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Activity for trichoplax
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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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289333 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289331 |
Post edited: Put screenshot in a quote block to avoid it looking like the end of the post |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289331 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289233 |
If we do end up showing previous flag info on the post page, we may want to consider making it a user setting. I can imagine situations where a user might want to keep such info only to their profile page, for example if working on something with a colleague who sees the questions they look up on the... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
Possibly relevant aside:
My impression of the problem people had with SE retrospectively changing all content to CC BY-SA 4.0 is that they objected to SE adding a new licence that they did not have the legal authority to decide on.
I see it as very important that we never accidentally provide a... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
I like this approach of only being required to make the licence available on request, rather than having to include it everywhere. I'd want to know what the legal situation is, and to what extent it varies by country, but my rough understanding of international copyright law is that if a licence is n... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
As for preferring option 2 of 3 from my first comment: No, I can't imagine anyone preferring that. I only included it as an approach that definitely doesn't cause any legal worries. If we can't agree on what is required for licensing, option 2 is still available. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
Interesting thoughts. I get 2 questions from this:
1. In those places where a licence is required, how much of it is required?
- a licence id?
- a licence short name such CC BY-SA 4.0?
- a URL for the licence text available online?
- the full licence text?
2. Where is a licence ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
So I guess we need to include the licence with any response that contains all or part of the content of any revision. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
Since the licence isn't editable I guess it applies to all edits regardless of who does the editing. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289322 |
Post edited: Mention limits and pagination |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
Good point. Thanks for raising this.
I don't know the best approach for this, but the options that come to mind are:
1. Include the licence with all licensed content (so questions, answers, articles, but not comments).
1. Only allow programmatically accessing content that does not require a li... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289324 |
I've now edited to tag this as a "bug" rather than a "feature-request", as it turns out that even if the user does take into account other posts on the page, it is not possible to avoid clashing with other footnotes as they are automatically numbered from 1 in each post, overriding any different numb... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289324 |
Post edited: Link to earlier post that explains this is a bug with no workaround |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289324 |
Thanks for finding that. It does look like mine is a duplicate. The comments there also explain that my untested workaround (using different footnote numbers in your own post than the other post on the same page) doesn't work - they will be automatically renumbered to use the smallest numbers, and en... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289323 |
Post edited: Add finer detail |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
I was aiming for something that can be accessed from any programming language, so most likely HTTP. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289324 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289324 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289323 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289279 |
Meta discussion started: [ How should a Codidact public API work? ](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289322). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289293 |
Meta discussion started: [ How should a Codidact public API work? ](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289322). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289322 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289298 |
I personally believe it should be removed. I flagged your question for moderator attention directly after posting this answer, so when someone sees the flag they can decide whether to remove the norepro tag. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289279 |
There's also some discussion of scraping in [Is it okay to scrape Codidact for personal tools?](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289293) and I've mentioned an API as an alternative approach. Would an API providing raw source text be relevant to your purposes? If so it would be good to get your input o... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289298 |
Post edited: Mention blank lines are omitted |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289297 |
Yes that's what I see, on Firefox for mobile or desktop. Haven't yet tested with other browsers. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289298 |
I was focused on the indentation and didn't picked up this, but I can confirm I also see this (no blank lines). I'm not sure how to avoid this with copying from rendered HTML, but an option to view as raw text would ensure the correct number of newlines. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289296 |
Not sure if there is any overlap in the root cause but mentioning for reference just in case:
- [Mismatch between blue notification circle and notification panel](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287765) (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289293 |
Interesting idea. Might not be necessary if we can just make the changes directly in the back end. Let me know if there's an advantage I'm overlooking.
I've been working on Codidact bugs and feature requests as practice to get used to the codebase, as part of working up to implementing an API. If ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289297 |
No, I see the correct number in the blue circle (generally 1 unless I've been away for a while).
When you click on the notification multiple times, is this from a page other than the destination? For me, it goes away first click if I am on the page it leads to (exact URL, not just the same questio... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289298 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289173 |
Post edited: Add warning that user id based approach will occasionally switch to light mode |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289297 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289293 |
As you may guess from the API post you linked to, I am very interested in implementing an API for Codidact. I'm also likely to have free time coming up in a couple of months.
I know exactly what I want out of an API, but I don't want to implement just what suits me, and then find it needs to chang... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289291 |
That's good to know. I wasn't really concerned about launch decisions. I like the idea of everyone who views a proposal having an idea of how it's doing. Sometimes seeing the activity might drive someone's motivation. Also seeing where the gaps in activity are might affect someone's decision on wheth... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289291 |
Sounds good. We could even end up with both solutions running in parallel. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289283 |
Good point. Maybe only a third tag type would work then. That way it could show in the tags list with styling that suggests it is disabled, and its description could explain why it cannot be used, and we could prevent it being added to posts. A lot more work than just reusing an existing tag type tho... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289291 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year 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) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289147 |
A [discussion on Discord](https://discord.com/channels/634104110131445811/634104110131445815/1138369664976703589) has made me realise I was wrong about this being a filter - instead of hiding the imported posts it just sorts them to the end, so it is a sort rather than a filter.
I still think it m... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289141 |
Post edited: Change from bug to feature-request now that I understand better |
— | over 1 year ago |