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Activity for trichoplax
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| 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287470 |
Thanks for explaining - I was indeed just pressing `d` without first pressing `g`... (more) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287390 |
If this were an answer I'd upvote it. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287346 |
Ah I see. Good thinking. (more) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287322 |
Thank you both for the useful feedback. I've edited the post to include some examples. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
Sounds great. Thanks Monica. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
I'm not sure what "done" would mean in contrast with "completed" though. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
Being able to use the duplicate mechanism without the word duplicate sounds ideal. (more) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |