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Activity for trichoplax
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| 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) |
— | 11 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) |
— | 11 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) |
— | 11 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) |
— | 12 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) |
— | 12 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) |
— | 12 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) |
— | 12 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) |
— | 12 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288047 |
Nothing different here. Maybe this is a good reason to migrate Collab to codidact.com... (more) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287892 |
That sounds even better than linking to a separate page. (more) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | about 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287833 |
These points sound like they would make a good separate Meta post. (more) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287303 |
As an admin, do you have the power to edit thread titles or is that future work? (more) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |