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Activity for trichoplax
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| Comment | Post #291173 |
Yes that works, but the question is should we continue to permit strings of spaces. Personally I'd like to see this prevented (quite possibly by your method), but that's not my decision to make. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291174 |
Further protection could be provided by preventing new users from posting links. Perhaps it could be an ability that is earned. This way users would be protected from dangerous links even before the post is flagged.
The reaction approach could still be available as an additional measure for any sp... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291174 |
I like the idea of warning users that links may be dangerous, but in addition we could also remove links from a post when it is flagged as spam. If a moderator later decides the flag was incorrect, they can dismiss the flag and the link will be restored. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291174 |
Some spam is just unwanted advertising, and the target of the link is irritating but not dangerous. Other spam links to sites that can steal data or money and is dangerous rather than just irritating.
Marking something as spam may not make sufficiently clear to all users that a link is dangerous t... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291173 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Should multiple whitespace characters in a row be permitted in usernames? I was confused by the unusual layout of text below a post in the question list: > Post showing a large offset between "posted by" and "last activity" sections Note the long gap after "posted 3y ago by". Viewing the individual question page shows the underlying cause: > Username with a lon... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291153 |
In addition to allowing the outcome to be more tailored to each individual community, separate discussions per Codidact community would also allow some communities to experiment and try out different approaches, rather than trying to guess up front what is best. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291130 |
Doubting myself, I reread the question and now I can see that it does mention less formal chat rather than just a specifically assigned mentor, so this might well be suitable for posting as an answer.
I'm going to leave it as a comment for now as I'm short of time but anyone is free to construct a... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291130 |
I decided to add comments for things that are not mentorship but may be of interest to people reading this question. If I was also announcing that there is not mentorship then I would make this an answer, but I don't have that information so I'm leaving it for someone better informed to indicate whet... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291130 |
The following is not official mentorship in the sense of having an assigned mentor, but is a great source of help when contributing:
The chat link in the right hand panel (or lower down the page on mobile) goes to a Discord server called "Codidact Communities" with a channel for each community. Th... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291130 |
Also, this comment thread only works as a signpost to Collab for new contributors if it stays here on Meta... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291130 |
The fact that Collab is easy to overlook makes me personally think that people just wondering about whether to contribute are more likely to benefit from this question staying here on Meta. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291130 |
For anyone who wasn't aware of this community and would like it to be more visible, I previously posted on Meta about this possibility: [Codidact Collab - should it be listed?](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287378) (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291130 |
Not quite mentoring, but relevant to people looking to contribute:
There is a whole Codidact community dedicated to questions about contributing to or setting up the QPixel software: [Codidact Collab](https://collab.codidact.org/) (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291107 |
I think many people can handle securely recording an id, but I would want it made very clear that unlike with a password, there is no way to reset the id if they do lose it. This way a user can make an informed decision whether to accept that risk.
Some users may be confident that they can remembe... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291127 |
(That last comment of mine was sent hours ago before your responses but my internet failed so now it's out of order...) (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291127 |
I'm recommending making the post as clear as possible because I believe this is an important discussion to have, particularly because Codidact is set up to let communities largely govern themselves via Meta. Where to draw the line between helpfulness and strictness is a subjective decision that may h... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291127 |
I think there's a typo in the paragraph directly following the bullet points - first and second seem to be switched from what you intend in at least one place.
Even if that is fixed, the reader still needs to keep track of what "first" and "second" mean for the rest of the post. I wonder if it mig... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291106 |
In addition to fixing this, would it also be useful to have the option to "apply this to all communities" when changing this setting? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291107 |
I don't think it's a question of intelligence. Most people still occasionally need to reset a password. If implemented, I'd expect the default to still be to use an email address (which makes password resets easy), with the unique id only approach requiring clicking on a link and reading a warning be... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291094 |
Personally I'd be perfectly happy with reducing all the minimums to 1 character, but even if that decision was mine to make, we'd still need to deal with the case where someone accidentally submits a single space. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #278901 |
Post edited: Put screenshots in quote blocks to make it easier to see the small amounts of text in between |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291094 |
Post edited: Mention that extra spaces may not always be deliberate |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291094 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Question | — |
Handling too short comments padded with spaces When starting a new comment thread, the "Create thread" button is disabled until the content of the "Your comment" text box has at least 15 characters. This character count includes leading and trailing spaces. However, leading and trailing spaces are removed after pressing "Create thread", which can... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291073 |
I like your suggestions, and I'd like to see them exist, so this is just a possible substitute in the meantime:
The [dashboard](https://meta.codidact.com/dashboard) (in the hamburger menu on mobile, or the grid of 9 squares icon at the top right on desktop) doesn't show individual questions, but i... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291043 |
That sounds like the perfect middle ground, that leaves all users well informed. If that was an answer I would upvote it... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291043 |
To me a nag is a repeated notification. If you would prefer only opt in notifications you could post an answer. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291043 |
Post edited: Link to post on Software Development Meta |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291043 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Can we get email notifications? I would argue that this feature should be opt out, rather than opt in. That is, everyone should receive email for their notifications (answers to their questions or comments on their posts) unless they untick a checkbox in their user preferences. The email should state clearly how to opt out, prefera... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290996 |
On mobile (Firefox on Android) the sample table does not look identical to the screenshot, but still splits words in the first column. It actually splits them worse ("Element" and "hydrogen" are split across 3 lines each). (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290996 |
I can confirm that the sample table and the screenshot look identical to me (viewing on Firefox on Fedora Linux) so the problem seems to be independent of browser or operating system. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290996 |
(Alternatively, a link to the post the current screenshot was taken from would help narrow down who is affected.) (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290996 |
I wonder if it might help to add an example table to this post, alongside a screenshot of how it looks for you. This would make it immediately clear whether each viewer is seeing the same problem, which could help narrow down which browsers and operating systems are affected. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290957 |
The advantage of linking to an answer rather than refering to it as "the answer by @sam" is that in general a user may post more than 1 answer to the same question, and at the time of mentioning them they may have only posted 1 answer. This means the mention is unambiguous at the time of posting, but... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290930 |
For avoiding manually doing that, the "Copy Link" button below each post will give you the option of copying the full markdown required instead of just a raw link.
This was implemented in response to:
- [Linking to posts with anchor text is too hard](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288499) (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290962 |
The concern about wasted vertical space can be addressed either separately or as part of introducing a customisable order. Even if the user is able to rearrange the communities into an arbitrary order, the vertical space between communities in a column can be removed without needing to match heights ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290962 |
It might be worth considering this in conjunction with changes to how communities are listed in general, not just in the dashboard, and any customisation options we may introduce in future. For example, there are the following discussions:
- [What information should be displayed on a network profile... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290856 |
Also, I don't find the cross button intuitive. I could not guess what outcome to expect when I click on it. Delete all tags? Delete the most recent (rightmost) tag? Cancel a tag that is part way through being typed?
Even if someone prefers the mouse to the keyboard, there are already crosses on th... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290860 |
There's already the suggestion of measuring the length requirements after converting to HTML (which would exclude the stripped out tags) to handle the problem at the other end of the length scale: [False positive for 30,000 character limit](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287292) which has [a GitHub ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290851 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Should we change the footer layout? An alternative would be to remove the list altogether. There is already an "Other communities" link in the footer that links to the full list on codidact.com and the communities in the list are also reachable from the top of each page in either the communities drop down or the dashboard. The list in ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290850 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Could we have a way to edit without bumping posts? By default all edits should show Every time an edit is made, the post or its parent should move to the top of the question list. This reduces the chance of an edit being missed by the community. Not every edit is reviewed. Some people have the Edit Posts ability and can edit without review, and... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290846 |
Post edited: Link to related discussions |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290841 |
Post edited: Link to new related discussion |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290847 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Minor suggested edits to old posts My own view is that even minor edits are valuable, even on old posts. I appreciate that there will sometimes be reason to reject such edits, but I would not personally take the age of a post into account when making that decision. Until reading Olin Lathrop's answer, I hadn't realised that all the... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290846 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |