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Activity for trichoplax
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #293097 | Initial revision | — | 8 days ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Clickable links in edit comments In addition to bare URLs being clickable, I would also find it useful to have human readable links in edit comments. For example: - Markdown links: `link text` gives link text - HTML anchor tag links: `link text` gives link text Just having clickable bare URLs would be a significant improveme... (more) |
— | 8 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293096 | Initial revision | — | 8 days ago |
| Question | — |
Clickable links in edit comments When editing a post, an edit comment can be included that describes the changes that were made. Where the reason for an edit is not obvious, this comment can include an explanation. I recently noticed the use of links in edit comments, allowing a discussion to be referenced that gives more context... (more) |
— | 8 days ago |
| Comment | Post #291593 |
To reproduce:
1. Follow a direct link to [an answer to a question with more than 1 answer](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/291242/291243#answer-291243).
2. Sort by "Active".
3. Click on "return to the normal view".
4. See sort order has returned to "Score". (more) |
— | 15 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293036 |
Post edited: Use quote block for screenshot to avoid confusion |
— | 24 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293037 |
Post edited: Further detail |
— | 24 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293037 |
Post edited: Add detail about saving with or without removing the empty tag box |
— | 24 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293037 | Initial revision | — | 24 days ago |
| Question | — |
Ghost tags in saved question drafts When returning to a draft of a new question which does not yet have any tags added, the "Tags" field shows a single tag consisting of an empty string (a little grey box but with no tag name inside it): > Single empty grey tag box in the "Tags" field Adding more tags results in an extra empty ta... (more) |
— | 24 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293036 | Initial revision | — | 24 days ago |
| Question | — |
No way to discard draft edit to user profile When writing or editing a post, a draft is automatically saved and reloaded if you close the page and come back to it later. I find this very helpful (particularly when switching between devices). However, sometimes I change my mind about a saved draft and want to discard it to start a new edit from ... (more) |
— | 24 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292942 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Question | — |
Markdown in close reasons Markdown does not appear to be processed in the reason given for closing a question. For example, there is a Markdown link in the following close reason, but it is rendered as plain text rather than a link: Close reason including a plain text version of a Markdown link Would it be useful to be ... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #292886 |
Just found another benefit. I opened a question page just before going into a long train tunnel. With this feature I would have been able to sort the answers immediately, rather than having to wait several minutes. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292886 |
I don't consider it to be bad. I'm not raising a bug but a feature request.
I raise any features I think of, and then people vote up or down to indicate which ones are worth implementing.
One advantage of avoiding the page reload is for people on a slow connection, where it can take several sec... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292886 |
Post edited: Add details of how rare paginated questions are |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292886 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Sorting answers without a page reload Below a question are buttons for sorting the answers: > The three sorting buttons, Score, Active, and Age Pressing one of these buttons results in a page reload, with the answers now sorted according to the chosen criterion. For cases where all of the answers fit on a single page (no paginat... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287401 |
Post edited: Use "community" instead of "site". |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287379 |
Post edited: Use "community" instead of "site". |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287378 |
Post edited: Footer no longer lists communities. Also say "community" instead of "site". |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292885 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Codidact Collab - should it be listed? An example in favour of listing Need Help Setting Up Email Verification in Codidact is a question that was posted to Codidact Meta, because this is the closest match of the communities in the drop down list. Including Collab in the list would have helped the question author avoid having to repost ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292884 |
Welcome to Codidact!
This is Codidact Meta, a place to ask questions about this specific instance of the software. For questions about how to get the software working locally (or running your own instance of the software), there is [Codidact Collab](https://collab.codidact.org). If you ask there t... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292840 |
(I know [Matrix has been mentioned before](https://meta.codidact.com/comments/thread/9808#comment-24678), but I didn't pick up on the fact that it didn't require a separate account that time, so I've still learned something new.) (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292856 |
You're right. This comment thread overlaps with that Meta question. The purpose of this question is different from that question though. That one was about finding out if there were viable alternatives to Discord. This one is about finding out if there is even a reason to seek an alternative. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292840 |
It's brought up more than I had anticipated. The answer about Matrix was particularly interesting, as it wouldn't require a separate sign in account (like Discord does) and wouldn't require Codidact to build something. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292840 |
I'm curious whether the choice of Discord is an obstacle to people joining chat. If everyone is either already chatting or uninterested in chat, then replacing Discord is very low priority. If some people would like a way to chat but aren't comfortable with joining Discord, then the number of such pe... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292856 |
Enforcing local accounts sounds like it would solve the spam problem (in the sense that we would get no more spam users than already sign up for Codidact accounts, and could continue to deal with them in the same way).
Good to know that federation is an option, but that it can be avoided if that t... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292856 |
I haven't read enough to know whether there are free (of charge) implementations of the standard. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292856 |
I've just had a glance through the [Matrix Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)) and it sounds promising. It sounds like Codidact chat would need to support interfacing with Matrix in order to avoid being a step down from Discord.
It also sounds like Codidact could simpl... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292856 |
I'm not familiar with Matrix. Is this something needed to match the capabilities of Discord, or is this something you can't do with Discord that would be an improvement if implemented in a Codidact chat? (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292840 |
I understand that non-chat users will see the new post. My point was about who would see it first.
Chat is intended for real time communication so it seems more likely that chat users would have a tab open that would notify them immediately, whereas non-chat users would only see the notification d... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292846 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Use quotation marks for thread titles in notifications When a notification refers to new comments in a comment thread that I am following, the title of the comment thread is in single quotes, and the title of the post is also in single quotes, making it easy to distinguish each of the titles from the rest of the sentence. However, when a notification ref... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292845 |
Post edited: Add context |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292845 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Vertical jump when switching between tabs on the user page The first tab on the user page, "Profile", has the username above the row of tabs: > The Profile tab of the user page All of the other tabs on the user page have the title below the row of tabs: > The Activity tab of the user page This means that when switching between any two tabs, the p... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292843 |
> Doesn't this effectively mean that you're requesting "me" to be a stand-in value for every single parameter accepting a user ID
Although the question title suggests so, my specific request here is just for the tabs in the user page. Longer term I'd like to see more.
> Isn't the simplest imple... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292840 |
An upvote on the question, but no answers, suggests at least one person would like to see poll results but does not want to add an answer. I realise that voting allows anonymous contribution to the poll, whereas adding an answer is public. It might also be that others are avoiding adding a one line p... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292843 |
Post edited: Add clarifying sentence |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292843 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Personalised links using "me" are useful. I'd like to see more This is a link to my user page. The URL is: ```text https://meta.codidact.com/users/53890 ``` This is a link to your user page. The URL is: ```text https://meta.codidact.com/users/me ``` Note that the URL ends with `me` rather than a user id. This is useful when referring to the user ... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292842 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Question | — |
Shortcut links from All Communities I love the new "All Communities" section of the user profile page. I've already found it useful several times. I have an idea for an additional feature: The numbers in the columns could be links. - Each of the numbers in the "Posts" column could be a link to the list of posts for that user on tha... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292812 |
Yes that sounds likely. My suggestion is for the link to show for moderators (for the reason you describe) but for non-moderators to see no link. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292840 |
Post edited: Add overlooked 4th group |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292840 |
I fully expect that this poll will initially be biased towards chat users since they will be notified of the new Meta post. I'm hoping this will balance out over time as this initial advantage reduces. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292840 |
Post edited: Be more specific |
— | 2 months ago |