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| Edit | Post #292505 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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Suggested edit hidden from mods and admins for deleted posts If a suggested edit is made on a question that has been deleted, the suggested edit is created successfully but does not show in the suggested edits list, even to users with the Curate ability (who can see the deleted question) or to moderators or admins. The suggested edit does show up in the not... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292504 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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Authors and curators cannot find deleted posts When searching, deleted posts are excluded from the results for most users. The exception is that moderators and admins see deleted posts in search results. This is as expected, as moderators and admins can view deleted posts. However, a deleted post can also be viewed by the author of the deleted... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292503 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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Deleted post hidden from everyone in the question list When a user deletes a question they posted, it shows with a notice which includes the following wording: >The author of this post decided to delete it. It can only be seen by users with the Curate privilege. I had expected that this would show up in the question list to users with the Curate ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292495 |
I've tested in a local development environment to confirm: voting (up and down) is still possible on a closed question.
This is how it happens to be at the moment, but anyone can propose a change to this on Meta, to see what the community decides. A discussion may provide more ideas too. For examp... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292459 |
The last line of [the blog post "The Codidact Vision"](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/276296):
> We won't have everything right away, but this is the path we are on. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292459 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292417 |
It may be worth raising specific feature requests as separate Meta posts.
I don't personally perceive the problems you mention, but I'm just one person.
For me, choosing a community from the drop down box at the top right is sufficient. It takes 2 clicks or 2 taps, and occasionally a scroll for... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292415 |
I agree that the logo being a link to the specific community homepage is redundant. I'm just aware that it is the expected behaviour for many people, so I was wary of introducing surprising behaviour. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292417 |
Ah I see. I was reading too literally. Even if the merging is just a user interface convenience, I wonder if some of the disadvantages might still apply. I'm not as certain when it's only a partial merge but still wary.
I think the Proposals community is already a big step up from the equivalent o... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292415 |
Yes just one of many improvements that can help together. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292415 |
I like the idea of the current community logo being a way of switching to another community, but most sites have their logo as a link to their homepage, so it might not be expected. I wonder if putting the downward pointing arrow next to the current community logo would be more intuitive. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292417 |
Although I don't personally think an all-topics Q&A site would be effective, it may be that the problems could be solved and a future such site could work. I'd prefer that this experiment not be done with Codidact (and I'd vote against it if it were raised on the local Metas), but since the [code beh... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292417 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Observations on Codidact's presentation to the outside world Subtle difference, big change The difference between what we have now (a group of distinct communities) and what you propose (a single community with filters) seems subtle, but I believe the long term results would differ more than might be expected. Communities are self governed Each community ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292415 |
The list in the page footer is titled "Other Codidact Communities" whether you are on a Meta site or not. This isn't intended to treat any community as different. Whichever community you happen to be in, the footer lists the others.
I explain this for context, but I agree it could be clearer. Perh... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292415 |
In addition to the dashboard, there is also the communities button, which is a downward pointing arrow in a box, at the top right of the page. I mention this because it lists the communities without their categories, but the fact that you hadn't discovered it naturally shows that it could be more vis... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292416 |
Some specific links related to the previous message:
- [Discord server for Codidact](https://discord.gg/bv2aaGa) (general chat about the various communities)
- [Discord server for contributors](https://discord.gg/7jf8UzS) (not just people who write code - this also covers improving documentation, a... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291582 |
Although a standard message might look odd for some communities, we could probably find something that would be a reasonable compromise for now, which I think would be an improvement over no message.
SE currently uses the following messages for questions and answers:
- Upvote on question: "This q... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292352 | Question closed | — | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292353 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Clash between footnote numbering of posts on the same page This answer is just an example with a footnote so you can see the problem described in the question. Click on the footnote link[^1] in this answer and you will be taken to the footnote at the bottom of the question instead of the footnote at the bottom of this answer. Similarly, follow the inst... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292352 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Clash between footnote numbering of posts on the same page If a post uses a Markdown footnote, and then another post on the same page also uses a footnote (such as a question and one of its answers, or 2 answers to the same question), the footnote link goes to the first footnote of that number on the page, rather than the the footnote of that number in the s... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292327 |
Good point about unexpected use cases. When development time is available, I wonder if we could have multiple choice (the question and its answers) followed by the current post id approach as a fallback.
- Question
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Other - please enter post id (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291173 |
Post edited: Put screenshots in quote blocks for clarity |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292327 |
Will the moderator always want to attach the comment to either the question or one of its other answers? If there is never a need to choose any other post, could the dialog list the question and its answers rather than taking an id? This could be in the form of a list of posts, each showing the autho... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292300 |
I too would like to see the calculation made explicit wherever a progress bar is displayed (possibly in a footnote). (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292302 |
From what I remember, Stack Overflow allows marking a question as a favourite, which as you say notifies of new answers, but it is also publicly visible (everyone can see the list of questions you have added as favourites).
I'd like to see Codidact notify of new answers (if it does not already) bu... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289569 |
Post edited: Add footnote explaining the terms "Jekyll" and "Hyde" |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292210 |
That sounds useful. For a long time I included screenshots without a quote block. Once someone suggested quote blocks to me it seemed obvious, but I never thought of it myself, so having it in the help could make a difference. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #292210 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Optional frames, borders or shadow around images I prefer no border for general images I would not want every image to be surrounded by a border. Images are added for many reasons, and in many cases a border would not be wanted. For example, a border around a photograph or a diagram could be distracting and would reduce the available width. I'... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289456 |
Post edited: Improve styling, layout, and reading flow by adding a summary tag |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292200 |
Post edited: Put screenshot in quote block to distinguish it from the rest of the post |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292198 |
Post edited: Put screenshot in quote block to distinguish it from the rest of the post |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292180 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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"Could you answer this question?" for a well answered question In the right hand panel on Software Development Codidact I see the following: This links to a question which has had 4 well received answers for several months, so it made me wonder why this particular question has been chosen to have attention drawn to it. I could understand if ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292108 |
In the robots.txt file, a website can specify whether it wants search engines to crawl it for inclusion in search results. Even though Google provides both search and AI, these can be specified separately. A website can opt out of AI crawling while still opting in to search engine crawling. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292108 |
For your first point, you may want to clarify whether you mean all crawlers or specifically AI data gathering crawlers. At present it isn't clear whether you mean to include search engine crawlers and archival crawlers, and people assuming you do or don't may be voting at odds with your intention. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291717 |
Whichever one of you makes that answer, I will also upvote it. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292094 |
Yes I agree - it's a problem whether it's personal to one person or not. Seeing that it's not personal may help emotionally, but the behaviour should be reported either way. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292094 |
> there is no easy way to see a user's comment history
Note that this is not to suggest that reviewing another user's comments should be your responsibility, or that you shouldn't flag for moderator assistance - if you observe a problem you should feel free to flag without investigating first. Thi... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292057 |
Looks good now. Thank you! (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292057 |
In the section "Images > Stable resource (local images) > Examples" the final paragraph begins "In the second bad example", but I can't see a second bad example image.
There is also no blank line between this final paragraph and the previous one, which is inconsistent with the rest of the paragrap... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292005 |
I've edited to avoid singling out Zulip in particular, to hopefully encourage feedback on any open source chat software. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292005 |
Post edited: Remove specific example to leave this open to all open source chat software |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292005 |
I understand the desire to avoid making two switches if we can instead just wait and make one switch later. That's part of why I'm seeking feedback - if there's a solution out there that would work permanently rather than Codidact building its own, then we'd only need to switch once. If the existing ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |