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Activity for trichoplax
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #288243 |
Post edited: Add system info |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288243 |
Post edited: Mention wide page problem disappears once drop down is closed |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288243 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
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 |
| Suggested Edit | Post #288235 |
Suggested edit: Add Wikipedia links for ActivityPub and Fediverse (more) |
helpful | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287061 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288229 |
On my phone, the number of posts now shows without having to scroll down, so I would say this is sufficient to mark this as status-completed - pressing search no longer has no visible effect.
I agree it would be good to consider further improvements, such as possibly collapsing the "Advanced Searc... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288223 |
I'd be interested to know why this has been downvoted. Here on Meta, a downvote can mean disagreement/disapproval, but it can also mean a post is not worded well.
Does the post need more detail, or is there objection to the idea?
If I understand correctly, the request is to provide only the sam... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288215 |
Post edited: The reputation and age buttons are sorts rather than filters (they are only intended to change the order) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288215 |
I've checked and the same behaviour shows for me. The sort order is fixed regardless of which sort button is pressed, and the order does not match what would be expected for either Reputation or Age.
The sort order appears to put staff first, followed by everyone else in almost lexicographical ord... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #288215 |
Suggested edit: The reputation and age buttons are sorts rather than filters (they are only intended to change the order) (more) |
helpful | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288196 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
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 |
| Comment | Post #288189 |
That's good to know. I guess as a quick fix rather than constructing a description of the filter we could just show something like "Filters (un-named filter)", so it's immediately clear that the list is filtered. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288189 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
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 |
| Comment | Post #288181 |
That seems like a good reason to make the filters start collapsed, but they might still benefit from a summary in parentheses for after filters are applied.
This isn't really search specific though, so maybe I'll raise this for filters in general. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288188 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
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 |
| Comment | Post #288181 |
To counteract the lack of information when the filter section is collapsed, we could show a filter summary when collapsed. On post lists, the collapsed filter section already says "Filters (none)" when no filters are applied, but simply "Filters ()" when there are filters applied.
Those empty pare... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288181 |
Post edited: Paragraph break |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288181 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
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 |
| Edit | Post #288180 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
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 |
| Edit | Post #288179 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
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 |
| Edit | Post #288178 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
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 |
| Edit | Post #288177 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
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 |
| Edit | Post #288176 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
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 |
| Edit | Post #288175 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
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 |
| Comment | Post #288156 |
The section on quality makes me realise that anyone can vote on any proposal, even if it is not a proposal they have an interest in / knowledge about. This is true of all of our communities, but in the incubator the proposals will all be presented in one place so people browsing will be more likely t... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288162 |
Might be worth having a quick note somewhere to help people understand how to get the most out of the filters with the incubator. If you filter to include tags for proposal-a and proposal-b, you will only see posts tagged with ***both*** of those tags, which in most cases will be none.
The solutio... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288160 |
I see the problem, but I'd expect it to take far more effort than that to make a proposal seem viable under the new system where there need to be many questions and many answers.
I acknowledge that we can't rule out the possibility of someone trying though. The incubator would definitely benefit f... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288162 |
My initial assumption was that edit wars on the Site Description would lead to a Meta post discussing which description to go with.
I can see the appeal of having the proposed modifications as "answers" to the Site Description post, so that they are right there for voting and discussion rather tha... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| 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) |
— | 12 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) |
— | 12 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) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288155 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Question | — |
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 |
| Edit | Post #288151 |
Post edited: Fix to the awkward workaround advice thanks to Monica |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288151 |
Post edited: Slight clarification of root cause section |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288151 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
| Answer | — |
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 |
| 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) |
— | almost 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288139 |
Post edited: Mention bar is not interactive |
— | almost 1 year ago |