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Activity for trichoplax
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A: Sorting by score after excluding a tag gave me a 500 error First, to quote from the 500 page: > It's not your fault. Thanks for raising this. Instant workaround For your particular combination of filters and sorting criterion, here is a corrected link that you can use until the bug is fixed: - [Site Proposals excluding tag status-launched sorted b... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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Redundant "Posts" heading on every community in the dashboard There is a [dashboard] available from the top right of the screen: The 3 by 3 grid of squares icon representing the dashboard at the top right of the screen This shows the categories for each Codidact community, along with an indicator for any categories that have new activity: Desktop versi... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
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A: Confusing reuse of styling between button and tab header Another option is to not use button styling in the bar at all. The "Ask Question" button can become another tab along with "Posts", "Tags", and "Edits": Codidact Meta site with all 4 items styled as tabs, with "Posts" selected This is my personal preference as it simplifies the interface withou... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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A: Confusing reuse of styling between button and tab header One option is to style the tabs as tabs rather than buttons, similar to the row above which shows the category tabs. The "Ask Question" button can then remain a button: Codidact Meta site with "Posts" styled as a tab rather than a button I prefer this to the current situation with 2 things that... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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Tailored previews in search results to show the relevant parts of each post In search results the title is shown followed by a preview of the post, consisting of the first few lines. I would find it more useful to see the section of the post that contains the search term, in order to easily judge the relevance of the result at a glance. For example, one of the results ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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Make code field active on 2FA sign in page When signing in with two-factor authentication enabled, a code is requested on the next page after entering email and password: Two-factor authentication page showing the "Code" field does not contain the text cursor The "Code" field is not active (does not contain the text cursor) so the user ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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Premature confirmation of successful sign in with 2FA When signing in with two-factor authentication enabled, a code is requested on the next page after entering email and password: Two-factor authentication page showing "Signed in successfully" However, before the code is entered, a green banner at the top of the page already says "Signed in succ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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Blocked from posting to Collab by script tag inside code block I am currently unable to post to [Codidact Collab]. When pressing "Save Post to Q&A" I am taken to the following page: Page with a big red X saying "Sorry, you have been blocked" The small print at the bottom says: > Cloudflare Ray ID: 7b7c1ee0bdc87761 In case it's relevant: (turns ou... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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No response when clicking on the title of a thread on a recently deleted post When clicking on the thread title ("Welcome!" in this example) of a comment thread below a post: Comment thread title in context I see the following error in the Firefox developer window (click image for a larger version):  |
— | about 1 year ago |
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Notification about a thread on a deleted post What should be the behaviour when a user posts a reply to a comment in a thread on a post, and then deletes the post? For example, the post may be a question which requires editing before it will be ready for answers. Currently, a notification is shown to the user who is being replied to (and pres... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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No datetime on hover at the bottom of a suggested edit In the Suggested Edits list page, the time suggested shows as a duration since suggested, such as "2 days ago", but hovering the mouse cursor over it displays the exact datetime: Suggested Edits page showing exact datetime on hover However, in the individual Review Suggested Edit page, the time... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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Button to return to Suggested Edits page From the Review Suggested Edit page there is a button to "Return to post" which links back to the post on which the edit is being suggested: Review Suggested Edit page showing "Return to post" button This makes sense, as one of the places a reviewer may have reached this page from is the origin... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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Show notice that a suggested edit cannot be reviewed without the Edit Posts ability When viewing the Suggested Edits page, there is a notice for users that have not yet earned the Edit Posts ability: > You can't approve or reject suggested edits because you haven't yet earned the Edit Posts ability. Suggested Edits page showing a notice However, a user without the Edit Post... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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Show raw MathJax in suggested edit diffs and edit histories Related: Post revisions are displayed without rendered Markdown but with rendered MathJax When reviewing a suggested edit, any MathJax is presented in its rendered form, making it difficult to see what has changed, and leaving the reviewer wondering whether the MathJax is part of what they nee... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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Misleading edit history label "Initial revision" In the edit history for a post, the initial version is labelled "Initial revision" even though it is not a revision. What would make more sense here? - Initial post? - Initial version? - Initial wording? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Hiding "Initial revision" on the Edits section of the Activity tab of the user profile When viewing a user's Edits on the Activity tab of the user profile, it includes "Initial revision", which seems to me more like a posting than an edit: Edits section showing most rows are "Initial revision" In the edit history of an individual post it is useful to be able to see the initial ve... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Tracking progress towards the Edit ability Related: - Confusing percentage on Edit Posts Ability page Currently, the best place I can find to track my progress towards the Edit ability (30 approved suggested edits with at least 95% approval) is the Activity tab of the user profile, filtered to Edits. However, this still includes al... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Minor typo fixes on Blog posts activate the activity indicator circle When an edit is made to a Blog post, the new activity indicator circle appears on the Blog tab: Page header showing a grey circle next to the Blog tab This is useful when there is a new Blog post, but less useful when there is a minor typo fixed. Would it be useful to be able to switch on an... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Should we have category specific reactions? Reaction types can currently be switched on and off for a community (by a moderator) so different communities can have different reactions (including custom reactions). The interface for editing which reactions are active for a community However, each reaction that is active is available across... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Large reputation on phones shrinks the community logo As a user's reputation increases, it takes up more horizontal space on the header bar of each page. On desktop there is plenty of empty space so this makes little difference. However, on a phone screen in portrait mode each new digit leaves less space for the rest of the header bar. Currently this ca... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Ability to sort individual user Posts page by Activity There is a Posts page showing all the posts by a given user. At the top it has sorting buttons: Individual user Posts page shows sorting buttons for Score and Age The sorting buttons at the top of the questions list on the front page has more sorting buttons: General questions page shows sor... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Show total number of posts on individual user Posts page There is a Posts page showing all the posts by a given user. Could this have a total number of posts shown at the top, similar to the front page? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Easier way to get to the individual user Posts page There is a Posts page showing all the posts by a given user. However, the only place it is linked to appears to be the bottom of the long list of posts on the user profile. An example of when this is cumbersome: In order to change from sorting by score to sorting by age you have to scroll all the ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: No escape from reactions dialogue box Since this question was posted, the user interface has been updated so that clicking outside a pop up panel makes the panel disappear. This means a new user unfamiliar with the site will now be able to dismiss panels easily, so this is no longer a problem. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Miscellaneous Flag modal problems Flagging an answer After pressing "Flag" under an answer there are 3 radio buttons to choose from: Flag modal for an answer showing 3 radio buttons Flagging questions and answers Some changes would benefit both types of post. Changes specific to only questions are listed later. Radio butto... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Edit activity show, but not allowed to approve The requirements for earning the Edit Posts ability which would allow reviewing suggested edits can be found in each community's help section. For example, the Physics Edit Posts Ability page: > ## How do I earn this ability? > > To earn this ability, you need to have at least a 95% approval rat... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Edit activity show, but not allowed to approve I agree that seeing the indicator circle when unable to review edits is not useful. I've raised an issue on GitHub. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Inconsistent use of "abilities" and "privileges" The Your abilities page looks something like this (depending on your current abilities): The "Your abilities" page To a moderator looking to grant or suspend abilities, there is a mod-only page called "Privileges", which looks something like this: The "Privileges" page Each of these pages... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Inconsistent use of "undelete" and "restore" When a post has been deleted, it shows a notice explaining its situation: A deleted answer showing in red This notice says: > Users with the Curate privilege may vote to undelete (emphasis mine) However, the button below the post to reverse deletion is called "Restore". Should we co... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Attempting to restore an answer deleted by a moderator gives no visible feedback After a moderator has deleted an answer, it looks like this to the poster of the answer: A deleted answer showing in red If the poster of the answer clicks on "Restore", the action is prevented, and a message is shown at the top of the page: Message saying "You cannot restore this post delet... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Inconsistent badge alignment on Vote Summary tab of user profile On the Vote Summary tab of the user profile page, the post type and category show as badges on the same line as the question title and aligned to the right. However, if the question title is too long to allow them to fit, they are pushed to the next line down. At this point they should remain right a... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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License CC BY-SA 3.0 only available on Writing and Outdoors For 2 communities (Writing and Outdoors) the License drop down list when making a new post shows an option of CC BY-SA 3.0: Dropdown list for license, showing CC BY-SA 3.0 For all of the other Codidact communities this option is not present. Is the option only there for historical reasons, o... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Does "site" mean "community" or "Codidact" on License field? Above the drop down list for license when making a new post, it mentions "site default". As people use the word "site" to mean different things, this could be ambiguous, particularly for a new user. Would it be clearer to use one of the following: - community default - Codidact default I'm gu... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Incorrect description for CC BY-SA 3.0 in license drop down list This will become irrelevant if License CC BY-SA 3.0 only available on Writing and Outdoors results in CC BY-SA 3.0 no longer being available For those communities where it is present, CC BY-SA 3.0 has a description of: > You've opted to be required to choose a license explicitly for every p... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Very narrow blank option in Default license drop down list The drop down list of options for "Default license" in the "Community Preferences" section of the "Preferences" tab on the user profile page does not appear to have the option of returning to blank. The only visible options are licenses, or "No default (make me choose)". This seems like a problem if ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Comment threads with zero comments I believe that when the last comment in a comment thread is deleted, the thread is also automatically deleted. However, there are some threads that still exist despite having all their comments deleted (presumably because they were deleted before the automation was introduced). This is what they look... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Duplicate Mobile Sign In button in user profile shows on mobile When viewing my own user profile (not anyone else's) there is a button below the profile content called "Mobile Sign In": Mobile Sign In button below user profile content This does the same as the Mobile Sign In button in the page header: Mobile Sign In button in page header Is this redun... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Tall profile content (image or text) causes scroll bar only on desktop I recently added an image to my user profile as an experiment. In the edit preview this showed in full, but after saving it shows on my profile with a vertical scroll bar and the bottom section of the image is cut off until I scroll. Notice how the dates on the horizontal axis are cut in half: Use... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Diagram errors in "Scoring" help article The help page explaining the post scoring method has some diagrams at the end, but they are somewhat confusing. Axis mislabelling The following chart has a horizontal axis labelled "N", which is confusing as there is no other mention of "N" on the page. Should this say "z"? Chart with horizont... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Mismatch between blue notification circle and notification panel When I read the target of a notification in another tab, and then switch to a tab that still has the notification circle showing, opening the notification panel shows the notification as read, but the notification circle remains: Blue notification circle showing even though the notification is rea... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Question score on hover in question lists When viewing an individual question, the score can be seen by hovering over the voting buttons or the upvote and downvote counts: Individual question page showing score on hover In the question list page, it might be expected that the score could be seen by hovering over the upvote and downvote... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Broken edit diffs on narrow mobile screens When viewing a post edit diff on mobile the side by side format for before and after makes each side very narrow in portrait mode. Text wrapping appears to only happen between words, leaving longer words overflowing from the left hand (before) side and extending behind the right hand (after) side, ob... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Highlight [status-completed] posts in Hot Posts for Meta In the Hot Posts panel on Codidact Meta, or in the Meta Category of a specific community, some of the posts may be bug reports or feature requests. It is not clear from the Hot Posts panel whether these are needing discussion and voting, or are recently completed: Current Hot Posts panel Could ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Sign In vs. Sign Up Here are screenshots of what the two pages currently look like on desktop: Sign up Sign up page Sign in Sign in page For Sign up, there is a green box suggesting using your existing details from another Codidact site. From the question wording I'm not sure whether this was already pres... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Unique favicons for each site In support of unique favicons A common logo to bring the communities together In response to another answer, which says: > it has a very important disadvantage of diluting the platform image (the book) when being reached by newcomers If it is considered important to have the Codidact logo (ra... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Unique favicon per community If pages for several different Codidact communities are open in different browser tabs, they all show the Codidact logo as their favicon: Three different community pages each showing the same Codidact favicon It would be easier to see at a glance which community is in which tab if each communit... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Show question title before community name in browser tab The title for a specific question page (displayed in the browser tab) shows the community name followed by the question title: Current browser tabs showing community name first This means that only the first word or two of the question title are visible. Even less is visible when tabs become na... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Meaningful tab title for Ask and Edit pages The title for a page (that appears in the browser tab) shows the community name (such as "Codidact Meta"), followed by the question title for a question page. This can be helpful for a user who has more than one question open in different tabs. However, when creating a question the title is simply... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Logo shrinks from blue notification circle Related bug (not sure if solution will be related): - Logo becomes tiny in mobile landscape mode and narrow desktop windows On mobile, the community logo can shrink when a blue notification circle appears next to the notifications icon, even though there would still be room for the full size ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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The ability to cancel my own suggested edit Related: - A way to edit my suggested edits If I suggest an edit to a post and then change my mind, there is no way for me to retract my suggestion. The top of the post I suggested an edit on says: > Your suggested edit on this post is pending review. It would be useful if this message ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |