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Activity for trichoplax
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Question | — |
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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289520 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289520 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289479 |
I like the idea of the labels "Question" and "Answer" (or "Article" - there are a few post types) being at the top of the individual search result.
How would you feel about these only showing in mixed search results? That is, they could be hidden in search results for a specific post type (so if I... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289451 |
Could there be a default MathJax help article that switches on and off when MathJax is enabled or disabled? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289449 |
I recently [posted on Codidact Proposals](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289268) mentioning similar problems, including a link to an example post on the development server with more examples of raw text and rendered results.
Mentioning here as further evidence that avoiding accidentally trig... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289173 |
Post edited: How to make exceptions for images |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289173 |
The images were what I was most dissatisfied with. This is a big improvement - thank you. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289391 |
This answer covers everything except the mention of a preview while editing comments. Even the standard comment editing interface does not yet show a preview, but there is a Meta feature request for one: [Can we have a preview pane for comments?](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289248). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289394 |
Post edited: Tidying |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289394 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289367 |
Post edited: Replace "give for granted" with English idiom "take for granted" |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289381 |
That's an interesting point about service tags. If there are more than one kind of tag maybe we could have tag categories.
For example:
- Topic tags show on a row of their own and can be applied by anyone
- Status tags show on a row of their own and can only be applied by moderators
Tags like... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289366 |
There are a few cases where the number of tags is not the problem, just being at the limit is a problem (as it prevents adding a moderator-only tag, a proposal tag, or undeleting a tag). Maybe it would be sufficient to just have a limit for users, and an exception for those 3 cases. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289366 |
So there is not necessarily a tag limit per post, but there is a tag limit per user per post. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289366 |
Would it help to have a slowly increasing limit like a trust level?
So for example, when a new user joins they can only add 5 tags, but after they gain trust over time they can add 10, and if they don't misuse that they later get 20. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289366 |
I can't think of an example of a problem that could arise if there were no tag limit. What sort of abuse were you expecting? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289353 |
I've edited my answer to try and make it more clear and to include the examples (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289353 |
Post edited: Link to 5 tag limit Meta post |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289353 |
Post edited: Clarify that this wouldn't mean trusting everyone |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289353 |
I wasn't suggesting relaxing the trust requirements entirely.
I wouldn't want to give arbitrary abilities to everyone as soon as they join a community. I was thinking that some actions could be trusted to slightly more people than currently (as the question suggests, but with undo allowing taking ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289353 |
I've raised a separate [discussion on the 5 tag limit](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289364). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289364 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289353 |
It's interesting that we're both using the same argument (reduce administrative burden) for opposite opinions. Sounds like this would need careful discussion before deciding where to have undo and where to avoid it.
Note that I'm not suggesting the undo functionality be implemented any time soon. ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289353 |
Post edited: Fine tuning |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289353 |
Post edited: Improve structure |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289353 |
Post edited: Add subheadings for ease of reference |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289353 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289341 |
Post edited: Mention list is non-exhaustive |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289341 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
In response to the stateful/stateless query:
My earlier comment was a contrived example imagining that we had a history API that could not be accessed without info only found in the response to the post API. I don't think this is realistic, but that's how I was imagining we could know that the req... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289338 |
I'd also bear in mind accessibility when considering use of a smaller font size. If a user has overridden their browser default font size to ensure they can read text on websites, then `<small>` may be a smaller font size than is comfortable to read. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289338 |
For your particular purpose, it's your decision how to format your own post, but personally I would find it easy to assume that a section in smaller font is more skippable. In a post of my own, if I wanted to distinguish something that the reader *must* be aware of I would aim to make it appear *dist... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289338 |
In general, I don't know the reason for the particular set of HTML tags that were chosen to be permitted. The list does change from time to time, so feel free to raise a feature request on Meta asking for any additional tags you would like to be added. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
It's good to hear that a URL is sufficient rather than the full licence text.
Even if it turns out that we need the URL in every response that contains licensed content, that doesn't seem too bad as it will be small in proportion to the length of most posts. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289338 |
Post edited: Add missing raw text input for the other half of the footnote Markdown |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289338 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289334 |
A fix is planned for the discrepancies between preview and saved post. If you're reading this and that fix has been released, then this post needs to be updated to take that into account. Feel free to reply to this comment to let me know it's time. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289334 |
Post edited: Fix explanation of manual p tags, and refer to HTML sanitiser instead of Markdown parser |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289337 |
Post edited: Change title to reflect that this is only for some posts |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289337 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289334 |
Post edited: Add note that a blank line does not have the expected outcome |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289334 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |