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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...
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8 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...)
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8 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...
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8 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...
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8 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?
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8 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...
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8 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.
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8 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
8 months ago
Edit Post #291094 Post edited:
Mention that extra spaces may not always be deliberate
8 months ago
Edit Post #291094 Initial revision 8 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...
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8 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...
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8 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...
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8 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.
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8 months ago
Edit Post #291043 Post edited:
Link to post on Software Development Meta
8 months ago
Edit Post #291043 Initial revision 8 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...
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8 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).
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8 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.
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8 months ago
Comment Post #290996 (Alternatively, a link to the post the current screenshot was taken from would help narrow down who is affected.)
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8 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.
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8 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...
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8 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)
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8 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 ...
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8 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...
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8 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...
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9 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 ...
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9 months ago
Edit Post #290851 Initial revision 9 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 ...
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9 months ago
Edit Post #290850 Initial revision 9 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...
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9 months ago
Edit Post #290846 Post edited:
Link to related discussions
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Edit Post #290841 Post edited:
Link to new related discussion
9 months ago
Edit Post #290847 Initial revision 9 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...
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9 months ago
Edit Post #290846 Initial revision 9 months ago
Question How should we approach large numbers of edits made all at once?
If edits are made to a large number of posts in a short period, they will push everything else off the front page, taking visibility away from recent questions and answers. They will also take visibility away from each other, so malicious or accidentally detrimental edits are less likely to be spotte...
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9 months ago
Edit Post #290841 Initial revision 9 months ago
Question Minor suggested edits to old posts
There have recently been several edits in a short period of time by a single user. This user does not yet have the Edit Posts ability, so all of the edits are suggested edits, which require review by someone with the Edit Posts ability. The outcomes of the suggested edits affect whether this user ...
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9 months ago
Comment Post #289262 Because anyone can make a post, so anyone can become an original author. If the original author has the ability to edit their own post without the post going to the top of the question list, then a malicious user can introduce malicious content to the site as follows: 1. Make a new post (so the...
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9 months ago
Edit Post #290834 Post edited:
Update following Mithical's comment about admin access
9 months ago
Comment Post #290770 I agree that this would be less of a problem on Codidact, where reputation does not unlock abilities. However, in general I still think many people are driven by the desire to see a number go up, even if there are no resulting benefits, so I'm glad there is no reputation reward for making edits.
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9 months ago
Edit Post #290834 Post edited:
Link to GitHub page on making a pull request
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Edit Post #290834 Initial revision 9 months ago
Answer A: Minor typo in Help Center page of "Participate Everywhere" ability
Thanks for spotting this. I've just checked and the typo is also present in the database seed that is used for setting up new communities, so it needs to be fixed there too to avoid this happening in future. As the code is open source, anyone is free to make a pull request that fixes this. The ...
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9 months ago
Edit Post #290822 Initial revision 9 months ago
Answer A: Hide sorting tab when there are 0 answers on a question
Good idea, not just for closed questions I like the idea of hiding the sorting buttons when they serve no purpose. I see no reason to restrict this to closed questions. If the visibility of the sorting buttons is dependent on the number of answers then they will reappear when new answers are posted....
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9 months ago
Edit Post #290801 Post edited:
Edit since I had misread the question (which never mentioned the question list)
9 months ago
Comment Post #290801 I misread "question page" as "question list", so most of my first paragraph is irrelevant. I'll edit to make more sense...
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Edit Post #290801 Initial revision 9 months ago