovering over this link says "Follow all new comment threads on this post". It is clear to me what this means for posts other than my own. However, it seems confusing for one of my own post... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287547 |
Post edited: Add link to history that now exists |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287547 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Link to a specific edit in the history I can link to the edit history of a post, for example, the edit history of the meta question you are reading, but I can't see a way to link to a specific edit in the history. Is there currently an undocumented way that works? Could explicit support for linking to a specific edit be added? On... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287465 |
For anyone arriving here to report that it has happened a second time (as I was about to myself), it seems Codidact are already aware - it's mentioned at the end of the [new servers blog post](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/286582). (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286582 |
From the [latest edit (#4)](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/286582/history) it looks like the answer is now "yes". (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287466 |
Not sure if you've already seen [Moshi's comment on this Meta post](https://meta.codidact.com/comments/thread/7007#comment-18865) but I had a quick look and it appears that the [change from that pull request](https://github.com/codidact/co-design/pull/73/commits/cecb043099757e1d46589cb2a30c55d81dda31... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287466 |
I don't have access to that link (not being a moderator myself). Does it show as text or an icon? (Asking since I was previously assuming this would only affect icons, not text) (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287466 |
Post edited: Mention hamburger menu on mobile is also affected |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287466 |
The whitespace below the icon works, but also above the icon, to the left or to the right. Knowing that any of those work might help if trying to use the buttons on mobile where touching a small area accurately is challenging.
If you can zoom, it's a lot easier if you zoom in, touch the whitespace... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287469 |
Thanks Monica! But I don't feel like it's the job of the changelog to explain exactly how everything works - especially with such a long list of changes. I should have read the help a bit better before jumping to conclusions... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287474 |
Good point. I think in other contexts I'd expect that of a `+`, but in the location where I already expect to see a new message button my first thought was "new message" rather than "hidden info".
Either way it seems like the symbol is best avoided for this link. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287477 |
The fixed warning for MathJax communities (rather than trying to detect whether they have actually used MathJax) sounds good. Otherwise, does MathJax have to be enabled for the whole subdomain or is it possible to disable it just for the profile page on a site that has it enabled elsewhere? (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287475 |
I like the unified look. I definitely prefer it with icons - makes it more immediately intuitive. I wonder if it would help to omit the word "Start" to reduce reading time without losing clarity. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287475 |
My personal preference would be the second, with an icon for both buttons.
Would you be interested in separate voting on each idea, by posting them in separate answers? (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287476 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Drop down panels drift away from their buttons on zooming Note: This is not related to the recent code release - I noticed this before that. The panels that appear when clicking on the Notifications or Communities buttons at the top right of the page are positioned correctly regardless of zoom level (they automatically appear in the right place for t... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287474 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Potentially misleading plus symbol with "follow new" link I like the new "follow new" feature that allows being notified of any new comment threads on a post. However, I think that using a plus symbol (`+`) next to it could be confusing, as this is often associated with adding a new comment, rather than being notified of new comments. "follow new" link w... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287471 |
Post edited: Mention a minor related bug |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287473 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Minor indentation misalignment in keyboard shortcuts help box Very minor bug in case it's worth fixing at the same time as any other change to the keyboard shortcuts: The keyboard shortcuts help box has one space less of indentation for `t` than for all the other shortcuts: (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287471 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Making explicit that there are no options with the t shortcut from the questions list page On a specific question page, the `t` shortcut brings up a list of options for the question or one of its answers (depending on which is currently selected): Options after pressint t On the questions list page, the `t` shortcut selects the first question if one is not already selected, but does ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287470 |
Thanks for explaining - I was indeed just pressing `d` without first pressing `g`... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287469 |
Post edited: Add quote for context |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287469 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Mentioned `d` shortcut not yet showing or working Just to let you know: The new `d` keyboard shortcut mentioned in Recent feature changes to the Codidact software doesn't appear to be present yet. > Keyboard shortcut `d` opens the dashboard Pressing `d` has no affect, and it doesn't appear in the keyboard shortcuts list displayed by pressin... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287468 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Code block exceeds the screen height on mobile I like the new taller code blocks when working in the desktop site, but they can be problematic on mobile. On mobile, even in portrait orientation (screen height is larger than screen width), a code block of 40 lines or more can exceed the screen height. This makes it possible to accidentally let ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287467 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
MathJax in profiles displays differently depending on community Some communities have MathJax enabled, which allows including mathematical notation in posts. I wondered whether this would extend to the user profile, so I did a test. I edited my profile to include the following: ```text Testing MathJax in a profile: $1+1$ ``` The preview showed mathe... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287458 |
> Ironically, the symbols are handled correctly in the preview of this very question
I don't see this myself. For me, the preview of this question in the Codidact Meta questions list also shows incorrectly (displaying the HTML entities instead of & < >). (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287463 |
I guessed that "network preference" meant network-wide preference setting per user, but I had to go to my user page and look at the preferences tab to be sure. Would it be worth including a link to the [user preferences tab](https://meta.codidact.com/users/me/preferences) to remove any ambiguity? (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287466 |
Post edited: Mention release |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287466 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Notifications and Communities buttons not responding to icon clicks Previously, clicking on the icon for Notifications or Communities at the top right of the page resulted in the appropriate drop down panel appearing. Today, the panel only opens if the square area around the icons is clicked. Clicking on the icons themselves does not open the panel (although it still... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287465 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Question | — |
Category new activity indicators reset after release Thanks very much for the recent release of bug fixes and features. It's also highlighted another potential improvement: I notice that since the release the grey circles indicating that a Category has new activity appears for all communities for all Categories. Checking the dashboard is probably th... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287424 |
I've just been looking through some posts on Writing for an example, and the only one I found was a fake footnote using `<sup>` for superscript. No examples of a markdown footnote. I'm sure I've seen one at some point but I can't think which community it was on.
I can't say with certainty that it ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287424 |
I can't remember noticing footnotes either way in the past, so I don't know. The post where I noticed it was one I posted recently on Scientific Speculation. I'd be surprised if a regression/bug could affect only one site but mentioning just in case. I'll also link to [the specific post](https://scie... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287424 |
Post edited: Clarify note on functionality applies to both preview and saved post |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287424 |
Post edited: Mention that only the appearance is buggy - functionality is fine |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287424 |
Post edited: Rephrase final sentence |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287424 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
| Question | — |
Double brackets in footnotes While typing the initial draft of a post, or editing an existing post, footnotes appear in the preview in superscript in square brackets, like this: Footnote with single square brackets during editing However, after saving the post, the footnotes appear in superscript in double square brackets,... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287402 |
Post edited: Adjust wording as HTML does not always contain markdown |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287397 |
Post edited: Typo, switch images to correct order, add image headings |
— | 11 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #287397 |
Suggested edit: Typo, switch images to correct order, add image headings (more) |
helpful | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287397 |
Post edited: Add meaningful link text for accessibility and add blank line to fix broken image |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287402 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
| Question | — |
Preview of edits so reviewers can see what has changed When looking at a pending edit on the suggested edits page, only the markdown shows. There is no preview of how this will be rendered. This presents two problems: 1. Any subtle error introduced by the edit that prevents the post from rendering correctly will be difficult to spot, risking a faulty... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287401 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Codidact Collab - should it be listed? For people looking for a route from here to there For now, while Codidact Collab is not in the drop down list of sites, I've realised that Collab is included in the dashboard, which is available from the button at the top right of the page, between the help button and the notifications button, whi... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #287397 |
Suggested edit: Add meaningful link text for accessibility and add blank line to fix broken image (more) |
helpful | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287390 |
If this were an answer I'd upvote it. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287378 |
Post edited: Mention footer |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287379 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Codidact Collab - should it be listed? Personally, I am not currently looking to learn Ruby and contribute to QPixel, but I am interested in occasionally browsing Codidact Collab to see what's happening. I only discovered it through a link I happened to stumble upon, and was completely unaware of it before that. If it was included in t... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287378 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
| Question | — |
Codidact Collab - should it be listed? The drop down menu at the top right of each Codidact page shows a list of all the sites in the network. The list is also shown in the page footer, and on codidact.com. There is also a site for people who work on the QPixel software that Codidact runs on, called Codidact Collab. However, this one i... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287346 |
Ah I see. Good thinking. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287346 |
Post edited: Mention Codidact uses CommonMark |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287346 |
Thanks for the info. From looking through the CommonMark test cases, it doesn't seem that spoilers are supported, so nothing to add to the formatting help at this point. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287346 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
| Question | — |
Markdown spoiler sections - is there any need? Standard markdown does not include spoiler sections (hidden until clicked on). Personally, on those rare occasions when I find need to temporarily hide something, I'm happy using `` HTML tags instead, which gives a sufficiently similar effect: ``` Spoiler! Click here to reveal Secret d... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287322 |
Thank you both for the useful feedback. I've edited the post to include some examples. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287322 |
Post edited: Add examples of where this would be helpful |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
Sounds great. Thanks Monica. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
I'm not sure what "done" would mean in contrast with "completed" though. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
Being able to use the duplicate mechanism without the word duplicate sounds ideal. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
(So "close as finalized" would not mean there is anything wrong with the draft, just that it has served its purpose and gone on to be posted as a finished challenge - the purpose of this close reason would just be to allow hiding them with a filter so only the drafts that still need feedback are show... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
Looks good - and it makes sense to focus on per-post type first.
One potential confusion from the penultimate paragraph: I had previously thought of closing as duplicate in the sandbox as a way of including a link from the sandbox draft to the finished post, but perhaps it would be useful to have ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287322 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
| Question | — |
Adjustable size comment text area The character limit for a comment is 1000, but the text area in which it is typed or edited is much smaller than this. Most comments are short, but some comments can have reason to be longer, and others can be taller despite being only a small number of characters (due to quote blocks, code blocks... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
In a ideal world, we would wait until close reasons can be per post type (or even better, per category) before switching on the ability to close articles.
However, in the real practical world, switching on the ability to close articles creates a pressure to implement per post type close reasons. W... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287315 |
This sounds plausible. Before the edit that failed, that post had 14,072 characters (same in bytes) in the markdown, while the HTML had 15,313. So after my edit that duplicated the markdown to roughly double the length, the HTML would probably also be double the length, taking it over 30,000 characte... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287304 |
I like that. I've just updated my other post and it still reads fine, and now I feel better about screen readers too - thank you. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287303 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287304 |
I'd be equally happy with enlarging 1 or diminishing 2. At the moment, I've used 1 and 3 in one of my other posts in order to avoid 2 altogether, which is subverting the semantic intention and makes me feel bad about accessibility. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287304 |
Thanks for pointing this out. I've actually just edited my post before seeing your answer, as I realised after posting that there is a difference (it's easier to see in the example as both headings start with "Heading" so the fact that the words are not the same length stands out).
Having edited t... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287303 |
Post edited: Fix my mistaken belief that h1 and h2 are identical sizes when saved |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287303 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
| Question | — |
Main and subheadings are almost the same size, but not in the edit preview When editing a post, headings with a single hash `#` show as significantly bigger than headings with a double hash `##`. However, after saving, these two headings are much closer in size (to the point that my initial draft of this post mistakenly claimed that they are the same size). For example: ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287292 |
Post edited: Mention orange character count was not present until I added a character |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287292 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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False positive for 30,000 character limit I tried to edit a post, but I received the following message saying it is over 30,000 characters. I double checked in a text editor that the number of characters is 27,835 (as shown in the Codidact edit text box - see the orange writing at the bottom right of the image below), and also confirmed that... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287284 |
I was thinking that there could be a step before passing the post through the markdown renderer, where 2 newlines are added after every `</summary>` closing tag, but having thought about it for a while I guess that would mean also having to add a way to exclude tags that appear inside a code block, a... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287284 |
The last example in the question shows bold and italics are affected too, so maybe it is all markdown, rather than just block level. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287279 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
Details tag requires an internal blank line to render markdown When using a `` tag to add an expandable section to a post, markdown will mostly still work inside the expandable section, but some of it will not work on the first line. Markdown treats multiple lines as a single line for rendering unless separated by a blank line or a trailing pair of spaces. This ... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287250 |
The priority order settled on is never going to please everyone (we all have different things that are important to us) but as it's open source anyone is free to work on something that is not at the top of the priority list. I don't know the Ruby programming language so I haven't been able to work on... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287250 |
I haven't seen an objection to making changes. Comments from Codidact staff on my posts have been positive and seem interested in finding out what is wanted. They are volunteering and don't have full time hours available. It seems like they are making changes as they find the time, rather than being ... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287250 |
I have recently raised a large number of bugs and feature requests on Meta and I like the fact that the community can vote to show which ones are more important to them, to help prioritise work. As the work will be done by a small team of unpaid volunteers I didn't expect to see any changes in the sh... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287250 |
> We live in a world where there are many types of users, there are almost as many use cases
I definitely agree with this. I'm in favour of customisation. I'd like to see the option to change the default sort order per user per site, so I can set it to my preferred sort by Score on sites that are ... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287250 |
> Relatively trivial UI features are ignored in an effort to force conformity
The downvotes on this answer appear to be an objection to making the sort by Age the default. That's from other Meta users. The question itself has net positive votes, which suggests Meta users would like to see the opti... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287250 |
> The order that answers (and comments) are displayed should be chronological
Although I disagree for answers, I do agree that comments should be displayed in the order they were posted (as they currently are). Comments are much more likely to form a dialogue with each referring to the previous, w... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287252 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Option to sort answers by Age I posted this feature request because I'd like to see the option to sort by Age, for those occasions where I'd find it useful or interesting. I definitely do not want to change the default sorting order. I like the current default of sorting by Score. I would still use Score and Active most freque... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287250 |
I agree that the default sorting order should remain by score, not chronological order.
I posted this feature request because I'd like the option to be able to sort by age *on occasion* - not as a default. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287248 |
For me, I'd use it most often on Code Golf Codidact, where answers are competing solutions to coding contests. I sometimes like to see the answers in the order they arrived to see how new strategies emerged and then went on to be reused or adapted in later answers.
Similarly on Meta where the answ... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287248 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
Option to sort answers by Age Currently answers can be sorted by Score or Activity: Buttons to sort answers by Score or Active I'd like to be able to also sort them by Age. Would this be useful to anyone else? (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287246 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
Total number of search results At the top of the posts page, the total number of posts shows. At the top of the search results page, there is not a total number of results. I would find the total number useful on the search results page. It would help me decide whether my search terms were sufficiently specific before deciding ... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287245 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
Title text (tooltip/hovertext) shows on unrelated parts of the page GitHub issue: - https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/1109 []()At the top of the posts list, the total number of posts is shown on the left. Hovering the mouse pointer over this number shows the title text. This is currently set to be the same number as is already showing, so perhaps it w... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287233 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: "Random from user" ad template, for "selfish sharers" like me More suitable for sites with Challenges than Questions For me personally, I'd most like a "Random from user from Category", so I could have an ad that shows a randomly chosen one of my posts from the Challenges category on Code Golf Codidact. Since Challenges are still open to new answers regardles... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287215 |
Post edited: Make closing sentence more specific |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287215 |
Post edited: Augment title |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287215 |
Post edited: Extra explanation of assumption |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287215 |
Post edited: Mention specific site is assumed |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287215 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
"Random from user" ad template, for "selfish sharers" like me I like the "Random from Category" and "Specific post" ad templates. I've recently been a "selfish sharer" and used the "Specific post" template to share one of my own questions. This made me wonder if there are any other "selfish sharers" out there who might like to be able to share their own ques... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287213 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
Markdown version of ad templates for sites that don't support HTML I recently changed my username on a site where I used to post coding challenges years ago, to make it clearer that I no longer post there (as I still occasionally receive comments that I may not see for a long time). While I was making a change, I thought I'd try adding one of the Codidact ad temp... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287198 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
Summary per day in the Vote Summary profile page When viewing a user's Vote Summary, days that are not expanded give no indication of how many votes occurred each day: Vote Summary page with all days collapsed except one Would it be useful to have a plus and minus total in the date bar that still shows when the day is collapsed? The right han... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287190 |
It's possible to disable the previous searches list with `autocomplete="off"` on the input tag, but I know that's not ideal as previous searches is useful functionality and the post_type filter is a relatively rare use case.
The z-index is already dialled up to 9999 so that doesn't help.
One po... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287189 |
Most significant first makes sense to me too. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287189 |
That looks much better - thanks. I've edited to use that link instead. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287189 |
Post edited: Add Moshi's suggested better link for Total posts |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287190 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
Occluded post_types filter list in search When searching using the "posttype" filter, a list of available post types automatically appears. If the user has previously entered search terms that overlap with what has been typed so far, these are also automatically displayed. When both these automatic lists appear at the same time, the previous... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287189 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
Suggestions for the user profile right pane I have a few suggestions of how the pane on the right hand side of the user Profile page might be improved. I'd like your thoughts on which changes would be useful. Wording changes The 2 images below show: - Left: the current appearance of the pane - Right: the pane with some suggested wordin... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287147 |
Post edited: Mention workaround not available for comment threads |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287147 |
Post edited: Say "websites" rather than "sites" to avoid confusion with Codidact sites |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287147 |
Post edited: Mention history workaround |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287147 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Exact date and time of posting on touchscreen devices In the list of posts, or at the bottom of a post, there is an indication of how long ago it was posted. In a desktop environment with a mouse, hovering over this duration gives an exact date and time of posting. Is there a way we could present this exact date and time in a mobile environment where... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287145 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
MathJax rerenders on movement instead of on change I've noticed something when using MathJax during preparing/editing a post. Each time a change is made to the raw text, the preview rerenders accordingly. This is the behaviour I expect, which ensures the preview is always up to date. However, it also rerenders each time I move the text cursor, even i... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287129 |
It's great to see the pace at which things are improving - makes me feel it's worthwhile raising little bugs that I spot. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287130 |
Post edited: Replace horizontal line with a meaningful heading |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287130 |
Post edited: Add hyphen to remove ambiguity |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287130 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Is there a reason for preventing user profile content being less than 30 characters? Original GitHub issue: - Can't revert to a blank profile GitHub issue raise more recently suggesting greater demand: - "Edit Profile" bio must have a minimum of 30 characters When editing my user profile the interface prevents me from entering fewer than 30 characters. I can understand i... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287128 |
Post edited: Make title more succinct |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287129 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Communities drop down disabled when editing profile On most pages of Codidact there is a little drop down arrow at the very top right of the page, which usually displays a list of Codidact communities when clicked. However, when on the "Edit" tab of the user profile page, the drop down arrow is present in the usual place but does nothing when clicked.... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287128 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Once filled out, the user profile cannot be reverted to empty For a long time I had no content in my user profile, then today I added something to see how it would look. I then changed my mind and decided to go back to having nothing. However, there is a minimum number of characters on the "Profile" field of the "Edit" tab, preventing me from going back to leav... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287127 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Avoid jumping to top of question after sorting answers At the top of the answers section of a question there are buttons to sort by "Score" or "Active": "Score" and "Active" buttons above answers section Clicking on one of these sorts the answers by that criterion, but also moves the view back to the top of the question. Would it be helpful for ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287102 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #287102 |
Suggested edit: Typo (more) |
helpful | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287121 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Hot Posts curiosity I'm curious about the list of "Hot Posts" shown in the right hand panel of Codidact pages. So here are some completely unimportant questions that I'm intrigued to know more about: - How is the list of Hot Posts produced? - Is there a scoring mechanism to determine how hot a post is? - Are the di... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287109 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Tag suggestions for Favorite tags Preferences page showing Favorite tags typed in by hand When adding a tag to a post, beginning to type leads to all matching tags being displayed, avoiding the need to type out tag names by hand. Would it be useful to include this feature in the Preferences page for the Favorite tags field? Cur... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287101 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Vote summary refers to "you" even for another's profile Votes summary page of my profile In the votes summary page of my profile it says: > A daily summary of votes you have received for your posts. This is an accurate description of my vote summary page. However, if I look at someone else's vote summary page, it still says "votes you have rece... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287061 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Quick copy button for code blocks Code blocks have a maximum height, after which any extra content scrolls vertically. This can make it tricky to copy the code for testing or adjusting when answering a question, or assessing an answer. Sometimes while trying to[]() highlight the code in the code block ready for copying, other text on... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287058 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Support lists (bullets and numbers) in comment markdown I understand that comments are intended for brief queries about the post content, but in the Meta sites I sometimes find it useful to be able to quote part of a post in a comment. Block quotes already work in comment threads, so I can enter the following: ```text > Excerpt from an answer Query... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #276589 |
The last paragraph of this bug seems to relate to a bug I raised recently [Tag duplication in post edit mode](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287037) (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287037 |
Not sure if there's sufficient overlap to call this a duplicate bug, but definitely seemed worth linking to the previous bug [Tags shown on a question can differ from tags shown when editing that question](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/276589) (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287046 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Special view for deleted answers to avoid confusion ![Notifications panel] Opening a new response (new answer) from the Notifications panel opens it in a special view where that answer is shown at the top of the answer list. This makes it very clear which answer was being linked to - I love this feature.  as this does not seem to be a problem with only exact search, but with any search. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287032 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Search does not search the title of posts The search only appears to look in the body of a post, not in its title. For example, searching Codidact Meta for "determine" finds posts that have "determine" in the body, but does not include the post [What is an easy way to determine my Trust Level] which contains "determine" only in the title ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287031 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
I can't search for -finalized (This is not just an issue on the specific site mentioned - it seems to affect any Codidact site.) If I search Code Golf Codidact for "finalized" there are results, showing that the word "finalized" is one of the words the search recognizes. ![Search results for finalized] However, if I ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287030 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Move keyboard focus into the search term box when search is clicked GitHub issue: Automatically focus search bar after clicking search (search-slide) When I click the dark grey search button at the top of a Codidact page a new panel opens containing a search term box and a blue search button. If I start typing, nothing happens because the search term box does ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287021 |
Post edited: Typo in title |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #287021 |
Suggested edit: Typo in title (more) |
helpful | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287011 |
Thanks for raising an issue Monica. I did try manually changing the url to include `sort=activity` and it didn't change the order of the list like it does for `sort=age`, so I guess that means there is at least some backend change required. Great to know it's on the horizon though. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287020 |
@#8049 That seems so logical now that you mention the other elements. I've been doing that for menus but it didn't occur to me that dialogue boxes would work the same way. Thanks for explaining! (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287020 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
No escape from reactions dialogue box I clicked on "react" on an answer on Codidact Meta and found that the only available reaction is "Outdated", which I don't want to use. There doesn't appear to be any way to close the dialogue box without adding a reaction, other than refreshing the page. There is no obvious close button and clicking... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287018 |
Thanks @#56941 I've made a pull request to `master` as it hasn't been changed to `main` yet, and added a comment there to ask them if they want me to target a different branch instead. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287018 |
Thanks for the quick response!
I've now created an issue and tried to create a pull request for my fork but the contributing guidelines say to target the develop branch, and there doesn't appear to be one for the landing-page repo. Is there another branch I should target? (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #286874 |
Post edited: Typos |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #286874 |
Suggested edit: Typos (more) |
helpful | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287017 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Process for fixing a typo on codidact.org Is there a preferred process for making minor fixes such as typos on codidact.org? I've made a [commit to a fork] but I didn't want to raise a GitHub issue and make a pull request without checking the process first, as it's such a tiny change. - Should it be included in another issue which addr... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287013 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Ability to search for user:me Currently, we can search for posts by a particular user by including `user:uniqueusernumber`, where the unique user number can be found from the user's profile URL. Would you find it useful to be able to write something like `user:me` to search your own posts? I can easily look up my own unique... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287011 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Ability to sort search results by activity Currently, search results can be sorted by posted date (shown as "Age" in the sorting buttons) but not by edited date / most recent activity: ![search results sorting buttons] Would you find it useful to have this sorting option for search results (like the "Activity" sorting button in the Q&A ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285370 |
**"filters can be defined, named, and reused"**
I like this idea of being able to save filters, so you only have to write each one once. I also like this idea of being able to modify existing filters so that you don't have to write each one from scratch. Both of these abilities could be even more ... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281410 |
Thanks FoggyFinder - that issue helped me narrow down the problem. Even though it appears that only one post category is displayed, in fact both Q&A and Challenges posts are displayed in the same list (just mislabelled as being all Q&A in the Q&A list, or all Challenges in the Challenges list). So th... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281410 |
Post edited: Minor clarification |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281410 |
Post edited: Add in example showing that the same results show for both Q&A and Challenges |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281410 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Mismatch between tags list and number of posts for a given tag Sometimes the number of posts indicated in the tags list does not match the number of posts displayed for that tag. This appears to be due to the inclusion of deleted posts in the displayed number. Would it be more helpful to exclude deleted posts so that the numbers match (long term - putting aside ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281407 |
There's no urgency from my perspective. Just knowing there will be an API at some point in future is great news. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281409 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Meaningful hovertext for voting area I notice that a number is displayed as the hovertext / tooltip when hovering over the voting buttons and current score of a post. Would it be helpful for the hovertext to include a brief description (maybe a word or two) of what this number indicates? Voting buttons with hover text saying "0.5" ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281408 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Save title and tags in draft I was delighted to find that a post I started writing on my phone automatically had a draft saved so I could continue writing it on my computer when I got home. However, I noticed that only the body was saved, and not the title or tags. Is this deliberate, or would it be helpful for those fields to b... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281407 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Do we have a public API yet? I've looked around for information on an existing or planned public API for Codidact but I haven't yet found one. I'm not sure if this means it was decided not to include it in the MVP or if it exists but is not easy to find (for me, at least). The only reference to a public API that I could find ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280055 |
Was about to comment that maybe the Outdoors community would benefit from a separate category for photo contests rather than everything have to be Q&A, and then checked and saw that this is already done. Great to see individual communities not having to constrain everything to the Q&A format. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |