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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #292840 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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Poll for chat users and non-chat users There is a link in the right hand panel (or bottom of the page on mobile) to "join us in chat". Chat is an entirely optional extra, but I'm curious about one thing, so this question is intended as a simple poll to gather information by voting on answers. Some people are users of Codidact, but n... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #276908 |
This may vary by operating system, but on Android it's long press on the text to bring up a context menu, then tap on "Select all".
I mention this in direct response to your comment, but I do also prefer the idea of opting in to a template (starting out from blank and pressing a button to add) rat... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292838 |
Post edited: Remove specific numbers from final section |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292808 |
I've now split my comments here across 2 separate new answers - one for the idea of [last M months and last N events](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288363/292838#answer-292838), and one for the idea of [testing with the body of data we already have](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288363/292837#ans... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292838 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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A: We need to talk about Abilities Considering both timeframe and last N events We could base awarding of an ability on both proportion of events in a timeframe, and proportion of events in the last N events. I'll use concrete numbers because I find that clearer, but these are just examples - the actual numbers could be different (... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #292837 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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A: We need to talk about Abilities Testing different approaches When considering what approach to take to awarding abilities, or what specific values to use for the thresholds, it might be worth drafting database queries for each approach being considered, and a few different threshold values for each approach. We can then take ad... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292812 |
Post edited: Improve clarity |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292812 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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Link to moderator help pages is presented to non-moderators In the Abilities page for the Moderator ability, it says: > Moderators also have access to special moderator-specific help pages. Since only moderators have access to these, the link goes to a 404 error page when clicked on by a user who is not a moderator. Is it intentional to show this link t... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292808 |
Trying this out for a few different size communities with different traffic levels over time could give an idea of what settings it is useful to have, and what defaults to start them out at. Since these totals don't need to be private, results from each approach could be posted in separate answers fo... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292808 |
When considering what specific values to use for the thresholds, and whether to have separate timeframes for counting positive events and negative events, it might be worth drafting database queries for each approach being considered, and a few different threshold values for each approach. We can the... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292808 |
I expect this could be made fairer by making it more complex, but personally I would lean towards keeping it as simple as possible while still taking into account both aspects (last 3 months and last 30 events). Wilson score is not immediately intuitive for most people, but the extra complexity is wo... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292808 |
This means that on a low traffic community 3 months may not be long enough to get 30 events, so gaining the ability may take longer than 3 months.
Similarly on a high traffic community you can't get the ability in a day just because you were able to process 30 events in a day (which means spammers... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292808 |
We could base this on both proportion of events in a timeframe, and proportion of events in the last N events. I'll use concrete numbers because I find that clearer, but these are just examples - the actual numbers could be different (and different per community):
> In order to gain this ability, ... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292773 |
Post edited: Fix pluralisation |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292773 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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A: Do we need templates for new posts? Proposals When proposing a new Codidact community, there is a proposal template but it is a separate page in the help system, provided as a link from the top of the new post page in the Descriptions category. Rather than needing to follow the link, copy the template, and then paste it into the pre... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292771 |
Whichever type of improvement you are seeking, I hope the downvotes don't put you off from providing more details (whether publicly or privately). Even if the change can't be made immediately with Codidact's limited resources, longer term it is likely to help many people. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292771 |
It could be made clearer by providing context for the 2 quotations. I can guess that it is the second quotation that is from the Equality Act 2010, but labelling each block would remove the need for guesswork.
The question could also be more specific, but I understand that it may be deliberately v... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292771 |
I notice that there are several downvotes on this question, and that it may not be clear why.
Hopefully the upvotes on [Monica's answer](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/292771/292772#answer-292772) make it clear that the community is in favour of making Codidact accessible, and continuing to impro... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292723 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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Lack of a link to chat on Outdoors and Proposals Most Codidact communities have a link to chat (currently Discord) in the right hand panel under "Codidact": > The Codidact section of the right hand panel on Codidact Meta, showing various links including a link to chat However, 2 communities do not have the link to chat: > The Codidact sect... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292676 |
Sounds good for consistency with the title and body diffs. It might need to be slightly larger than those to avoid being obscured by the styling of the tag boxes, as some of those already have a red background and red border.
Also, red and green might be an accessibility problem, but that's a sepa... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292676 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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Highlighting for tag diffs In the diff for tags (as seen in a suggested edit, or in the edit history), the tags before editing are shown on the left, and the tags after editing are shown on the right. However, unlike the text diffs for the title and body, the diff for the tags shows no indication of which tags were removed, an... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292664 |
Post edited: Add links for clarity |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292656 |
If that were an answer, I'd be likely to upvote it. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292656 |
Do you mean from the page that shows all of a user's posts?
Or do you mean that instead of having a page that shows all of a user's posts, that could just be a search results page with that user specified as the search term? (So "See all" goes to a search results page rather than a dedicated user'... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292656 |
I wasn't imagining filters on the main profile page (where only the top 15 posts are displayed). I'm only suggesting filters for the page that shows [all of a user's posts](https://meta.codidact.com/users/53890/posts). (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292656 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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Filters for a user's posts A user's profile page shows their top 15 posts, with a button to see all. This page showing all of a user's posts is just like the questions list or search results, with pagination if there are too many posts for one page, and buttons to change the ordering. Could this page showing all of a user's... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292655 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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Message hidden at top of screen: You cannot restore this post deleted by a moderator If a moderator deletes an answer, and the author of the answer tries to restore it, a notice is added to the top of the page saying "You cannot restore this post deleted by a moderator", but the URL is the answer URL, with an id which causes scrolling to the answer, so the notice at the top of the pa... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292654 |
Post edited: Put screenshot in quote block to distinguish it from the rest of the post |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292654 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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Misplaced user card below answer In an answer on Software Development there is a layout inconsistency in the metadata below the answer. Usually the user card is to the right of the date posted, licence, and date edited. However, in this case it is below: > The bottom of an answer, showing the user card below the other metadata ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292614 |
:)
All of mine were small CSS changes in the browser developer window. I imagine they would be small changes to Co-Design, and I expect yours would be too.
Would be good to hear from someone more familiar with it, but I would be surprised if code were an obstacle here. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292614 |
My favourite of mine is the last one in principle. In practice I'd make it a much less pronounced colour, and reduce it to a fine line rather than a wide area of colour.
Yours also has my upvote. I'd be happy with either. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292614 |
Post edited: Put screenshots in quote blocks for clarity |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292614 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: It should be more clear what comment an attribution belongs to I altered a few settings to give some options. None of these are finished but should hopefully give starting points for further discussion of which things to change and how much. The effects are exaggerated for ease of discussion, but could be made more subtle once an approach is settled on. Curre... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292613 |
> Or it might be a blurred boundary of the on the side the attribution belongs to, and a hard boundary to the other comment.
I'm not quite sure if there's a word too many or too few, but it looks like there's some kind of typo around "boundary of the on the side the". I've haven't edited because I... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292613 |
If you zoom right in, you can see that the line above the username is slightly darker. The fact that I need to zoom in to be sure there is a difference shows that this could benefit from being more distinct. A thicker line and a bigger colour difference would help. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292606 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292601 |
If this goes ahead, I like the idea of the founder(s) having generous abilities at the start, to get things moving quickly. My only concern about that is that moderators may have access to some things that shouldn't be handed out to just anyone who suggests a new community. If there are such abilitie... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292600 |
The filters section already has a box "Predefined Filters" but I couldn't tell whether moderators are currently able to add to this. Users can add their own personal filters to this, but I couldn't see a way for a moderator to define a filter for everyone, rather than just themselves. I could imagine... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292600 |
It sounds like you would like 2 things:
1. Improvements to filters for all communities (not just Proposals).
2. Customisation of the filters for Proposals.
I'm in favour of 1.
I'm not against 2, but I wonder if the general filters (before or after the improvements in 1) could be used to give ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |