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Activity for trichoplax
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Preview of edits so reviewers can see what has changed When looking at a pending edit on the suggested edits page, only the markdown shows. There is no preview of how this will be rendered. This presents two problems: 1. Any subtle error introduced by the edit that prevents the post from rendering correctly will be difficult to spot, risking a faulty... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287401 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Codidact Collab - should it be listed? For people looking for a route from here to there For now, while Codidact Collab is not in the drop down list of communities, I've realised that Collab is included in the dashboard, which is available from the button at the top right of the page, between the help button and the notifications butto... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #287397 |
Suggested edit: Add meaningful link text for accessibility and add blank line to fix broken image (more) |
helpful | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287390 |
If this were an answer I'd upvote it. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287378 |
Post edited: Mention footer |
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| Edit | Post #287379 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Codidact Collab - should it be listed? Personally, I am not currently looking to learn Ruby and contribute to QPixel, but I am interested in occasionally browsing Codidact Collab to see what's happening. I only discovered it through a link I happened to stumble upon, and was completely unaware of it before that. If it was included in t... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287378 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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Codidact Collab - should it be listed? The drop down menu at the top right of each Codidact page shows a list of all the communities in the network. The list is also linked to from the page footer, and from codidact.com. There is also a community for people who work on the QPixel software that Codidact runs on, called Codidact Collab. ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287346 |
Ah I see. Good thinking. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287346 |
Post edited: Mention Codidact uses CommonMark |
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| Comment | Post #287346 |
Thanks for the info. From looking through the CommonMark test cases, it doesn't seem that spoilers are supported, so nothing to add to the formatting help at this point. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287346 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Markdown spoiler sections - is there any need? Standard markdown does not include spoiler sections (hidden until clicked on). Personally, on those rare occasions when I find need to temporarily hide something, I'm happy using `` HTML tags instead, which gives a sufficiently similar effect: ``` Spoiler! Click here to reveal Secret d... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287322 |
Thank you both for the useful feedback. I've edited the post to include some examples. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287322 |
Post edited: Add examples of where this would be helpful |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
Sounds great. Thanks Monica. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
I'm not sure what "done" would mean in contrast with "completed" though. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
Being able to use the duplicate mechanism without the word duplicate sounds ideal. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
(So "close as finalized" would not mean there is anything wrong with the draft, just that it has served its purpose and gone on to be posted as a finished challenge - the purpose of this close reason would just be to allow hiding them with a filter so only the drafts that still need feedback are show... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
Looks good - and it makes sense to focus on per-post type first.
One potential confusion from the penultimate paragraph: I had previously thought of closing as duplicate in the sandbox as a way of including a link from the sandbox draft to the finished post, but perhaps it would be useful to have ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287322 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Adjustable size comment text area The character limit for a comment is 1000, but the text area in which it is typed or edited is much smaller than this. Most comments are short, but some comments can have reason to be longer, and others can be taller despite being only a small number of characters (due to quote blocks, code blocks... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287316 |
In a ideal world, we would wait until close reasons can be per post type (or even better, per category) before switching on the ability to close articles.
However, in the real practical world, switching on the ability to close articles creates a pressure to implement per post type close reasons. W... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287315 |
This sounds plausible. Before the edit that failed, that post had 14,072 characters (same in bytes) in the markdown, while the HTML had 15,313. So after my edit that duplicated the markdown to roughly double the length, the HTML would probably also be double the length, taking it over 30,000 characte... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287304 |
I like that. I've just updated my other post and it still reads fine, and now I feel better about screen readers too - thank you. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287303 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287304 |
I'd be equally happy with enlarging 1 or diminishing 2. At the moment, I've used 1 and 3 in one of my other posts in order to avoid 2 altogether, which is subverting the semantic intention and makes me feel bad about accessibility. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287304 |
Thanks for pointing this out. I've actually just edited my post before seeing your answer, as I realised after posting that there is a difference (it's easier to see in the example as both headings start with "Heading" so the fact that the words are not the same length stands out).
Having edited t... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287303 |
Post edited: Fix my mistaken belief that h1 and h2 are identical sizes when saved |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287303 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Main and subheadings are almost the same size, but not in the edit preview When editing a post, headings with a single hash `#` show as significantly bigger than headings with a double hash `##`. However, after saving, these two headings are much closer in size (to the point that my initial draft of this post mistakenly claimed that they are the same size). For example: ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287292 |
Post edited: Mention orange character count was not present until I added a character |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287292 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
False positive for 30,000 character limit I tried to edit a post, but I received the following message saying it is over 30,000 characters. I double checked in a text editor that the number of characters is 27,835 (as shown in the Codidact edit text box - see the orange writing at the bottom right of the image below), and also confirmed that... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287284 |
I was thinking that there could be a step before passing the post through the markdown renderer, where 2 newlines are added after every `</summary>` closing tag, but having thought about it for a while I guess that would mean also having to add a way to exclude tags that appear inside a code block, a... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287284 |
The last example in the question shows bold and italics are affected too, so maybe it is all markdown, rather than just block level. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287279 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Details tag requires an internal blank line to render markdown When using a `` tag to add an expandable section to a post, markdown will mostly still work inside the expandable section, but some of it will not work on the first line. Markdown treats multiple lines as a single line for rendering unless separated by a blank line or a trailing pair of spaces. This ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287250 |
The priority order settled on is never going to please everyone (we all have different things that are important to us) but as it's open source anyone is free to work on something that is not at the top of the priority list. I don't know the Ruby programming language so I haven't been able to work on... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287250 |
I haven't seen an objection to making changes. Comments from Codidact staff on my posts have been positive and seem interested in finding out what is wanted. They are volunteering and don't have full time hours available. It seems like they are making changes as they find the time, rather than being ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287250 |
I have recently raised a large number of bugs and feature requests on Meta and I like the fact that the community can vote to show which ones are more important to them, to help prioritise work. As the work will be done by a small team of unpaid volunteers I didn't expect to see any changes in the sh... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287250 |
> We live in a world where there are many types of users, there are almost as many use cases
I definitely agree with this. I'm in favour of customisation. I'd like to see the option to change the default sort order per user per site, so I can set it to my preferred sort by Score on sites that are ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287250 |
> Relatively trivial UI features are ignored in an effort to force conformity
The downvotes on this answer appear to be an objection to making the sort by Age the default. That's from other Meta users. The question itself has net positive votes, which suggests Meta users would like to see the opti... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287250 |
> The order that answers (and comments) are displayed should be chronological
Although I disagree for answers, I do agree that comments should be displayed in the order they were posted (as they currently are). Comments are much more likely to form a dialogue with each referring to the previous, w... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287252 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Option to sort answers by Age I posted this feature request because I'd like to see the option to sort by Age, for those occasions where I'd find it useful or interesting. I definitely do not want to change the default sorting order. I like the current default of sorting by Score. I would still use Score and Active most freque... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287250 |
I agree that the default sorting order should remain by score, not chronological order.
I posted this feature request because I'd like the option to be able to sort by age *on occasion* - not as a default. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287248 |
For me, I'd use it most often on Code Golf Codidact, where answers are competing solutions to coding contests. I sometimes like to see the answers in the order they arrived to see how new strategies emerged and then went on to be reused or adapted in later answers.
Similarly on Meta where the answ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |