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Activity for trichoplax
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| 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) |
— | 8 months 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) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289451 |
Could there be a default MathJax help article that switches on and off when MathJax is enabled or disabled? (more) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289173 |
The images were what I was most dissatisfied with. This is a big improvement - thank you. (more) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289353 |
I've edited my answer to try and make it more clear and to include the examples (more) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289353 |
I've raised a separate [discussion on the 5 tag limit](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289364). (more) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
I was aiming for something that can be accessed from any programming language, so most likely HTTP. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289279 |
Meta discussion started: [ How should a Codidact public API work? ](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289322). (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289293 |
Meta discussion started: [ How should a Codidact public API work? ](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289322). (more) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289291 |
Sounds good. We could even end up with both solutions running in parallel. (more) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 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) |
— | 9 months ago |