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Activity for trichoplax
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #289141 |
Post edited: Correct my mistake - "Native" is a sort, not a filter |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289279 |
There is another feature request for [Can we have a "show post source" button?](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289245). That one is for the post itself, rather than the revision history. Perhaps it would be useful to have both? A "show source" or "raw text" button on a post, and a similar button on ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289283 |
Post edited: Mention explanatory description |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289283 |
Post edited: Clarify |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289283 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: A way to prohibit creating certain tags. Moderator only tags Another existing feature that might be relevant as part of a solution: some tags can only be added by a moderator, such as "status-completed". If "voltage" is created as a moderator only tag, then the description can explain why it's not useful, to reduce user frustration when th... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289223 |
You're welcome. There will be plenty more bugs to raise over time... Thanks for the edit - I noticed the image looked like the end of the post, but it didn't occur to me that a quote block could fix it. Looks better now. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289270 |
I raised this myself a few months ago, and found it was a duplicate of https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277432
It seems to have been raised a few times, which in itself demonstrates demand for this feature. That original feature request also has a number of answers making the case for different app... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289262 |
Was considering linking to the Wikipedia page for "four-letter word" in case the phrase wasn't in common usage outside the UK, but wow, no, not linking to that. Suffice to say this just means words you wouldn't want on your site outside of Linguistics. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289262 |
Sounds good if they work, but they might be an invitation to find unscrupulous workarounds. Also, how small would they have to be to eliminate the possibility of malicious edits? A four letter word plus a space is a 5 character edit.
I wonder if we would be better with "human guardrails": We could... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289262 |
I wouldn't expect it to be a concern to the original author. The problem is that anyone can be an original author. This change would give anyone the ability to make a post, wait until it drops off the front page, and then edit it to say something the community would have flagged had it not been kept ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289262 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How to edit a post for small modifications without affecting the visibility of other posts? I like this, but... I've often wanted this feature. I feel bad about cluttering the top of the question list when I make a minor typo fix on an old post. However, having thought about it more over time, I can see a problem with letting a user decide which of their edits should be visible. Misu... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289239 |
I raised that a blank line is necessary in `<details>` sections previously, and it turns out that's necessary whenever mixing HTML and Markdown, as [explained in an answer there](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287279/287284#answer-287284). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289249 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Can we have a "show post source" button? Why I like I like the idea of a button that shows me the raw Markdown (or MathJax or HTML depending on the post) so I can see how certain styles are achieved. I too find the "Edit" button unsatisfactory for this purpose. If I'm making a genuine edit then a draft is saved (which I like). I don't want... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289242 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: TOC display problem after answer deletion Expected behaviour for different users My expectation is the same as in the question when a user is unable to see deleted posts. Sometimes a user can see a deleted post (such as when the user is a moderator, has the Curate ability, or is the author of the deleted post). I would expect the Table o... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289241 |
Post edited: Tidying |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289233 |
Would that only apply while the previous flag is still pending? I'm imagining seeing no previous flag content when raising a new flag after a previous flag has been marked helpful, but not sure if anything should show if a previous flag was declined. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289233 |
On the flags page that Olin mentioned, all 3 flags show up, so they are not being lost, just not being announced on the post to the user who previously flagged. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289233 |
Just checked on the dev server: It doesn't give any indication that there is already a flag, and allows me to raise another. This applies immediately on the same tab, and also later if I open the same post in a fresh tab. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289236 |
That's really useful - thank you!
Perhaps there could be an indicator on an individual post that just says "flagged" and links to that page you mentioned. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289233 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Indication that I have flagged a post When I flag a post for moderator attention, an acknowledgement message appears, but if I revisit the post later there is no indication that I have flagged it. I would find it useful to have an indication, in case I see the post later and don't remember whether I already got around to flagging it. ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289230 |
I like the idea of side by side input and preview, particularly for long posts which currently prevent seeing the preview and input at the same time.
However, I would want to make sure that the preview still works for narrow windows or zoomed in browsers. Even among people who have a widescreen m... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289230 |
There is already some use of a wider view: edit diffs in the post history have side by side comparison of before and after, and the page has no sidebar. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289224 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289224 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Rendering bug of HTML entity in hover text for tags guidance. While ArtOfCode's answer explains that this is unlikely to be fixed in the near future, there is a workaround. If you decide that you need a character such as φ in the brief usage guidance that shows on hover, you can achieve this as follows: Workaround - Go to the bode-plot tag page. - Copy the... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289223 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
User id shows instead of user name in comment thread title When a user is mentioned in a comment thread using `@`, internally the user is referred to by their user id number. The comment is displayed using their user name, but the user id behind the scenes means that if they change their user name, the name shown in the comment stays up to date. This work... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289200 |
In particular, we could let a user choose whether to be contactable by direct message, or only in public messages.
Direct messages create an additional moderation burden though, so I would want us to consider only allowing direct messages to moderators, with all other communication being public. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289200 |
It might help to also have more fine grained options: do I want to be contactable only in rooms I have already participated, or from any room? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289200 |
I recall SE chat only allowing pinging a user if they have been active in a recent period of time. If implementing it here, I'd prefer to have a user not contactable until they choose to opt in to chat, but then continue to be contactable indefinitely until they choose to opt out. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289200 |
In the same way that not everyone is on Discord, there may be people who do not want to be on our own chat system.
I'd like to see us implement a chat system, and remove the dependency on Discord, but I would still want it to be opt in. Not everyone who wants to participate in Q&A wants to be cont... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289202 |
This would be aligned with the way moderator flags are currently handled - you don't see which moderator handled it. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289202 |
The difference between Discord and a built in "contact a moderator" button is that on Discord you would be sending a direct message to a specific person who you know is a moderator, whereas the built in button would put you in touch with whichever moderator responds first. On Discord you would know w... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289173 |
The developer window has a tool for manually finding the colour value of whichever pixel your mouse is pointing at, but I don't know of an automated way to get all of the computed values at once.
Some of the tools for compiling to CSS, such as SASS and SCSS, allow seeing the CSS output which might... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289202 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How to send message to mod other than by flag? Awkward workaround is acceptable until this feature is implemented You are correct, there is not yet a better way to contact a moderator than the awkward workaround you mentioned (flagging an unrelated post). To be clear: 1. A better method to get a moderator's attention should exist, so this w... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289173 |
Post edited: Mention unticking the CSS on the body to take light mode screenshots |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289173 |
Post edited: Mention signed in only version |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289173 |
CSS filters are powerful (they can do far more than these simple adjustments) but I would want to think carefully before making them built in.
As a user script, browser compatibility is no problem because people it doesn't work for can simply not use it. If we made it built in we might break the s... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289173 |
When you say "finer-grained adjustment of the contrast" do you mean being able to set different contrast levels in different regions of the page? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289173 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: UX changes: dark theme, distinct borders and shortcuts Horrible hacky dark mode Until there's a real dark mode, here are some quick CSS hacks that you can try out in the developer window of your browser, and add to a userscript or user stylesheet if you like the results. The site as it currently looks With no CSS changes, here's the starting poi... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289166 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
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. Related: Copy button for comment code blocks (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288657 |
I was very tired when I posted that comment and completely overlooked that you might mean a suggested edit. Reading it now, being more awake, it's perfectly clear that "applied" means "approved" rather than "submitted for approval". Thanks for being understanding. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |