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Activity for trichoplax
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Syntax highlighting comments break the unsupported tags warning message When an HTML tag is used in a post but is not supported by Codidact, a warning message is displayed listing the unsupported tags. However, [syntax highlighting] hints in the form of HTML comments such as `` are listed as `` in the warning message: Unsupported HTML message, listing undefined instea... (more) |
— | 15 days ago |
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Should multiple whitespace characters in a row be permitted in usernames? I was confused by the unusual layout of text below a post in the question list: Post showing a large offset between "posted by" and "last activity" sections Note the long gap after "posted 3y ago by". Viewing the individual question page shows the underlying cause: Username with a long st... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
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Handling too short comments padded with spaces When starting a new comment thread, the "Create thread" button is disabled until the content of the "Your comment" text box has at least 15 characters. This character count includes leading and trailing spaces. However, leading and trailing spaces are removed after pressing "Create thread", which can... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
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A: Can we get email notifications? I would argue that this feature should be opt out, rather than opt in. That is, everyone should receive email for their notifications (answers to their questions or comments on their posts) unless they untick a checkbox in their user preferences. The email should state clearly how to opt out, prefera... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
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A: Should we change the footer layout? An alternative would be to remove the list altogether. There is already an "Other communities" link in the footer that links to the full list on codidact.com and the communities in the list are also reachable from the top of each page in either the communities drop down or the dashboard. The list in ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: Could we have a way to edit without bumping posts? By default all edits should show Every time an edit is made, the post or its parent should move to the top of the question list. This reduces the chance of an edit being missed by the community. Not every edit is reviewed. Some people have the Edit Posts ability and can edit without review, and... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: Minor suggested edits to old posts My own view is that even minor edits are valuable, even on old posts. I appreciate that there will sometimes be reason to reject such edits, but I would not personally take the age of a post into account when making that decision. Until reading Olin Lathrop's answer, I hadn't realised that all the... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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How should we approach large numbers of edits made all at once? If edits are made to a large number of posts in a short period, they will push everything else off the front page, taking visibility away from recent questions and answers. They will also take visibility away from each other, so malicious or accidentally detrimental edits are less likely to be spotte... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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Minor suggested edits to old posts There have recently been several edits in a short period of time by a single user. This user does not yet have the Edit Posts ability, so all of the edits are suggested edits, which require review by someone with the Edit Posts ability. The outcomes of the suggested edits affect whether this user ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: Minor typo in Help Center page of "Participate Everywhere" ability Thanks for spotting this. I've just checked and the typo is also present in the database seed that is used for setting up new communities, so it needs to be fixed there too to avoid this happening in future. As the code is open source, anyone is free to make a pull request that fixes this. The ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: Hide sorting tab when there are 0 answers on a question Good idea, not just for closed questions I like the idea of hiding the sorting buttons when they serve no purpose. I see no reason to restrict this to closed questions. If the visibility of the sorting buttons is dependent on the number of answers then they will reappear when new answers are posted.... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: List all duplicates for a question on the target question's page I like this idea, but I wonder if it should be optional. For the link to search results that you mention, that sounds sufficiently unobtrusive that perhaps it wouldn't need to be optional. I think it would need a feature request for search first though - I don't think there's currently a way to se... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: What incentives are there currently to edit and moderate? Should there be more? Intrinsic & extrinsic motivation, and perverse incentives It is clear that your intentions are good, but the outcomes may not be. Intrinsic or extrinsic? People's motivation for making edits may be intrinsic or extrinsic. That is, they may be motivated by the desire to see the site improve, or the... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: Would there ever be A / B testing? ArtOfCode's answer covers true A/B testing, which involves a randomised experiment and the system to support it. However, the question sounds as if it is also considering the ability for individual users to choose how to see the site: > ... in case people want to see what the site would be like... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: Alternatives to the news feed taken as a default; the “attention economy” The front page can already be customised by each user, and more customisation is planned. If you think of specific improvements that could be made (such as being able to choose between the dashboard or the question list as the default page when you sign in), please raise them. Existing customisati... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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Why do we have "General comments" threads? Comments below posts are grouped into threads, each of which can have a meaningful name so several different conversations can happen in parallel with less risk of confusion. However, sometimes the thread title is simply "General comments" which does not help the reader understand what the thread ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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A: Can you post a question just to answer it yourself? From [How to ask a great question] in the help section: > If you put your question title into a search engine, can you find the answer to your question in the first three results? If so, perhaps consider [alternative ways of sharing that information] here on Codidact, or writing a self-answered qu... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
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Markdown table alignment only renders correctly in preview Codidact posts support Markdown tables. For example, the following raw text: ```text Column 1 | Column 2 | -------- Data A | Data B Data C | Data D ``` renders as: Column 1 | Column 2 | -------- Data A | Data B Data C | Data D This works both in the edit preview and i... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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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) |
— | 8 months ago |
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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) |
— | 8 months ago |
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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) |
— | 8 months ago |
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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) |
— | 8 months ago |
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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) |
— | 8 months ago |
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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) |
— | 8 months ago |
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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) |
— | 8 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |
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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) |
— | 9 months ago |