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Activity for trichoplax
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Code block copy button in more places, such as help documents I find the copy button on code blocks in posts very useful. Could this also be added to code blocks in other places such as help documents? For example, the Template for Proposal Posts would be much easier to copy if there were a copy button. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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Native sorting button blocks other sorting orders The sorting buttons at the top of a category's post list include "Activity", "Age", and "Score", which are all orders into which to sort the posts. However, for sites with imported content they also include "Native". This is not a sort order, but a filter, showing only posts that were not imported. T... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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Hover text on sorting buttons not available on mobile The sorting buttons at the top of a category's post list have title text which appears on hovering with a mouse, but this is not available on mobile devices. The sorting buttons above the filters section "Activity", "Age", and "Score" are reasonably intuitive names, so a mobile user could still... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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Some code blocks extend into the right hand panel on desktop If a code block contains a line too long to fit in the available horizontal space, the excess to the right is hidden, with a scroll bar to allow seeing the rest (this is a good thing): Raw text: ````text ```text This is an exceptionally long line for the purpose of demonstrating what happens wh... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Get rid of minimum character requirements Prevent zero only - I'm comfortable with preventing users from posting zero character comments and posts. - I agree there are times when insisting on 15 characters is unhelpful. - For comments, I see no reason to make the minimum higher than 1. - For posts, I'd expect them to be longer but 15 is ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Cannot view with no filter when a category has a default filter This is the filter section above a post list: Filter section showing the default filter for the category In a category where I have set a default filter, I can temporarily view the post list using a different filter by selecting it from the "Predefined Filters" drop down box, and then clicking ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Should we render double hyphen as an em dash? Some places render "--" (double hyphen) as "—" (em dash). Currently Codidact does not -- so these are left as double hyphens in both the edit preview and a rendered post (like that). Would it be useful for Codidact to automatically render double hyphen as an em dash? Are there settings in... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: Let's not allow animated avatars. Switch off animation until a decision is made I've posted an answer listing possible options which can be discussed over time, but I recommend that in the meantime animation is suppressed completely. Switching animation off everywhere for everyone is much quicker and easier than implementing a ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: Let's not allow animated avatars. I was in the middle of drafting a very similar Meta question when I noticed this one had just been posted. I will instead post my thoughts here as an answer, to prompt further discussion. I see the current situation (everyone sees animated avatars whether they like it or not) as a problem, but there ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: UI question: how should the "post" button behave in restricted categories? With many different Codidact communities and more being proposed, along with other organisations that have their own instances of the QPixel software, it seems unlikely that any single one of these suggestions will be consistently the best approach. Each occasion may have a different approach that wo... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Clearer community proposals transition for skim readers During the transition from having a Site Proposals category on Meta to having a separate Codidact Proposals community, there is a message at the top of the Site Proposals category with a link to the introductory Meta post on Codidact Proposals: Site Proposals category showing a link in the descrip... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Confusing row highlighting on abilities page On the Abilities page clicking on the name of an ability takes you to the specific ability page. However, clicking on the row of the table anywhere other than the name of the ability just highlights the row in grey, rather than taking you to the specific ability page: Abilities table showing a row... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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The tag description in the tags list does not link to the specific tag page On the Tags tab, clicking on a tag in the list follows a link to the specific tag page. However, this only works if you click on the tag itself. The tags in the list each have a snippet of their description showing, but clicking on the description snippet does not link to the specific tag page with t... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Update tag descriptions to reflect new home of proposals Here on Meta the tags "community-proposal" and "new-communities" both have descriptions referring to the Site Proposals category. Can these be updated to refer to (and possibly link to) the new Codidact Proposals community? (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Tag search breaks if a space is added In the Q&A category of Meta a tag search for "proposal" shows 4 results, but a tag search for "proposal " (with a trailing space, as is commonly automatically inserted when typing on mobile) shows 0 results. This seems to be a literal string search. For contrast, a search for "bug" shows 4 results... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Proposal descriptions show "Suggest edit" instead of "Edit" In the Descriptions category of the Codidact Proposals community, anyone can edit any proposal description. This is in contrast to other categories where suggested edits require approval before being applied (until the editing user gains the Edit Posts ability). I would therefore expect an "Edit" ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Indicate change in reputation in voting summary In the Vote Summary tab of the user page, each of a users posts shows how many votes up and down: Two posts showing 1 upvote each This shows voting, but does not make clear how this affects reputation. In this example, the first post is a Question in the Challenges category, and the upvote resu... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Confusing percentage on Edit Posts Ability page Related: - Tracking progress towards the Edit ability The Activity tab of my user profile, filtered to Edits shows 20 helpful suggested edits, and 1 declined. The Edit Posts Ability page shows that I need a minimum of 30 approved suggested edits: The Edit Posts Ability page, showing a p... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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How does "@username" work in comment threads? In a comment thread, I can notify someone by including "@username". I also get notified of replies, even if they do not include my username in this way. What determines who is notified of a comment in a thread? - When a comment does not include "@username", who is notified? - When a comment does ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: Bulleted lists don't work on IOS Firefox and MacOS Safari Here is what your answer looks like on my machine: Answer showing bullet points rendered correctly You can see that the bullet points are rendered correctly, so it sounds like it is the rendering of bullet points on your machine that is problematic (the other answer you mentioned also looks cor... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Tag-only edits only sometimes have a tag diff I noticed that the edit to the tags in this edit history does not have a tag diff section. It makes it appear that the second version of this post has no changes: Edit history showing tags have changed but there is no tag diff section For comparison, here is tag-only edit on another post, that ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: Comment threads remain active even if all comments are deleted This bug appears to be fixed, but it is not. The following works for me, but the original poster of the answer can still see the deleted thread. How it seems to someone who didn't post the original question/answer Note that newer threads disappear from view (at least for non-moderators) when th... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: Suggest an edit without any changes is possible This appears to be fixed. I just tried making an empty edit to this question and received an error message: (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Mobile browser cannot open older Codidact images Difference between older images and recent images Following a link to the url of an image uploaded to Codidact redirects to an AWS link for recently uploaded images. For older images, following the link instead starts a file download. On desktop this downloaded file opens as an image, but on mobile ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Automatically added redundant markdown when editing After making an edit that only adds tags, some redundant markdown is added to the beginning of the body of the post. This does not show up in the rendered post but it gives an inaccurate edit history. For an example, see the [edit history of another Meta question]. [![Edit history showing tags ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: Can't edit a question just to add tags. It appears that this problem has been fixed. See the related [How to make an edit that only changes the tag list by adding a tag that does not exist?] which has been marked "status-completed". (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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MathJax in comments requires a refresh after editing After editing a comment, any MathJax in the comment is not rendered (instead displaying as raw text) until the page is refreshed. If a user does not know to refresh the page, they may be led to believe that MathJax does not work in comments. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: Use filters across devices Misdiagnosed problem I was wrong about this. It turns out your personal filters are already saved across devices, but there is a problem stopping them from showing up. Workaround Adding a new filter when signed in on my phone resulted in my existing filters that I created on desktop all showing ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Use filters across devices If I save filters for the question list, I can use them at a later date, which is very useful. However, they are only available on the device I saved them on. It would be useful to have the saved filters available on any device where I am signed in. For example, I could then save a filter on my de... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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MathJax breaks in edit history I noticed this in a [post on Code Golf Codidact] where MathJax is enabled. The raw text of the post can be seen by pressing "Edit" or "Suggest edit" below the post: Text during editing, showing the $ enclosed MathJax terms When viewing the edit history, most of the MathJax is rendered, rathe... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Missing translation for English for suggested edits rate limit I'm guessing that the following message means that I have been rate limited for suggested edits, but this error is showing instead of the intended message: Red error message saying "The following errors prevented your post from being saved: translation missing: en.ratelimit.suggestededits" I re... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Input box is not on screen after pressing "Start new comment thread" with expanded comments If comment threads below a post are already expanded, then the input box that appears after pressing the "Start new comment thread" button is too far down the page to be visible. This makes it look like the button is broken, unless the user thinks to scroll down the page and look for the input box. ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Post score in title text of vote counts does not update when voting When adding or removing an upvote or downvote, the user interface is updated without reloading the page. This changes the upvote and downvote buttons to be the appropriate colour based on whether the user has upvoted or downvoted or neither, and changes the number of upvotes and downvotes. However, i... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Images fail to load when previewed or saved While drafting or editing a post images do not show in the rendered post preview. Instead the alt text is displayed: Mouse pointer hovering over the voting buttons showing a score of 0.5 (For me this now shows correctly as an image, so it looks like this is fixed. Testing with a new draft post ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Cannot remove Discord username from user profile once added After editing my user profile to add a Discord username as part of testing how it works, I am unable to remove the username. Deleting the username and pressing save results in an apparently successful save (no error message) but the username is still present on my profile, and pressing edit again sho... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: Should the Discord guidance be updated as discriminators are being removed? From [Discord's announcement]: > In addition, your previous username and discriminator will continue to work as an alias after the conversion process is done, so old friends who don’t know your new username yet will continue to be able to add you. So even after the discriminator (the `#1234` in... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: Are downvotes needed? There is a difference between a flag ("this requires action that only a moderator can take") and a downvote, which expresses an opinion about the post that the community can decide how to respond to. There may be several reasons for and against having downvotes. This answer just expresses one reas... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: Support subjective scoring This is an interesting proposal. Although I think it would be detrimental in its current form, I'd like to emphasise that I would like to see more discussion of potential modifications to the way the site is curated and presented. I don't think this should ever be regarded as "finished" - improvement... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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Odd behaviour of the user page filter tab On the filters tab of the user page, there is a drop down box called "Predefined Filters": The filters section of the user page, showing a drop down box set to "None" On mobile, tapping on the drop down box for the first time after page load results in a pop up selection window rather than a dr... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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Return to same page after signing in After signing in the user is taken to the home page of the community from which they signed in (so, the Q&A posts tab here on Codidact Meta). This means that if I am reading a question and decide to answer it, I sign in and find myself on the question list, and have to navigate back to the questio... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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Single line summary of currently applied filters When no filters are applied to a post list it shows "Filters (None)". When there are filters applied to a post list it shows "Filters ()". Would it be useful for there to be a 1 line summary of the currently applied filters instead of empty parentheses? For example, it could say something li... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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Community sort order As the list of communities gets longer, it becomes more difficult to find any particular one in the various places they are listed. Sorting Would it be helpful to have sorting buttons, similar to at the top of post lists? The sorting criteria might be slightly different, perhaps: - alphabetical ... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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No visible response when searching on mobile After searching from the search box at the top of each page, you are taken to a search results page. This has the search box with the current search term prepopulated, ready to modify and search again, followed by a filter section. On mobile this fills all of the vertical space on the screen, so e... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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Cannot search for net negative votes Searching for `votes:-8` does not give results with net votes -8. Instead it returns all posts, regardless of votes. Upvotes and downvotes break in exactly the same way for negative numbers, but for those I wouldn't expect to be able to use negative numbers, as there can never be a negative number... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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Mismatch between search guidance, search help page, and search behaviour for votes and score There is some inconsistency between the guidance and the behaviour when searching by votes or by score. Searching by votes In-page search guidance > votes:4 votes with 4+ votes Search help page > you can use `votes:5` to find posts where the net votes (upvotes minus downvotes) of a post equa... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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Reconsidering the shorthand for month in search From the search help: > You can use m for minute, h for hour, d for day, w for week, mo for month, and y for year. It seems likely that users would want to use months more often than minutes in a search. Would it be more useful for "m" to mean month, and for minute to be the one with an awkward... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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PolicyDoc and HelpDoc hidden from search Searching for `posttype:3` (PolicyDoc) gives no results. Similarly for `posttype:4` (HelpDoc). Should these post types be excluded from the options presented when the user types `posttype:`, or should the search be amended to include results from the help section (it currently only seems to return... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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Searching for answers by tag Searching for `posttype:2` (answer) and a tag gives no results, as answers do not have tags. Intuitively, I would expect this to return results which are answers to a question with that tag. - Is this also what other users would expect? - Would this be straightforward to implement? - Would this... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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Adding the search guidance hints to the search results page too When entering a search term, there is some guidance showing above the text box: The area above the search box, containing hints on each type of search term The guidance is only shown before the initial search. Could it also be shown above the text box of the search results page, so the user can... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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Unclickable suggested edit button below post After suggesting an edit to a post, it is displayed differently to indicate that the edit is pending. This difference is in 2 places. The top of the post shows a message in a box: Box containing message "Your suggested edit on this post is pending review." Below the post, the edit button has... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |