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Activity for trichoplax
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #287316 |
Being able to use the duplicate mechanism without the word duplicate sounds ideal. (more) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287322 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287303 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287303 |
Post edited: Fix my mistaken belief that h1 and h2 are identical sizes when saved |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287303 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287292 |
Post edited: Mention orange character count was not present until I added a character |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287292 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287279 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287252 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287248 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Option to sort answers by Age Currently answers can be sorted by Score or Activity: Buttons to sort answers by Score or Active I'd like to be able to also sort them by Age. Would this be useful to anyone else? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287246 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Total number of search results At the top of the posts page, the total number of posts shows. At the top of the search results page, there is not a total number of results. I would find the total number useful on the search results page. It would help me decide whether my search terms were sufficiently specific before deciding ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287245 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Title text (tooltip/hovertext) shows on unrelated parts of the page GitHub issue: - https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/1109 []()At the top of the posts list, the total number of posts is shown on the left. Hovering the mouse pointer over this number shows the title text. This is currently set to be the same number as is already showing, so perhaps it w... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287233 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: "Random from user" ad template, for "selfish sharers" like me More suitable for sites with Challenges than Questions For me personally, I'd most like a "Random from user from Category", so I could have an ad that shows a randomly chosen one of my posts from the Challenges category on Code Golf Codidact. Since Challenges are still open to new answers regardles... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287215 |
Post edited: Make closing sentence more specific |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287215 |
Post edited: Augment title |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287215 |
Post edited: Extra explanation of assumption |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287215 |
Post edited: Mention specific site is assumed |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287215 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
"Random from user" ad template, for "selfish sharers" like me I like the "Random from Category" and "Specific post" ad templates. I've recently been a "selfish sharer" and used the "Specific post" template to share one of my own questions. This made me wonder if there are any other "selfish sharers" out there who might like to be able to share their own ques... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287213 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Markdown version of ad templates for sites that don't support HTML I recently changed my username on a site where I used to post coding challenges years ago, to make it clearer that I no longer post there (as I still occasionally receive comments that I may not see for a long time). While I was making a change, I thought I'd try adding one of the Codidact ad temp... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287198 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
Summary per day in the Vote Summary profile page When viewing a user's Vote Summary, days that are not expanded give no indication of how many votes occurred each day: Vote Summary page with all days collapsed except one Would it be useful to have a plus and minus total in the date bar that still shows when the day is collapsed? The right han... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287190 |
It's possible to disable the previous searches list with `autocomplete="off"` on the input tag, but I know that's not ideal as previous searches is useful functionality and the post_type filter is a relatively rare use case.
The z-index is already dialled up to 9999 so that doesn't help.
One po... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |